Whether or not you are joining in with British Science Week in March you can still download and use their 2019 activity packs to add extra hands on in your classroom.
The theme for 2019 is Journeys and as the Channel Tunnel is celebrating 25 years of being operational there are science and engineering ideas using that theme in every pack.
At 37.9km (23.5miles), the Tunnel
still holds the record for the world’s
longest under-sea tunnel. The project took five years to complete
and involved over 13,000 engineers,
technicians and workers. However,
its journey started over 100 years
before that; the first design for a
cross-Channel tunnel was produced in
1802 and the first attempt at a tunnel
excavation was in 1880.
The British Science
Week activity packs feature activities relating to rock layering, tunnels and
signals, and time and speed
In the primary pack there are quite a few very simple activities needing hardly any resources such as making a "snakes and ladders" type game but using tunnels as a theme or designing an infographic using the tunnel statistics as a focus.
There are also a few more unusual activities such as designing a lunar rover and I would build it too!
I particularly like the Sneeze Zone experiment which shows how far droplets can travel when we sneeze. Use a water spray to demonstrate the difference between just sneezing, using your hand to cover your face and using a tissue.
This could also be linked to activities explaining why we need to wash our hands.
I also like the electric dough experiments from the popular science magazine Whiz Pop Bang.
The idea is to make some very salty dough and using the science fact that salt is a great conductor of electricity use it to replace wires in an electric circuit.
Pupils can use LEDs as eyes in a creature or make light up pieces of art or use LEDs as headlights.
This can be used to build on existing knowledge of circuits or as an interesting start to the topic. I think it would also make a finale to the topic because it is so different to conventional circuits. If there isn't enough information for you in the pack you can find much more about electric dough online
You can find the packs here: https://www.britishscienceweek.org/plan-your-activities/activity-packs/
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