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CREST MegaStar (9-12 years old)
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1-5
(Nov 5,
Nov 12,
Nov 19,
Nov 26,
Dec 3)
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Terrific Teeth
Find out about toothpaste and how to keep teeth strong and healthy.
Challenge 1 - Making and Testing Toothpaste
- Make and test your own toothpaste.
Challenge 2 - Buy Them and Try Them
- Find out more about different brands of toothpaste. Do they work as well as your homemade toothpaste? Do a survey to find out people’s favorite toothpaste.
Challenge 3 - The Mystery of the Colorado Brown Stain
- Find out more about some very important scientific research. Make decisions about the different ideas that people might have. Write a script for a TV program.
Extra Challenges:
- How do people keep teeth clean before toothpaste?
- What are some tooth traditions from different cultures?
- How should you look after your teeth?
- Find out more about communicating your ideas about keeping teeth clean.
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6-10
(Dec 10,
Dec 17,
Jan 7,
Jan 14,
Feb 4)
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Sticky Situations
Explore sticky things that we use in our everyday lives or even in the future.
Challenge 1 – A Sticky Problem
- Make and test your own glues.
Challenge 2 – Over to You
- Find out more about some very important scientific inventions. Use your scientific imagination to put these sticky mixtures to good use.
Challenge 3 – There a Hole in My Bucket
- Test different sticky materials to try to stop a leak in a bucket. You might even write a new song about it.
Extra Challenges:
- What are some other recipes for sticky substances?
- What would the world be like without sticky things?
- Investigate stickiness in nature.
- Find out more about communicating your ideas about sticky substances.
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11-14
(Feb 11,
Feb 18,
Feb 25,
Mar 3)
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A Nice Cup of Tea
Find out more about our nation’s favorite drink and how people from around the world create the perfect cup.
Challenge 1 – Testing and Comparing Tea
- Test and compare different types of tea. Host a tea party and do a survey to find out people’s favorite tea.
Challenge 2 – Just My Cup of Tea
- Find out more about different tea cups. Do all cup and mugs work in the same way? Are different cups suited to different purposes?
Challenge 3 – How Do You Drink Yours?
- Carry out your own scientific research. Decide how to present the information you have gathered.
Extra Challenges:
- Investigate different kinds of tea bags.
- Does the shape or size of a teapot affect the quality of the brew?
- Does a china teapot make a better cup of tea than a metal one?
- Research the world’s most popular drink.
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15-19
(Mar 10,
Mar 17,
Mar 24,
Mar 31,
Apr 14)
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Frank's Fascinating Food
Meet Frank who works as a chemist. He thinks a little bit of chemistry will help his cousins, Orion and Andromeda, to learn about food. You can help him.
Challenge 1 – Get Set Jellies
- Andromeda and Orion have made a jelly with pineapple chunks in it for Frank. But there’s a problem. You can help Frank to work out what has happened.
Challenge 2 – Surprising Stains
- Andromeda and Orion have got blackberry stains on their tee shirts. You can use a little bit of chemistry to explain what happens when they try to remove the stains.
Challenge 3 – Cheesy Challenge
- Explore how a little bit of chemistry helps to turn milk into cheese. Find out more about lots of food made from milk.
Extra Challenges:
- Investigate how yeast and baking powder help bread and cakes rise.
- Find out how mixing ice and salt together ca help you to make ice cream.
- Explore how a little bit of chemistry can stop apples and bananas going brown when they are sliced.
- Find out more about why popcorn pops.
- Investigate what advertisers mean by magnetic cornflakes. Can you find any of it?
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20-23
(Apr 21,
May 5,
May 12,
May 19)
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Dinosaur Detective
Did you know that physics helps us to learn about dinosaurs? Find out why people who are interested in physics get excited about dinosaurs.
Challenge 1 – Warm or Cold?
- Your investigations will help you to decide whether dinosaurs were warm or cold-blooded.
Challenge 2 – Fossil Folly!
- You can investigate why dinosaurs come in different shapes and sizes.
Challenge 3 – Disappearing Dinosaurs
- Decide what the best theory for why dinosaurs became extinct is.
Extra Challenges:
- How can dinosaur footprints help us to find out the sizes of the dinosaurs?
- What else can dinosaur prints tell us?
- How can dinosaur footprints help us to find out how quickly they moved.
- Find out more about how fossils are formed.
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24-28
(May 26,
Jun 2,
Jun 9,
Jun 16,
Jun 30)
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Taking the Lead
Plan an investigation for a group of students and how them how exciting science can be.
Challenge 1 – What, Where, When and How?
- Decide when you will do your activity, who will take part, which activity to do, what help will the students need and what resources you will need.
Challenge 2 – Brilliant Bubbles
- Investigate different ways to blow a bubble and how to do it in a safe way. Find way to blow different bubbles. Record what you have found out about blowing bubbles.
Extra Challenges:
- Find out how to blow bubbles that are bigger and last longer.
- Write an article for the Startown Science Newsletter.
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