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Jumping Bugs Investigation Workshop

  • Jumping Bugs Investigation

  • Location: Lifelab
  • Duration: 1 hour
  • Availability: On demand
  • Age Ranges(s): KS3, KS4, Lower KS2, Upper KS2
  • Minimum Number: 12
  • Maximum Number: 36

Explore the ways that insects escape from predators then make jumping bugs to investigate what makes them jump highest. Jumping bugs are simple rubber-band powered mechanisms and students are invited to carry out fair tests to work out how to make them jump highest. A full SC1 investigation.

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