Hands on science is the focus of our Figure It Out Fridays for the next few weeks. We are making the most of the amazing House of Science kits that provide teachers with lots of incredible equipment.

These are the fun topics that we explored last week.

Enlighten Me - Experiments using mirrors, lasers, prisms and the colour wheel demonstrate refraction, reflection, diffraction, and the nature of the colour spectrum. Students played with light, creating rainbows with prisms, making periscopes, and using lasers to discover how light can be bent.

Dem Bones - Children discovered all the bones in their own body as they examined skeletons, and images of Zac with his ‘see-through body’.

Rock My World - Modelling the earth’s layers using plasticine, completing a tectonic plate puzzle, making a fossil too and a liquefaction activity all helped to clarify the implications of living on a tectonic plate boundary.

Who Dunnit? - Students learnt four different forensic techniques: finger printing, hand writing analysis, fibre identification and white powder tests. Once these techniques were mastered they solved the crime using suspects’ police information and evidence collected from the crime scene.