Resources are available for every year group from EYFS to KS5. Check them out here.
KS5 groups may also find our Adult Trails useful.
Museum of Me (60 minutes)
What is the role of museums in society? How should museums use objects to represent other cultures? How can objects help construct and display identity? These are some of the questions that frame this cross-cultural gallery-taught session, which combines critical thinking, self-reflection, discussion, looking and object handling activities.
How does burning fossil fuels threaten Antarctic marine life?
This experiment demonstrates the link between increasing carbon dioxide levels and ocean acidification and freshening oceans. Freshwater and more acidic water in the oceans make life harder for Antarctica’s marine animals.
The experiment and video were made by Nick Barrett. Nick is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge Earth Science Department and The British Antarctic Survey investigating the resistance of Antarctic marine species to predicted freshening and lower salinity in the Southern Ocean.
Meet the Deep Earth Research Team and find out why and how they study the Deep Earth, and what the team are currently working on.
Visit the Deep Earth Explorers online exhibition to find out more about their exciting research to find answers to the many open mysteries we still don't understand about our planet. The exhibition includes interactive models of the layers of the Earth.
Virtual Schools Service Available
Our Education Coordinator, Justyna, is available to live-stream into your classroom from the gallery to deliver the session. Justyna is available Wednesday - Friday.
For KS2 You can choose from two topics:
The BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University is a great chance to get creative. All young people in the UK aged 14-18 are welcome to submit stories of up to 1,000 words by 22nd March. The five shortlisted young writers will have their stories narrated by an actor and recorded for a radio broadcast, and will be published in an anthology.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to write code in Python and create a 1982 Tron-like game using the Python Turtle tool.
Click here to learn how!
Using Twine, an online or desktop application (freely available to everyone). You will be shown how to set-up variables, update them and use them to change the options in the game.
Click here to learn how!
Why? Because it's fun! Also, all the understanding that you will gain can be transferred to modern programming languages like Python. Discovdder PRINT statement, variables and loops, and then apply these to some creative BBC BASIC commands like SOUND and DRAW.
Link to a downloadable worksheet: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/downloads/57240
