British Science Week & International Women's Day

 British Science Week

It's British Science Week! I'm so excited once again because I will be meeting doctors and doing my own experiments at home. This is thanks to my amazing school (shoutout to my classmates). British Science Week begins on Fri 5 March and ends (sadly) Sun 14 March. What luck that my two most favourite weeks of the year were in a row! 

Visit British Science Week for info, activities and a great poster competition!

Here is a fun experiment to do at home:

Lava Lamp!

You will need:

  • Vegetable Oil
  • Water 
  • Food colouring
  • Original Alka Seltzer tablets
  • Small cup or container
  • Glass
  • A tray if necessary 
To begin with, you will need to fill 1/2 a cup of water with food colouring.

Take the tablets and break them into 2 or 3 pieces. Place these in a small cup or container and put them to the side.

Fill a glass with about 3/4 full of vegetable oil. Then pour in the coloured water until the liquid in the glass is about 1-2 inches from the top.

You don't want it to overflow! Unless, you want an eruption experiment too but then you'd have to clean the mess up. You might want to do this on a tray.

Then, put the tablets into the glass one at a time. Do not put the tablet in your mouth at any time!

Discuss why this reaction happened and I will put the answers at the bottom. Thank you to Super Cool Lava Lamp Experiment for this super cool lava lamp!

Have fun!

International Women's Day

Another great day tomorrow is International Women's Day. This is on Mon 8 March and celebrates women's social, political, and cultural achievements worldwide, while also highlighting the inequalities still experienced by many women. This national holiday was created by the United Nations in 1975. 

Women in Science

A great way to celebrate this year, is to think, write, draw or do anything about women in science. There are some great books underlining the key women in science but you may want to find out about the diamonds in the rough. Comment what you will do to celebrate. I am drawing and making a collage poster for school as there is a competition and some of the posters will be put on the walls. Also, you may want to watch a movie about a famous woman but, whatever you do, you will still be standing up for women in the past, present and future. Here are a couple of women in science:

Marie Curie

Marie Curie was a Polish-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was born on the 7th of December 1867 and died on the 4th of July 1934. She discovered Radium and Polonium and she contributed a huge amount to finding treatments for cancer. Also, she won the Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Davy Medal, Elliott Cresson Medal, Willard Gibbs Award, Benjamin Franklin Medal, John Scott Legacy Medal And Premium and the Matteucci Medal. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Noble Prize in Physics.

Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is a different kind of scientist then you might imagine. She was born on the 3rd of April 1934 and is luckily still with us today. She is a primatologist most known for her long-term study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania. Goodall protects the wildlife and animals welfare. She is a British primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist. She is the first to have observed and reported that chimpanzees use tools to eat. Her work has profoundly transformed human-animal relationships. Goodall has written a large number of books about her work and are incredible to read.

World Book Day

As I have promised, I will tell you who I dressed up as for World Book Day! Drum roll please... 
I WAS ENOLA HOLMES!!! You may have watched the movie but I can assure you that there is a book series. I was dressed as the part when she was on the train with Tewkesbury. It was really fun and I am so excited for next year

Answers to the science experiment: The water and oil do not mix and the oil doesn't change colour because food colouring is water soluble. The tablets react with the water to make carbon dioxide. The bubbles attach themselves to the coloured water blobs and to the top of the glass. When the bubbles pop, the blobs of coloured water fall back to the bottom of the glass.

Hope you enjoyed today's blog and tune in every Sunday for more exclusive magnum blogs! Have fun! Magnum Out!







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