Experience Psychology
Workshops
Using intriguing activities, this workshop examines memory and cognition, with an optional investigation within the venue.
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Go Explore
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This sensory workshop uses unusual artefacts and engaging stories to transport students to a range of exciting global habitats.
EYFS / KS1
Jungle Senses
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Experience the sounds, smells and feel of a rainforest and discover what lives and grows there.
EYFS / KS1
Fossil Finders
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Discover prehistoric worlds through playful and imaginative games and activities.
Nature by Numbers
Workshops
A cross-discipline workshop where students apply maths and physics to explain what we observe in biology.
KS2 / KS3 / KS4
A Trick of the Light
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Our specially developed exhibits are used to explore reflection, wavelength, phosphorescence and UV.
Animal Algorithms
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Taking inspiration from the animal kingdom, every student programs a robot to mimic real-life animal behaviours.
KS3 / KS4
DNA Detectives: The Hunt For Bigfoot
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Forensic science techniques are applied to compare animal DNA samples.
KS3 / KS4
DNA Detectives
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Forensic science techniques are applied to compare DNA samples from a crime scene with those from a group of suspects.
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.
Power to the People
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See first-hand how steam can generate electricity and and consider the pros and cons of different energy sources.
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.
The Science of Scent
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Is it art? Is it science? Is it psychology? Find out in this workshop exploring the complex world of perfumery.
The Force of Attraction
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How does gravity affect baked beans? Find out whilst using a gravity simulator to create and destroy a solar system.
Experience Psychology
Workshops
Using intriguing activities, this workshop examines memory and cognition, with an optional investigation within the venue.
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
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!
Pushes and Pulls
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By adding sails to cars, pulling stretchy animals and pushing each other around in trolleys, students develop the language of forces.
Earth, Sun and Moon
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See day and night on our special Magic Globe, inflate a moon, see the planets in orbit and count your birthdays on Saturn!
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!
Walking with Minibeasts
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Use our floor classification key to identify real creatures before creating a crazy creature and testing it in different habitats.
Fossil Finders
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Discover prehistoric worlds through playful and imaginative games and activities.
Nature by Numbers
Workshops
A cross-discipline workshop where students apply maths and physics to explain what we observe in biology.
Changing Materials
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States of matter are explored hearing dry ice ‘scream’, showing crispy rice to a blow torch and a exploring a bowl of slime.
Innoventions
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Lots of hands-on fun with levers, pulleys, cams and gears. Culminates with teams building and firing medieval catapults!
Choose Health
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Informative and humorous activities help students consider choices they make about diet and lifestyle. Free jellybeans included.
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!
Colourful Chemistry
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An illuminating, lab-based insight into the wonderful world of chemistry and some of its real-life applications.
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?
Solve It!
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Can you use the forensic toolkit of fingerprinting, chromatography and microscopic hair analysis to solve our whodunnit?
Light and Shadow
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Students explore prisms, mirrors, ray boxes and coloured filters to investigate the properties of light and shadow.
Tame the Swarm
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Students will unpick the nature of artificial intelligence by getting hands-on with intelligent swarm-robots.
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!
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Follow the journey of food through our digesting system understand the involvement of the different parts of the digestive system
The Water Cycle
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Create clouds, watch condensation happen, test the purity of your rain and observe run-off on different surfaces. Lab-based.
Earth, Sun and Moon
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We use our amazing Magic Globe to demonstrate day and night, make moon dials and put a marshmallow person in a vacuum!
Electricity Unearthed
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Human circuits, testing conductivity, building with Snap Circuits sets and making your own squishy circuit to take away.
A Trick of the Light
Workshops
Fascinating exhibits are used to explore reflection, wavelength, phosphorescence and UV.
KS2 / KS3
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.
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.
Go Animate!
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Learn the science behind the moving image and then script, shoot and edit a stop-motion animated short!
Colourful Chemistry
Workshops
An illuminating, lab-based insight into the wonderful world of chemistry and some of its real-life applications.
The Water Cycle
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Students use heat and ice to create their own model water cycle in our laboratory and observe how freezing, melting, evaporation a...
Destination Space- Action Stations!
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Filter CO2 from the ship's air, re-align the solar panels, train on robotic arms and repair circuits. It's tough in space.
Fossils and Evolution
Workshops
Travel back in time to discover what rocks and fossils can tell us about the history of life on Earth.
Innoventions
Workshops
Lots of hands-on fun with levers, pulleys, cams and gears. Culminates with teams building and firing medieval catapults!
Choose Health
Workshops
Examine the links between diet, exercise, lifestyle and health with this humourous workshop
Atoms to Astrophysics
Workshops
A story of the journey from the centre of the atom to the outer limits of the universe, told using particles, waves and energy.
Solve It!
Workshops
Students learn about and a range of exciting forensic techniques including fingerprinting, chromatography and microscopic hair ana...
The Science of Scent
Workshops
Look at molecular structure and the ancient mixture of science, art and psychology that is perfumery
The Force of Attraction
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A look at how scientific evidence has changed our understanding of the universe.
Nature by Numbers
Workshops
A cross-discipline workshop where students apply maths and physics to explain what we observe in biology.