Experience Psychology
Workshops
Using intriguing activities, this workshop examines memory and cognition.
KS3 / KS4 / Post 16
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Fossil Finders
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Discover prehistoric worlds through playful and imaginative games and activities.
EYFS / KS1
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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Find lost animals in a rainforest adventure. Investigate the skin and eggs of the animals. Food chains are explored.
EYFS / KS1
DNA Detectives: The Hunt For Bigfoot
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Forensic science techniques are applied to compare animal DNA samples.
KS3 / KS4
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
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
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
A Trick of the Light
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Fascinating exhibits are used to explore reflection, wavelength, phosphorescence and UV.
KS2 / 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
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
Nature by Numbers
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A cross-discipline workshop where students apply maths and physics to explain what we observe in biology.
KS2 / KS3 / KS4
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.
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!
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.
KS1 / KS2
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!
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?
Choose Health
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Informative and humorous activities help students consider choices they make about diet and lifestyle. Free jellybeans included.
Light and Shadow
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Students explore prisms, mirrors, ray boxes and coloured filters to investigate the properties of light and shadow.
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 your rain.
KS2 / KS3
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.
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!
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.
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
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!
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Can you use the forensic toolkit of fingerprinting, chromatography and microscopic hair analysis to solve our whodunnit?
Tame the Swarm
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Students will unpick the nature of artificial intelligence by getting hands-on with intelligent swarm-robots.
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
Colourful Chemistry
Workshops
An illuminating, lab-based insight into the wonderful world of chemistry and some of its real-life applications.
KS2 / KS3
DNA Codebreakers
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Extract DNA from wheat germ. Learn about inheritance while students make a baby creature.