Kitchen Chemistry Crime Lab
Someone swapped the canteen snack. Test the powders and crack the case!
Someone has swapped the canteen snack, and five white powders are the evidence. Your students run a set of chemistry tests on sugar, salt, flour, cornflour and bicarb soda, separate the ink on a ransom note, build an evidence table and use it to name the culprit.
Years 3–6 + HPGE
Hands-on
Investigations
Inquiry Based
Primary School Workshops
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What's In Kitchen Chemistry Crime Lab?
A hands-on workshop about food science: what can a colour change tell us about our food? Every student investigates with a challenge card matched to your stage.
Every session opens with a mystery at the crime scene, and ends with the class using their evidence to name the culprit.
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Year Levels
Years 3–6 + HPGE
Duration
60 or 90 minutes
Group Size
Up to 32
Price (incl GST)
$690 (60 min)
$21.56 per student
$790 (90 min)
$24.69 per student
Differentiated challenge cards matched to your class
Choose experiences to match your class interests
Predict, test, observe and explain
THE CRAZY SCIENTIST DIFFERENCE
Multiple Investigations. Learning Matched to Every Stage
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
Explore the learning at your stage.
Stage 2 — Kitchen Chemistry Crime Lab
Stage 2 cards challenge students to work out what heat does to the evidence and spot patterns in their test results.
Relevant NSW Science & Technology outcomes (2024)
Every group works from a Stage 2 challenge card written for these outcomes.
✓ ST2-SCI-01 — Energy is required to change the properties of matter
Describe how adding and removing heat energy affects the movement and arrangement of particles when matter is changing state
✓ ST2-PQU-01 — Physical and living systems depend on energy (skills focus)
poses questions to create fair tests that investigate the effects of energy on living things and physical systems
✓ ST2-DAT-01 — Physical and living systems depend on energy (skills focus)
uses and interprets data to describe patterns and relationships
See the Science in Action
LEARNING BEYOND THE WOW
What Students learn & How We Support Teachers
What Your Students Will Learn
Describe foods using observable properties
Use a colour-change test to compare foods and drinks
Record and compare results
Use evidence to reach a conclusion
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
How we support teachers
Challenge cards for every stage, used by
students during the session.
Classroom follow-up experiments to keep the learning going
Risk assessment, Working With Children Check and public liability insurance details, sent before your visit
Thinking skills students practise
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Workshop Requirements & Bookings
Everything You Need to Know
Up to 32 students per session
Group Size
60 or 90 minutes
Session Time
A classroom with a sink and tables for 16 pairs, plus a sunny windowsill or doorway for Melted Evidence. Everything runs inside.
Space & Setup
All materials, equipment, safety glasses and stage challenge cards.
What we Provide
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30+ Years Teaching Science
Experienced science teacher designing activities that keep children engaged, involved and learning.
We Bring Everything
Experiments, equipment and materials come with us — you just provide the space and the kids.
Tailored to Your School
Activities are adjusted to suit your class’s stage
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