British Science Week (8th-17th March 2024) is fast approaching and as ever, the Science Museum Group Academy has your back if you’re looking for ideas to spark your learners’ enthusiasm, curiosity and sense of wonder.
Jonathan Long shares his experience and challenges of developing an activity trail for the Science Museum to engage audiences with coding and computing.
As the weather gets colder what better excuse is there than to keep warm and explore the science at home, at school or out and about with our fun and playful STEM activities.
To get into the Halloween spirit, the Science Museum Group Academy team have added some spooky twists to resources that you can try at home.
Our learning resources website currently holds over 140 resources which can be used and adapted at home, out and about, in community groups and at school. The Science Museum Group’s Academy and Resources team reflect on their top resources that you should try in 2023.
This year, the Reading Agency partnered with the Science Museum Group for a science and innovation themed Summer Reading Challenge. Sophie Holland, shares her experience of engaging new audiences with the message that science – like reading – is for everyone.
The Science Museum Group has developed a broad range of learning resources which are an important tool in encouraging science talk, showing science’s relevance to everyday life and helping extend the learning beyond our museum walls.
Andy Lickley, SMG Academy Programme Leader, goes through his favourite kitchen science experiments from the SMG learning resources website.
Our Great Object Hunts invite people to follow their curiosity and find everyday examples and applications of STEM both in and beyond our museums. Charlotte Pike, resources Learning Producer shares why these are such a popular activity, and the work that goes into developing them.
How did we develop a family activity trail for Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries at the Science Museum, London? Laurel Mackie, Content Programmer, Medicine Galleries, Science Museum, shares the process and key elements of the resource.
To coincide with the anniversary of the Apollo Moon missions, Charlie Pike, our Learning Producer, shares how we created our Chatterbox Challenge random challenge generator to explore the theme of space in the Science Museum.
In November 2016 we launched the first wave of our new and updated hands-on resources for use in the classroom or at home.