The Exhibition
Come to Life and discover more about Our World, be immersed in a show in The Dome, take in a live science performance in the Life Theatre and enjoy a Motion Ride.
Our World
Discover more about Our World – a new exhibition all about you and the world we live in!
The ‘Our World’ exhibition explores the diversity of human life in the world today and shows how people have the same basic needs but are able to live in dramatically different environments.
Where can you find shelter in the desert? What would you have to wear to survive in the Arctic? How do people live in different cities around the world?
From the frozen arctic to the scorching desert and life in a busy, modern city, the exhibition demonstrates how people cope with extreme climates and habitats and explores the things that we all need to survive through more than 20 interactive displays.
The exhibition is also supported by curriculum-linked downloadable resources to support specific topics and modules.
Habitats and Adaptation Trail
The trail guide provides addition information about desert, polar and urban wildlife that draws parallels between the ways that humans and animals live in extreme environments Children are asked to use the information on human adaptation in the display to identify animal adaptations. Students will also b able to construct food chains (food webs for the most able) in all three environments.
Ecology Trail
This trail treats ecology as a dynamic process explores the ideas of energy transfer through food chains and the various positive and negative feedback loops in food webs.
Download Life Cycles Trail
Heat and Temperature Trail
The major theme of the new exhibition is how man has adapted to survive in extreme environments. The trail asks questions to encourage students to see the problems posed by desert and polar environments as two sides of the same coin. They will be asked to consider the structures, clothes and devices used in each place and how these affect energy transfer.
Keeping Warm Trail
Participants consider the wide variety of ways that humans and other animals keep warm in cold climates and cool in warm climates. The range of examples is used to illustrate the underlying principal of insulation and energy conservation.
Sound and Hearing
Some of the new exhibits use sound to illustrate environments, others make noises as they work and yet more are sonorous. All these characteristics are harnessed in this trail which encourages children to recognize and describe sounds.
