Work out how shoelaces are connected inside a closed tube.
Make a device called a phenakistoscope, which displays a continuously looping animation.
Use trigonometry to estimate the heights of tall objects.
Make a cipher wheel of your own with this learning activity, which you can use to encrypt and decrypt messages.
Make use of geometry in observing the shapes and angles soap bubbles create when they join together.
This video will help you prepare for a visit to Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries at the Science Museum, London.
Enigma cipher machines were designed to create complex encrypted messages that were almost impossible to break.
A catalytic converter is a large metal box that sits underneath your car. They help reduce the chances of us getting ill by reducing the emission of toxic fumes.
Sailors use sextants to work out their ship’s location at sea so they can navigate.
Shizuo Ishiguro, an electrical engineer and mathematician, developed this electronic storm model to simulate the North Sea and increase our ability to predict the impact of storm surges on our coastline.
Look out for these iconic exhibits and their inventors illustrated by Quentin Blake when you visit the Science Museum, London.
Find out what your elders mean when they say ‘spend a penny’ and hunt through the galleries to find a merman.