Light and Shadow
Students explore prisms, mirrors, ray boxes, and coloured filters to investigate the properties of light and shadow.
Light and Sound
Workshop
Education activities
A visit to our two exhibition floors can be combined with practical STEM workshops or longer theme days in our classrooms and laboratories. Students can also enjoy entertaining science shows in our Studio and in the 3D Planetarium.
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Home educator days
A Trick of the Light
Fascinating exhibits are used to explore absorption, reflection, wavelength, phosphorescence and UV.
Light and Sound
Workshop
Innoventions
Lots of hands-on fun with levers, pulleys, cams, and gears. Culminates with teams building and firing model catapults!
Access considerations
Workshop
Light Fantastic
This highly visual and phenomenon-based show considers what light is, where it comes from and how it travels.
Access considerations
Studio show
Splash and Bubble
This bubbling and explosive show engages students with liquids, gases, and ideas about volume and making measurements.
Access considerations
Studio show
Fantastic Forces
Think you know about forces? Counterintuitive ideas are smashed with hammers, feathers, juggling balls, and lunchboxes.
Access considerations
Workshop
Forces and Magnets
The forces gravity, friction, air resistance and magnetism are explained, and ramps, cars and dataloggers add to the learning.
Partially accessible
Workshop
Atoms to Astrophysics
A workshop covering a journey from the centre of the atom to the outer limits of the universe, told using particles, waves and energy.
Partially accessible
Workshop
Inspire confidence in science
A visit to our two exhibition floors can be combined with practical STEM workshops or longer theme days in our classrooms and fully equipped laboratories, as well as entertaining science shows in our Studio and 3D Planetarium.