How Can I Best Encourage My 9 Year Old's Interest in Science?

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I'm looking for ideas for example, any toys / games I could buy, any fun Youtube videos / TV programmes we could watch, simple experiments we could do, any particular places we could visit (in person or online), anything really.

Thanks

On YouTube

Backyard Scientist
Kurzgesacht
Mark Rober
How Ridiculous
Colin Furze

any particular places we could visit (in person or online)

Where do you live? In the northwest there's the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester and Catalyst in Widnes.

If you're anywhere near Glasgow then the science centre at Pacific Quay is amazing. Perfect for his age.

There's a show touring various theatres called Science Saved the World. I saw it with my DC earlier this year and would recommend it.

Take him rock pooling, pond dipping and insect hunting.

I'm in the South East area.

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Horrible Science books are really good for that age.

Share your love of science with them
Talk to them of new discoveries, how science applies in the current world, the wonder and majesty of the enormous (stars) and the teeny-tiny (atoms).

Good shouts.
In addition often these YouTubers promote science subscription boxes for children. The trouble is they are usually US-based so the delivery doubles the price.

Worth checking if there is a UK/Continental Europe equivalent.

We got the MEL Science subscription box for a while. Lots of cool experiments. It looks like they're doing 50% off at the moment too.

MEL Science

You can get electronic circuit sets for kids. If they enjoy playing Minecraft then it will help with their red stone creations.

Whizz Pop Bang is a good science magazine for kids and they enjoy something coming in the post for them. Each month is themed but you can buy back issues too for a particular theme.

Came on to say this!

Kits:
KidzLabs experiment kits
Electromagnetism - electricity & magnetism lab kit
Snap Circuits

Books:
horrible science
DK science
DK space
Kay's anatomy
Kay's marvellous medicine
What if?
Sapiens graphic novels
Two heads

Videos:
Kurtgesagt
BBC documentaries

If you're in the south east go to the observatory science centre in East Sussex

DS loves science so he's got all of these (oh yes Mark rober is one of his favourites too) but DD isn't keen even if we have all of them at home🤷

Or how about grow your own vegetable. Homebase sell tomato plants which your DC can water and grow

Mine also really like the Turing Tumble which is great for understanding logic etc and Spintronics by the same people is a really brilliant way to understand electronics.

I'd you're anywhere near Stevenage, the European Space Agency has a learning centre attached to it which runs some brilliant events.

YouTube videos from tksst (thekidsshouldseethis). not all science but plenty of good ones.

Usborne book series - 'physics for beginners' and others in the same series.

Thanks for all these responses

Cut open a tomato and take the seeds out, then plant them. Or take an avocado stone and grow a plant from it by suspending the stone 2/3 in water.

Make a wormery.

Make homemade indicator from red cabbage and test lots of household liquids to see if acid/alkali/neutral. Mix these household acids and alkalis to get perfect combination to make neural.

Sort recycling cans using magnets.

Get drinking water from salt water as though stranded on desert island. Will work particularly well now due to heat!

Investigate how adding substances to ice changes melting temperature.

Make a carbon dioxide "fire extinguisher" test it to blow out candle.

Make oobleck with cornflour.

Test enzymes in pineapple and kiwi breaking down jelly. Try with fresh, canned, etc to show how heat treatment denatures enzymes.

KiwiCo- my DS loved the kits.

Join the Royal Institute of Science. They have great family fun days every few months. They also have holiday courses and virtual events.

Also in London, Kings College uni sometimes have children's events and of course there is the Science Museum in Kensington.

Places to go in SE outside of London - Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium, and The Look Out Discovery Centre just outside Bracknell - both hands on for kids!

Make homemade indicator from red cabbage and test lots of household liquids to see if acid/alkali/neutral. Mix these household acids and alkalis to get perfect combination to make neural.

Make sure you've read the labels and handling instructions, and don't let them go mixing household cleaners without supervision - in particular avoid ones containing bleach, you may liberate chlorine.

This is what I was going to say.

Also Imperial College London has a
Science festival this weekend:

www.imperial.ac.uk/festival/

Mine enjoyed Herstmonceux observatory and science centre, if you're in that area. Science museum in London.

They liked any books on science really. Horrible science, DK books. Any books that answer all sorts of strange and funny questions!

Hot Wires circuits, chemistry sets, that sort of thing.

They're studying physics at uni now. Which is why I can't name the books they read as it was a while ago!

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (RiGB) Christmas lectures are great fun. You can watch them on line or (if you're lucky) in person.

DD1 is a member & she's been to some of their holiday workshops and talks (she's 17 but they do them for younger kids as well). Also you don't have to be a member.