Things to do in a science club
Thoughts on CREST
Investigators materials
- Jeannine Shardlow
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We find that it's very easy to organise for the club, mainly because you've done the work for us. The materials that we need in the way of resources are already listed on the activity sheets. And we just use everyday materials. It doesn't have to be specifically high flying science material. It could just be things you find in the kitchen or anywhere around the schools. That's what made it attractive to us.
The background information is invaluable because if I'm not here, then another teacher would be running the science club. So, the material would then be use very heavily to support the science background and to give confidence to teacher who is running the activity.
- Sarah Walton, GSK Science & Engineering Ambassador
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The CREST
Investigators materials has great scenarios that the kids can relate to and it gets them thinking about how their normal activities that they perhaps do at home and how that can be related to science. It gets them to think about lots of obviously different science things and they ask lots of different questions and some questions that perhaps you won't even think that they will come up with which is really good. The sheets are easy to follow both for the organisers and the children.
Typical examples
Brilliant bubbles
Brilliant bubbles begins with the story of Cosmic getting a new bubble machine for his birthday. However, he
was disappointed that the bubble machine only produces bubbles of the same size and shape. In this activity,
children explore ways of blowing bubbles of different shapes and sizes.
Fantastic fingerprints
In Fantastic fingerprints, Investigator at Startown finds out whether everyone's fingerprints really are
different. In this activity, children explore the different patterns in fingerprints and discuss the ways
of collecting fingerprints. The activity can also be expanded to involve discussion about privacy issues
surrounding the usage of fingerprints to identify people.
A hole in the bucket
A hole in the bucket is part of a project which explores sticky things that we use in our everyday lives.
In this activity, the children test out different sticky materials to find a way to try stop a leak in a bucket.