For the classroom (five to 11-year-olds): insulator or conductor?
Find the bravest in your class with our practical electricity activity. What is the most unusual material your pupils can find that is a good electrical conductor?
Energise Anything activity centre
Explore core scientific concepts
Energy is electrifying
For the classroom (12 to 18-year-olds): defibrillator
A fun activity challenging your pupils to set up an electrical circuit and explore how a defibrillator works.
For the home (five to 11-year-olds): lightning challenge
Kick up a storm and create your very own lightning. Can your children make objects glow and spark in the dark without setting anything alight?
For the home (12 to 18-year-olds): electronic music
Find out how to make music with electronic synthesisers and create a new soundtrack for one of our animations.
Generations of power
For the classroom (five to 11-year-olds): solar oven
Challenge your pupils to design and build a solar oven. How can they make their design as effective as possible?
For the classroom (12 to 18-year-olds): power on Mars
How could we power a human colony on Mars? Will your students have the power generation solution?
For the home (five to 11-year-olds): self-propelled car
Using objects you find in the recycling bin, bedrooms or kitchen drawers, ask your children to build a self-propelled vehicle.
For the home (12 to 18-year-olds): energy wasters
Seek the electronic vampires and other energy wasters in your home. Find ways to reduce the amount of power they use.
The nature of insulation
For the classroom (five to 11-year-olds): penguin huddle
Design an experiment to investigate why a penguin huddle keeps so much heat.
For the classroom (12 to 18-year-olds): ice cream conundrum
Can your students crack the ice cream cone conundrum and keep a cold treat from melting?
For the home (five to 11-year-olds): ice lolly challenge
Challenge your children to make a cool box to store an ice lolly.
For the home (12 to 18-year-olds): energy saving
Help protect your community from fuel poverty. What can you do to improve efficiency?
The ‘science capital’ that parents can give their children provides a real confidence boost and can install a valuable life-long interest in STEM subjects. These relevant and engaging resources are a great way of helping parents do this.
The ‘science capital’ that parents can give their children provides a real confidence boost and can install a valuable life-long interest in STEM subjects. These relevant and engaging resources are a great way of helping parents do this.