‘events for teachers’ Archive

make time for LATES

Guess what’s going on tomorrow in the Museum?  Science Museum Lates! A chance to visit the Museum and have a go (and a drink!) without your students having all the fun. Ahem. It’s free to get in and kicks off at 18:45 (kicks out at 22:00). We hold  Lates regularly, on the last Wednesday of the month. [...]

BIG BANG and getting BIGGER!

Guess where we were last week? The Big Bang Fair, of course! Where were YOU? We were  on the Science Museum stand for 3 days, doing experiments from carbon dioxide bubbles to three-way balancing, and meeting lots of excited students, teachers and families. We had a brilliant- if exhausting- time (I see one teacher on [...]

Not long now…

A great big happy 2012 to all! Here’s hoping your holiday was relaxing (unlikely I’m guessing, unless you were hibernating) and everyone is revving their engines for the ASE conference! The Science Museum will be at stand B29. Come along and have a go with some of our resources, find out what we can offer teachers and students [...]

It’s all fun & games

If you are a teacher, you know that loads of your students enjoy playing computer games… Do you ever use them as a starter for a discussion?  Games are great because as well as being an engaging and fun hook for a topic, they can supply enough information for your students to form an opinion [...]

The Big Bang Fair @ScienceMuseum

Happening tomorrow… The Science Museum is proudly hosting the Big Bang London and South East!  It will be a day of hands-on science and engineering activities, fun workshops, and awesome, inspiring projects presented by young people from across the region (I am always blown away by the incredible work of the UK’s bright young minds!) Come soak [...]

The Big Bang Fair- were you there?

We were. And we had a fantastic time meeting students, educators and even Prof Brian Cox whilst working on the Science Museum stand at the fair! Oh, and gawking at the amazing flying penguins. The Big Bang Fair is a wonderful science festival for young people, promoting careers in science and showcasing young people’s STEM projects from across the [...]

New Year’s resolutions

Happy New Year! Is your New year’s resolution to brush up your classroom discussion running skills? If so help is at hand! The Talk Science team will be running their teacher training course at venues across the UK in 2010. We will be sharing our  top tips on getting your students talking about hot science [...]

Come and see us at the ASE conference

The Science Museum learning team will be at the ASE conference in Nottingham on the 7th, 8th and 9th january 2010. We are delivering a number of sessions including a taster session of the Talk Science training course, and our classroom activity News+Views which lets students create Museum style displays on a contemporary science topic. [...]

Teachers’ Playtime at the Museum

“Bloomin’ Marvellous” – well thats what one teacher thought the Science Museum’s first late night opening exclusively for teachers. Nearly 600 teachers and educators packed out the third floor of the musem and were treated to a night of science shows, experiments, comedy, object handling and a chance to play in the world famous Launchpad [...]