Growing the crown jewels

Learn how to grow your own crown jewels in this exciting lab experiment

The primary resources available to download here have been supplied by The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair; the largest celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) for young people in the UK.

Learn how to grow your own crown jewels in this exciting lab experiment.

Activity: Demonstrate the experiment to the children at a safe distance. If you are working with Key Stage 3 pupils, ask them to carry out the experiment themselves in small groups, following the instructions.

The Big Bang Fair is an award-winning combination of exciting theatre shows, interactive workshops and exhibits and careers information from STEM professionals.

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This Science primary resource assists with teaching the following Lower Key Stage 2 Science (Year 3) objectives from the National Curriculum:

Pupils should be taught to:

compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases

observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C)

This Science primary resource assists with teaching the following Key Stage 3 Chemistry objectives from the National Curriculum:

Pupils should be taught about:

the properties of the different states of matter (solid, liquid and gas) in terms of the particle model, including gas pressure
the concept of a pure substance