Here’s a series of activities young people and adults alike can enjoy. Supervision of young people is advised.
A free downloadable certificate is available to show you have completed an activity.
Tasting With Our Eyes? (Adults)
Find out how our vision affects our sense of taste in this interesting experiment with white wine! (ADULTS ONLY!)
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Tasting With Our Eyes? (Kids)
Find out how our vision affects our sense of taste in this interesting experiment with flavoured water!
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Genetics In The Kitchen
Learn how to extract DNA from fruit using nothing but household objects!
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Geochemistry Gardening Part 1
Separate out the colours of nature using household materials and some leaves!
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Seeing inside our bodies
Use this paper craft activity to build your own model MRI Machine
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Let’s Be Melodramatic!
Try out interesting acting techniques from the world of 19th Century Theatre!
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Build An Animal
See if you can correctly place the internal organs inside different animals!
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Cards & Climate
Explore weather and climate through postcards, and see how the changing climate might impact them!
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Match The Methane
Try this online quiz to see if you can match the animal to the amount of methane it produces!
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Build A Cell
Make a model of the amazing insides of an animal cell with kit you can find at home!
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Build A Trilobite
Cut and paste out the three pieces of this iconic prehistoric animal!
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Bouncy Ball Olympics and The Dunlop Test
Find out how to do your own science investigation using bouncy balls.
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Using HeLa cells to stop virus infection
We want you to design your own virus, we created the Giggletilly virus – for a virus that gives you the giggles!
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Geochemistry Gardening Part 2
Learn about how molecules of the Earth help us answer questions about the past when they happened 1,000s of years ago.
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Create An Aerofoil
Using food dye and a hair dryer to learn about how wings create lift on planes.
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Bending Rainbows: Detection of tiny plastic
Is it possible to detect small plastic which are invisible to our eye?
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Make your own seaweed fertiliser
Discover how to make useful things from green seaweed blooms
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Advanced Electron Microscopy of Semiconductors
How does crystal shape affect the properties of the materials?
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How to Palaeo HOMOLOGY
Fill in the missing labels with the names of the bones in the arm of a theropod dinosaur, Allosaurus
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How does soap change the surface properties of water?
How do clouds form? This activity tests how soap changes the nature of water and what it can do
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