Workshop Provider: Sphere Science

Workshop Themes & Tags: Chemistry, Science, Chemical Reactions and Challenges

Age Suitability: Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2

Can your workshop be delivered to schools online?: Contact for Details

Delivery Locations: England

Workshop Summary: 

Candles Challenge - “There is no more open door by which you can enter the study of (science) than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle” – Michael Faraday
An exciting interactive discussion about the origins and properties of waxes, changes of state and non-reversible changes. The grand finale is for each child to make their own coloured candle which they keep.

It might be possible to offer this remotely – please ask for details. Time and content vary with age group.

Citrus Challenge - Can pupils test accurately, fairly and process results? An exciting investigation into how much Vitamin C (relatively) is found in different fruits.

Black Gold Challenge: An exciting challenge to produce a working model of how the petrochemical industry extracts and separates components of crude oil.

Fizz Challenge: Pupils use litmus to identify acids, and design a fair test to investigate how temperature affects an acid/carbonate reaction.

Studying Substances Challenge: A set of ten varied physical and chemical experiments, testing ability to follow instructions, observe carefully and record accurately.

Separating Challenge: This is about combining and separating mixtures of solids, liquids and gases. The workshop ends with an explosive finalé.

Additional Information: 

We are all qualified, experienced teachers and all our workshops are designed specifically to develop pupil skills in thinking and working scientifically. Our workshops are engaging and enjoyable for the pupils. Follow-up notes are provided for the teachers, who we hope will use the ideas themselves. We can see up to six classes of thirty in one day with sessions differentiated across the age range.

The basic cost is £435/day (+VAT).

Please contact us for more information about our workshops.

Testimonials: 

"Our Friday ‘celebration’ assembly was devoted to science and children from each year group took the opportunity to explain what they had been up to. The children had obviously enjoyed a brilliant week, and Sphere Science was a huge factor in that!"

Monteagle School, Essex

"Covered hundreds of learning objectives! I couldn't possibly ask the children what they had learnt because there was so much!"

Swanton Abbott Community School