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Paper

(coloured)

  • Stationers
  • Budget retail stores
  • Construction
  • Posters
  • Displays
 
Paper clips
  • Stationers
  • Budget retail stores
  • Electrical circuits
  • Measuring mass
  • Magnetism
  • Model making
 
Paper towels
  • Supermarkets
  • Filtering
  • Chromatography
  • Cleaning up
  • Fair testing
 
Peanuts
  • Supermarkets
  • Health shops
  • Burning
Raw peanuts (unshelled) can be successfully used to grow plants.
Pins or safety pins
  • Fabric shops
  • Construction
 

Plaster
[Calcium sulfate, CaSO4]

(plaster of Paris)

  • Paint shops
  • Hardware shops
  • Modelling and constructions
  • Making fossils
Gib-stopping compound could be used instead.
Plastic containers and bags
  • Homes
  • Plastics units
  • Storage
  • Construction
  • Investigating
  • Packaging
  • Fair testing
  • Raising seedlings
Self seal bags plastic bags are an excellent way of displaying items such as birds' nests and fungi, which may be hazardous to some children. Chemical reactions can also be carried out inside the zip-lock plastic bags.
Plasticine
  • Toyshops
  • Modelling
 
Popcorn
  • Supermarkets
  • Fair test (comparing different methods of heating)
  • Soak kernels for different periods of time to show seed structure.
 
Potting mix
  • Garden suppliers
  • Supermarkets
  • Raising seeds and growing plants
  • Fair testing
Different types and brands of potting mix have different compositions.
Raisins
  • Supermarkets
  • Health shops
  • Reversible change by soaking in water and then drying
Raisins are dried grapes.
Rubber bands
  • Stationers
  • Budget retail stores
  • Construction
  • Forces
  • LEGO® Technic
  • Fair testing
 

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