We have a wide range of science outreach kits available for schools to use. Each kit comes with a kit list and instructions - perfect for lessons and after school clubs. We offer two weeks’ free kit loan and a further 50% discount on further loans as part of our annual membership for schools. Kits on loan should be collected from and returned to the Science Oxford Centre in Headington during office hours.
We provide suggested general risk assessments for all kit loan, available on our risk assessments page, for schools to adapt and use in addition to your own risk assessments.
Contact our schools team with any enquiries at [email protected].
Kit Loan (Secondary)
In SchoolsLight and shadows
2 week kit loan for KS2
Everything needed to teach the topic of light with this class size kit loan with torches, mirrors, optical blocks kit to explore and investigate shadows. Three activity boxes.
In Schoolsmicro:bit kitloan
2 or 6 week kit loan for KS2 & KS3
micro:bit is a tiny programmable computer, designed to make learning and teaching easy and fun. It provides a more approachable method to computing than just teaching coding.
Kit LoanK’Nex Construction
A versatile and colourful construction kit of rods and connectors which can be used to create towers, bridges, cranes, cars and fairground rides.
Kit LoanMarble Mazes
Pupils create a path for a marble to travel down so that it moves as slowly as possible without stopping. Success is achieved by constantly testing and improving the design.
Kit LoanTower building
This kit includes ‘rolling sticks’, tape, hole punches and nuts and bolts to enable the students to turn scrap paper into amazing rigid tubular structures – towers, domes, bridges or...
In SchoolsScience Club in a box
6 week kit loan for KS2
Science Club in a Box enables you to run a weekly science club. The kit includes six activities with all the instructions and equipment required.