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Who? What? Why? How?
Get ideas on how to engage your students with the people, science and stories behind objects in our galleries.
Use this catchy song about nanotechnology to get your students buzzing for a classroom discussion.
Get creative with geometry by drawing lines on bottle tops and seeing what shapes you can make.
Explore mixtures and materials by making brilliant bubbles!
Use straws and strong shapes to make a self-supporting dome.
Use coat hangers and string to investigate sound, vibrations and materials.
Turn your drawings into circuits using the conductive properties of graphite.
Explore states of matter in the tastiest way – by turning milk into ice cream instantly!
Use a magnet to guide objects through a maze drawn on the side of a plastic bottle.
Investigate the forces involved in how planes fly by making some of your own and testing them out!
See what would happen to marshmallows, and yourself, in the low-pressure environment of space.
Use mirrors and paper to build your own periscope and see over walls!