CEIP BLAS DE OTERO MADRID

INDEX

WATER EXPERIMENTS

01 ARCHIMEDES IS BACK

02 RESTLESS MOLECULE

03 THE NEVER ENDING CYCLE

04 SEPARATE AND YOU’LL WIN

MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY EXPERIMENTS

01 SCALEXTRIC

02 CONDUCTOR OR INSULATOR?

03 FLAPPING BUTTERFLY

04 ELECTRICITY AND COMPASSES

HUMAN BODY EXPERIMENTS

01 HOMEMADE EAR

02 JOINTED HAND

03 DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

04 EXCRETORY SYSTEM

WATER EXPERIMENTS

COUNTRY:Spain

SCHOOL: CEIP Blas de Otero

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 1

NAME OF EXPERIMENT: “Archimedes is back”

AIMS OF EXPERIMENT

-

To calculate the volume of different objects and know about Archimedes" principle.

MATERIALS

- A litre measuring jug and water

- Objects: orange, apple, marble, rubber, pencilsharpener, stone

- Felt pens

- A result chart

-

MAKING EXPERIMENT

Instructıons:

1. Fill the measuring jug with 300ml of water.

2. Mark with a felt pen the level of the water

3. Put the object inside the water

4. Mark with a felt pen the level of the water again

5. Calculate the volume by taking away the level of water before and after introducing the object RESULT

- Observe the displacement of water of different objects.

- Archimedes" principle: “ Any object when immersed in a liquid will displace a volume of liquid equal to the object’s own volume” .

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Nsu94mlFflk

PHOTOS

01 Materials

02 Mark waterlevel

03 Fillthejug

04 Puttheobjects in

05 Mark thedisplacement

06 Calculatethe volumen

CALCULATE THE VOLUME OF THESE OBJECTS

STEPS

1ST Fill the jug with some water

2nd Mark with a felt pen the level of the water

3rd Put the object inside the water

4th Mark with a felt pen the level of the water again

5th Calculate the volume by taking away the level of water after and before introducing the object

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS

1. What"s the volume of the rubber? The volume of the rubber is …..

2. What"s the volume of the pencil sharpener?

3. What"s the volume of the orange?

4. What"s the volume of the apple?

5. What"s the volume of the small ball?

6. What"s the volume of the stone?

7. Write the definition of volume

RUBBER

PENCIL

ORANGE

APPLE

MARBLE

STONE

SHARPENER

WATER EXPERIMENTS

COUNTRY:Spain

SCHOOL: CEIP Blas de Otero

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 2

NAME OF EXPERIMENT: “Restless molecule”

AIMS OF EXPERIMENT

-To observe how molecules in water move faster due to the heat effect and make water go up.

MATERIALS

- Empty plastic bottle

- Transparent straw

- Plasticine

- Water

- Scissors

- Bowl

- Food colouring

- Microwave.

MAKING EXPERIMENT

Instructıons:

1- Make a hole with the scissors on the top of the bottle.

2- Put the straw inside the top hole.

3- Put plasticine to seal off the hole.

4- Fill half of the bottle with water and food colouring.

5- Close the bottle with the straw (it has to reach the water)

6- Heat water in a bowl and put the bottle inside.

RESULT

- Water goes up the straw when you heat it.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Nsu94mlFflk

PHOTOS

01 Add colouring food to hot

02 Put a straw inside.

water.

03 Look

how water goes up

the straw.

WATER EXPERIMENTS

COUNTRY:Spain

SCHOOL: CEIP Blas de Otero

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 3

NAME OF EXPERIMENT: “The never-ending cycle”

AIMS OF EXPERIMENT

- To understand the water cycle.

MATERIALS

- Water

- Jug

- Zip bag

- Permanent felt pens

- Microwave

- Boiler.

MAKING EXPERIMENT

Instructıons:

1. Decorate the bottom of the plastic bag as it were the sea with fish,seaweeds, etc.

2. Decorate the top of the plastic baga as it were the sky with the Sun and clouds.

3. Heat the water and pour it into the plastic bag

4. Close it with the zip

5. The water evaporates and water vapour goes up it condenses on the plastic bag and precipitates going back to the bottom of the bag.

6. Label the water cycle by using stickers with the words: evaporation, condensation, precipitation and colección.

7. Draw arrows to show the process.

RESULT

- Observe the water cycle and its different fases.

VIDEOS: https://youtu.be/W5Lgr-8Ydmo

PHOTOS

01Decorate a zip bag

02 Writethewords

03 Fill the bag with hot water

04 Hangiton and window

05 Water evaporates, condenses

and precipitates.

WATER EXPERIMENTS

COUNTRY:Spain

SCHOOL: CEIP Blas de Otero

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 4

NAME OF EXPERIMENT: “Separate and you'll win!”

AIMS OF EXPERIMENT

- To discover how to make mixtures and how to separate them.

- To distinguish between homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures.

- To understand what a saturated mixture is.

- To learn how stalactites are formed.

MATERIALS

- Glasses, water, salt, soil, rope, filters, plastic dishes, sugar, oil, funnel.

MAKING EXPERIMENT

Instructıons:

1. We will make different mixtures: water and sugar, water and salt, water and soil and water and oil.

2. Water with both: sugar and salt form a homogeneous mixture so we cannot distinguish easily the different substances they have, so we will ask the children how they think we can separate them 3. After that, we will separate sugar from water by evaporating the water.

4. On the other hand, we will use the water and salt mixture to explain what a saturated solution is, then, we will join two different glasses of this solution by using a piece of rope, by this way the solution will flow through it and water will drop salt will form stalactites.

5. Water with soil and oil form heterogeneous mixtures so we can see what their different components are.

6. We will use a filter to separate water from soil and we will separate oil from water by using a funnel.

RESULT

-In first place, we will have four mixtures and after that we will have their components separated again.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/W5Lgr-8Ydmo

RESULTS CHART

MIXTURE

FILTRATION

EVAPORATION

Flour and water

Sugar and water

Sand and water

Rice and water

Pasta soup and water

Talcumpowder and water

Salt and water

CONCLUSION

__________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________ can be separated using filtration.

_________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________ can be separated using evaporation.

PHOTOS

01 Filltheglasswithwater

02 Mixwater and sand

03 Filterthe mixture

04 Registertheresults

05 Heteroge

neous mixtures

06 Homogeneous mixtures can be

can be separated by filtration

separated by evaporation

MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY EXPERIMENTS

COUNTRY:Spain

SCHOOL: CEIP Blas de Otero

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 1

NAME OF EXPERIMENT: Scalextric

AIMS OF EXPERIMENT

- To get some knowledge about magnetism.

- To create a homemade circuit and toy cars using magnets

MATERIALS

- Paperclips

- Matchboxes,

- Markers,

- Two sticks of 20cm

- Two magnets

- A thick cardboard

- Adhesive tape

MAKING EXPERIMENT

Instructıons:

1. Decorate the matchboxes to look like racing cars.

2. Stick a paperclip inside of each matchbox with adhesive tape.

3. Draw a circuit in the cardboard.

4. Stick the magnets in the sticks.

5. Raise the circuit from the table and place it on two stacks of books.

6. Move the magnets under the cardboard in order to move the racingcars that are on the circuit.

RESULT

- The toy cars move with the force of magnetism through the circuit without touching them.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/n6b7PDlnr3g11

PHOTOS

01 Car template

02 Colour and cut the car out

03 Put a clip inside

04 Stick the car to the box

05 Draw and colourthecircuit

06 Move the cars using the magnets

MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY EXPERIMENTS

COUNTRY: Spain

SCHOOL: CEIP BLAS DE OTERO

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 02

NAME OF THE EXPERIMENT: Conductor or Insulator?

OBJETIVE OF THE EXPERIMENT

- To know the concept of electricity

- To learn about conductors of electrity

- To discover if electricity can flow through everything.

- To identify conductors and insulators materials.

- To make a human chain of electricity.

Students:

- To explore science of electricity and circuits by using an energy stick

- To be able to explain why the bulb switches on with some objects and with others the bulb stays off.

MATERIALS

- Energy stick

- Electric circuit: a battery, 3 electric wires, 6 crocodile clips, small bulb, objects such as rubber, key, coin, scissor, ruler, pencil, etc.

- Register.

MAKING THE EXPERIMENT

Instructions:

1st part

1. Use the energy stick to explain the science of electricity and circuits. Electricity is defined as the flow of electrons through a circuit (and circuit is based upon the world circle).

2. In order for the Energy stick to become activated, the two ends must be connected in a circle by something that allows electrons to flow through it.

3. Invite your friends to join the fun by holding hands and forming a large circle to test their conductivity. The Energy Stick’s sensing circuit is so sensitive that it can detect even a very small amount of electricity that travels across your skin! It"s a cool way to learn about conductors of electricity.

4. Break the circle and ask to people to hold different objects and see if the Energy Stick flash and buzz or stops working.

5. Complete the register with your predictions and results.

2nd part

1. Make a traditional circuit like the one on the picture below.

2. Put objects into the circuit. Why the bulb stwitch on with some objects and with others stays off?

3. Experiment with more objects but predict the results each time and complete the register before and after.

3rd part

1. Compare the results with the rest of the teams.

RESULTS

Conclusion: Which materials let the electricity flow?

Look at your register and write sentences like these:

.... lets/doesn’t let electricity flow.

..... is a conductor/ insulator.

01 Energystick

02 Metal is a conductor

03 Rubberisaninsulator

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/mGPclMgz7yo

REGISTER:

MY PREDICTIONS BEFORE THE EXPERIMENT

TICK IF YOU THINK THESE OBJECTS LET FLOW THE ELECTRICITY

RUBBER

KEY

PENCIL

RULER

COIN

CONDUCTOR

MY RESULTS AFTER THE EXPERIMENT

PUT THESE OBJECTS INTO THE CIRCUIT AND TICK IF THE OBJECT LET FLOW OR

DOESN’T LET FLOW THE ELECTRICITY

RUBBER

KEY

PENCIL

RULER

COIN

CONDUCTOR

INSULATOR

Write sentences about these objects: rubber, key, pencil, ruler, coin.

.... lets/doesn’t let electricity flow.

..... is a conductor/an insulator.

PHOTOS

01 Testing objects

02 Is a pair of scissors

03 Is a coin a

with the energy stick.

a conductor?

conductor?

04 Use a home made

05 Putting objects into

06 Is a piece of wood

circuit.

the circuit.

a conductor?

07 Fill the table with your predictions before doing the

experiment and with your results after doing the experiment.

MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY EXPERIMENT

COUNTRY:Spain

SCHOOL: CEIP Blas de Otero

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 3

NAME OF EXPERIMENT: Flapping butterflies!

AIMS OF EXPERIMENT

- To discover how static electricity works.

Students:

- To make a butterfly and make it flaps its wings with static electricity.

MATERIALS

- Balloons

- Cardboard,

- Tissue paper,

- Scissors.

MAKING EXPERIMENT

Instructıons:

1. We will make a butterfly by cutting the tissue paper.

2. After that we will rub the balloon with the hair so it gets charged.

3. Then we will place the balloon next to the wings of the butterfly so it moves.

RESULT

- We"ll have a butterfly which moves its wings.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/vF7i66otJFI

PHOTOS

01 Drawthebutterfly"sbody.

02 Drawthebutterfly"swings.

03 Cutthewingsout.

04 Stick the butterfly on a

cardboard and colour its body.

05 Blow the balloon and rub

06 Place the balloon close to the

the balloon with your hair.

butterfly"s wings and see how it flaps.

MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY EXPERIMENT

COUNTRY: SPAIN

SCHOOL: CEIP - BLAS DE OTERO

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 4

NAME OF EXPERIMENT: “Electricity and Compasses”

AIMS OF EXPERIMENT

- To demonstrate the relationship between electriciy and magnestism.

- To learn that electricity is a flow of electrons.

- To observe how the magnet in a compass is affected by a flow of electrons which passes through an electric circuit.

MATERIALS

One set per group of students (4 students each)

- A compass

- An electric circuit: battery, 3 cables, a lightbulb and a switch.

MAKING EXPERIMENT

Instructıons:

1. Close the circuit and check it on and off. Leave it off.

2. Place the compass on any of the cables.

3. Switch the circuit on and check that the compass needle slightly moves to the right or left.

4. Switch the circuit off and check that the compass needle returns to its original position.

RESULT

This experiment supports our hypothesis of the relationship between electricity and magnetism, since the flow of electrons from a circuit is able to move a compass needle.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/xIw_sOIgAZY

PHOTOS

01 Checkthecircuit

02 Place the compass on any wires

and look how the needle moves.

HUMAN BODY EXPERIMENTS

COUNTRY: Spain

SCHOOL: CEIP Blas de Otero

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 1

NAME OF EXPERIMENT: Homemade ear

AIMS OF EXPERIMENT

- To be able to create a homemade ear and to understand how the auditive sense works.

MATERIALS

- Cardboard tube.

- Piece of cardboard.

- Piece of plastic.

- Rubber band

MAKING EXPERIMENT

Instructıons:

1. In one of the ends of the cardboard tube put a piece of cardboard as if it was a funnel (ear).

2. In the other end of the cardboard tube put a piece of plastic well stretched and hold it with an elastic band.

3. When we make sounds in the ear the eardrum vibrates (the child can notice it with his or her fingers).

RESULT

-Children can feel with their fingers the vibration of the plastic that it"s how we hear the sounds, after that the vibration travels through the auditory nerves to our brain that decode the message.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/G7Phv0pDshE

PHOTOS

02Roll the cardboard like a funnel and

01Cut the cardboard like a funnel

glue it

03Join the cardboard and the roll paper

04In the other end of the cardboard tube

with sellotape

put a piece of plastic well stretched

(drum) and hold it with an elastic band

05When we make sounds in the ear, the

eardrum vibrates,the child can notice it

with his or her fingers.

HUMAN BODY EXPERIMENTS

COUNTRY: Spain

SCHOOL: CEIP Blas de Otero

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 2

NAME OF EXPERIMENT: Jointed hand.

AIMS OF EXPERIMENT:

- To understand how tendon works.

- To comprehend how hands flex.

MATERIALS:

- Scissors

- Bendable straws

- Marker

- Wood

- Sellotape

- Glove (optional)

-

MAKING EXPERIMENT

Instructıons:

1. Stick with sellotape the bendable straws on each finger of your partner, so that the bendy part was on the hand and the long part of the straw was on the fingers.

2. Trim the edges of the straw to align with the edge of the fingers.

3. Marked on the straw the joints and knuckles from the real-life hand.

4. Press the straw and flod it on the lines, make a diagonale cut, so that the fingers can curl and bend properly.

5. Make a cut at the top of each straw, pass the string and ran it through each straw, leaving a long tail out both the top and bottom of the straw.

6. At the top of each finger, we tied the string and sellotape the ends together in a small knot.

7. Pull the strings and see how the joints bend and the hand picks light objects.

RESULT

Once the hand was completed, we had lots of opportunity to „play" with it and see how the tendons in a hand function, by pulling downward on the strings.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/fUYWwAEYNaA

PHOTOS:

01 Stick with sellotape the straws and

02 Trim the edges of the straw.

mark the joints of each finger.

03 Press, fold and cut diagonaly the

04 Put scissors through the end of each

marks

straw and make a little cut

05 Pass the string through each straw,

06 Pull the strings and see how the joints

make a knot at the top and put sellotape.

bend and the hand picks small objects.

HUMAN BODY EXPERIMENTS

COUNTRY: Spain

SCHOOL: CEIP Blas de Otero

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 3

NAME OF EXPERIMENT: “Our digestive system”

AIMS OF EXPERIMENT

- Investigate how the stomach works.

- Set up and carry out an experiment

- Make predictions

- Record observations

- Compare results

- Reach conclusions

MATERIALS

- Biscuits, bananas, water, orange juice, a zip bag, a stocking, a plastic cup with a hole, a bowl

MAKING EXPERIMENT

Instructıons:

1. Before starting discuss functions and parts of the digestive system.

2. Students predict what they think might happen during the experiment.

3. Model how to do the experiment with the help of a pair of pupils. Write all the steps in order on the board.

4. Model how to squeeze the contents of the bag carefully so the bag doesn"t split, as well as how to transfer the paste into the stocking. Finally, demonstrate how to get the paste out of the other end of the stocking.

5. Place the students into groups of four to complete the investigation doing the experiment without support.

6. Monitor each group of students and change the task each one does in the group at intervals so that everyone gets a chance to do different parts of the experiment.

Experiment stages:

1. Put the biscuits and banana into the bag. Add water and orange juice.

2. Squeeze the air out of the bag and close it. Squish the food so it makes a paste.

3. Cut one corner of the bag and pass the paste into the stocking.

4. Pass the paste all the way down the stocking into the cup.

RESULT

RESULTS EXCRETORY SYSTEM EXPERIMENT

Write the results by answering to the following questions:

1. What is the food going to look like at the beginning?

2. What is the food going to look like at the end?

3. What parts of the digestive system do the different stages of the experiment represent?

4. What does the orange juice in stage 3 represent?

5. What does the paste in stage 4 represent?

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/3Eipymji2LA

PHOTOS

01Put the food into the bag

02 Squishthefood

03 Food in the stomach is a

paste

04 Pass the paste into the

05 Food pass into the small

06 Nutrientspass to ourblood

stocking

intestine

07Pass the paste all the way

08 Waste products pass to the

09Waste products are spelled

down the stocking into a cup

large intestine

through the anus

HUMAN BODY EXPERIMENTS

COUNTRY: Spain

SCHOOL: CEIP Blas de Otero

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 4

NAME OF EXPERIMENT: Excretory system

AIMS OF EXPERIMENT

- Investigate how kidenys work.

- Set up and carry out an experiment

- Make predictions

- Record observations

- Compare results

- Reach conclusions

MATERIALS

- Funnel

- 4 straws

- 3 balloons

- 2 sponges

- Bowl

MAKING EXPERIMENT

Instructıons:

1. Before starting discuss functions and parts of the excretory system.

2. Students predict what they think might happen during the experiment.

3. Model how to do the experiment with the help of a pair of pupils. Write all the steps in order on the board.

4. Model how to mix the water and food colouring. Finally, demonstrate how the liquid goes through straws (ureters) and the sponges ( kidneys). The kidneys remove excess of water and waste 5. products from the blood and turns them into urine. Then the balloon that resemble the bladder collects the urine. When it is full it sends the messages to our brain. It"s time to go to the toilet.

6. Place the students into groups of four to complete the investigation doing the experiment without support.

7. Monitor each group of students and check that every child has the chance to do the experient.

Experimentstages:

1. Put the water and food colouring y a jug.

2. Pour the mixture in the funnel.

3. Look carefully how the mixture goes through the straws to the sponges.

4. Pass the sponges all the way down the balloon into the bowl.

RESULT

RESULTS OF THE ESCRETORYSYSTEM EXPERIMENT

Write the results by answering to the following questions:

1. What is the liquid at the beginning?

2. What is the liquid at the end?

3. What parts of the excretory system do the different stages of the experiment represent?

4. What do the straws and sponges in stage 3 represent?

5. What does the balloon in stage 4 represent?

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/FPSW87JT1Nk

PHOTOS

02 They are connected

01 The straws are our

to our kidneys.

blood vessels.

We made them by

filling two balloons

with sponges.

04 Here we"re giving our model the

03 These straws are

finishing touch.

the ureters that

connect our kidneys

with our bladder that

is a balloon.

05 You can see how our

excretory system works.

Teachers that participated in the elaboration of this digital book:

1. ALMOGUERA GARCÍA, SOFÍA

2. ANDRÉS PAÚL, CONSUELO

3. CEJUELA MAQUEDA, Mª CARMEN

4. CHICO SÁNCHEZ, Mª AZUCENA

5. DEL BLANCO MAYO, LAURA

6. ESTECHA PALOMERO, ISABEL

7. FERNÁNDEZ ALONSO, Mª ASCENSIÓN

8. MOYA AMADOR, ELENA

9. PEÑA PEÑA, Mª DEL CARMEN

10. SÁNCHEZ PARRA, Mª PALOMA

11. SÁNCHEZ PIZARRO, MAXIMIANO

12. SERRANO DEL OLMO, ELISABET

13. SORRIBES ESCOLANO, ROCIO

14. TORRES BAÑÓN, MARTA

Thanks to the colaboration of the students from CEIP Blas de Otero Madrid

Madrid 30th May 2017