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Clubs, CREST Awards and Fairs (5-19 yrs)
CREST Star Investigators
Additional Resources
Star
Animal adventure
Be seen, be safe
Brilliant bubbles
Confusing cans
Muddy mess
Music maker
Rainbow colour collectors
Scrap yard scraps
Slippery slidey shoes
Sneaky shadow
Sniffly sneezes
Useless umbrella
Rainbow colour collectors
Cosmic and Gem are in the park. They go on a colour hunting expedition to collect the colours of the rainbow.
Resources
Colour collecting palette - coming soon
Extra support
Whilst you may be growing fruit and vegetables in your garden, children should be reminded to come and ask you before they pick anything to eat. Children should not eat or taste any leaves or seeds that they collect during this activity.
In addition, not all plants are safe to touch: some plants have sap that is an irritant to skin and/or eyes.
Below are some common plants to be wary of:
Poisonous plants
Amaryllis
Bluebell
Daffodil
Foxglove
Horse chestnut
Larkspur/delphinium
Lily of the valley
Lords and ladies
Lupin
Opium poppy
Rhubarb
Sweet pea seeds
Poison ivy
Wisteria
Yew
Irritant plants
Daffodil (skin)
Giant hogweed (extremely severe skin irritant in bright sunlight)
Hyacinth (skin)
Leyland cyprus (skin)
Lords and ladies (skin and eye)
Poison ivy (severe skin irritant)
Tulip (skin)
How many colours in a rainbow?
At school, we often learn that a rainbow has seven colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet). In this activity we recommend that you use six colours (combining indigo and violet). People from different cultures and periods in history have identified different numbers of colours in a rainbow.
Newton originally (1672) only named five colours in the rainbow (red, yellow, green, blue and violet).
Later, he introduced orange and indigo - totalling seven colours, like the musical scale.
Some sources thought there were three colours (three is associated with the trinity - Aristotle).
Other sources use four colours (6th-7th century, and associated with earth, wind, air and fire).
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British Association for the Advancement of Science (the BA)
2007
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Weblinks
RHS Guide to poisonous plants
Woodland Trust's Nature Detectives worksheet
- activity on finding red things in autumn
National Curriculum links:
Sc1 Scientific enquiry
Scottish National Guidelines:
Skills in science- investigating