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We gathered up the last remaining bits of snow this afternoon to make a Baking Soda Volcano using snow!

We piled up a heap of snow around a small glass jar, making the top of the snow level with the top of the jar, added the ingredients for the baking soda and vinegar reaction and stood back to watch the snow volcano erupt!

How to make a snow volcano

What you need to make a baking soda volcano eruption

2 spoonfuls of baking soda (bicarbonate of soda )

1 spoonful washing up liquid ( dish soap )

a few drops of red food colouring

30 ml vinegar

Snow

Small container

How to make a snow volcano using baking soda and vinegar

Add everything except the vinegar to the container.

Carefully shape a volcano shape around the container using snow.

Stand back, get ready......add the vinegar and watch the eruption! If it doesn't work so well, add a bit more washing up liquid and vinegar and give it a good stir.

I loved how easy this was to make and how great the red looked against the snow! It was also super easy to clean up,

What do you think of our Baking Soda Volcano?

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Can you make a different coloured snow volcano?

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How does a baking soda volcano work?

Vinegar (an acid ) and bicarbonate of soda ( an alkali ) react together to neutralise each other. This reaction releases carbon dioxide, a gas which is the bubbles you see, these bubbles make the washing up liquid bubble up to give the reaction shown above.

You could also try making a multi-coloured snow volcano. To do this we used thick card to divide the central container in half and added yellow food colouring to one half and red food colouring to the other half.

More experiments using baking soda

Don't forget to try some of our other easy Baking Soda Experiments

Make a fizzy monster Tea Party

Design and build a baking soda powered boat.

Hide small items inside fizzy baking soda rocks!

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Díreofar ar an téama 'An t-Earrach' an choicís seo ar CÚLA4 AR SCOIL. Beidh Múinteoir Orla ag féachaint ar bhláthanna an Earraigh agus rachaidh sí trí na céimeanna linn le conas síol a chur. Taispeánfaidh sí dúinn cén chaoi le Cros Bhríde a dhéanamh chomh maith.

Breathnóidh Múinteoir Mícheál ar an bhféile Cheilteach, Imbolg, a cheiliúrtaí fadó an t-am seo den bhliain agus tabharfaidh sé léargas ar shaol na gCeilteach trí chéile sa stair. Chomh maith leis sin, taispeánfaidh sé dúinn conas snaidhm Cheilteach a tharraingt.

Sa mhatamaitic, díreoidh an bheirt mhúinteoirí ar Am. Míneoidh Múinteoir Orla an clog analóige agus conas uair, leathuair tar éis, ceathrú huair tar éis agus ceathrú chun a léamh agus díreoidh Múinteoir Mícheál ar chriosanna ama agus ar an gclog digiteach.

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Preparing for a mentally healthy life

Childhood and adolescence is an exciting period in life as young people discover and learn new things about themselves and the world they live in every day. It can also be a stressful time with many changes and different life experiences. Often, young people can experience high levels of stress, which may lead to feelings of anger and anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression.

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Mind YourSelf, Mind Nature is our nature workbook for secondary schools. Especially developed t ogether in partnership with BirdWatch Ireland, Leave No Traceand Biodiversity in Schools, the workbook explores the link between nature and mental health and offers lots of different nature-based activities for young people to try in school and at home.

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The following activity is a great exercise for teachers looking for ways to help kids practice and showcase their acting skills remotely.

Additionally, virtual auditioning (or self-taping) has become more and more popular, and this is a great introduction into how that process works.

To help facilitate the activity, Beat by Beat is offering 15 FREE monologues from its popular book Contemporary Monologues for Young Actors. These monologues are intended for actors age 7-14.
Click here to download the 15 free monologues.
(If you'd like to download all 54 monologues, you can purchase the entire book here.)

Here's an overview:

Email your students, providing them with the PDF of the monologues. Instruct them to choose the one they like the best. You can provide them with this direct link to the PDF: https://bit.ly/33pC5QJ

Ask the students to video record their monologue, and upload it to YouTube as "unlisted". This will make sure only those with the link will be able to view it and it won't come up in search results.

Have the students email you the unlisted link to their video. You can create a unlisted playlist from your YouTube account featuring all the actors' videos.

Considering emailing out the link to this playlist, giving every student the opportunity to see their fellow classmates perform.

If you have more time (and technical skills!), you could give video notes on each performance and do several rounds of playlists, culminating in a final "virtual performance". This would essentially create a virtual acting class in which your students are able to contribute and observe notes on performances.

Encourage the students to consider these ways to achieve the best quality video for their submission:

VIDEO: An iPhone or Android phone will do wonderfully.

LIGHTING: Find a place where there is an abundance of natural light in front of you if possible. Natural light coming from a window illuminating the actor's face/body is best. You do not want there to be any bright windows or lights behind you - this will create shadows. If you do not have access to a window, consider arranging floor lamps, desk lamps or other lighting in front of you illuminating your face. You can even use other phones with their flash on to provide extra light in a pinch.

CLUTTER: Remove all clutter from the place you'll be recording. This doesn't mean the room or space can't have character or personality, but it should feel neat and non-distracting.

SPACING: Ideally you don't want to be right up against a wall, as it can make the viewer feel uncomfortable. Consider standing at least 12 inches or more from a wall.

AUDIO: Standing on a carpet or rug is best as it will make the room sound less echo-y. Close the doors and windows (and turn off any heating or air conditioning) to make the room as quiet as possible so the only thing that can be heard is your voice. Standing further from a wall will also help to reduce echo reflections.

FRAMING: The video should be shot horizontally. You should be in the center of the frame with the bottom of the frame at the bottom of your chest and the top of the frame slightly above the top of your head.

SITTING OR STANDING: Ideally, the camera should remain stationary in one position throughout the scene otherwise you risk distracting your viewer. Don't let the person behind the camera try any artsy or fancy camera movements.

If you have any comments or suggestions please leave them below, thanks!
Beat by Beat Press is passionate about inspiring kids through theatre. That's why we create helpful teaching drama resources and high-quality musical plays for kids to perform.

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Remote Drama Activity: Virtual Monologues (15 FREE Monologues from Beat by Beat)

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In addition to promoting healthy growth and development, studies show that positive movement experiences explored during physical education lessons enhance children's ability to concentrate and maintain focus, help to relieve stress and anxiety, and encourage a lifelong love of physical activity. Physical Education has the ability to ensure that children have fun at school and establish a sense of connection with their classmates.

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The Rock of Cashel is a formidable looking structure sitting on top of a hill in Cashel, County Tipperary. This famous historic site is a popular tourist attraction in Ireland. Visiting the Rock of Cashel with kids is fun and enjoyable and can easily be combined with other attractions in County Tipperary for a fun family day out in Ireland.

Also known as Cashel of the Kings and St Patrick's Rock, the Rock of Cashel is a historic abbey. Most of the buildings are from the 12 th and 13 th centuries and it was the traditional seat of the kings of Munster for several hundred years. The oldest building on the site is a well-preserved round tower dating back to around 1100. It stands 28 metres or 90 feet tall. Other buildings on the site of the Rock of Cashel include Cormac's Chapel dating from 1134 and the Cathedral from 1270. The entire plateau on which the buildings and graveyard sit is walled.

I had always wanted to visit the Rock of Cashel but in all my time living in Ireland I had never had the chance. So, during our Easter road trip in Ireland, I made a point of putting it on our itinerary. I told my son we were visiting a castle and although it is technically not a castle, it sure looks like one to a four-year-old.

Our original plan had been to visit the Rock of Cashel after our visits to Lismore Castle Gardens and Cahir Castle, as it was the closest to our AirBnB. However, after some research I decided we would visit it first. I had discovered that the Rock of Cashel is a very popular tourist attraction in Ireland and can get very busy later in the day. I also found out that Lismore Castle Gardens didn't open until 10.30am. So, we were going to visit the Rock first.

Arriving before 10am, we found the public car park and headed up the hill to enter the site. We had seen the Rock of Cashel from the road when we were heading to our AirBnB and it is a very impressive sight to see. Even more so close up. We visited the small ticket office at the entrance to the site, paid my entry fee, as under 5's enter free and we headed into the cathedral part of the Rock first.

This impressive building is quite stunning even without its roof, which was removed in 1749 by Arthur Price, the Anglican Archbishop of Cashel. As part of our visit I had told my son the Rock of Cashel was a castle and we were there to hunt for a dragon as part of our dragon hunting adventures. My husband started this game to make visiting historical sites like castles more interesting for our then 2-year-old son. And 2 years on he still loves a dragon hunt.

We entered the cathedral through the porch and into the nave, ready to start looking for a dragon. We checked both the North and South Transept, as well as in the choir section of the cathedral. No dragon was to be found.

In the cathedral it's worth remembering to look up. Although the roof was removed a few centuries ago, the architecture is wonderful, with the roof arches and intricate structures which would have held it still in place. There are also some tombs to see within the recesses of the walls. And watch out for the gravestones on the floor of the cathedral.

Although we couldn't find the dragon we were searching for, our son did have some fun jumping in puddles before we ventured outside. We had a wander through the graveyard, before someone wanted to go back inside the cathedral. And lo and behold we found a small green baby dragon hiding behind a pillar in the South Transept. Our son was thrilled.

After a few last pictures, and one or two selfies with my boy, we made our way back to the car as it was quite chilly up on the Rock. But we had a great dragon hunting adventure during our visit to the Rock of Cashel.

Information for visiting the Rock of Cashel with Kids

The Rock of Cashel is open all year round except on between the 24th and 26 th of December, when it is closed.

Opening hours are as follows: mid-September to mid-October 9am to 5.40pm, mid-October to mid-March 9am to 4.30pm, mid-March to mid-June 9am to 5.30pm and mid-June to mid-September 9am to 7pm.

Last admission is 45 minutes before closing time.

Admission costs €8 per adult, €4 per child, €6 per senior, and under 5's are free.*

There is no car park at the Rock itself. At the bottom of the hill there is a paid-for public car park which cost me €4.50 at the time of our visit at the end of March 2018.* You will need change for the machine, so make sure you've got plenty of €1 and €2 coins.

There is no gift shop or café at the Rock of Cashel, although you'll find some within the town itself.

Public toilets can be found near the public car park, there are none within the Rock of Cashel itself.

Guided tours are available, although if you are paying a visit to the Rock of Cashel with kids you might want to just guide yourself with the help of the visitor's guide, available at the ticket kiosk.

Access to visitors with disabilities must be arranged prior to your visit. There are a few steps to enter the cathedral and within the cathedral itself but otherwise it is mostly flat and easily managed with a buggy/stroller.

Although we only spent about an hour and a half at the Rock of Cashel, it was an enjoyably visit to this famous historical Irish site. My son enjoyed searching for his dragon, and although we didn't enter all the buildings, we saw the main parts. There was some restoration work going on during our visit, but it didn't detract from our time there.

So, if you are wondering whether visiting the Rock of Cashel with kids is worth it, my answer is yes. And if they're young like our son and need some coaxing, create a game to pique their interest, such as a dragon hunt.

*Prices correct at the time of writing this post. I was not asked to write this review and we paid entry ourselves.

If you are wondering what other castles in Ireland to visit with kids, I highly recommend both Blarney Castle and Bunratty Castle. Kids will love both. And if you're thinking about visiting Ireland then you need to read my guide about planning a magical trip to Ireland.

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During the Easter Rising of 1916, the General Post Office (GPO) was the headquarters of the Irish Volunteers. On Easter Monday of 1916, armed groups of the Irish Volunteers and the Citizen Army, commanded by Padraig Pearse and James Connolly, took over the GPO where they proclaimed the Irish Republic.

The rebels held out for a week in the GPO before surrendering to the British forces. While the interior of the GPO was destroyed by fire because of persistent shelling, the main frontage escaped serious damage.

Under the new Irish Government, reconstruction of the GPO began in 1925 and the building reopened in 1929 .

Nowadays, there is a bronze statue in the GPO in Dublin in honour of the soldiers involved in the 1916 Rising. It is called The Death of Cuchulainn by the Irish sculptor Oliver Shepard. Cuchulainn was wounded in battle, he tied himself to a pillar so that he could face his enemies when he died. It was only when a raven landed on his shoulder that his enemies dared to approach him.

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Electing the President

The President of Ireland is democratically elected by the people of Ireland to serve a 7 year term. The Constitution allows for a President to serve a maximum of two terms - 14 years.

The President's Inauguration

The President takes the oath of office at the inauguration ceremony in Dublin Castle. The current President, Michael D. Higgins did this on 11 November 2011 (11/11/11).

Having won the Presidential election in 2018, he was inaugurated for a second term as President of Ireland on 11 November 2018.

The President's Jobs

The President carries out a number of important tasks on behalf of the people of Ireland. As Head of State, the President can sign into law Bills passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas, and the President meets other world leaders on our behalf. The President also represents the nation at times of great celebration or sorrow. One example of this is the recent commemorations of the Easter Rising, when the President laid wreaths for all those who died in the fighting. The President is also the Head of the Defence Forces.

How the President appoints the Taoiseach

Article 13 of Bunreacht Na hÉireann states the President shall appoint the Taoiseach, on the nomination of Dáil Éireann.
This video, made by the Oireachtas Broadcasting Unit, explains the process.

The President's Powers are set out in the constitution

Appointing the Taoiseach and Members of the Government (after an election)

Dissolving (ending) the Dáil

Appointing Judges

Appointing Officers of the Defence Forces (Army, Navy, Air Corps)

Signing of Bills (which then become law)

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Fresh green growth pushing through the soil, bumblebees emerging and, of course, bluebells creating a stunning blue carpet in woodland glades.

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The infamous skittles experiment is easy, low-cost, and provides many investigative opportunities. Try using different temperatures of water, white vinegar or even lemonade to investigate what happens.

The skittles experiment is definitely a must-try science investigation for kids of all ages. It never gets any less impressive!

Colourful Skittles Experiment

What you need:

A plate or container - preferably white

Skittles ( other coated sweets work too )

Water - warm and cold

Skittles Experiment Instructions

Place your skittles or sweets into a white container, and try to alternate the colours.

Carefully pour water into the container; if the skittles move, push them back into place quickly.

Watch what happens.

Experiment with different shapes and patterns of skittles.

Why do the colours spread?

Skittles are coated in food colouring and sugar. When you pour water over the skittles, the coloured coating dissolves, spreading through the water.

The colour and sugar dissolve into the water and then diffuse through it, making the water the colour of the sweet.

Skittle Experiment Extension Ideas

Can you time how long the colours take to reach the centre of the plate using cold and warm water? Which do you think will be faster?

Try using other sweets. Can you find any that work as well as skittles?

Questions to ask and think about

Why do you think the colours don't mix?

Can you spot the 'S' from the skittles? What happens to it?

How can you speed up the reaction?

Do the colours mix eventually?

More science investigations using candy

Use any spare skittles to try some candy chromatography! Did you know that some skittles contain more than one colour?

If you liked this activity, you'll love my other candy science experiments!

How about one of my easy Roald Dahl themed activity ideas? Make potions for George, chocolate play dough for Charlie, a wormery for The Twits, an upside down house and lots more!

Playdough to Plato has a brilliant growing a gummy bear activity too. Who wouldn't want a bigger gummy bear? Do you think it will taste as good as a small one?

If your children enjoyed this skittles experiment, they'll love my book, Snackable Science!

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Let's make a walking water rainbow! There's no better way for little scientists to learn about capillary action and color mixing than by making water walk (yes - walk!) in this colorful rainbow science experiment. This science experiment is a favorite of ours because it's so easy to set up and the results are almost immediate.

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Getting Ready

To prep, I gathered our supplies:

6 wide-mouth glasses or jars

Paper towels (use the kind where you can select a size)

Food dye or liquid water colors (red, yellow, and blue)

I grabbed the six small glasses first. We've had success using wide-mouth drinking cups and canning jars, too. Even though they all worked, just remember that bigger glasses will need more food coloring.

I ripped off six sheets of paper towel and folded each sheet in thirds, lengthwise.

We were using pretty small glasses, so I cut a few inches off the folded paper towel so it would fit in the glasses.

It's a good idea to test your paper towel strip to make sure they fit properly in your glasses. They should be able to go from the bottom of one jar to the next without sticking up in the air too much. The paper towel on the left shows the just-right height. It's important to set up this rainbow science experiment for success!

Making a Rainbow

This colorful rainbow science experiment is so simple and quick, it's perfect for even the youngest little scientists. My 3 year old, Q, couldn't wait to get started.

First, I had him line up the glasses and fill the first one with a good squirt of red watercolor, the third with yellow, and the fifth glass with blue. We left the other glasses empty.

Next, I helped Q add water to the glasses with color until the colored water almost reached the top.

We moved the glasses into a circle and added the paper towels. Starting with the red, we added one end of the paper towel and then put the other end in the empty glass next to it.

We continued around until the last paper towel was placed into the red glass.

We saw the color wick up the paper towel right away. This rainbow science experiment doesn't take long to get going!

After another several minutes, the colored water had almost travelled the whole length of each paper towel.

Five minutes later, the water had traveled all the way up and then down the paper towel and was dripping into the empty glass.

The yellow and red water dripped into the empty cup to make orange! It made for a good lesson on color mixing.

After another five minutes, we could see the water level had dropped in the red, yellow, and blue glasses and rose in the once empty glasses as the water continued to travel from the more full glasses to the less full glasses.

We grabbed a snack and watched our beautiful rainbow science experiment during the next 20 minutes. The water continued to walk from the primary colored glasses to fill the secondary-colored glasses until all the jars were filled equally.

Not Working?

If you aren't seeing much movement within a few minutes, it may be that you need to add more water to your colored water glasses. It really needs to be almost at the top for the water to walk quickly. So try topping off those glasses and seeing if that gets things moving.

If you see the water moving up the paper towel but it seems like it's taking forever, it may be the type of paper towel you are using. You want a paper towel that will really hold a lot of water. We have used Bounty Select-a-Size and Target's Up and Up Brand Select-a-Size with success.

It really is worth the extra effort of trying different cups and paper towels to get this activity to work. And once you have had success, don't throw out those beautifully-colored paper towels or the colored water! We gently squeezed out our paper towels and let them dry in a heap on a baking sheet. We ended up with gorgeous tie-dyed looking paper towels to use for crafts and we used the leftover water as watercolors for painting with later.

The Science Behind It

This rainbow science experiment is as magic as the science behind it. The colored water travels up the paper towel by a process called capillary action. Capillary action is the ability of a liquid to flow upward, against gravity, in narrow spaces. This is the same thing that helps water climb from a plant's roots to the leaves in the tree tops.

Paper towels, and all paper products, are made from fibers found in plants called cellulose. In this demonstration, the water flowed upwards through the tiny gaps between the cellulose fibers. The gaps in the towel acted like capillary tubes, pulling the water upwards.

The water is able to defy gravity as it travels upward due to the attractive forces between the water and the cellulose fibers.

The water molecules tend to cling to the cellulose fibers in the paper towel. This is called adhesion.

The water molecules are also attracted to each other and stick close together, a process called cohesion. So, as the water slowly moves up the tiny gaps in the paper towel fibers, the cohesive forces help to draw more water upwards.

At some point, the adhesive forces between the water and cellulose and the cohesive forces between the water molecules will be overcome by the gravitational forces on the weight of the water in the paper towel.

When that happens, the water will not travel up the paper towel anymore. That is why it helps to shorten the length that colored water has to travel by making sure your paper towel isn't too tall and making sure you fill your colored liquid to the top of the glass.

Rainbow Science Activity Extensions

Turn this demonstration into a true experiment by varying the water level (volume) you start with and seeing how long it takes the water to reach the empty glass.

Or start with the same volume of colored water and change the brand, type (single vs double ply, quilted vs not) or length of paper towel to see how long it takes for the water to "walk" to the empty glass.

You could even use the same volume of water, same length and brand of paper towel but vary the height of the filled glass, by raising them up on books, to see how that affects the speed of the water as it "walks" to the empty glass.

Have you had enough fun with the paper towels? Try using other paper products to see how the type of paper effects the results. Try toilet paper, printer paper, newspaper or a page from a glossy magazine. What do you predict will happen?

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Are you looking for cool science experiments for kids at home or for class? We've got you covered! We've compiled a list of 37 of the best science experiments for kids that cover areas of science ranging from outer space to dinosaurs to chemical reactions. By doing these easy science experiments, kids will make their own blubber and see how polar bears stay warm, make a rain cloud in a jar to observe how weather changes, create a potato battery that'll really power a lightbulb, and more.

Below are 37 of the best science projects for kids to try. For each one we include a description of the experiment, which area(s) of science it teaches kids about, how difficult it is (easy/medium/hard), how messy it is (low/medium/high), and the materials you need to do the project. Note that experiments labelled "hard" are definitely still doable; they just require more materials or time than most of these other science experiments for kids.

#1: Insect Hotels

Insect hotels can be as simple (just a few sticks wrapped in a bundle) or as elaborate as you'd like, and they're a great way for kids to get creative making the hotel and then get rewarded by seeing who has moved into the home they built. After creating a hotel with hiding places for bugs, place it outside (near a garden is often a good spot), wait a few days, then check it to see who has occupied the "rooms." You can also use a bug ID book or app to try and identify the visitors.

#2: DIY Lava Lamp

In this quick and fun science experiment, kids will mix water, oil, food coloring, and antacid tablets to create their own (temporary) lava lamp. Oil and water don't mix easily, and the antacid tablets will cause the oil to form little globules that are dyed by the food coloring. Just add the ingredients together and you'll end up with a homemade lava lamp!

#3: Magnetic Slime

A step up from silly putty and Play-Doh, magnetic slime is fun to play with but also teaches kids about magnets and how they attract and repel each other. Some of the ingredients you aren't likely to have around the house, but they can all be purchased online. After mixing the ingredients together, you can use the neodymium magnet (regular magnets won't be strong enough) to make the magnetic slime move without touching it!

#4: Baking Soda Volcanoes

Baking soda volcanoes are one of the classic science projects for kids, and they're also one of the most popular. It's hard to top the excitement of a volcano erupting inside your home. This experiment can also be as simple or in-depth as you like. For the eruption, all you need is baking soda and vinegar (dishwashing detergent adds some extra power to the eruption), but you can make the "volcano" as elaborate and lifelike as you wish.

#5: Tornado in a Jar

This is one of the quick and easy and science experiments for kids to teach them about weather. It only takes about five minutes and a few materials to set up, but once you have it ready you and your kids can create your own miniature tornado whose vortex you can see and the strength of which you can change depending on how quickly you swirl the jar.

#6: Colored Celery Experiment

This celery science experiment is another classic science experiment that parents and teachers like because it's easy to do and gives kids a great visual understanding of how transpiration works and how plants get water and nutrients. Just place celery stalks in cups of colored water, wait at least a day, and you'll see the celery leaves take on the color of the water. This happens because celery stalks (like other plants) contain small capillaries that they use to transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.

#7: Rain Cloud in a Jar

This experiment teaches kids about weather and lets them learn how clouds form by making their own rain cloud. This is definitely a science project that requires adult supervision since it uses boiling water as one of the ingredients, but once you pour the water into a glass jar, the experiment is fast and easy, and you'll be rewarded with a little cloud forming in the jar due to condensation.

#8: Edible Rock Candy

It takes about a week for the crystals of this rock candy experiment to form, but once they have you'll be able to eat the results! After creating a sugar solution, you'll fill jars with it and dangle strings in them that'll slowly become covered with the crystals. This experiment involves heating and pouring boiling water, so adult supervision is necessary, once that step is complete, even very young kids will be excited to watch crystals slowly form.

#9: Water Xylophone

With just some basic materials you can create your own musical instrument to teach kids about sound waves. In this water xylophone experiment, you'll fill glass jars with varying levels of water. Once they're all lined up, kids can hit the sides with wooden sticks and see how the itch differs depending on how much water is in the jar (more water=lower pitch, less water=higher pitch). This is because sound waves travel differently depending on how full the jars are with water.

#10: Blood Model in a Jar

This blood model experiment is a great way to get kids to visual what their blood looks like and how complicated it really is. Each ingredient represents a different component of blood (plasma, platelets, red blood cells, etc.), so you just add a certain amount of each to the jar, swirl it around a bit, and you have a model of what your blood looks like.

#11: Potato Battery

Did you know that a simple potato can produce enough energy to keep a light bulb lit for over a month? You can create a simple potato battery to show kids. There are kits that provide all the necessary materials and how to set it up, but if you don't purchase one of these it can be a bit trickier to gather everything you need and assemble it correctly. Once it's set though, you'll have your own farm grown battery!

#12: Homemade Pulley

This science activity requires some materials you may not already have, but once you've gotten them, the homemade pulley takes only a few minutes to set up, and you can leave the pulley up for your kids to play with all year round. This pulley is best set up outside, but can also be done indoors.

#13: Light Refraction

This light refraction experiment takes only a few minutes to set up and uses basic materials, but it's a great way to show kids how light travels. You'll draw two arrows on a sticky note, stick it to the wall, then fill a clear water bottle with water. As you move the water bottle in front of the arrows, the arrows will appear to change the direction they're pointing. This is because of the refraction that occurs when light passes through materials like water and plastic.

#14: Nature Journaling

A nature journal is a great way to encourage kids to be creative and really pay attention to what's going on around them. All you need is a blank journal (you can buy one or make your own) along with something to write with. Then just go outside and encourage your children to write or draw what they notice. This could include descriptions of animals they see, tracings of leaves, a drawing of a beautiful flower, etc. Encourage your kids to ask questions about what they observe (Why do birds need to build nests? Why is this flower so brightly colored?) and explain to them that scientists collect research by doing exactly what they're doing now.

#15: DIY Solar Oven

This homemade solar oven definitely requires some adult help to set up, but after it's ready you'll have your own mini oven that uses energy from the sun to make s'mores or melt cheese on pizza. While the food is cooking, you can explain to kids how the oven uses the sun's rays to heat the food.

Materials Needed

Pizza box

Aluminum foil

Knife or box cutter

Permanent marker

Ruler

Glue

Plastic cling wrap

Black construction paper

Tape

#16: Animal Blubber Simulation

If your kids are curious about how animals like polar bears and seals stay warm in polar climates, you can go beyond just explaining it to them; you can actually have them make some of their own blubber and test it out. After you've filled up a large bowl with ice water and let it sit for a few minutes to get really cold, have your kids dip a bare hand in and see how many seconds they can last before their hand gets too cold. Next, coat one of their fingers in shortening and repeat the experiment. Your child will notice that, with the shortening acting like a protective layer of blubber, they don't feel the cold water nearly as much.

Materials Needed

Bowl of ice water

Shortening

#17: Static Electricity Butterfly

This experiment is a great way for young kids to learn about static electricity, and it's more fun and visual than just having them rub balloons against their heads. First you'll create a butterfly, using thick paper (such as cardstock) for the body and tissue paper for the wings. Then, blow up the balloon, have the kids rub it against their head for a few seconds, then move the balloon to just above the butterfly's wings. The wings will move towards the balloon due to static electricity, and it'll look like the butterfly is flying.

Materials Needed

Cardboard

Tissue paper

Thick paper

Pencil

Scissors

Glue stick/glue

Balloon

#18: Edible Double Helix

If your kids are learning about genetics, you can do this edible double helix craft to show them how DNA is formed, what its different parts are, and what it looks like. The licorice will form the sides or backbone of the DNA and each color of marshmallow will represent one of the four chemical bases. Kids will be able to see that only certain chemical bases pair with each other.

#19: Leak-Proof Bag

This is an easy experiment that'll appeal to kids of a variety of ages. Just take a zip-lock bag, fill it about ⅔ of the way with water, and close the top. Next, poke a few sharp objects (like bamboo skewers or sharp pencils) through one end and out the other. At this point you may want to dangle the bag above your child's head, but no need to worry about spills because the bag won't leak? Why not? It's because the plastic used to make zip-lock bags is made of polymers, or long chains of molecules that'll quickly join back together when they're forced apart.

#20: How Do Leaves Breathe?

It takes a few hours to see the results of this leaf experiment, but it couldn't be easier to set up, and kids will love to see a leaf actually "breathing." Just get a large-ish leaf, place it in a bowl (glass works best so you can see everything) filled with water, place a small rock on the leaf to weigh it down, and leave it somewhere sunny. Come back in a few hours and you'll see little bubbles in the water created when the leaf releases the oxygen it created during photosynthesis.

#21: Popsicle Stick Catapults

Kids will love shooting pom poms out of these homemade popsicle stick catapults. After assembling the catapults out of popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and plastic spoons, they're ready to launch pom poms or other lightweight objects. To teach kids about simple machines, you can ask them about how they think the catapults work, what they should do to make the pom poms go a farther/shorter distance, and how the catapult could be made more powerful.

#22: Elephant Toothpaste

You won't want to do this experiment near anything that's difficult to clean (outside may be best), but kids will love seeing this " elephant toothpaste" crazily overflowing the bottle and oozing everywhere. Pour the hydrogen peroxide, food coloring, and dishwashing soap into the bottle, and in the cup mix the yeast packet with some warm water for about 30 seconds. Then, add the yeast mixture to the bottle, stand back, and watch the solution become a massive foamy mixture that pours out of the bottle! The "toothpaste" is formed when the yeast removed the oxygen bubbles from the hydrogen peroxide which created foam. This is an exothermic reaction, and it creates heat as well as foam (you can have kids notice that the bottle became warm as the reaction occurred).

Materials Needed

Clean 16-oz soda bottle

6% solution of hydrogen peroxide

1 packet of dry yeast

Water

Dishwashing soap

Food coloring (optional)

Small cup

#23: How Do Penguins Stay Dry?

Penguins, and many other birds, have special oil-producing glands that coat their feathers with a protective layer that causes water to slide right off them, keeping them warm and dry. You can demonstrate this to kids with this penguin craft by having them color a picture of a penguin with crayons, then spraying the picture with water. The wax from the crayons will have created a protective layer like the oil actual birds coat themselves with, and the paper won't absorb the water.

#24: Rock Weathering Experiment

This mechanical weathering experiment teaches kids why and how rocks break down or erode. Take two pieces of clay, form them into balls, and wrap them in plastic wrap. Then, leave one out while placing the other in the freezer overnight. The next day, unwrap and compare them. You can repeat freezing the one piece of clay every night for several days to see how much more cracked and weathered it gets than the piece of clay that wasn't frozen. It may even begin to crumble. This weathering also happens to rocks when they are subjected to extreme temperatures, and it's one of the causes of erosion.

#25: Saltwater Density

For this saltwater density experiment, you'll fill four clear glasses with water, then add salt to one glass, sugar to one glass, and baking soda to one glass, leaving one glass with just water. Then, float small plastic pieces or grapes in each of the glasses and observe whether they float or not. Saltwater is denser than freshwater, which means some objects may float in saltwater that would sink in freshwater. You can use this experiment to teach kids about the ocean and other bodies of saltwater, such as the Dead Sea, which is so salty people can easily float on top of it.

#26: Starburst Rock Cycle

With just a package of Starbursts and a few other materials, you can create models of each of the three rock types: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Sedimentary "rocks" will be created by pressing thin layers of Starbursts together, metamorphic by heating and pressing Starbursts, and igneous by applying high levels of heat to the Starbursts. Kids will learn how different types of rocks are forms and how the three rock types look different from each other.

#27: Inertia Wagon Experiment

This simple experiment teaches kids about inertia (as well as the importance of seatbelts!). Take a small wagon, fill it with a tall stack of books, then have one of your children pull it around then stop abruptly. They won't be able to suddenly stop the wagon without the stack of books falling. You can have the kids predict which direction they think the books will fall and explain that this happens because of inertia, or Newton's first law.

#28: Dinosaur Tracks

How are some dinosaur tracks still visible millions of years later? By mixing together several ingredients, you'll get a claylike mixture you can press your hands/feet or dinosaur models into to make dinosaur track imprints. The mixture will harden and the imprints will remain, showing kids how dinosaur (and early human) tracks can stay in rock for such a long period of time.

#29: Sidewalk Constellations

If you do this sidewalk constellation craft, you'll be able to see the Big Dipper and Orion's Belt in the daylight. On the sidewalk, have kids draw the lines of constellations (using constellation diagrams for guidance) and place stones where the stars are. You can then look at astronomy charts to see where the constellations they drew will be in the sky.

#30: Lung Model

By building a lung model, you can teach kids about respiration and how their lungs work. After cutting off the bottom of a plastic bottle, you'll stretch a balloon around the opened end and insert another balloon through the mouth of the bottle. You'll then push a straw through the neck of the bottle and secure it with a rubber band and play dough. By blowing into the straw, the balloons will inflate then deflate, similar to how our lungs work.

#31: Homemade Dinosaur Bones

By mixing just flour, salt, and water, you'll create a basic salt dough that'll harden when baked. You can use this dough to make homemade dinosaur bones and teach kids about paleontology. You can use books or diagrams to learn how different dinosaur bones were shaped, and you can even bury the bones in a sandpit or something similar and then excavate them the way real paleontologists do.

#32: Clay and Toothpick Molecules

There are many variations on homemade molecule science crafts. This one uses clay and toothpicks, although gumdrops or even small pieces of fruit like grapes can be used in place of clay. Roll the clay into balls and use molecule diagrams to attach the clay to toothpicks in the shape of the molecules. Kids can make numerous types of molecules and learn how atoms bond together to form molecules.

#33: Articulated Hand Model

By creating an articulated hand model, you can teach kids about bones, joints, and how our hands are able to move in many ways and accomplish so many different tasks. After creating a hand out of thin foam, kids will cut straws to represent the different bones in the hand and glue them to the fingers of the hand models. You'll then thread yarn (which represents tendons) through the straws, stabilize the model with a chopstick or other small stick, and end up with a hand model that moves and bends the way actual human hands do.

#34: Solar Energy Experiment

This solar energy science experiment will teach kids about solar energy and how different colors absorb different amounts of energy. In a sunny spot outside, place six colored pieces of paper next to each other, and place an ice cube in the middle of each paper. Then, observe how quickly each of the ice cubes melt. The ice cube on the black piece of paper will melt fastest since black absorbs the most light (all the light ray colors), while the ice cube on the white paper will melt slowest since white absorbs the least light (it instead reflects light). You can then explain why certain colors look the way they do. (Colors besides black and white absorb all light except for the one ray color they reflect; this is the color they appear to us.)

Materials Needed

Ice cubes

6 squares of differently colored paper/cardstock (must include black paper and white paper)

#35: How to Make Lightning

You don't need a storm to see lightning; you can actually create your own lightning at home. For younger kids this experiment requires adult help and supervision. You'll stick a thumbtack through the bottom of an aluminum tray, then stick the pencil eraser to the pushpin. You'll then rub the piece of wool over the aluminum tray, and then set the tray on the Styrofoam, where it'll create a small spark/tiny bolt of lightning!

#36: Tie-Dyed Milk

For this magic milk experiment, partly fill a shallow dish with milk, then add a one drop of each food coloring color to different parts of the milk. The food coloring will mostly stay where you placed it. Next, carefully add one drop of dish soap to the middle of the milk. It'll cause the food coloring to stream through the milk and away from the dish soap. This is because the dish soap breaks up the surface tension of the milk by dissolving the milk's fat molecules.

#37: How Do Stalactites Form?

Have you ever gone into a cave and seen huge stalactites hanging from the top of the cave? Stalactites are formed by dripping water. The water is filled with particles which slowly accumulate and harden over the years, forming stalactites. You can recreate that process with this stalactite experiment. By mixing a baking soda solution, dipping a piece of wool yarn in the jar and running it to another jar, you'll be able to observe baking soda particles forming and hardening along the yarn, similar to how stalactites grow.

Summary: Cool Science Experiments for Kids

Any one of these simple science experiments for kids can get children learning and excited about science. You can choose a science experiment based on your child's specific interest or what they're currently learning about, or you can do an experiment on an entirely new topic to expand their learning and teach them about a new area of science. From easy science experiments for kids to the more challenging ones, these will all help kids have fun and learn more about science.

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The fauna of Ireland comprises all the animal species inhabiting the island of Ireland and its surrounding waters.

This table uses figures supplied by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

Vertebrates by class

Only 26 land mammal species are native to Ireland, because it has been isolated from the European mainland (by rising sea levels after the Midlandian Ice Age), since about 14,000 BC. Some species, such as the red fox, European hedgehog, stoat, otter, pygmy shrew, and badger are common, whereas others, like the Irish hare, red deer, and pine marten are less common and generally seen only in certain national parks and nature reserves around the island. Some introduced species have become thoroughly naturalised, e.g. the European rabbit, grey squirrel, and brown rat. In addition, ten species of bat are found in Ireland.

Megafaunal extinctions

In the Ice Age (which included warm spells), mammals such as the woolly mammoth, wild horse, giant deer, brown bear, spotted hyena, Arctic lemming, Norway lemming, Arctic fox, European beaver, wolf, Eurasian lynx, and reindeer flourished or migrated depending on the degree of coldness. The Irish brown bear was a genetically distinct (clade 2) brown bear from a lineage that had significant polar bear mtDNA. The closest surviving brown bear is Ursus arctos middendorffi in Alaska.

Only one land reptile is native to the country, the viviparous lizard. It is common in national parks, particularly in the Wicklow Mountains. Slow-worms are common in parts of The Burren area in County Clare, but they are not a native species and were probably introduced in the 1970s. Five marine turtle species appear regularly off the west coast, the leatherback, green, hawksbill, loggerhead, and Kemp's ridley, but they very rarely come ashore.

Legend attributes the absence of snakes in Ireland to Saint Patrick, who is said to have banished them from the island, chasing them into the sea after they assailed him during a 40-day fast he was undertaking on top of a hill. In reality, no species of snake ever inhabited Ireland, due to it losing its land-bridge to Britain before snakes came north after the Ice Age.

Amphibians

Three amphibians are found in Ireland, the common European brown frog, the smooth newt, and the natterjack toad. There are questions over whether the frog is actually native to Ireland, with some historic accounts stating that the frog was introduced in the 18th century. The natterjack toad is only found in a few localised sites in County Kerry and western County Cork. For atlases see Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland.

About 400 bird species have been recorded in Ireland. Many of these species are migratory. There are Arctic birds, which come in the winter, and birds such as the swallow, which come from Africa in the summer to breed. Many birds which are common residents in Britain and continental Europe are rare or unusual in Ireland, examples include the tawny owl, willow tit, marsh tit, nuthatch, and all woodpecker species except the recently established great spotted woodpecker. These are birds which do not move great distances and their absence may be due to Ireland's early isolation, but also Ireland's mild weather means early breeding and choice of best habitats which gives residents an advantage over visitors.

Although Ireland has fewer breeding species than Britain and Continental Europe (because there are fewer habitat types, fewer deciduous woodlands, Scots pine forests, heaths, and high mountain ranges), there are important populations of species which are in decline elsewhere. Storm petrels (largest breeding numbers in the world), roseate tern, chough, and corncrake. Four species of bird have Irish subspecies. These are the coal tit ( Parus ater hibernicus), dipper ( Cinclus cinclus hibernicus), jay ( Garrulus glandarius hibernicus), and red grouse ( Lagopus lagopus hibernicus).

The wren, robin, blackbird, and common chaffinch are the most widespread species, occurring in 90% of the land area. These and the rook, starling, great tit, and blue tit are among the most numerous and commonly seen. Over the period 1997-2007, populations of pigeons, warblers, tits, finches, and buntings have remained stable or shown an increase (there were massive declines during the 1970s). Kestrel, common swift, skylark, and mistle thrush have continued to decline due to changes in agricultural practices such as increased use of pesticides and fertiliser. Climate change has also played a role. For atlases see Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland

Ireland has a rich marine avifauna, with many large seabird colonies dotted around its coastline such as those on the Saltee Islands, Skellig Michael, and the Copeland Islands. Also of note are golden eagles, recently reintroduced after decades of extinction (Golden Eagle Reintroduction Programme in County Donegal). Another conservation effort is habitat management to encourage the red-necked phalarope.

South-eastern Wexford is an important site for birds - the north side of Wexford Harbour, the North Slob, is home to 10,000 Greenland white-fronted geese each winter (roughly one third of the entire world's population), while in the summer Lady's Island Lake is an important breeding site for terns, especially the roseate tern. Three quarters of the world population of pale bellied brent geese winter in Strangford Lough in County Down.

In 2001, the golden eagle was reintroduced into Glenveagh National Park after a 90-year absence from Ireland. A total of 46 golden eagles have been released in Ireland since 2001. In 2007, the first golden eagle chick hatched in Ireland since re-introduction. In 2006, 30 red kite birds originally from Wales were released in the Wicklow Mountains. Six weeks later one was shot dead, it was found to have 8 shotgun pellets in it. The first red kite chick hatched in 2010. In 2007, the white-tailed eagle returned to Ireland with six young birds being released in Killarney National Park after an absence of over 200 years from Ireland. Fifteen of these birds have been released in total. There are plans for the common crane to also return to Ireland in the future. While the osprey and marsh harrier have slowly returned to Ireland naturally.

Ireland has 375 fish species in its coastal waters and 40 freshwater species in its rivers and lakes. Most of these are pelagic. There are many aquatic mammals too, such as bottlenose dolphins, killer whales, and harbour porpoises. Sea turtles are also common off the western seaboard, and the walrus has also been found around the Irish coasts, but is very rare with only a handful of sightings. The cool, temperate waters around Ireland contain a huge variety of marine invertebrates Some of this diversity can be observed in tide pools.

There are 24 species of cetaceans and five species of sea turtles have been recorded in Irish waters. The giant squid has been recorded on five occasions

The Porcupine Abyssal Plain which has an average depth of 4,774 m is on the continental margin southwest of Ireland. It is the habitat for many deep sea fish and was first investigated in the summers of 1868 and 1869 by Charles Wyville Thomsons H.M.S. Porcupine expedition. Other notable fish include the basking shark, ocean sunfish, conger eel, hagfish, boarfish ( Capros aper), large-eyed rabbitfish, lumpsucker, cuckoo wrasse, and the thresher shark.

In a study of the marine fauna of the Celtic Sea based on 61 beam trawl catches, the common dragonet and the hermit crab Pagurus prideaux were the most ubiquitous species.

Invertebrates by phylum

Insects and other arthropods

There are an estimated 11,500 species of insect recorded in Ireland (11,422 actual at October 2010: in well-known groups 1,400 of these moths, 33 species of dragonflies/damselflies and 34 species of butterfly). Many more remain to be found. Six checklists of the Irish insect fauna have been published to date- Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Hemiptera and small orders The history and rationale of the lists is detailed by O'Connor Spiders are represented by 378 species Literature on other Irish land invertebrates can be accessed on using the key words search facility. The site is regularly updated but gaps still exist.

For atlases See Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland

Notable Irish species include the freshwater pearl mussel, diving bell spider, marsh fritillary butterfly, Kerry slug, Semilimax pyrenaicus, freshwater crayfish, the white prominent moth, and Roesel's bush-cricket.

The aquatic insect fauna is listed by Ashe et al.

Extinctions

Species that have become extinct in Ireland in historic times include the great auk, the Irish elk, the European beaver, brown bear, gray whale and the wildcat. The last gray wolf in Ireland was killed by John Watson of Ballydarton, County Carlow in 1786. Many bird of prey species including the golden eagle, white-tailed eagle, and red kite have been re-introduced to national parks after absences between 90-200 years.

Zoology museums

These are the Natural History Museum Dublin which opened in 1856 and the Ulster Museum in Belfast which opened in 1929. Ireland's universities hold smaller collections. Trinity College Dublin also has a Zoological museum that is open during the summer months.

In 2000, scientists in Ireland commenced a research programme called "Ag-Biota", concerning the impact of modern agriculture on biodiversity.

An early (1180) account of the fauna is given by Gerald of Wales in Topographia Hibernica and in 1652 Gerard Boate's Natural History of Ireland was published. Also in the 17th century Thomas Molyneux made observations. The Clare Island Survey (1909-11) organised by Robert Lloyd Praeger was the first comprehensive biological survey carried out in the world. It became a model for studies elsewhere.

Composition of the fauna

Details of the composition of the Irish fauna by group are given by Ferriss, S. E., Smith, K. G. and Inskipp, T. P.(editors), 2009 Irish Biodiversity: a taxonomic inventory of fauna. Online here: [1]. Not up to date for all taxa.

Nunn, J.D. (ed.) 2002 Marine Biodiversity in Ireland and Adjacent Waters. Proceedings of a Conference 26-27 April 2001. Ulster Museum publication no. 8.

Irish Wildlife Manuals is a series of contract reports relating to the conservation management of habitats and species in Ireland. The volumes are published on an irregular basis by Ireland's National Parks and Wildlife Service.

Praeger, R. Ll. 1950. Natural History of Ireland. Collins, London.

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