Join an expedition into space ...more
Investigate the ways that that marine animals keep warm in icy water, how elephants keep cool in the heat and how animal...more
Are you made of the Right Stuff? Find out in this workshop which explores the problems faced by astronauts as they live ...more
Explore and fix problem circuits, investigate conductors and insulators and discover how fuses work to make electrical a...more
Starting from a clear colourless liquid, carry out a sequence of reactions which result in a wide variety of colour chan...more
Find out which materials conduct electricity and which don’t, investigate how the different components of a circuit work...more
How does exercise affect your heart? How well do your lungs work? How do your muscles work? What does your skeleton look...more
Pupils use their expanding knowledge of colour and light to help a scientist-wizard bring colour to a land left grey by ...more
Open ended investigation at its best. Students are shown a mass of wriggling worms and invited to suggest the kind of qu...more
What does DNA look like? Where can you find it? How can you get it out? An amazing practical experience which reveals th...more
Everyone wants to be an astronaut but how do we get into space? Perform hands–on experiments using sensors and data capt...more
Examine the realistic crime scene and become a forensic scientist. Investigate shoeprints, use magnifiers to study finge...more
Explore what we mean by a fossil by comparing things which are alive, have never been alive and are dead. Become a pala...more
Find out how palaeontologists work out what dinosaurs ate by examining their teeth and use this information to build up ...more
Make a dinosaur adapted to a specific habitat and food source, identify real fossils with the fossil key, dig for fossil...more
Use fun, hands-on experiments to explore the forces around us. Students discover differences between magnetic materials,...more
Darwin was nick-named ‘Gas’ in his early teens because of his interest in making gases. This workshop gives pupils a cha...more
Find out what plants need to grow by looking at plants that have been kept in different environments. Investigate variat...more
A hands-on workshop to explore adaptation to habitats. Carry out a choice chamber experiment to investigate why creepy-c...more
Many Science Centres have a Foucault’s pendulum but without some investigative work with a small turntable, a pendulum o...more
Become a treasure hunter and discover how you can see around corners and shine light into the heart of the darkest maze....more
Explore the ways that insects escape from predators then make jumping bugs to investigate what makes them jump highest. ...more
What’s good about scabs? What happens when you break a bone? What’s a balanced diet and what can animals’ teeth tell us ...more
Where does light come from? Why can’t we see in the dark? What makes things shiny? Investigate these questions and use y...more
What is a shadow? Why do shadows move? Investigate different materials and classify them as transparent, translucent or ...more
What are materials? What can we use them for? Decide whether different materials are natural or man-made and consider va...more
Explore the properties of different materials with a special focus on metals....more
What makes us ill? How can the body defend itself against microbes? How can microbes help us? A yucky investigation of ...more
Compare exciting creepy-crawlies with ourselves to gain an understanding of what living things have in common. Lots of f...more
Use our state-of-the-art planetarium to explore the night sky and its constellations, travel through our solar system, t...more
Children investigate why the shape of rainforest leaves enables them to shed water. They look at insectivorous plants, c...more
Discover the properties of plastic materials and learn how they can be recycled. Recycle plastic to make giant paper cli...more
Sing along with the Forces Song, play table curling to see the effect of friction, help the Stunt Toys display team try ...more
Use our purpose-built lab to learn how to use Bunsen burners safely, heat samples of exciting chemicals and observe how ...more
Find out how to be a geologist and read the stories hidden in some fantastic rocks. Take a close look at a variety of di...more
Students make a rocket from scrap paper, fire it and see how it flies. They then compare their rocket with their friends...more
What are solids, liquids and gases and how do they change? Explore the properties of a variety of solids, liquids and ga...more
Find out the difference between noise and music in this hands-on workshop. Explore the relationship between volume and a...more
Be an electrician and mend circuits, look at gadgets powered in different ways and learn about the dangers of mains elec...more
Water is an amazing substance and a variety of demonstrations and hands-on experiments get pupils thinking about its ver...more
How much are you like your friends? How much are you like other animals? Examine bones, body parts and compare humans an...more
How do we find out about the world about us? Tantalize your taste buds, harness your hearing, stimulate your sense of sm...more
How do you make a mummy? Become a trainee Egyptian priest and learn the importance of dehydration in mummification by ca...more
How did the Romans build their roads, forts and bridges? Use Roman surveying techniques to map out a marching fort and m...more
How did the Vikings reach St Petersburg, Baghdad and Newfoundland? Investigate Viking navigational techniques and use yo...more
What did Tudor plague doctors really know about infectious diseases? Learn about the bubonic plague and other diseases o...more
How did the Enigma machine work and what was the importance of Bletchley Park? Learn how to create and crack codes and a...more
How are gases different to solids and liquids and what different properties do they have? Discover some of the world’s s...more
Learn how to cut and fold card to make a simple gape mechanism, then use your imagination to create a card with movement...more
Work out how to protect a treasure box by building your own trigger device and simple circuit to create a burglar alarm....more
Bats are wonderfully adapted for a life hunting insects during the hours of darkness. This workshop uses a variety of ha...more
Explore colours and shapes in the night sky, decide what belongs in the sky and what doesn’t and take a closer look at t...more
Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes and wars make millions of people homeless every year and there is a world shortage of t...more