The following curriculum-linked activities are available on outreach:

Debate it Out! (S3-S6)
Discuss and debate about current ethical topics. Separate the truth from the myths, the facts from the opinions and make up your own mind about what’s right and wrong.  Choose from the list below.Learn how easily diseases can be spread and how to test for diseases.
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  • Meet the Gene Machine An engaging drama presentation to stimulate discussion and debate about the future of genetic science, and the ethical and social implications.  Would you want to know what your genes can say about your future?
  • GM Crop Debate Meet real scientists and debate the ethics and uses of genetically modified organisms.
  • The Stem Cell Debate The debate over stem cell research has raised many questions across the nation. Learn about the pros and cons of the stem cell debate from the ethical, political, and scientific points of view.
Genes in a Bottle (P4-7 and S1-6)
A DNA extraction activity, in which pupils extract DNA from their own cheek cells, and take it home in a pretty necklace pendant!
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Robolab (P4-7 and S1-S4)
Use sophisticated Lego Mindstorms robot buggies and icon-led Robolab software to program the robots to move, and respond to light and touch sensors. An excellent way to discover control technology.
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Soap Enterprise* (S1-S4)
An engaging and hands-on enterprise challenge in which pupils will learn more about the chemistry behind the beauty industry. Pupils create their own soap product design and make a bar to take away with them.
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Circuit building (S1-S4)
Pupils learn about circuits and electricity by soldering their own circuit to make a flashing face to take home with them!
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Materials Matter (P4-S2)
A show using spectacular experiment to investigate loads of different materials and on the way finding out how materials scientists use chemistry to help them understand and create new materials. We also look at the periodic table to look at elements and that combining different elements gives us different materials.
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Recycling (P4-S2)
A cross-curriculur look at recycling. After a introduction to recycling, pupils work in groups to create a new product from 'recycled plastic' and present it back to the class.
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How to make the Perfect Poo! (P4-S2)
A hands-on session following the passage of food through the human digestive system. Sticky, fun, and educational!
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Fingerprints (P4-S2)
Learn how police investigators use their sense of sight to identify fingerprint patterns. We all have them, and they are all different! Pupils will have a go at dusting for fingerprints, and take copies of their own fingerprints to take home.
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Sound! (P4-7)
A hands-on session to demonstrate that sound is a vibration and travels in waves
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Terrible Trebuchets (P4-7)
Discover the forces in action in trebuchets – history’s best war machines! In groups, pupils will discuss and use model trebuchets, whilst noting the variables and effects involved.
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Healthy Body Bits (P1-3 and P4-7)
An exploration of what is inside us, and how we are all the same. This workshop uses Stuffee, our giant rag doll, who is more than happy for pupils to operate on him and find out what organs he has! We can tailor this to focus on health or anatomy depending on your topic!
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Growing (P1-3)
A hands-on look at growing which allows pupils to look at growing over different timescales. A messy activity which results in pupils taking away a grass head!
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How to be a Scientist (P1-3)
A hands-on investigative workshop, with ‘real’ scientific equipment and engaging problems to solve!  Pupils wear lab coats and goggles, and use pipettes and test tubes, as they learn how scientists need to be careful and responsible, and use their senses to find answers to problems!
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Bubbles (Nursery)
Discover different kinds of bubbles and the amazing things they can do!
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