Splash and Bubble
This bubbling and explosive show engages students with liquids, gases, and ideas about volume and making measurements.
Access considerations
Studio show
Education activities
A visit to our two exhibition floors can be combined with practical STEM workshops or longer theme days in our classrooms and laboratories. Students can also enjoy entertaining science shows in our Studio and in the 3D Planetarium.
Are you a home educator?
View our programmes specifically designed for home educators.
Home educator days
Fantastic Forces
Think you know about forces? Counterintuitive ideas are smashed with hammers, feathers, juggling balls, and lunchboxes.
Access considerations
Workshop
Forces and Magnets
The forces gravity, friction, air resistance and magnetism are explained, and ramps, cars and dataloggers add to the learning.
Access considerations
Workshop
Digest This!
Follow the journey of food through our digestive system and understand the involvement of the different parts of the digestive system.
Allergens
Workshop
Solve It
Can you use the forensic toolkit of fingerprinting, chromatography, and microscopic hair analysis to solve our whodunnit?
Access considerations
Workshop
DNA Detectives
A workshop where forensic science techniques are applied to compare animal DNA samples.
Wheelchair access limited
Workshop
Rainforest Families
Find lost animals in a rainforest adventure. Investigate the skin and eggs of the animals. Explore teeth to determine diets.
Access considerations
Workshop
Fossil Finders
Discover prehistoric worlds through playful and imaginative games and activities.
Partially accessible
Workshop
A Question of Taste
An unusual human trait is explored through DNA extraction, PCR, and gel electrophoresis enabling students to determine their own genotype in relation to tasting the bitter chemical PTC.
Wheelchair access limited
Theme day
Experience Psychology
Using intriguing activities, this workshop examines memory and cognition.
Allergens
Workshop
Inspire confidence in science
A visit to our two exhibition floors can be combined with practical STEM workshops or longer theme days in our classrooms and fully equipped laboratories, as well as entertaining science shows in our Studio and 3D Planetarium.