Learning and development: Science - Testing times

Nursery World, 31 January 2008

Get ready for next month's National Science and Engineering Week - and then keep on having fun all year round with challenges and activities where children and practitioners can learn together, says Ruth Thomson.

Why can custard be a solid or a liquid? Does peanut butter make good glue? What happens when you fill a balloon with fizzy drink? Can you make an unsupported structure out of spaghetti and mini marshmallows? These are just some of the many experiments and challenges that children can attempt during National Science and Engineering Week 2008, or throughout the year as practitioners themselves rise...

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