Home Science Experiments For kids

Children are curious and love seeing how things work. What’s even better is doing stuff for themselves. Especially when it’s fun, exciting and a little crazy. And this online course has 50 madcap science experiments for kids at home.

Help children to fall in love with science and see how it relates to their everyday lives and doesn’t just belong in a laboratory. The home science experiments for kids in this course are fun and educational. Children get to experiment while discovering what science means.

KEY COURSE BENEFITS:
• Internationally-recognized CPD accredited course
• Course access: 60 days – Study at your own pace
• Start learning straightaway from any laptop or mobile device in any country

What you'll learn:

• How to get children to fall in love with science by conducting their very own home science experiments
• 50 incredible experiments to inspire children to try something new and be hands on
• Discover incredible facts about science that you can relate to the real world
• Be able to do incredible things like make your own clouds, turn cream into butter or find out if an egg is hard-boiled or raw
• How science isn’t difficult or dull but relates to things we do and see in our everyday lives
• How to use household objects, such as bottles of fizzy drink and crisp packets, to make fireworks or cause eruptions
• Children will carry out experiments, then see why it works in the way it does before understanding the science behind it

At home, science experiments for kids are so entertaining that they’ll want to do them again and again.

As well as sparking their interest in science, you’re turning their attention off screen time. And that’s got to be a formula for success.

Kids will feel like a wizard at Hogwarts as they use household objects and kitchen appliances to recreate mind-blowing experiments.

Kids will feel like the next best thing to Harry Potter as they get to:

• Discover how an invisibility cloak works

• Make cardboard tubes fly

• Write messages in invisible ink

• Fly a hot-air balloon powered by the toaster

• Make a volcano - and it erupts in the garden

• Make (and eat) scrumptious fizzy candy

• Produce electric slime

How is the Home Science Experiments for Kids course assessed?

There is a short multiple-choice exam at the end of each module for you to take and you’ll know your score immediately.

By studying online with IOA, you do not pay an extra fee for sitting an exam or have to wait for a set date to sit an exam.

Science Experiments For Kids Course Syllabus

Module 1: Let’s Get Started!

• 1.1 Make your own submarine
• 1.2 Create a cloud in a bottle
• 1.3 Rice quicksand
• 1.4 Homemade litmus test
• 1.5 Iron out your cereal
• 1.6 Hurricane in a bottle
• 1.7 Is that egg hard-boiled?
• 1.8 Measure the speed of light with margarine
• 1.9 Freeze a soft drink, instantly
• 1.10 Chip bag fireworks

Module 2: Fun Experiments For Future Scientists

• 2.1 Homemade fiber optics
• 2.2 Soft drink volcano
• 2.3 Toaster-powered hot-air balloon
• 2.4 Use your loaf - how to make bread taste sweet
• 2.5 Why is the sky blue?
• 2.6 Extract DNA from a kiwi
• 2.7 How to fool your senses
• 2.8 Electric slime
• 2.9 The chemistry of coppers
• 2.10 Make your own pond skater

Module 3: At-home Fun With Science

• 3.1 Make your own magnifying glass
• 3.2 Homemade lava lamp
• 3.3 Strange glows from sugar
• 3.4 The mysterious sound of an oven shelf
• 3.5 Just chill out.. your glow stick
• 3.6 Tangtastic: make your own fizzy candy
• 3.7 Plant hydraulics, and why slugs and salt don’t mix
• 3.8 Hang an ice cube from a thread
• 3.9 Liquid behaving badly
• 3.10 Invisibility cloak

Module 4: Even More Fun Home Science

• 4.1 Turn milk into cheese
• 4.2 Is that really orange?
• 4.3 Homemade mini fire extinguisher
• 4.4 How to make a force field
• 4.5 Invisible ink
• 4.6 Seeing the invisible
• 4.7 The world’s cheapest camera
• 4.8 Images from a magnifying glass
• 4.9 Confuse your balance
• 4.10 DIY butter

Module 5: Getting Your Kids Excited About Science

• 5.1 Boiling yogurt containers
• 5.2 Flying tubes
• 5.3 Make your own gulf stream
• 5.4 Music from a wine glass
• 5.5 The science of tidal waves
• 5.6 The science of pool
• 5.7 The science of bells and coffee cups
• 5.8 Jam jars and flywheels
• 5.9 Waterproof handkerchief

• Everyone. These are cool experiments to carry out with or without kids. And we can all learn something from the science behind the experiments
• Families who want their children to understand that science is fun and entertaining
• All parents who want their kids to switch off from screen time and do hands-on stuff that they’ll enjoy
• Wannabe wizards of all ages
• Parents who homeschool their children will love science lessons using this course
• Teachers and organizers of children’s clubs who want to teach science in a fun way
• Kids’ party planners looking for an exciting, alternative to the usual games and tricks

This Science Experiments for Kids course is open to all, with no formal entry requirements.

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