![Ant, showing mandibles Ant, showing mandibles](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/6594-1.jpg?itok=GQ0RA1wN)
Insects: Part 1
Picture Collections
10 images of some animals such as ants and mosquitoes that have 6 legs and 3 main body parts consisting of a head, thorax and abdomen.
![How does water move up a plant?](/sites/default/files/2019-08/how-does-water-move-up-a-plant.jpg)
How does water move up a plant?
Hands-on Activities
Do an experiment with celery to learn about the structures that help plants take up water.
![How fast can you react?](/sites/default/files/2019-08/how-fast-can-you-react.jpg)
How fast can you react?
Hands-on Activities
What is a reflex? Test your reaction time and find out why reflexes are important in this challenge activity.
![How many drops of water can you rest on one coin?](/sites/default/files/2019-08/how-many-drops-of-water-can-you-fit-on-a-coin.jpg)
How many drops of water can you rest on one coin?
Hands-on Activities
Explore surface tension in this hands on challenge activity.
![How much air do I breathe in?](/sites/default/files/2019-08/How-much-air-do-I-breathe-in.jpg)
How much air do I breathe in?
Hands-on Activities
Learn how to measure lung capacity and about the factors that can affect our lung capacity in this hands on activity.
![Monarch Butterfly Monarch Butterfly](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/photo-1454047545088-4d599ca277de.jpg?itok=VbTeBLHD)
Insects: Part 3
Picture Collections
20 images of some animals such as ants and mosquitoes that have 6 legs and 3 main body parts consisting of a head, thorax and abdomen
![How can I stop bananas from turning brown?](/sites/default/files/2019-08/how-can-i-stop-bananas-from-turning-brown.jpg)
How can I stop bananas from turning brown?
Hands-on Activities
Explore the chemistry behind why bananas turn brown. Can chemistry also help prevent this?
![How can I take fingerprints?](/sites/default/files/2019-08/Fingerprint_Whorl.jpg)
How can I take fingerprints?
Hands-on Activities
In this activity learn how to collect fingerprints, about the patterns in fingerprints and why fingerprinting is so useful!
![compass pointing north](/sites/default/files/2020-04/compass-pointing-to-north.jpg)
How can I tell which way is north at night?
Hands-on Activities
Do you like to look at the stars? What can you identify in the night sky? Try finding some important constellations tonight!
![How can I write secret messages?](/sites/default/files/2019-08/how-can-i-write-secret-messages.jpg)
How can I write secret messages?
Hands-on Activities
Learn how you can write and reveal secret messages in this hands-on chemistry activity.
![How can you make popcorn kernels dance?](/sites/default/files/2019-08/how-can-you-make-popcorn-kernels-dance.jpg)
How can you make popcorn kernels dance?
Hands-on Activities
Get your popcorn kernels dancing with this uplifting chemical reaction.
![How can you see underwater?](/sites/default/files/2019-08/how-can-you-see-underwater.jpg)
How can you see underwater?
Hands-on Activities
Explore how we see things through water.
![Dinosaur footprint fossil](/sites/default/files/2019-08/313px-Gigandipus.jpg)
How did dinosaurs leave fossils behind?
Hands-on Activities
Using a toy dinosaur and some plaster of Paris, learn how dinosaur footprints could become fossils.
![How do I see colour?](/sites/default/files/2019-08/how-do-i-see-colour.jpg)
How do I see colour?
Hands-on Activities
How is light connected to the colours we see? In this STEAM activity make a colourful light catcher and discover why we see different colours?
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How Do Objects Look from Different Angles?
Lessons
Students develop and apply observing, predicting and spatial reasoning skills to explore the position of objects.