Online LIVE Science Classes
We’re passionate about helping children learn the wonders of science through practical, hands-on activities, that’s why we deliver the science kit to your door for our online live science classes, so that your budding scientist can become immersed in an interactive session.
£40 / block of 4 classes includes kit delivered.
Each kit has enough for 1 child or 2 children doing the experiments together.
More kits needed? – no problem…..Siblings can either share a kit or we can send
you additional kits for £10 each. These are available to order on the booking page.
Next Club: Inventors
9.30-10.30am on Thursdays April 18th & 25th, May 2nd & 9th
Inventors Club – the times/dates
9.30-10.30am on Thursdays 18th & 25th April, 2nd & 9th May
An exciting hands-on club looking engineering ideas and creations. Lots of making and building in this club, delivered live via Zoom, we send you the kit!
SUIT AGES 5-11 APPROX
Taught by an enthusiastic teacher & scientist.
Inventors – the sessions
Nature’s Secrets – Colour changing bead bracelets, magic balancing butterflies, secret messages & decoder glasses.
Vehicle designs – Super gliders & zooming air powered cars.
Circuits – make simple circuits using bulbs and batteries, investigate insulators/conductors, make clay LED light up creatures.
Robots – Using battery packs and motors, you’ll make Art-bots to create a masterpiece then design and build crazy Vibro-bot.
Inventors – the kit
Here’s what you get:
UV beads, bracelet cord, washers, red acetate, 2 x AA & 4 x AA battery boxes with flying leads, 2.5V bulbs and holders, play dough, some 3V LEDs, elastic bands, plastic cups, googly eyes, 3V hobby motor & off-centre mass, scrap kit, paper plates, wheels, axles, balloons, car, glider plane & glasses templates.
Not provided – sticky tape, scissors, felt tips, scrap card/paper, AA batteries, materials from around the home to test conductivity, balloon pump (optional)
What are the live online clubs all about?!
- Hands on educational and fun online, live science clubs around a particular topic using the kit we’ve sent to you.
- Suitable for primary school aged children.
- LIVE and online via Zoom.
- Online support via our private Home-Ed FB group.
- Work towards the British Science Association’s Crest Award – (optional extra – details below).
- Earn stamps for the Children’s University Passport.
- Only £40 per family includes the kit delivered via Royal Mail’s Signed For service. Image and details of kits below.
- £10 per additional kit (for siblings – optional).
- The club is led by our scientist & teacher, Ruth (yes – an actual real scientist!).
- The groups are kept small (up to 10 screens), so Ruth can ensure your youngster is engaged and involved throughout.
A typical session:
During a typical session of one of our online live science classes, Ruth opens the class a few minutes early to check sound and video, and welcomes everyone in. We begin promptly usually this is with a catch up from the last session, to show any follow up activities youngsters did, or any big news to share. We then get underway with Ruth explaining the current session’s topic, we then work through the practical activities together, with Ruth showing and guiding youngsters through the task, whilst explaining the theory behind what they’re doing. Ruth asks questions throughout and encourages youngsters to share and ask questions too. A few families prefer to have their camera off, which is absolutely fine, although as Ruth can not see what you are doing, she may not be as interactive with you as someone with their camera on. At the end, Ruth offers suggestions on how to turn the activities into proper experiments useful for those working towards the CREST Award.
What happens during a session? Watch the video below!
Our other online live science classes/clubs:
Chemistry, Biology & Horrid….
Fizz & Popp Chemistry
– next dates tbc
A fun and educational introduction to chemistry!
Rainbow Science – Rainbow Skittles, Chromatography, Art-science, acids & alkalis, pH testing with litmus paper.
Fizzy Science – Acids & alkali reactions, Rainbow Fizz, measuring, chemical balloons, comparing gasses, CO2 science.
Bubbly Science – Chemical reactions, colourful bubbling lava lamps and the chemistry behind them, blossoming flowers & bubbles.
Zoom Science – Make rockets, gliders & catapults (not exactly chemistry but heaps of fun!).
Brilliant Biology Club
– next dates tbc
Learn about various aspects of biology in a fun and hands-on way.
Senses – activities to explore & fool the senses of touch, hearing, seeing, & smell.
Heart & Lungs – learn about blood cells, heart rate & pulse, make a lung model to see how air enters your lungs.
Excretions – what excretions tell us? Test (fake) urine samples for diabetes. Gut Marble Run. Dissect an owl pellet.
Unique You – explore symmetry in nature, discover fingerprints patterns, make eye colour gene bracelets and a model of DNA.
Horrid Science Club
– next dates tbc
Gross science experiments that kids love!
Sneaky – Make periscopes to spy on friends & jitter critters – mini-robots to spook your friends!
Gloopy – Make polymerised slimey snot or gooey bogeys, weird non newtonian fluids & Oobleck.
Smelly – Make & mix liquids to create worms which pop when squished. The difference between solutions and mixtures & make your own pH indicator.
Rancid – Collect yeast farts. Smelly fizzy reactions. Bath bombs with a horrid surprises
British Science Association Crest Award
At all our clubs, children can earn the BSA’s Crest Award, which means after 8 classes plus 8 extension activities (ideas are given during the class of things the children can do once the session is over) your child receives a certificate and badge from the BSA. If you’re not already registered you can do so here.
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