The primary resources available to download here have been supplied by The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair; the largest celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) for young people in the UK.

Learn how to grow your own crown jewels in this exciting lab experiment.

Activity: Demonstrate the experiment to the children at a safe distance. If you are working with Key Stage 3 pupils, ask them to carry out the experiment themselves in small groups, following the instructions.

The Big Bang Fair is an award-winning combination of exciting theatre shows, interactive workshops and exhibits and careers information from STEM professionals.

 

N.B. The following information for mapping the resource documents to the school curriculum is specifically tailored to the English National Curriculum and Scottish Curriculum for Excellence. We are currently working to bring specifically tailored curriculum resource links for our other territories; including South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. If you have any queries about our upcoming curriculum resource links, please email: schools@ngkids.co.uk

This Science primary resource assists with teaching the following Lower Key Stage 2 Science (Year 3) objectives from the National Curriculum:

Pupils should be taught to:

  • compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases
  • observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C)

 

This Science primary resource assists with teaching the following Key Stage 3 Chemistry objectives from the National Curriculum:

Pupils should be taught about:

  • the properties of the different states of matter (solid, liquid and gas) in terms of the particle model, including gas pressure
  • the concept of a pure substance
  • mixtures, including dissolving
  • diffusion in terms of the particle model
  • simple techniques for separating mixtures: filtration, evaporation, distillation and chromatography
  • the identification of pure substances.

 

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