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Today in science club we finally got to make our own volcano eruption.

We started off by learning a little bit about volcanoes and what makes them erupt. Did you know that lava starts off as magma when it is below ground? We also learned that there are many different types of volcanoes, the one we found most interesting was an underwater one!!

The experiment was really simple and one that can be easily tried out at home. All we needed was bicarbonate of soda and some vinegar ( we added some food colouring …just for fun!)

We made some predictions about what we thought was going to happen and took turns to put the ingredients into plastic bottles. It was great fun watching the volcanoes erupt. Not every volcano erupted and we had some super discussions about what we would change and do differently next time to ensure a more dramatic eruption.

It was lots of fun watching the eruptions and learning about volcanoes.

    

This week in science club we have been investigating,  how do clouds make rain?….how very appropriate for today’s stormy and unpredictable rain showers!

We made our very own rain cloud in a jar. We used shaving foam to represent the clouds and blue food colouring to represent the rain or precipitation. We made predictions about whether we thought the clouds would sink to the bottom or whether the water will turn blue.

What we found out was that the food colouring went through the cloud to make rain and it was blue.

We watched this clip…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncORPosDrjI   and had a discussion about how rain is formed. We even had a go at saying some very impressive scientific words like – precipitation, condensation and evaporation.

   

The children have decided that next week for our focus we will be making a volcano explode! It’s going to be great fun. The children are all showing so much enthusiasm for conducting our experiments week on week, we really hope we are fostering a real love for all things science.

This week in science club we wanted to have a go at making our own play dough.

This was a messy business indeed. Mrs Stevenson scoured her cupboards and finally came up with the right ingredients.

Did you know that there is science behind all of the ingredients in your cupboards?  In this play dough recipe the dry ingredients, salt and flour are physically combined to create a mixture. When the liquid ingredients, water, cream of tartar and vegetable oil  are combined with the dry ingredients they create a solution. We are getting very good at using our scientific vocabulary!

Thankfully all of our mixing and creating solutions, worked and we were able to go home with a little bag of our very own play dough.