A Day with Leo

Leonardo Da Vinci – genius and master of all trades. Build Leonardo’s cannon. Why didn’t his machines work? Why was he criticised by the Pope.

Year groups: Years 7, 8

Alien Planet

A new planet arrives in teh Solar System, find out if it has life and investigate life adaptations.

Year groups: 9, 10, 11

All About Flight

Packed with activities, an exploration of flight from hot air balloons to rockets. Make paper fly with fire. Why birds, bees and planes stay in the air.

Year groups: Yrs 6,7,8

Bog Standard Science - lavatorial explorations

Journey of a burger from mouth to sea, simulate a sewage works, build a bog and investigate the digestive system.

Year groups: Years 7, 8

Bubble Trouble

What’s the best bubble solution - find out by experiment, and measure the actual thickness of a bubble film and find out how foam can remember a shape.

Year groups: Yrs 6,7,8

CRASH

What forces are involved in a car crash? Simulate a crash and build a car to protect passengers, measure stopping distances in different conditions.

Year groups: Yrs 6,7

Dig in a Day - simulated archaeological dig

Simulated archaeological dig (two presenters) just like Time Team, dig up buried skeletons with artefacts and find out about ancient Britain.

Year groups: Years 8, 9, 10

Dr Evil's Revenge

Dr Evil threatens to blow up Parliament. Our spooks, in teams, use forensic clues to compete in the race to discover who he is and where he is hiding.

Year groups: Yrs 6, 7, 8

Famine - who lives

This is a tough one. Can you take the right decisions in time to save lives in a simulated famine relief camp? And eat a famine lunch.

Year groups: Yrs 7,8,9

Fun with genes (Modern Genetics)

See the most important thing about you - your DNA. Make a DNA model and answer some difficult ethical and moral questions about new genetics technologies.

Year groups: Years 9, 10, 11

Global Warming - Are we losing our Cool?

Is the Earth really getting warmer – here’s the evidence. Measure your own carbon footprint (you may get a surprise) and see what you can do about it.

Year groups: Yrs 8, 9, 10, 11

In Business

This is a science based Dragons Den. You must make the case for support for a new discovery, but beware, morality and ethics may get in the way.

Year groups: Years 9 , 10, 11

Jungle Jims Treasure Trail

Invent machines and use scientific principles to help Jim accross hazards to find the treasure.

Year groups: 9, 10,11

Legend of the Legion

Use Roman clues to find a captured tribal princess. Translate wax tablets and talk to a soothsayer to find your way around Roman Britain.

Year groups: 9, 10, 11

Modern Epidemics

Use our bugs to find out how easy it is to contaminate your classmates. Trace a food poisoning outbreak through a community.

Year groups: Yrs 9, 10, 11

Monsters and Planets

Invent your planet, invent your monster, invent the story and now film it - in animation. A cross curriculum course.

Year groups: Years 7, 8

Murder in the Monastery

Who killed the abbot and why? Can you hide things from the church inquisitor. Includes Medieval English and history as well as the “science” of the day.

Year groups: Yrs 6,7, 8

Plagues, pestilence and food scares

Public health science, measure the health status of populations and look at modern issues in promoting the health of the nation

Year groups: Years 6, 7, 8

Rainbow island disaster

Prevent a potential ecological disaster when an oil spill threatens the beautiful Rainbow tropical island. Deal with the situation as it unrolls. Please apply for an individual quotation, related to number of students.

Year groups: Years 8, 9, 10

Spaced Out

Plot a course for Mars. You must plan a trip for a group of humans to Mars, and sustain life there for six months, but what if something goes wrong?

Year groups: Years 7,8,9, 10, target 8

Sweet Science

Save Britain from Chocoholics Anonymous. This is the fun side of chemistry. Find out, how your taste buds work. Experiment, invent and eat the results!

Year groups: Yrs 6,7,8

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The Riddle of the Mummy’s Curse

Investigate ancient Egyptian artefacts, unwrap mummy parts and question a high priest to discover who killed the Pharaoh. Why does the curse go on today?

Year groups: Years 6,7, 8

The Rude Science of the Human Body

Fun with really yucky science, slime and pongs galore. Measure the sliminess of snot and the stickiness of ear wax!

Year groups: Years 5, 6, 7, 8

The Secret Formula

Forensic science in action (two presenters), with crime scene. Visit the scene of crime and use real forensic tests to discover the culprit.

Year groups: Years 8,9, 10

The Set Up

Designing for stage and screen. This course looks at the different requirements imposed by these different approaches.

Year groups: Years 7,8,9, target 8

The Trouble with Science - is Ethics

Through role play wrestle with some of today's big issues - assisted death, genetic screening and counselling, nuclear power and nano technology.

Year groups: Yrs 9, 10 , 11

Watching the Weather

Find out how to interpret satellite images, local and national data to make up a forecast, then present it like a weather person.

Year groups: Years 8, 9, 10

When Art Meets Science

Fun activities in photography, architecture and the science behind art shows how the two come together today.

Year groups: Years 7,8, 9