What is science?
Science is all around us in every day life.
There's examples of science everywhere, including the weather (and seasons) outside, a kettle boiling or music playing from a speaker. Science is happening even when we aren't thinking about it.
We don't just learn about science in school, we use and experience it in many different ways every day.
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Explore how many different ways you might use science everyday.
Man: Hey, I thought we was meeting up, why you still working?
\Woman: Sorry, I’m just finishing up this scientific research.
Man: I don’t know why you bother, it’s not like any of this stuff is any use in real life.
Woman: Are you kidding? You’re using science every hour of every day of your life.
Man: I think I would know If I was.
Woman: Oh really? Hit it!
Man: How long has this thing been back here?
Woman: Baby you know when you turn on the lights, whether they’re dim or they’re bright.
When you turn them on, science is going on. Happening all the time.
When you turn on your tunes, make your camera zoom.
Find the right street, touching your screen, science makes it come true.
Cos lots that we do, have been improved by thinking it through.
Everyday in lots of ways we use science too.
Give three cheers for these science ideas.
We use science, science everyday.
It’s not just for learning you use it in lots of different ways.
You use science, science everyday.
When you turn the hairdryer on, feel the sweet heat waves.
You know that when you are gaming online, when you look at the time.
Using your remote, that’s been thought about, It is all bout design.
Cos every process has had a test to check that it works.
Let’s give a cheer for these ideas, they know their perks.
Let’s say thanks, let’s say thanks, let’s say thanks!
We use science, science everyday.
So much stuff you don’t know tests science in the best way.
You use science, science everyday.
If you’re sick, you get fixed up by science hooray!
When the car breaks, slows you down, slows you down.
When the cake bakes, watch it rise, watch it rise.
Going to space, and when you flush a loo.
It’s not chance, It’s not chance, It’s not chance.
We use science, science everyday.
When you’re on an aeroplane, it’s designed to keep you safe
You use science, science everyday.
We’re all using science in all kinds of different ways.
When you’re brushing, shiny and clean, shiny and clean.
Online searching, tap your screen, tap your screen.
Yeah, let’s face it, we should thank scientists.
We use science all the time, we use science everyday.
What science is used everyday?
Without science, many every day things would not be able to function properly.
For example:
- If there was no electrical circuits, then lights, televisions and computers wouldn't be able to work and electric cars wouldn't charge.
- Without gravity we would float around in space.
- If doctors didn't study human biology, they wouldn't be able to help us when we're sick.
- We couldn't travel in cars, busses, planes or rockets without engineers designing amazing vehicles.
Horrible Science fact
All electrical items require a circuit.
A simple circuit is made up of a power source (like a battery), wires and the thing it powers (like a light bulb).
You can learn more about circuits here circuits here.
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