Thanks for joining the Hay-Wire Club. As a club member you’ll receive the Hay-Wire e-zine every Friday – full of Planet Science fun, facts and freebies!
Here’s what’s coming up in issue 1:
We want to say thanks for joining the Hay-Wire club, which is why we’re giving our first lucky 500 members a free Planet Science Frisbee. Guess what? YOU’RE ONE OF THOSE LUCKY MEMBERS!
To receive your fantastic Frisbee then please send your name and address to: Hay-Wire.Clubhouse@nesta.org.uk and we’ll pop one in the post!
Frisbees are fun but it’s thanks to science that they fly through the air. First, they are made from lightweight materials so that they can glide through the air. Secondly, the shape of a Frisbee is important. Can you see why? Well, imagine if a Frisbee was shaped like a brick. Would the Frisbee travel far through the air? No, it certainly wouldn’t!
For the history of the Frisbee, click here:
http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/frisbee.html
For the Ultimate Frisbee Sport Association, click here:
http://www.ukultimate.com/
Make Super Goo in your kitchen, but you must ask your parent or guardian for permission first!
What You Need:
What You Do:
What’s Going On?
Isn’t this mixture the strangest stuff you’ve ever seen? When you let the mixture drip through your fingers, it behaves like a liquid. Yet when you roll the mixture and slap it, it behaves like a solid. But when you stop rolling it, the mixture drips through your fingers like a liquid again. It really is Super Goo!
The cornflour and water mixture is a mixture of solid particles suspended in a liquid, called a ‘colloid’. When you stir the mixture slowly, the cornflour particles can move around in the water quite freely, and so it acts as a liquid. When you stir the mixture faster or hold it in your hand tightly, the solid particles rub against each other causing friction. This makes them stick together and act like a solid.
Try adding a couple of drops of green food colouring to the mixture to make alien slime!
Is there is a science question nagging at the back of your brain and you can’t find the answer anywhere? Or have you recently tried an exciting experiment and you want to share your results with other club members? Look no further – Planet Pals is your corner of the Hay-Wire Club and we want to hear from you!
If you want to be a Planet Pal then email your science questions or comments to this address: Hay-Wire.Clubhouse@nesta.org.uk
Look out for your email in future issues of Hay-Wire!
Fancy a gross science snack attack?
If you’re one of those Hay-Wire members who wants to know everything about everything then BrainPOP (http://www.brainpop.com) is the website for you.
The stars of BrainPOP are Tim and his robot friend Moby. They’ve made a movie about nearly everything in the world of science, health, technology and maths. So sit back, put your feet up, choose a subject and take it all in.
You can watch five movies of your choice per day so try it, you’ll like it, and your brain will thank you!
Q) What did the daddy volcano say to the mummy volcano?
A) Do you lava me like I lava you?
Hay-Wire thinks you can do much better so why not email your favourite science jokes to this address: Hay-Wire.Clubhouse@nesta.org.uk
The best Tummy Tickers will be featured in a future issue of Hay-Wire so get writing now!
INFORMATION OVERLOAD
Planet Science has gone Hay-Wire and now you have too! Look out for the next issue of Hay-Wire next Friday. In the meantime if any of your friends want to join the Hay-Wire Club then tell them to visit:
http://www.planet-science.com/wired/hay-wire/clubhouse
Bye for now!