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.
Science Museum & The Summer Reading Challenge 2022 – Stacking Shapes Library Outreach
Cheryl McAndrew, an Explainer at the Science Museum London, shares her experiences of delivering a science-based engineering workshop called Stacking Shapes for the Gadgeteers Summer Reading Challenge 2022.
Jess Sashaw, SMG Academy Programme Leader, shares her experience of developing a webinar to support library communities with the Summer Reading Challenge theme of Gadgeteers.
The Science Museum Group have been working with the principle of science capital for almost 10 years. Throughout our journey we have learned a huge amount around what this approach can look like in practice and what challenges we, and our colleagues have faced with it. Here we share our top 5 most commonly asked questions.
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.
Maxwell Hamilton describes how we challenged ourselves to reflect on the everyday examples, and the language we used in content we created for BBC Bitesize Daily as part of Science Week. He shares how we worked to make the content relevant to the audience of at home students.
In the second of two posts, Lauren Ding discusses the process of turning our downloadable hands-on resources into easily sharable videos, exploring how we used our engagement reflection points to make them as accessible as possible.
Following the success of our online hands-on activities, we want to further promote them to as wide an audience as possible. In the first of two posts, Lauren Ding, Digital Editor, Learning for the Science Museum Group, shares why we chose to develop videos.
Research around science capital highlights that there isn’t a single place, action or experience alone that will help improve engagement and equity around STEM. Our booklet pulls together science engagement and science capital research to answer the question, what role can informal learning environments play?
When you think of a science museum, maths may not come to mind. Our museums go beyond science and tell stories from all aspects of STEM. In the second post of our ‘maths engagement’ series, Jess Sashaw unlocks the maths behind some of our collection themes.
At the beginning of 2020, we started a project to develop a maths engagement offer for the Science Museum group Academy. Jess Sashaw, Academy Programme Leader, has been looking at our learning offer, and in this post reflects on the importance and value of maths engagement.
This summer the Science and Industry Museum had a full programme of solar related shows and workshops to coincide with the new temporary exhibition ‘The Sun’. Maxwell Hamilton reflects on the application of science capital research in this programme of Explainer-led activities and beyond.