Magnets are always fun when used in science experiments and demonstrations. They are fairly inexpensive to buy and can be ...

Enzymes are biological catalysts. In simple terms, they speed up chemical reactions. Living organisms have chemical reactions ...

These are my most popular, tried and tested science experiments for home, school or science club. Launch rockets, make colour changing potions, gooey slime and lots more exciting and easy science for ...

The infamous Skittles experiment is easy, low-cost, and provides lots of investigative opportunities. After trying with warm water, one idea is to use cold water, vinegar or fizzy drink to see if the ...

Our next Easter STEM challenge is to build a harness to safely transport a small egg down a zip wire. Once you've built a suitable harness for a chocolate egg, you could try a real egg ( maybe boil it ...

Igneous Rocks are formed underground where temperatures are hot enough to melt rock into liquid ( molten rock ). Igneous rocks do not contain fossils as these would have melted when the original rock ...

Welcome to a very eggy week on Science Sparks! Shrinking eggs is the first of 3 egg based experiments, so if you like this one, pop back later in the week to see what else we have been up to! This ...

Our Summer holidays are about to start, so I thought it would be a good time to spruce up this post full of Summer Science Challenges for kids. All the activities are very simple and use mostly things ...

The human brain is over three times as big as the brains of other mammals of similar body size. Your brain has around 100 billion nerve cells. An adult human is thought to contain around 7 Octillion ...

Our themed early years science activities are perfect for kids aged between 3 and around 5. Early childhood science education is really important for helping inspire a love of science in later years, ...

France is one of the biggest countries in Europe and is famous for the Tour de France, it's sense of style, the Eiffel Tower and of course cheese! These STEM Challenges are part of my Around the World ...

I still remember learning about osmosis at school many years ago. I don't know why that particular memory has stayed with me so strongly, maybe because it was hard to understand. Whatever the reason, ...