Education
Key Stage 2 (9 - 11 years)
In this workshop pupils combine their knowledge of the role of the skeleton in the human body with the exciting iMAC software to create their own amazing animation.
P5-P7 Duration : 90 mins
This workshop focuses on the human body, organ functions and positions. From heart rates to healthy eating, flexibility to fitness, pupils will have to put their bodies and brains to the test.
P5-P7 Duration : 50 mins
Pupils have the opportunity to make first-hand observations in a real science lab. They carry out experiments to explore changes brought about by heating, cooling and chemical reactions and must decide if these changes are reversible or irreversible.
P5-P7 Duration : 50 mins
This fun workshop makes forces easy to understand. Pupils explore energy sources and forces using toys. They develop their understanding of pushes and pulls with rockets and magic tricks, and make their own mini rocket to take back to school.
P5-P7 Duration : 50 mins
Pupils experiment with shadows, the colours of the rainbow and how light travels through materials. They investigate reflection by making their own kaleidoscopes which they can then take home.
P5-P7 Duration : 50 mins
Set in the W5 lab, pupils undertake a crime investigation. They use fingerprinting techniques, chromatography and fibre analysis to eliminate suspects and close in on the culprit. This workshop reinforces skills in investigative science, including observation, recording, interpreting and evaluating results.
P5-P7 Duration : 50 mins
Let's Take Flight
What keeps a plane up or makes it move? Find out in this fun workshop as pupils make their own paper planes and investigate how forces affect flight and movement. This workshop includes some great demonstrations!
P5-P7 Duration : 50 mins
This ever-popular workshop explores changes of state and the properties of solids and liquids through investigations and slimy demonstrations. Pupils then discover the recipe for making their own slime.
P5-P7 Duration : 50 mins
The Weather Around Us
Pupils work in small groups or 'emergency task forces', charged with limiting casualties and disruption from an imminent hurricane. Using weather equipment and maps pupils learn about world climates and weather recording.
P5-P7 Duration : 50 mins
Using K'NEX, pupils work in small teams to design and construct a racing buggy.
Then, after a test and improve session, the teams discuss the principles of fair testing before a race to find out who has built the ultimate machine.
P5-P7 Duration : 50 mins
In this fun workshop based on the theme of biodiversity, pupils become biodetectives and are challenged to solve an eco-mystery. They investigate habitats, classification and food webs in order to gather the evidence they need.
P5-7 Duration : 50mins
Many films are made on the cutting room floor. In this workshop the pupils become the film editors, taking ICT to a whole new level! They edit and add special effects to make their own version of a W5 Science Magic show, which they can then take home on DVD.
P5-P7 Duration : 90 mins
This workshop offers a brilliant way to develop creative imagination. Working in small groups, pupils are given characters and props upon which they build a story board. They then animate and edit their story, making it into a proper film.
P5-P7 Duration : 90 mins
Sounds Groovy Too
Pupils discover what sound really is through demonstrations and look at different ways of representing it. They then work creatively with music by investigating, experimenting, selecting and combining sounds to express their ideas in a groovy tune, using innovative software.
P5-P7 Duration : 50 mins
This workshop is an excellent introductory activity for EMU groups. Through a collection of team-building activities pupils explore the similarities and differences between themselves and others.
P5-P7 Duration : 50 mins
Lego MindstormsTM Mission to Mars
A meteorite storm on Mars has left astronauts stranded on their space station. Help is urgently required! By programming a Lego Mindstorm robot buggy, can your pupils rise to the challenge to rescue the explorers, and collect cosmic rocks at the same time? The clock is ticking.......
P6-P7 Duration : 50 mins
(Max 24 pupils)
Pupils find out about the history of some of Belfast's oldest listed buildings. They then break up into small teams and combine their knowledge, creativity and imagination to give the buildings a new lease of life.
P7 Duration : 90 mins
W5's action heroes need your help! They have found intelligent life on a remote planet called K10. But the planet is dying and Team W5 needs your help to find a planet to colonise. By careful analysis of four planets the pupils have to decide which one is best, and then ensure there is a soft landing!
P7 Duration : 90 mins