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This activity pack is your ‘one-stop- We understand that this academic Find an activity near you:
shop’ for supporting you during year is quite different for schools You can either create your own activity
British Science Week, but it can be and nurseries and we’ve adapted this in your class or setting, or see what
used at any time. Feel free to adapt pack to best support you for British activities are happening near you. Last
or extend the activities to suit your Science Week 2021. This year, we’ve year we reached more than 180,000
children’s needs and the curriculum got some activities to complete in people. Help us make British Science
you are delivering. your setting, plus some which are Week 2021 even bigger and better!
specifically designed for children Visit sciencelive.net
In addition to the activities in this to take part in at home with their
pack, there are lots of other ways to families. Please feel free to further
enthuse and engage your children adapt activities within the pack to
throughout British Science Week. In suit your setting, taking into
developing this pack, we have looked consideration any quarantine of
for activities which break down the resources, working in bubbles and
stereotypes surrounding science, social distancing needed. We have
technology, engineering and maths also added some suggestions on
(STEM) and promote cross-curricular remote engagement if you are unable
learning. We encourage you to use to accommodate visitors.
British Science Week as an opportunity Enter our competition:
to link STEM to other curriculum Some of the activities in this pack
subjects and to your children’s own could be followed up by designing
backgrounds, lives and interests. a poster; simply look out for the
paintbrush symbol shown above.
The theme for this year’s poster
competition is ‘Innovating for the
future’. For more information on the
competition and how to enter, read
on further in the activity pack or
visit britishscienceweek.org
2
Introducing the theme 4
Making the most of volunteers 5
British Science Week at home 6
Gathering resources for classroom or home 7
Beyond the Week 8
Unlocking skills 9
Wavy wax painting 10
Flitter jars 11
Ice gardens 12
Crunchy architecture you can eat 13
Make a water purifier 14
Poster competition 15
3
Introducing
the theme
Why not start British Science Week Get the children to put on their
off with a bang, by introducing thinking caps and experience
parents and children to the theme innovation by asking them to come
‘Innovating for the future’ in a fun up with machines they would
way to get them excited about the like to invent. Use scrap, craft
Week ahead? materials or basic toys found in the
classroom or setting to build the
Post your brilliant activity ideas machines.
or share images online tagging
the British Science Association on Engage the children by sharing
Twitter - @ScienceWeekUK - and how innovation is a part of
using the hashtag #BSW21 people, materials, animals,
nature or anything else in their
Kick start the week with a simple everyday lives.
but impressive demo. Try a game,
an audio-visual presentation, Invite a special guest or someone
a mystery or special object, an from the school community to
inventor’s box or a pop-up display discuss with the children their
which communicates the theme experience of an innovation. They Here are some other ideas
‘Innovating for the future.’ Here could highlight a special tool to start the Week:
is a video featuring the Rube that they use in their job and
Goldberg machine which you can demonstrate how it makes their Tell the children about the plan
show the children. Anything that work more efficient, or they could for British Science Week and
inspires their inquisitive minds is feature their favourite innovation. give them a challenge related
an epic start. See Page 5 for information on how to the theme. If you are sending
to get volunteers. home a family experiment,
maybe you could introduce/
demo it at your setting first.
Innovation is all around us.
Watch an episode of CBeebies
Bitz and Bob together and
talk about how the characters
create amazing things to tackle
challenges.
Launch the poster competition
and let parents know about this
(see Page 15 of this pack).
4Making the most
of volunteers
Opportunities for face-to-face Things that work well are to: 4 Book your visitors early (many
engagement with external visitors 1 Kick off British Science Week speakers get booked up during
may be limited this year, but there with a career talk/demo from Science Week), have a clear idea
are opportunities for getting one of these inspiring volunteers of what you want them to do and
volunteers and presenters to engage to engage the children for the communicate this with them ahead
the children online. rest of the week. The volunteer of time.
can highlight a useful tool or
STEM Ambassadors offer their time innovation which they use in 5 Volunteers come from a range
and enthusiasm to help bring science their jobs and how it makes their of careers and experiences, from
and technology subjects to life and job easier. Or, the volunteer can engineers, designers and architects
demonstrate their value. highlight their favourite innovation to scientists and technicians, so get
to share what and why that is. children excited about inspirational
The STEM Ambassador website has career talks; broaden their choices
recently been updated to enable 2 Schedule two or three different and develop their interest in these
teachers to request online STEM guests for a career talk careers!
Ambassador support. Any activity throughout the week if you can.
created has an ‘online’ check box as This will keep children excited Visit Inspiring the Future’s website
well as a place to enter a link to a and anticipating who the next for some helpful ideas for using
video conferencing call if required. guest will be, and what they do. volunteers, some of which may be
STEM Ambassadors from across the Opportunities like this will likely transferable when using remote
UK can respond to any online activity inspire them about what they want engagement.
request. Find out more and make a to be in the future. Remember, they
request here: www.stem.org.uk are never too young to explore www.inspiringthefuture.org
their career options.
You can also look for presenters
and volunteers via Science Live 3 Where available, choose
(sciencelive.net) or ask parents if they volunteers/ambassadors who
work in STEM related jobs to describe challenge stereotypes the children
what they do in more detail. might have and that promote a
positive image of science - e.g. a
female engineer or a scientist with
a disability. Let the volunteers/
ambassadors share a simplified
talk about how their job is making
a difference in the world (or an
anecdote of what science activity
they loved to do as a child).
5British Science Week
at home
Want the children to get involved in 2 Get parents thinking about how 4 Send an experiment idea home
British Science Week at home but not their own jobs might link to STEM during the Week which might
sure how? Here are our top tips for subjects and encourage them to spark mealtime discussions around
engaging parents and carers in the chat with their children about this. STEM. Try and make it as low-
Week: You could do this via a newsletter resource as possible. It can help if
or send children home with it’s something the children have
1 Make the most of your parent activities they can do with their tried or seen at school first so that
newsletters, the Parent-Teacher parents, which may then lead onto they feel like the ‘experts’ when
Association (PTA), chat group and further conversations. (See Page 11 they do it at home with family,
text messaging services if you have for a great take-home activity). allowing them to lead the learning.
them. Let all the parents know in
advance of the Week (at least a 3 Encourage exploring outdoors, in Why not try these fun science-based
month) what you have planned, the community or in local cultural activities from the CREST at home
and how you’d like them to be spots. This could be anything from Star collection (collectionslibrary.
involved. They might be able to going on a nature walk around crestawards.org) which can be
collect/donate materials and store local parks to spotting STEM completed at home with few
them for use during the Week, and in action on the streets around resources? You could also use the
if you want them to get involved children’s houses. Many of the ‘Flitter jars’ activity on Page 11 of
in any experiments at home they British Science Association’s CREST this pack.
may need time to plan and collect activities are quick and easy to
materials themselves. The PTA may do as fun outdoor challenges too:
be able to support you financially library.crestawards.org
to run the Week or help drum up
parent volunteers.
6Gathering resources
for your classroom or home
If you can, try to collect materials Look at childrensscrapstore.co.uk Collect story books and reference
all year round that can be cleaned to find a UK directory of scrap books linking to the theme
and stored for use during British stores. ‘Innovating for the future’ ahead of
Science Week. time to create a themed library. You
Take photographs when out and can even organise a read-aloud
Alternatively, check to see whether about and share these with the session of a related story book for
there is a scrap shop/store/club children to foster discussion and circle or carpet time.
open in your local area. These raise their level of understanding
shops are often membership based about innovation – machines,
and can be a brilliant, inexpensive materials, building structures, etc.
or free resource for card, plastic, The more colourful, the better.
bits of material – all sorts. These You can also use these photos
things can be turned into forests, for an innovation version of the
cars or model people; you name it, guessing game ‘I spy’ where you
the kids will think can describe what the innovation
of it! is used for and the children will
attempt to guess it.
7Beyond the Week
Once British Science Week is over, If there are older children at your If you have the opportunity, then
this doesn’t mean the exploration school or in a school nearby they you could consider running a
and curiosity have to stop! could earn a higher level of CREST STEM club or curiosity lab. Find
too. Take a look at the different supporting resources at
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A fantastic way to encourage STEM You could engage the children in the complete list developed by NUSTEM
interest in children is to introduce STEM Person of the Week activity that can be used as a talking point
transferable skills used by those from NUSTEM at Northumbria or with other members of staff.
working in STEM jobs. These skills University (nustem.uk). Ask the As an alternative and a little bit of
will strengthen positive attitudes children to identify what attributes motivation, why not award each of the
towards STEM and reduce their people working in STEM need. It might children with a sticker or certificate for
stereotypes of those working in the include being observant, creative, a STEM skill which they identify with
field. patient, a good communicator, or very well during the Week?
curious. See the below table for the
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9Innovating for the future
Wavy wax painting
About this activity
Children will explore how a solid
changes state when it gets warm.
They will see the different marks and
textures they can make when the wax
is a solid stick, and when it gets softer
and more paint-like.
Time
30 minutes
Kit list
Wax crayons in
different colours
Plastic food bags and a rolling
pin or pestle
Heavy paper –
sugar or cartridge paper
Greaseproof paper Instructions drawings in a warm, sunny spot
Hairdryer Children can work individually or in or on a warm radiator and wait
Glue sticks and paint brushes groups or pairs to make wavy wax for the wax to melt and soften, or
pictures, using gentle heat to make place a piece of greaseproof paper
Next steps the wax behave like paint. over each drawing, and gently
You could try making a resist heat the drawings with a hairdryer
painting. When your wax pictures 1 Make a collection of broken until the wax melts. (Adults will
have cooled, you can paint over wax crayons. Ask the children to need to do this.)
them with watery paint and watch separate them into colours.
how it only fills the bits of paper 6 When the wax melts slightly, the
where there is no wax. 2 Using the wax crayons pieces, ask children can use glue spreaders
the children to draw shapes on a and brushes to make marks in the
sheet of A3 paper – sugar paper wax. As the wax starts to solidify
or cartridge paper is best. Use a they can warm their paper again
different colour for each shape. and watch what happens.
3 Crush the wax crayon pieces – put Think and talk about
each colour into a separate plastic Where could we leave our pictures
bag and bash with a rolling pin of to melt the wax?
a pestle until you have a bag or
coloured wax ‘crumbs’ (this is a job How does the wax change when it
best done by the adult). Empty the gets warm?
Watch out! wax crumbs into bowls.
Inspect and test the hairdryer What does it do on the paper?
beforehand to check if it is safe 4 The children should then sprinkle
to use. the crumbs on their drawings, What happens if the colours run
An adult should use the filling in the shapes with the into each other?
hairdryer. Take care that the wax right colour.
‘crumbs’ don’t fly away – use You can find more activities and
direct heat from above. 5 Melt the wax. Either leave the inspiration exploring materials on the
NSEAD website
If the wax gets very warm, take
care that little fingers don’t get Skill unlocked
coated in runny wax. Observant
10Innovating for the future
Flitter jars
About this activity
This activity mimics the snow or Instructions Think and talk about
flitter domes, popular since Victorian 1 Let children choose a jar and fill it What do you see when you
times, which contain objects in a with water. Pop the lid on until they add the shiny pieces to the water?
swirling snowstorm. This highly have decided what flitter to add.
engaging activity encourages children How can you make the pieces
to talk about light, shadows and 2 Give children time to explore the move faster?
materials. It can lead naturally into shiny glittery bits to add to the jar.
children spinning and twirling about Encourage them to observe as the What can you see when you shine
like the pieces of flitter in the jars. glitter is added. Small amounts the light?
of flitter produce much clearer
Time results than shovelfuls of shiny In what ways can you change the
30 minutes pieces! shadows?
Kit list 3 Let them try the jars with clear At home
Transparent containers water first. Add a few drops Can the children name ten
with lids of food colour to enliven the items that they have in their home
The flitter: tiny pieces concoction. Screw the lid on tightly. that would shine like the flitter does?
of foil, coloured glitter
(ideally bio-glitter), table 4 Give time to enjoy tipping the Skill unlocked
confetti, water beads jar back and forth repeatedly to A good communicator
Food colouring watch the movement of the flitter. Curious
Torch Compare the movements caused
White paper to act as by a big shake, a little shake, and
mini screens just tipping the jar.
Next steps 5 Shine a torch through the moving
Encourage children to draw what liquid and allow the shadows
they observed while playing with and colours to fall onto a piece of
their flitter jars. You can add white paper behind the jar.
comments to annotate the
drawing for them. You could try
using different types and shapes
of transparent container and
comparing them.
Watch out!
Smooth-sided glass jars
produce better shadows in
this activity, but they present
a hazard if breakages occur.
In case of breakages, clear up
immediately with a brush and
dustpan and dispose of properly.
11Innovating for the future
Ice gardens
About this activity
In this activity, children Instructions 4 Place the trays in the freezer for
will produce beautiful ice 1 For this activity, it is a good a couple of hours and show the
gardens that attract their starting point to show the children results. They may now see that
observations, stimulate ‘one that I made earlier’. This helps they can put a second layer of
their imaginations and can lead to them to visualise what their own water over the contents and
creative outcomes (in speaking and garden could include. Put some freeze it again.
listening, art or writing). interesting natural objects in the
bottom of a tray. Pour in a shallow 5 Give children time to observe the
Time layer of water to float the objects ice gardens as they melt.
30 minutes and then place in the freezer. When
it is frozen, add more water and Think and talk about
Kit list freeze again. Look closely at your ice garden –
Variety of leaves, flowers, buds what can you see?
Water 2 As each child selects their
Shallow trays samples, discuss differences Which of these are flowers/
Optional: food colouring and similarities between the leaves/fruit? How do you know?
Access to a freezer flowers, fruits and leaves –
consider colour, size, shape, Are all plants safe to pick?
Next steps number of petals, seeds,
Make a collection of natural and etc. Practice counting, or graph Where would you like to go to
manufactured materials. Tell the making, by observing how many choose your samples?
children that they need to decide different leaves or flowers are
which things can go in an ice used. At home
garden. Remind them that only Ask children to tell their family how
natural things can go into the ice 3 Label the trays with each child’s they made the Ice Garden through to
garden. name or their bubble group. Add a the point at which it melted.
shallow layer of water to their tray.
Children will see the contents float Skill unlocked
on top of the liquid – discuss the Curious
problem of how to get the leaves Observant
and flowers inside the ice.
Watch out!
If children are collecting their
own natural objects, check the
policy for working outdoors and
that there are not any harmful
plants or contaminated objects
in the area.
Mind the wet floors when the ice
melts! A wet floor is a slip risk and
can cause injuries.
12Innovating for the future
Crunchy architecture
you can eat
About this activity
This activity is ideal to do at home. Instructions
It encourages children to be creative 1 Make the edible cement by melting
and think of innovative designs to some small pieces of chocolate in a
build some crunchy architecture with ‘bain marie’ (a bowl on top of a pan
biscuits, wafers, crackers and edible of boiling water) or microwave. (An
cement. adult should do this.)
Time 2 Use the melted chocolate like glue.
30 minutes When the chocolate goes hard, it
will stick the biscuits together.
Kit list
Different shaped biscuits and/ 3 Make some edible biscuit
or crackers, wafers buildings with multiple floors
Dark chocolate or even a roof! With chocolate
Bowl, water and saucepan stick biscuits you can build thin
Baking paper shapes. Pile up wafers like wooden
Cooker/microwave blocks. Build a strong floor by
sticking together two layers of rich
Next steps tea biscuits. Construct strong posts Think and talk about
Discover more playful activities and by filling a biscuit hole with choco- What did you build?
inspire children to become creative cement and sticking in a round
scientists at okido.com wafer. Thin crackers make good, What shapes of biscuits/
strong roofs. crackers/wafers are good for
the roof? Floors?
4 When you get bored, pretend to
be a giant and eat your biscuit Why did you use this
buildings. biscuit for this part of your
building?
Watch out!
Wash hands before you start. Skill unlocked
Creative
Children should only eat
Problem solving
buildings created by them or
members of their household.
Be careful not to get the
chocolate too hot. Check that
the temperature of
the melted chocolate
is not over 25°C before
using it. Transfer melted
chocolate into a bowl and keep
the hot saucepan out
of children’s reach to prevent
burns or injuries.
Check children’s allergies
beforehand and modify materials
accordingly
This activity can be messy so it
would be good to put aprons on.
13Innovating for the future
Make a water purifier
About this activity
This hands-on activity will show Instructions: Think and talk about
children how dirty water turns clean. 1 Discuss with the children how they What happened to the dirty water
use clean water in their daily lives. when it came out?
Time
30 minutes 2 Now make some dirty water. Take Does the water that comes out
two containers and fill both with look cleaner?
Kit list tap water. Add soil, sand or mud to
Big plastic bottle- cut in half both containers. Use one container Where did the dirt go?
Plastic cups/containers with dirty water to filter and keep
Soil the other to compare at the end. Compare the purified water with
Pebbles the other glass of dirty water.
Kitchen roll or cotton wool 3 Put the top half of the bottle
Buttons upside down into the bottom half. Skill unlocked
Sand Patient
Cloth 4 Begin by placing a layer in the
Marbles bottle with cloth, cotton wool or Problem solving
Magazines or newspapers kitchen roll. Then layer with smaller
Pasta shapes things, like sand and pebbles. Observant
Next steps 5 Pour your dirty water into the
There are more playful activities to bottle.
inspire children to become creative
scientists at okido.com 6 Watch what happens.
Watch out!
Do not drink water filtered from
this activity because the water is
not safe to drink.
Be sure to collect soil that is not
contaminated.
Before after
14Innovating for the future
Poster competition
About this activity
Get creative and enter the British
Science Association’s annual poster
competition. You can make your poster
about whatever version of ‘Innovating
for the future’ you like and enter our
UK-wide competition with the chance e nt
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Instructions
Get children thinking about ideas to
include in their poster.
They could investigate and imagine
‘Innovating for the future’ and
everything that makes it special. Here
are some topic ideas to help you get
inspired.
1 Think about your own innovation
Kit list
Paper (A4 or A3) – from inventing your own toy Make your poster
that you want to share with your Once you’ve thought about your idea,
Creative materials, e.g. friends to a useful machine that it’s time to get creative! Your poster
pens, pencils, scissors, glue, will help your family or the whole must be:
watercolours, paint, colouring world! How will it change the
crayons, pipe cleaners, felt, ways of play, sports and leisure, A4 or A3 size and you need to be
thread, wool, foil, clay, string, entertainment, communications, able to take a photo of it to send
beads, stamps, foam, pompoms work, or even school? to us online for judging.
2 Feeling futuristic and global? Why You can use pop up pictures, pull
not think about an innovation – out tabs or use materials such as
new ideas, inventions, products or paint, drawing pencils, crayons and
services we have never heard of paper.
before that would make the world
a better place? Send us your poster
Posters will be judged on creativity,
3 Do you know someone who is how well they fit the theme, and how
an awesome innovator? Try to well the poster has been made or
showcase their innovations and drawn. Once the poster is complete,
reflect on how this person’s scan or take a photo and go to
innovations impacted the lives of britishscienceweek.org for details on
many. how to send in your entry.
4 Everyday innovations can be easily Next steps
overlooked. Identify common Celebrate! For more details, along
innovations that you use daily and with the full set of rules and tips for
give a thought on how your life educators, check out our website
would be without them. britishscienceweek.org
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