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National Science and Media Museum

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Rugged Rovers

This Science Museum game allows you to design and test your own all-terrain space rover.

Use this catchy song about nanotechnology to get your students buzzing for a classroom discussion.

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Bottle top shapes

Get creative with geometry by drawing lines on bottle tops and seeing what shapes you can make.

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Wreck your Tech

Explore what’s beneath the surface of your old gadgets by taking them apart.

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Tune Booster

Find ways to boost your smartphone speakers using objects found around the home.

Build the tallest, strongest structure that you can – using spaghetti and marshmallows!

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Launchball

Spring your way through 30 obstacle-filled levels and create your own levels to play and share with friends.

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Pinball machine

Build your own pinball machine and use it to explore Newton’s Laws of Motion while challenging your friends!

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Periscope

Use mirrors and paper to build your own periscope and see over walls!

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No Pressure

See what would happen to marshmallows, and yourself, in the low-pressure environment of space.

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Make it fly

Investigate the forces involved in how planes fly by making some of your own and testing them out!

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Magnetic Maze

Use a magnet to guide objects through a maze drawn on the side of a plastic bottle.

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