Author Archives: lab13network

It’s Lab_13 Irchester’s Birthday! For our 10th Birthday Party, we’re celebrating the FUTURE! We usually have a week of fun science, but this time that’s not long enough so we’re celebrating all next term with a futuristic 3D printer! We’re … Continue reading →

Mrs Major asked us (the lab_13 committee) to get some plants for each classroom in the school. This was because she had read that plants can help with air quality in a classroom: by using up the carbon dioxide a whole class breathes out, and producing oxygen. If there is too … Continue reading →

I’ll start sending out our experiments a week at a time, so you can choose when to do them! Monday: Home Experiment: Falling Lemon Today’s experiment is another magic trick! Can you make a lemon fall into a cup from … Continue reading →

Don’t forget, you can still enter the Science Hat Competition until the Friday after half term! It’s the lab’s Birthday, but one thing is still missing: Cake! This experiment needs more things and more help from your adult than normal: so you … Continue reading →

Let’s make some instruments to play at our birthday party! There are different types of instruments: wind instruments that you blow, stringed instruments where you pluck strings, and percussion instruments that you hit or shake. Here are some instructions for … Continue reading →

Have you ever played dizzy dinosaurs? It’s a game to play on the lawn where there is plenty of room:  you spin round and round on the spot until you are dizzy, then try to walk in a straight line! … Continue reading →

Any good party needs party hats, and the lab committee members decided for a lab birthday we need science party hats! Design and make your own hat, inspired by any kind of science! It could be a volcano, dinosaur, nature, … Continue reading →

This week is the lab_13 Irchester Birthday! Our teachers will be sending out extra nature themed plant and animal experiments for Irchester pupils to do around their own house, and the lab experiments shared with you will help create our … Continue reading →

This is the next of our Friday Projects, where we are trying out another type of science: when scientists will keep an eye on something to see how it changes over time. Sometimes things change very slowly, like trees growing … Continue reading →

This a simple hovercraft that you can make with just a piece of paper! You can follow the picture instructions, or use the video from the Science Fun Website!   How do you think your hovercraft works? Does a bigger or … Continue reading →