British Science Week: primary activity pack (2024)

This activity pack provides a range of activities that promote cross-curricular learning, so that STEM can be linked to other curriculum subjects and to children's own backgrounds, lives and interests. It has been designed for British Science Week 2024 on the theme of 'time'.

Activities are suitable for children to complete in any setting, either in school, a club, an organisation, or at home with their families.

Get children talking about what time means to them. How do they tell the time, and how does it differ from the way their parents or grandparents told the time? What about things that go very fast (the fastest animals, ways of travelling) or very slow (plants growing, building cities and large structures)?

Activities in the pack include:

• Disappearing dinos
• Get set jellies
• Make your own pendulum timer
• Active Adaptations
• Effect of particle size
• Communicate to protect
• Design a farm of the future
• Nature’s future
• Time travelling programmers
• Can you use the sun to tell the time?
• Metamorphosis mayhem
• Making biodegradable plastic
• Ice core detectives
• Water clock
• The Big Plastic Count: it’s time for change
• Our amazing brains: how we learn