Science - Bubble Senses!

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WHAT - Test your bubble’s senses! There is a separate challenge for each sense!


Challenge 1

Hearing: Mystery sound challenge.


HOW 

  • Listen to the mystery sounds on the Padlet.

  • Comment your guess under our Padlet, if it is correct.

  • Add your own sound if you want to!


REFLECT/ SHARE

  • Was it easy/hard to identify the sounds?

  • Did you find yourself in the learning pit?

  • What learner qualities did you use today?

  • How do the senses relate to the learning process? 

  • Share your findings on our science padlet.


Challenge 2
Sight: Really close up image and guessing what it might be. Thaumatrope - Optical illusion. 

HOW:

  • Make a thaumatrope. Do you know what that is? Can you find out what they are and what they do? The padlet will tell you some more information about this.

  • How will you decorate your thaumatrope to make it even more of an optical illusion? Think carefully about the colours and patterns you use.


REFLECT/ Share- 


Challenge 3
Smell: Create your own sniff cards and challenge your bubble to identify the flavours! 

HOW:

  • Find some food and card around the house.

  • Rub some of the food onto the card.

  • Ask a family member to sniff the card and see if they can guess the food.

  • CHALLENGE: Use coloured card and add rub food that is a different colour, i.e. rub banana onto blue card, rub lemon onto red card, can your family still guess the smell?


REFLECT/ Share:

  • Was it easy/hard to identify the smells?

  • Was it harder to identify the smells when they were different colours?

  • Did you find yourself in the learning pit?

  • How do the senses relate to the learning process? 

  • Share your findings on our science padlet. 



Challenge 4
Touch: Reflex Challenge: one person drops a ruler from a certain height - can you catch it?

How long does it take to catch it? How can you use the measurements on the ruler to help you?


HOW:

  • Have a go at the activity, which is all explained in the Science Padlet.

  • Who in your family has the fastest reactions? How do you know?

  • To make this a fair test, you should do it multiple times and find the averages. How do you find the average (or mean) of a sample? 


REFLECT/ Share:

  • Share your findings on our science padlet. 

  • How do the senses relate to the learning process? 

  • Why are reactions important in life? What happens to reaction times when we grow older? Maybe your experiment could test this theory out.


Challenge 5
Taste:  Blind Tasting

HOW

  • Find some different food around your house and ask someone in your family to help you cut or break up the food.

  • Blindfold a family member who doesn’t know what the food is.

  • Have them guess what food it is, just by using their sense of taste.

  • Have them try again and hold their nose - can they taste the food now?

  • Have them try to sort the food into sweet, bitter, sour, salty, savoury.

  • How many foods could they identify correctly?


REFLECT

  • Share your findings on our science padlet

  • How do the senses relate to the learning process? 

  • Was some of the food hard to identify?

  • How did the food taste different when you held your nose?

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