National Science Week
National Science Week is an annual festival of science and technology, running each year in August. It's Australia's annual opportunity to celebrate science and STEM and is an excellent excuse to try out a range of interesting science-based activities for early childhood learning.
Research shows that children naturally engage with scientific concepts and processes in their play and as they explore their world. Science is a way for young children to develop their understandings of the world they live in.
During the annual Science Week, our dedicated educators create a fun-filled environment full of hands-on activities. The aim is to encourage children to test problems, hypothesize and solve so that they can develop skills of observation, curiosity, enquiry, classification, prediction, measurement, documentation and communication.
Children in Chang classroom participated in multiple science experiments. The first one was a ‘walking rainbow’ experiment, an interactive session demonstrating the principles of colour blending and capillary action. Additionally, children engaged in the ‘exploding rainbow’ activity, providing an exciting exploration into chemical reaction of vinegar, baking soda and coloured soap water.
Our kindergarten classroom dived into the wonderful world of science as they observed ‘volcanic eruption’. They discovered that overflowing ‘lava’ is a result of chemical reaction between vinegar and soda bicarbonate.
Leakproof bag experiment was very easy to do. Our curious learners were testing whether it is possible to poke a bag full of water without losing a single drop. They pushed bamboo sticks into a plastic bag filled with water and were absolutely thrilled to see that not a single droplet was spilled. It was very a very simple experiment demonstrating properties of polymers.
