Experience Psychology
Workshops
Using intriguing activities, this workshop examines memory and cognition.
KS3 / KS4 / Post 16
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Fossil Finders
Workshops
Discover prehistoric worlds through playful and imaginative games and activities.
EYFS / KS1
Rainforest Families
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Find lost animals in a rainforest adventure. Investigate the skin and eggs of the animals. Food chains are explored.
EYFS / KS1
A Trick of the Light
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Fascinating exhibits are used to explore reflection, wavelength, phosphorescence and UV.
KS2 / KS3 / KS4
Atoms to Astrophysics
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A story of the journey from the centre of the atom to the outer limits of the universe, told using particles, waves and energy.
KS3 / KS4
Fossils and Evolution
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Travel back in time to discover what rocks and fossils can tell us about the history of life on Earth.
KS2 / KS3 / KS4
DNA Detectives: The Hunt For Bigfoot
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Forensic science techniques are applied to compare animal DNA samples.
KS3 / KS4
Brain Lab
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A journey into the human body reveals the inner life of cells and an incredible world of almost unbelievable structure and function.
KS3 / KS4
The Pirate Code
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Set sail on this voyage into coding as part of the pirate crew - but without a screen or keyboard on the horizon!
Bodyworks
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Students learn about their bodies, using digital microscopes, real x-rays, and turn their classmates inside out!
KS1 / KS2
Build It!
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Build a tornado-proof wall, test a roof with rain and rip through a paper wall. Finish with some team building, literally!
Destination Space - All Aboard!
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Train like Tim Peake to live and work in space: you will launch a rocket, chose a space suit and catch a floating poo!
Walking with Minibeasts
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Use our floor classification key to identify real creatures before creating a crazy creature.
KS1 / KS2
Destination Space - Join the Crew!
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Follow Tim Peake’s mission to the International Space Station by investigating the challenges of living and working in space.
Digest this!
Workshops
Follow the journey of food through our digestive system and understand the involvement of the different parts of the digestive system
Earth, Sun and Moon
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Using our amazing Magic Globe we demonstrate day and night, explore our part of the universe ending with an explosive finale!
Fantastic Forces
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Think you know about forces? Counterintuitive ideas are smashed with hammers, feathers, helicopters and a lunchbox.
Forces and Magnets
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The forces gravity, friction, air resistance and magnetism are explained and ramps, cars and dataloggers add to the learning.
Colourful Chemistry
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An illuminating, lab-based insight into the wonderful world of chemistry and some of its real-life applications.
KS2 / KS3
Lego Robotics
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The Lego robots need extracting from a dangerous snowstorm. Can you write the program to get to them to the helipad?
Light and Shadow
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Students explore prisms, mirrors, ray boxes and coloured filters to investigate the properties of light and shadow.
Innoventions
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Lots of hands-on fun with levers, pulleys, cams and gears. Culminates with teams building and firing medieval catapults!
KS2 / KS3
The Water Cycle
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Students use heat and ice to create their own model water cycle in our laboratory and test the purity of their rain.
KS2 / KS3
Scribble Bots
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Students investigate simple circuits and then put them to work to make a scribbling robot and a work of art!
Solve It!
Workshops
Can you use the forensic toolkit of fingerprinting, chromatography and microscopic hair analysis to solve our whodunnit?