The key to great Science is to have fun, play with things and ask questions. Have a go at experiments from the recommended sites below and have a go a making up your own simple experiments also. Remember, reading about Science information is really reading about Science. True Science is investigating and experimenting. This type of activity does not have to involve expensive or dangerous equipment.

Try getting a large flat plastic plate and fill it to 7 mm deep with milk. Then put a few drips of different coloured food colouring into different places in the milk. Next drip a drip of detergent into the center of some of the food colouring and watch what happens.

This is a great experiment and costs very little and is totally safe.

I believe God made us all with a quest for knowledge and answers. However most of us learn to stop asking questions during our formative years. I believe the, "I don't know" answers from adults in our young lives teach us to accept the things "just as they are, and that things just are."

This of course is not the case. God has made an exciting world for us to learn about and he gave us brains for a reason.  

Science is FUN!  -here are some examples you can watch if you have Broadband, but do not try them at home.

Here is a list of links as a complement to your resources:

Junior Science Home Experiments The experiments that can be found at this site are easily added into existing Science programs. These experiments are commonly used within Education Queensland Primary and Middle Schools. This is not a Christian site so you need to check the content as some make reference to Evolution.

How Stuff Works This is the BEST site in the world for finding out how things work!

Science Toys This is my faviourite Science Site on the web and where I go to get ideas for fun science e.g. making simple motors.

Here you can see Geoff and Jade
testing the pH of the fish tank water.

This is a wonderful resource proclaiming research and information on Creation Research and their children's section: http://www.answersingenesis.org/kids
A similar site is found at Defend Your Faith

Another outsanding Site for Older Student is the EXPLORE Site: http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/

Science Monster This site has heaps of engaging activities and interesting information for Maths as well as Science.

Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. Just set your coordinates and go. Link to download site...

The Investigative Science Process
When Students have a go at a science Investigations it is good for them to keep records of what they are doing, as this is an important part of the Investigative Science process. Reports are usually set out within the following sections:

Topic -What are Investigating

Question -What do you want to find out?
Make sure your question is one that can be investigated by doing an experiment;
this is called an Investigative Question e.g. What will happen if we add more baking soda into our dough?
This is different to a research question. A research something you find the answer to by looking in books. E.g. How big to dolphins grow?

Hypothesis -What do you think the answer to your question will be.

Method -How are you going to do your experiment –this needs to be details so that if you discover some new finding, other can copy your experiment to see if your results were true.

Observation -This is where you describe what your saw in your experiment.

Result –here you record our results on a table and or on a graph, answer your question and state whether your Hypothesis was correct.

Conclusion –this involves talking about the validity of your experiment, did it actually test what you wanted it to or did something go wrong or not work? You also talk about the reliability of your experiment –would it work again?

You also talk about how your results apply to the rest of the world or a larger group.  

Here is an example of an experiment done by a Grade 5 student:

Topic: Recovery Rates 

Question: What happens to your heart rate after exercise?
*How long it takes for your heart to return to normal after exercise?

Research: We know the heart speeds up to supply the body with oxygen.

Method:
We will send Donnelly and Sam for a run to speed up their heart rates. We will take their pulse rate before and then after to find their beats/minute for every 30sec after the run.

Hypothesis:
We think that it will take about 1or 2 minutes for Donnellys heart to go back to its normal speed and Sam’s about 4 minutes to go back to normal.

Data collection table:

Report on graph:
This graph shows that Sam’s heart rate went down a couple of beats and then went up again. Sam must have been breathing a lot harder than he normally does. Sam’s heart rate went back to normal after about six minutes.
Donnelly’s graph shows that his heart rate went down quite fast and after about one minute his heart was back to normal.

Results:
Our hypothesis was almost correct.

Conclusion:
We found out that Sam is not as fit as Donnelly we found this out by sending Donnelly and Sam for a run around the top field and when they got back we measured their heart rate. This study shows that not everybody’s heart rate turns back to normal straight away because everybody has different levels of fitness. We could have improved this study by measuring the course that Sam and Donnelly ran. We could also have improved this study by having different people at different points along the run so that Sam and Donnelly would have run the same distance.