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Wow Zone for schools

Wow Zone offers a collection of engaging interactives that explore how forces, physics and chemistry are used in everyday life. 

From constructing an electrical circuit to building a bridge, pupils can explore a wide range of hands-on activities with links to the curriculum. Plus it’s all great, hands-on fun which makes for memorable and impactful learning experience.

Highlights include

Adults operating Big Machine in Life's Wow Zone.

The ‘Big Machine’

Curriculum links

  • Key Stage 2 – forces
  • Key Stage 3 – physics: energy changes and transfers  
  • Key Stage 4 – physics: forces  
Family enjoying a hands-on activity experimenting with speed in Life Science Centre's Wow Zone.

Visible vibrations

Curriculum links

  • Key Stage 2 – sound 
  • Key Stage 3 – physics: waves, sound waves 
  • Key Stage 4 – physics: wave motion
     
Family playing with heat camera

Heat camera

Curriculum links  

  • Key Stage 2 – properties of materials  
  • Key Stage 3 – physics: light waves, energy changes and transfers  
  • Key Stage 4 – physics: energy
     
Adult female experimenting with wires and electricity in Life's Wow Zone.

Electrical circuits

Curriculum links  

  • Key Stage 2 – electricity  
  • Key Stage 3 – physics: electricity and electromagnetism, current electricity  
  • Key Stage 4 – physics: electricity, energy