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Science Club in a box

Tuesday 26th March 2024

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

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Paper Engineering

Tuesday 26th March 2024

Challenge your students to build something amazing with our paper engineering kit, which includes rolling sticks, super strong hole punches, tape and plenty of nuts and bolts. All you need to provide is A4 scrap paper and some inspiration…

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Marble Mazes

Tuesday 26th March 2024

Children will be challenged to create a route for a marble to travel through as slowly as possible without stopping, using limited materials. Throughout the activity, discussion can encourage children to consider scientific principles such as the effect of gravity causing the marble to roll and the effect of friction on its movement.

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K’Nex Construction

Tuesday 26th March 2024

A versatile and colourful construction kit of rods and connectors which can be used for a wide variety of engineering challenges as pupils can create towers, bridges, cranes, cars and fairground rides.

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Dataloggers

Tuesday 26th March 2024

Dataloggers are a great cross-curricular resource – they can record temperature, light and sound levels and the information can be read directly off the screen, converted into pictograms or displayed as a graph over time.

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Circuit Detectives

Tuesday 26th March 2024

Pupils must work out where the fault is in eight different circuits using a test kit containing wire, batteries and bulbs.

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Electrical Experiments

Tuesday 26th March 2024

Everything needed to teach the topic of electricity at KS2 – bulbs, wires, batteries, buzzers, motors and even propellers!

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micro:bit kit loan

Tuesday 26th March 2024

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, and is a great way to achieve results and motivate your pupils. Introduce your students to the amazing features of the micro:bit, such as the temperature sensor, accelerometer and […]

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Light and Shadows

Tuesday 26th March 2024

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.

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Circuit Detectives

Monday 25th March 2024

Students are challenged to find the faults in a series of electrical circuits, taking a systematic approach to problem solving.

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Practical Engineering

Monday 25th March 2024

Students learn how a basic motor works and use their knowledge of electrical circuits to build a working vacuum cleaner from everyday materials.

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Active Evolution

Monday 25th March 2024

Pupils learn about variation, natural selection, adaptation and evolution through a series of practical and discussion activities that really help to develop their understanding.

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Micro:bit Robots

Monday 25th March 2024

Children code a BBC micro:bit to control a robot buggy and explore the importance of testing and improving their designs.

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Exploring Sound

Monday 25th March 2024

What is a sound? Your students explore different ways of making noise in a carousel of activities.

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Sound of Science

Monday 25th March 2024

We are surrounded by sound in our everyday lives, but how often do we really think about it? This show explores how we make sound, how we hear it, how we can use it and most importantly how we can enjoy it!

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Science of Magic

Monday 25th March 2024

Where did the water go? Why didn’t that fall over? How could an egg be taught to swim? Working scientifically, pupils try to figure out the science behind a series of amazing magic tricks.

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Spy School

Monday 25th March 2024

Join our top secret spy school and battle through a series of maths challenges; including cracking codes, reading hidden messages, solving sequences and discovering hidden co-ordinates.”

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Micro:bit Codebreakers

Monday 25th March 2024

Children will learn how to use a BBC micro:bit to send messages to each other, considering the importance of privacy while trying to work out who their secret agent partner is.

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Joining Forces

Monday 25th March 2024

Why have we brought a skateboard to your school? How does a person survive a fall from an aeroplane? We investigate the nature of forces and motion with fun demonstrations.

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The Fire Show

Monday 25th March 2024

Fire: both the comfort of the hearth, and the danger of the inferno. We examine the nature of fire, answer your burning questions, and learn how fire can be controlled.

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Crime Scene Science

Monday 25th March 2024

A mystery white powder has been discovered at a crime scene and students must become forensic scientists to discover what it is by carrying out a series of chemical tests.

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Changing State

Monday 25th March 2024

“It will explode!”; “Nothing will happen.”; “It will melt AND evaporate.”

Your children test their predictions by heating up different materials.

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K’Nex Workshops

Monday 25th March 2024

Pupils become engineers and design, build and test working models using K’Nex. Workshop challenges include fairground rides, opening bridges, Mars Rovers and rubber band cars.

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Great Fire of London

Monday 25th March 2024

What started the Great Fire in September 1666? How did it destroy so much of London? Would we be able to stop it today?

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Water Rockets

Monday 25th March 2024

Children design and decorate plastic bottle rockets which are safely launched outside using water and compressed air. The rockets are spectacular and can reach heights of 30m, or can be launched horizontally as rocket cars.

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Planetarium: Out in Space

Monday 25th March 2024

Available on Mondays and Tuesdays. Immersed in our inflatable dome, children will look at the wonders of the night sky and explore the stars in a learning environment that is out of this world.

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Water Wheels

Monday 25th March 2024

How will we keep the lights on when the fossil fuels run out? This workshop introduces some of the renewable and non-renewable ways that we generate electricity.

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