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Fantastic Fingerprints
Newsflash: Fingerprints Needed for Borrowing Library Books!
Challenge:
- Find out if everyone’s fingerprints really are different.
Extra Challenges:
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Look for fingerprints on surfaces such as glass. Can you identify who made them?
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Some people think children’s fingerprints should not be used as records in schools. What do you think?
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Can you find out other ways of identifying individuals?
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Investigating Ink
Newsflash: Cocker Spaniel Caught Up in Canine Crime Spree!
Challenge:
- Help the detectives match the ink from the ransom note to one of the suspect’s pens to find out who has Colin the Cocker Spaniel.
Extra Challenges:
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It is only clack pens that you can test with chromatography?
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Are there other things that are colored that you can test such as jelly beans or food coloring?
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Are there other ways of doing chromatography?
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Band Rollers
Newsflash: Clockwork Challenge Combats Climate Change!
Challenge:
- Can you make a wind-up toy that uses renewable power for the Technology Show?
Extra Challenges:
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Will you roller go uphill?
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Can you make it look really interesting?
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What else could you make using wind up power?
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Bridge Blunder
Newsflash: New Footbridge Sways to the Weight of Students at Grand Opening!
Challenge:
- Can you help Star Spans design a bridge that can be used safely?
Extra Challenges:
- Can you find out about the highest and longest bridges in the world?
- What people in ancient times use to build bridges? How does this compare to bridges built today?
- You could find out more about different bridges and make models of them.
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Super Spinners
Newsflash: Flying Teacher Lands in Field!
Challenge:
- Can you help Mr. Sycamore decide if the size of the blades makes a difference.
Extra Challenges:
- Does the spinner act differently if you change its shape?
- What if you make spinner from different kinds of paper?
- What else could you change?
- Can you make a bar chart to show your results?
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Tumbling Toast
Newsflash: Startown’s Mayor Calls on Children to Settle the Dispute on Falling Toasts!
Challenge:
- Help Mayor Quandary to find out if toast really does always land butter-side down. Is there anything you can do that makes a difference to which way it falls?
Extra Challenges:
- Find out about other people who have tested toast. Did they get the same answer as you?
- Find out about other sayings such as “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight”, “Soaking conkers in vinegar makes them stronger” and “Putting the milk in first is better when you make a cup of tea” etc. Try testing some of them.
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Crafty Rafts
Newsflash: Competition Abandoned as Rafts Overloaded and Sank in Lake!
Challenge:
- Can you help them decide the best design for a raft?
Extra Challenges:
- Would it matter if you use different types of paper?
- Could you make the raft without fasteners?
- What other materials can you use to make a raft?
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Racing Rockets
Newsflash: New Rocket Competition Launched Today by Space Research Association!
Challenge:
- Can you design a rocket that will go the furthest?
Extra Challenges:
- What other ways could you make a rocket? Find out what you can from book and the interview, then make and test some.
- You could write a consumer report to compare and contrast rockets.
- Several countries are trying to use rockets to travel into space. Can you find out more about them?
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Tomato Sauce
Newsflash: Tasty Tomato Sauce Refuses to Leave Bottles!
Challenge:
- Find the perfect thickness for tomato sauce – not too thick and not too thin, but just right.
Extra Challenges:
- Find out the ingredients of tomato sauce. You could try to make some.
- Test different makes of tomato sauce. Are they all the same runniness?
- Look at tomato sauce bottles. How are they designed to help you to get the tomato sauce out?
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Recycle, Reuse
Newsflash: Recycling a 3-foot-high Stack of Newspapers can Save One Whole Tree!
Challenge:
- Find out more about recycling paper and make your own paper by recycling waste paper.
Extra Challenges:
- How strong is your special paper?
- Find out how much paper you use each day.
- Find out more about how paper is recycled.
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Hoodie Hearing
Newsflash: Head Teacher’s Hoodie Horror!
Challenge:
- Is Mrs. Teachem right? Find out if hoods and other ear coverings make it a lot more difficult to hear.
Extra Challenges:
- What other senses do you use when you cross the road? Find out how wearing a hoodie might affect these.
- Find out if wearing music earphones affects your safety.
- How do people who are deaf keep safe on the roads?
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Kite Calamity
Newsflash: Despite Perfect Weather Kite Festival Failed to Get Off the Ground!
Challenge:
- Help Sunny Day and Fly Further to design a kite that will fly.
Extra Challenge:
- Kites have been around for about 3,000 years. Can you find out more about who developed the first kites?
- Try to make a large version of your kite. What can you do to make it fly?
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Martin the Magician
Newsflash: Money Misery for Martin the Magician!
Challenge:
- Investigate Martin’s Magic Money Box and find out what has gone wrong with his magic act.
Extra Challenges:
- Show your trick to other people to see if they can work out what the secret is/
- Are there other things that you can put in your magic box to make them “disappear”?
- Are there other magnet tricks, such as making things move mysteriously or lifting a string of paper clips?
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Clever Camouflaged Creatures
Newsflash: Help! How Do Creatures Camouflage Themselves?
Challenge:
- Help Corina to find out how different creatures are camouflaged by playing the Clever Camouflage Game.
Extra Challenges:
- Find out more about creatures that use camouflage and why.
- You could make a poster showing creatures using different types of camouflage.
- Find out why some female animals are better camouflaged than males.
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