ACTIVITY 6: PNEUMATIC MINI-BEAST KIT – A Science iT! Activity

Description The Pneumatic Mini-Beast Activity is part of Science2Life’s ‘Science iT!’ Programmes Science2Life’s Science iT! Activities take everyday life objects, toys and knick-knacks and turns them into fun, innovative science projects. Hands-on educational project Online support for setting up and delivering the programme Virtual workshop given by Scientific Sue Want Scientific Sue to run this session in your school, for your event or even to create a bespoke session for you? That can be arranged too! Although we have called this activity ‘Pneumatic Mini-Beast‘ your children can use the contents to make any toy which uses the inflated balloon to open or move it. This creative activity helps to develop children’s understanding of control through investigating simple pneumatic systems and designing and making a model of a toy that has moving parts controlled by moving air – pneumatics. Enough material to make 4 models Balloon pump Balloons x 6 Paper plates x 8 Double sided stickers x 32 Is this a friendly spider? Pipe cleaners x 40 Plastic tubing x 4 Ping pong balls x 8 Wiggly eyes x 20 Ties x 4 Rocket balloon The children create a toy which can be opened using air moving out of an inflated balloon. Teaching notes included This creative activity can also be used to investigate camouflage as an adaptation and why it helps organisms to survive. The activity can reinforce the usefulness of being able to ‘hide’ in an environment in a fun way – and which child doesn’t like playing hide-and-seek?! Science2Life’s Science iT! activities and programmes Children love to be engaged in learning, especially through interactive projects that they can really get involved and be hands on with. Science2Life’s Science iT! activities and programmes are part of our STEAM Academy. The activities use everyday life objects, toys and knick-knacks and turns them into fun, innovative, hands-on experiences designed to encourage children to: discover the amazing world of science and engineering to perform engaging activities that show how science and engineering is at work in their everyday lives to foster a lifelong love of science and engineering to give a basic grounding in scientific concepts and scientific thinking to increase children’s motivation to learn and enhance their perception, creativity and logic. Hands-on learning is learning by doing. Children involved in our ‘Science iT!’ activities and programmes are introduced to various STEAM learning methods and activities. Our creative programmes involve learning activities that require active thinking and experimenting to find out how things work. We all know how curious children are about the world around them and how they love using the word ‘why?’ The aim of our activities is to provide optimal learning opportunities that strategically help children grasp mathematics, engineering and science concepts. The inclusion of the arts component into STEM makes it more fun to learn, and more approachable to children. Art education allows children to learn things in a more open-ended way and make them applicable to real life. Links to the curriculum All of Science2Life activities can be used to entertain children – however they have been created with the curriculum in mind, so are perfect activities to generate mesmerizing examples of the topics they can be used to explore. Plus our Science iT! activities can up scaled-up to be used in workshops within the classroom, for festival and birthday celebrations, which provide opportunities for children to collaborate on initiatives, explorations and creations. The idea behind our Science iT! activities is to ignite children’s natural innate curiosity about the world around them (and the items in it) and to channel their enthusiasm for scientific discovery as early as possible. Currently Science2Life have the following Science iT! activities: The Magical EVANESCO Spell The Magical AMORTENTIA Spell The Super Bouncing Bubble Kit Make your own Fossil Kit Colour Changing Bracelet Kit Pneumatic Monsters Activity Creative Circuits The Magical Wandarama Gone Fishing The Jitter Bug Each of the above activities can be turned into a workshop programme! Interested? Give us a call! [email protected] 447970884728 Note: All of Science2Life’s STEAM ACADEMY shows and workshops are designed to not only motivate and fire the spirit of discovery within your children but also ignite curiosity in their minds. For more information on our shows visit our website: https://www.science2life.com