We have got some big discounts on offer!
First, our Ramadan Special. We are offering 30% off the remaining weekday afternoon classes during Ramadan! So if you want to make the most of the shorter school hours, come join us during the week and save on some extra science and wonder.
And registration for our Spring Camp is now open with a special offer for our very early birds. The first 20 people to sign up here using the code SC20 will get an additional 20% off the week. Act fast and save big!
COOKING UP SCIENCE
Dairy hasn’t been the only staple of the human diet. Bread has also graced tables around the world for millennia. But whereas most cultures made do with flatbreads, this week, we will be raising it up to the next level with leaveners. As our experiments will show, both baking soda and yeast produce enough gas to blow up balloons, but which of these is best at making a light and fluffy dough? After mixing and kneading our own dough, we will stretch it out, top it with tomato sauce and cheese, bake our pizzas, and put these leaveners to the ultimate taste test.
PLANET EARTH, ANIMATED
Since water is so good at dissolving the chemicals biochemistry depends on, life needed a way to stop the currents from washing these nutrients away. The cell kept these currents away and built up high enough concentrations of these nutrients within it to allow life to take hold. This week, microscopes will let us get a closer look at life’s building blocks. Using onion skin and our own cheek cells, we will explore the differences between plant and animal cells before we turn the microscope to our aquarium to reveal the microscopic universe of single-celled life hiding right under our noses.
RAMPANT REACTIONS
You don’t always have to mix a bunch of chemicals together to get a chemical reaction. Sometimes, all we need to do is add a little energy. With this kick, a single chemical can break down and produce a host of new ones. This week, that kick will come in the form of heat as we thermally decompose chemicals. After breaking down vibrantly turquoise copper carbonate into black copper oxide and carbon dioxide, we will set light to sugar and charm a pure carbon snake out of its flames.
