Use trigonometry to estimate the heights of tall objects.
Plan a visit for a school, community or other educational group to the Science Museum in London
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.
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.
Look out for these iconic exhibits and their inventors illustrated by Quentin Blake when you visit the Science Museum, London.
These statues, made about 300 years ago, are of two Christian martyrs – people tortured and killed for their beliefs.
This plastic mask was worn by a patient having radiotherapy for throat cancer in 2018.
This prosthetic (artificial replacement) arm was made in 1904 for a professional pianist – a woman called Elizabeth Burton.
This jar was made and used between 1830 and 1870. It was used to store leeches – a kind of worm that survives by sucking blood from other animals.
This wooden statue was made around 1900 on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, near India. It was known as a kareau or scare devil.
This medicine chest, made in the 1780s, was owned by a doctor called Edward Jenner, who is famous as a pioneer of vaccination.