SECONDARY RESOURCE PACK British Science Week 10 - 19 March 2017 VITY I PA T C

SECONDARY RESOURCE PACK British Science Week 10 - 19 March 2017 www.britishscienceweek.org VITY I PA T C

K A This resource pack aims to be your ‘one- stop-shop’ for supporting you during British Science Week (BSW), but can be used at any time of year. Feel free to adapt or extend the activities to suit your students’ needs and the curriculum you are delivering.

In addition to the activities in this pack, there are lots of other ways to enthuse and engage your students throughout the Week:

British Science Week events You can either create your own club, class or school event or search for things happening near you on our website. Last year, there were over 5,000 events reaching more than 1 million Poster competition people. Help us make British Science Some of the activities could be Demo Day Week 2017 even bigger and better! followed up by designing a poster, Taking place on Thursday 16 March, britishscienceweek.org simply look out for the paintbrush Demo Day is an annual campaign symbol above. The theme for held during British Science Week CREST Awards this year’s competition links with that aims to inspire school teachers Many of the activities can count towards this year’s activity pack theme of and technicians to explore new CREST Awards. Further CREST resources ‘change’. For more information on concepts, provoke discussions can be downloaded for free from the competition and how to enter, and generate excitement through crestawards.org read on further in the activity pack running science demonstrations. or visit britishscienceweek.org/plan- Many activities found in this pack The British Science Week 2017 your-activities/poster-competition are suited to Demo Day, simply look digital badges for the ‘Wow’ symbol above. Share All the activities in this pack, as well as what you got up to on Demo Day attending events/entering the poster by using the hashtag #DemoDay competition, can enable you and your on social media. Stories, photos and students to achieve special British Science videos – the more visual the better! Week 2017 digital badges. Register for free at makewav.es/britishscienceweek PARTICIPATOR and students can upload evidence of EDUCATOR their BSW activities to gain the badges. It’s a great way to quickly evidence and reward everyone’s hard work. The British Science Week 2017 digital badges The theme for this year’s British Science Week is “Change”, encouraging young people to think about and investigate the changes happening in the world all around us; from seasons and climate, to materials and energy. It is also a chance for young people to consider the changes they can enact to have a positive impact on the future.

1 BRAINTEASERS AND SHORT CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES

2 CHANGING COLOURS ˚ Catch a rainbow ˚ Flowers to dye for ˚ Changing change 3 CHANGING STATES ˚ Oobleck slime ˚ Erupting fizz ˚ Kitchen chemistry ˚ Chocolate eggs 4 CHANGING ENVIRONMENT ˚ Changing like the wind ˚ My ‘Moon Diary’ 5 CHANGING OUR WORLD ˚ Floating gardens: a solution to climate change? ˚ Enrich your classroom ˚ Best day ever 6 GET INVOLVED WITH CITIZEN SCIENCE

7 POSTER COMPETITION

8 BRAINTEASERS AND SHORT CHALLENGE ANSWERS CHALLENGES ANAGRAMS

Solve the anagrams, using the clues provided. GENUS PIN

Clue Black and white animal and book publisher

MACHINE CAT LEG

Clue Human impact on the environment

ENCHANT GOO ONLY

Clue Tiny tech

LIVER BERRIES

Clue Cannot be changed back

I CARE NOT

Clue Process that transforms a substance

EARTH WE

Clue Rain, sunshine or snow CHALLENGES CATEGORIES

Words: Categorise the words into the appropriate group Waxing Metre Fools Waning (4x4), and then identify the theme of each group. Humboldt Kilogram Gentoo Second Emperor Full Mole Rockhopper

Plated Carat Leaf New Example

types of Bitter Dark Milk White chocolate CHALLENGES ODD ONE OUT

Note: as long as you can give a clear, well-reasoned argument to support your idea, then your answer is correct. Which of the following do you think is the odd one out?

Example Wood Paper Rock

Because it is the It is the only thing List your reasons only man-made thing. that cannot be burnt.

Chalk Wax Marble

List your reasons

Shell Plant Rock

List your reasons

Worm Snake Centipede

List your reasons CHALLENGES BRAINTEASERS ? A bear walks south for one Answer Test your lateral thinking kilometre, then it walks 1 west for one kilometre, with these fun riddles and brainteasers. then it walks north for one kilometre and ends up at the same point from which ? it started. What colour was the bear?

You have to measure 2 exactly 4 litres of water, Answer but you only have a 3-litre bottle and a 5-litre bottle. How do you do it? (Note: there might be more than 1 way!)

3L 5L

When I’m young I’m tall. Answer 3 When I’m old I’m short. When I’m alive I glow. Because of your breath I die. What am I?

What is the catchphrase Answer 4 below? arrest you’re 5 What is the catchphrase below?

BROTHER Answer CHANGING COLOURS CATCH A RAINBOW

Part 1 Part 3 Get colourful Mix it up Pour a cup of milk into a shallow bowl You could try repeating the experiment Toolkit and carefully put three drops of red using water in place of milk. Milk colouring into one side. About a third Washing up liquid of the way around put three drops of Observe whether you get the same Shallow bowl blue food colouring and another third eruption of colour or not. Red, yellow and blue of the way around put three drops food colouring of yellow food colouring. Do this very You could also test out different types carefully, without moving the bowl, so of milk (but never unpasteurised) and that the three colours do not mix. explore which % of fat produces the best swirling of colour? Semi-skimmed About this Next squeeze a drop of washing up or full-fat – which is better? activity liquid into the centre of the bowl and record what you see. What happens to Next steps Some very unusual interactions take the colours? For more ideas of experimental place when you mix a little milk, science projects you can do, read food colouring, and a drop of liquid Part 2 about CREST soap. This artsy activity will help Think about it crestawards.org/project-resources you discover the scientific secrets Think about the chemical changes of soap and create a beautiful occurring: explosion of colours at the same time. What is the dish soap doing to the ˚ bonds? ˚ What molecules are present within Watch out! the solutions? This experiment can get rather messy so ensure your workspace and clothes are well protected. Take a photo of your Afterwards, make sure you wash the colourful creation and bowl thoroughly and wipe up any enter it into our poster spills carefully. competition.

milk red blue yellow CHANGING COLOURS FLOWERS TO DYE FOR

Part 1 Next steps Get colourful For more ideas of experimental Fill your vase with water and add a science projects you can do, read Toolkit few drops of food colouring. Cut the about CREST White flowers bottom off the stems of your flowers crestawards.org/project-resources Water and place them in the vase. Leave Food colouring your flowers in the coloured water for a Vase few hours and observe what happens.

It should take between 6 – 12 hours to get the best results, so perhaps check About this again at the end of the day. activity Try splitting the stem of your flower in This colourful activity demonstrates half and putting each half in water how plants absorb water through dyed a different colour. What do you their roots and the xylem within their think will happen? stems. Add a little food colouring to the vase in order to transform white What is the role of the xylem in the flowers into different colours. plant?

Watch out! This experiment can get rather messy so ensure your workspace and clothes are well protected.

Take a photo of your colourful creation and enter it into our poster competition. CHANGING COLOURS CHANGING CHANGE WITH THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY AND THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION

Part 1 Before the demo Dissolve 24g of sodium hydroxide in 100 Toolkit cm3 of deionised/distilled water in a 250 24g Sodium hydroxide cm3 beaker, stirring continuously. The pellets (corrosive) solution will get warm and is corrosive. 5g Zinc powder (highly Heat the solution to boiling point on a flammable, dangerous for the Bunsen burner, and after this, turn the Why not try this environment) Bunsen off. for Demo Day? Steel wool 100cm3 deionised or Add 5g of zinc powder carefully. The distilled water solution will fizz as some of the zinc Copper coins dissolves, forming sodium zincate and Protection: eye goggles and giving off hydrogen. disposable gloves (preferably nitrile) Clean a ‘copper’ coin with steel wool Beaker (250 cm3) until it is shiny. Bunsen burner, tripod and gauze Pair of tongs or forceps Part 2 Glass stirring rod Turn copper to silver Access to a top-pan balance Drop the cleaned coin into the hot solution containing sodium zincate and the remaining zinc powder. The coin must Part 3 About this make contact with the powdered zinc at Turn silver to gold activity the bottom of the solution. If necessary, Using tongs or forceps, hold the plated use a glass rod to move the coin about coin in the upper part of a roaring Bunsen Change your change in this until this is so. flame for a few seconds until the surface exciting demonstration exploring turns gold. Turn the coin so that both sides electroplating and the chemistry of Leave the coin until it is plated with a are heated equally. Overheating will alloys, where a copper coin is firstly shiny coat of zinc. This will take about 2-3 cause the coin to tarnish. changed to silver, and then to gold. minutes. Leaving the coin too long may cause lumps of zinc to stick to it. Remove Allow the coin to cool and you will now This is a demonstration for teachers the plated coin with tongs or forceps and have a ‘gold’ coin! to carry out, and for students to rinse it under running tap water to remove watch in awe. traces of sodium hydroxide and sodium Next steps zincate. You will now have a ‘silver’ coin! This resource has been adapted from the “Turning copper coins into ‘silver’ Watch out! and ‘gold’” resource from the Practical heating plate. If a bunsen Chemistry collection, ©The Nuffield This experiment requires you to burner is to be used then it Foundation and the Royal Society of wear goggles and disposable should be turned off before the Chemistry. gloves. Any remaining finely zinc is added. If steel wool isn’t powdered zinc should not be available a proprietary mild For more resources visit left to dry because it can ignite abrasive material (for example, rsc.org/learn-chemistry spontaneously. Dispose of it by ‘Brillo’ soap pads) can be used rinsing with water, dissolving in instead. Likewise, copper foil can excess dilute sulfuric acid and be used instead of real coins. washing the resulting zinc sulfate solution down the sink. Since Refer to CLEAPSS Hazcards for hydrogen is evolved from a hot information on how to handle solution of zinc in sodium hydroxide, hydrogen gas, sodium hydroxide an alternative source of heating and zinc power. is to be preferred, e.g. an electric CHANGING STATES OOBLECK SLIME

Part 1 Part 2 Make some slime Put the slime to the test Place some cornflour into a large mixing Once you’ve made your slime, try out a Toolkit bowl and little by little, add water and few experiments to see how your slime Large mixing bowl use your hands to mix it into the cornflour. reacts. Do you think your slime is a liquid Measuring jug Keep mixing until the cornflour and water or a solid? Cornflour have blended together and the slime is Water the consistency of thick honey. Make sure Why not try the following? Test out: Spoon you add the water slowly and carefully. Clear re-sealable storage bag Punching the slime and drawing Eggs (optional) ˚ back your hand quickly Scooping some of the slime into ˚ your hand and rolling it into a ball About this between your palms activity Leaving your slime out over a few ˚ days/overnight and seeing if you Fancy making a weird slimy can you make it slimy again once it concoction that acts like a liquid has dried out but behaves like a solid when you Spooning some of the slime into a hit it? Most liquids behave in a ˚ re-sealable storage bag until it is two- predictable manner, but oobleck thirds full, and then gently pushing slime does not stick to the rules and an egg or another delicate object acts in a very curious way. This is (e.g. a biscuit) into the mixture. Then because it is a non-Newtonian fluid. try dropping the bag from a tall height (around 2-3m) and see how high you can you drop it from before the object breaks Watch out! Making your slime ‘dance’ by When you’ve finished, do not pour ˚ placing some on a plastic plate the slime down the sink as this could over the top of speaker set to a low clog the pipes, instead spoon the frequency sound mixture into a zip-lock bag, fasten it tightly and dispose of it in a bin. Next steps Ensure you only use eggs with the ‘For more ideas of experimental ‘British Lion Quality’ stamp as these science projects you can do, head to should be salmonella free. crestawards.org

Why not try this for Demo Day? CHANGING STATES ERUPTING FIZZ WITH THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

Part 1 Part 2 Get fizzy Keep it fizzing Half-fill the glass with the fizzy drink and This trick can keep working for quite a Toolkit then pour vegetable oil into the glass while if you add more Alka-Seltzer. You Large glass so that it is roughly two-thirds full. Add a won’t see the big fizzy eruption once the Fizzy drink – few drops of food colouring and stir the drink loses its fizz, but the bubble effect is preferably a clear one mixture. Wait until the two layers have still very clear. Vegetable oil clearly separated. Food colouring Make sure that your fizzy drink isn’t too An Alka-Seltzer tablet Add approximately two tablespoons of dark to allow you to see the bubbles Some salt salt to the liquid in one go. A great foam passing through the liquid. Stirrer eruption will occur. Observe the liquids after the eruption has settled down. You Part 3 should be able to see a lava-lamp-style Think about it About this bubble effect. Consider the following affects you have activity observed: Add an Alka-Seltzer tablet to the liquid. Turn simple household ingredients You should see some interesting bubbling Why don’t water and oil mix well? into a foaming eruption, like that of effects from the gas given off by the Alka- ˚ Why does adding salt to a fizzy drink a volcano! Seltzer, and the change in the speed ˚ cause a foamy eruption? What of those bubbles as they travel through gases are being creating? water versus oil. Why, when the Alka-Seltzer is placed ˚ into water, does it start fizzing? Watch out! Why do the bubbles travel at Ensure you protect your workspace ˚ different rates through the different and clothes during this experiment. layers? Next steps Find more activities and resources on the Institute of Physics website physics.org/discover

Why not try this for Demo Day? CHANGING STATES KITCHEN CHEMISTRY WITH FOOD TEACHERS CENTRE

Part 1 Part 3 Get baking Test your creations Mix the dry ingredients altogether in Observe the differences in size, texture Toolkit a mixing bowl and then add the wet and appearance, and also have a taste You’ll need to measure and mix ingredients in the order listed in the to see which cake is the best: this set of ingredients four times to ‘toolkit’ section. Mix well and divide complete all four tests: equally into 12 cupcake cases. How and why is each cake 6 tablespoons flour different? 3 tablespoons sugar Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 15-20 What might be the purpose of each 2 or 3 pinches of baking powder minutes. Take the cakes out when golden ingredient in the cake? 2 tablespoons cooking oil brown and allow them to cool on a rack! 1/4 teaspoon vanilla 1/3 of an egg (break egg into a Next steps cup; beat until mixed, then use Part 2 If you liked trying out some kitchen approximately one third of it. Alter the recipe chemistry, check out the Food Teachers Save the rest for the other cakes) Now experiment what happens when Centre for a wide variety of resources Baking tray and cupcake cases you change the recipe. Try to: foodteacherscentre.co.uk/resources Oven Cooling rack Mix one without the egg Mix another without the oil About this Mix one without baking powder activity Get your bake-on and make some quirky cakes. Baking is often thought of as an exact science: with precise measurements, temperatures and timings resulting sugar in a tasty transformation. But what do all the ingredients do? What happens if we change the recipe flour and a key ingredient is missed out?

Watch out! Baking oil Ensure health and safety powder precautions are taken when working with raw ingredients and a heated oven. Ensure you only use eggs with the ’British Lion OIL vanilla Quality’ stamp as these should be salmonella free. Check for any food allergies prior to undertaking this activity. Do not do food-related experiments in school labs if you intend to eat the results. Ensure that appropriate hygiene and cleanliness precautions are in place. CHANGING STATES CHOCOLATE EGGS WITH THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY AND THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION

Part 1 Part 2 Get set up Be observant Set up a Bunsen burner on a heat Add cold water to the beaker until it is Toolkit resistant mat, with a tripod and gauze about one-third full, and place it on the A few grams of chocolate above it. tripod and gauze. Place the test tube (cooking chocolate works best) containing the egg white and the test Egg albumen/white Grate the chocolate and pre-load test tube with the chocolate in the beaker. (about 4 cm3) tubes to give about a 2cm depth of Protection: eye goggles molten chocolate when melted. Using the Bunsen burner, heat the beaker 2 test tubes of water with the test tubes carefully until Beaker (250 cm3) Separate the egg whites from the yolks the water in the beaker boils. Allow the Bunsen burner, heat resistant of sufficient eggs to provide enough for water to boil gently for about 5 minutes. mat, tripod and gauze about 4cm3 of egg white for each test Test tube rack tube. Keep an eye on what happens to the Test tube holder egg white and the chocolate in the tubes whilst they are being heated. What About this observations can you make? activity Turn off the Bunsen burner and use the test tube holder to transfer the tubes to What makes a change reversible the rack to cool. Watch what happens to or irreversible? Explore the physical the egg white and the chocolate in the and chemical changes of both tubes as they cool. chocolate and eggs (not chocolate eggs!) in this simple yet interesting Next steps experiment. This resource has been adapted from the “Chocolate and egg experiment” resource from the Practical Chemistry collection, ©The Nuffield Foundation and Watch out! the Royal Society of Chemistry. Wear eye protection. Do not taste foods in a laboratory. Do not sit For more resources visit down while heating the beaker or rsc.org/learn-chemistry handling the hot test tubes. Ensure you only use eggs with the ‘British Lion Quality’ stamp as these should be salmonella free.

At the end of the experiment, the chocolate is best removed by re-melting and pouring out of the tubes.

Why not try this for Demo Day? CHANGING ENVIRONMENT CHANGING LIKE THE WIND WITH THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Part 1 Part 2 Track the wind direction Work out the wind speed Place a marker at your start location, and Assign someone to be a ‘blower’ and Toolkit then blow some bubbles and pick one another as a ‘timer’. Bubble blowing kit to follow. Chase your chosen bubble, Compass or compass app without getting in its way, until it pops or Place a marker at your start location and Measuring tape floats somewhere you cannot follow. another marker 10 metres away (roughly Watch or stopwatch ten paces), in the general direction the Blow another bubble from where you wind will carry the bubbles. This will be end up and follow that one. Repeat this your bubble ‘racecourse’. About this up to ten times if possible. Wherever you activity end up, look back at where you have Have the ‘blower’ blow some bubbles, come from. and the ‘timer’ pick one to follow. The Whether it’s a gentle breeze or ‘timer’ uses the watch/stopwatch to blowing a gale, explore how the Now use your compass to work out the measure how long it takes the bubble wind changes, using bubbles to direction back to the starting point. This to reach the finishing line. From this time measure both direction and speed. will give you the average wind direction, it takes to travel 10 meters, you can because wind direction refers to where calculate the wind speed. the wind is blowing from. Watch out! Use the following equation: Ensure that you are aware of your safety when working outdoors and Speed = distance/time are supervised at all times. Choose an area of open ground, a safe Is the wind speed and direction the same distance from roads or private everywhere, or can you find differences, property. for example as you move around a building?

Next steps For more activities from the Royal Meteorological Society, take a look on their website metlink.org CHANGING ENVIRONMENT MY ‘MOON DIARY’ WITH BBC TERRIFIC SCIENTIFIC

Part 1 Part 4 Start your ‘Moon Diary’ Learn how the Moon moves To start your ‘Moon Diary’, write the date Make sure you check out the BBC Terrific Toolkit in your notebook and leave a space next Scientific website to learn more about the Pen/pencil to it for your drawing of the Moon. Earth and how the Moon moves around it Notebook bbc.co.uk/terrificscientific Part 2 Look for the Moon Next steps About this You might not be able to see the Moon If you liked this activity, be sure to check activity every evening, depending on the day out the BBC Terrific Scientific website bbc. you start your diary. Why could this be? co.uk/terrificscientific/sections/terrific- Our Moon is beautiful and we’ve If it is very cloudy and you can see light stuff where you’ll find many more fun been staring at it for years! It is said from the Moon but not the shape it things to do! we know more about the surface appears to be, don’t worry! Write this of the Moon than we do about the down and try again tomorrow. This activity links to the Terrific Scientific depths of our oceans. But what if we Time Investigation, which your school can’t see it? Can we see the same Part 3 can take part in. Make sure your teacher amount of the Moon every night? Draw the Moon has signed up for this exciting mass Draw the Moon each night for a month. investigation and find out more at bbc. This activity will show you how Consider whether the Moon looked the co.uk/terrificscientific/sections/teachers differently we see the Moon over same yesterday as it did today? What or bbc.co.uk/terrificscientific/sections/ time by keeping a diary, and help about two weeks ago? Why do you think cymraeg you come up with ideas as to why this could be? this is.

If you cannot see the Moon, sketch the shape of the light coming from it, by Watch out! drawing a circle and colouring it in, so the bits left blank are what you can see If you can’t see the Moon from in the sky. your house, you might need to go outside. Make sure you have a parent or guardian to go with you at all times if you do! CHANGING OUR WORLD FLOATING GARDENS: A SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE? WITH PRACTICAL ACTION

Part 1 Part 2 Solving the problem Test it out Look over the materials you have Each group will have their floating Toolkit available to you before starting to garden tested in a sink or washing up Practical Action floating garden develop a design idea for your bowl with about 10cm of water in the PowerPoint presentation: floating raft. bottom. Weights will be added gradually practicalaction.org/ to the raft and the winning team will be floatinggardenchallenge Tips for your floating garden: the one whose model supports the most Modelling equipment such as weight. 250ml plastic drinks bottles, small For crops to grow on flooded land plastic and polystyrene food they need to be planted on a raft Next steps trays, straws, plasticine, string, like structure, or ‘floating garden’ so For more support materials, including card, doweling, packaging with make sure your model floats the PowerPoint presentation, air pockets, cartons, sellotape, The top of your model should be go to practicalaction.org/ masking tape, elastic bands, fairly flat so you could grow your floatinggardenchallenge corks, yoghurt cartons, lolly pop own garden on top of it sticks/wooden spills, blu-tac, Your model must not be wider or For more Practical Action resources, go to bubble wrap longer than 23 x 30 cm, but can be practicalaction.org/stem Scissors as deep as you like Washing up bowls or sinks half- Ensure you make a model that will filled with water be able to carry as much weight as Weights up to 5kg possible before sinking

Remember to test and adapt your About this models along the way activity Climate change is having a major impact on communities across the world, especially those living in areas close to our oceans and rivers. A heavier and longer rainy season means that land where farmers used to be able to grow crops to feed their family is being flooded before crops can be harvested.

In this hands-on investigatory challenge, design and make a structure that enables farmers in Bangladesh to continue to grow their crops even when their land floods. CHANGING OUR WORLD ENRICH YOUR CLASSROOM WITH URENCO

Part 1 Part 2 What is nanotechnology? Can you change your school Do some research into what using nanotechnology? Toolkit nanotechnology is and how it works. Using what you have learnt about URENCO nanotechnology Look at examples in a variety of settings nanotechnology, what products are fact files: crestawards.org/ such as: available that might be able to help with enrich-my-classroom the following challenges at school? Pen/pencil Healthcare Paper IT/computing Graffiti Magic Sand Building/infrastructure Stains on clothes Washing up bowl/tray filled with Communications Waterproofing of technology, e.g. water Medicine phones Sweets (skittles, m&ms), Heat loss counters, beans, etc. Magic Sand, also known as hydrophobic Electricity generation Large gloves (oven or garden) sand, is ordinary sand that has been coated with a special compound that How would the use of these technologies repels water. This means that when change and impact your school About this the sand is submerged in water and environment? activity removed it stays completely dry. Explore this nanotechnology application by Nanotechnology refers to items testing out some Magic Sand in a bowl/ Next steps which are very small in size tray of water. For other ways to enrich your classroom and often requires the careful including workshops on electricity, manipulation of both atoms and To get an idea of the difficulties of coding, ergonomics and magnetism, molecules. In this activity, you will controlling items on a small scale, work and for resources supporting a CREST investigate what nanotechnology with a partner to lay out the letters of Discovery Day, go to crestawards.org/ is, find some specific examples and a word (e.g. URENCO) using sweets, enrich-my-classroom see how nanotechnology can be counters or beans whilst wearing large used to enrich and improve your gloves. Be competitive against your For more URENCO resources, visit school. friends and see who can complete the learnwithrichie.com word fastest! CHANGING OUR WORLD BEST DAY EVER WITH THORPE PARK RESORT

Part 1 Rides closest to the entrance, Getting ready especially ‘The SWARM’, have Download a map from the THORPE PARK longer waits in the mornings, while Toolkit Resort website and review the route farther away rides are longer in the Map of theme park planner facts below. Your challenge is afternoons. thorpepark.com/img/ to create a course through the park for Newer rides attract more guests. park-mapside-2016-final-no- a family of two adults and two teens. Samurai, Rush, Vortex and Tidal folds.pdf Everyone is over 1.4 metres tall, so can go Wave usually have a short line of Markers/pens on all rides, but mum and daughter love 10 minutes, or 20 minutes between Paper the excitement of roller coasters, while 11:30–3:00pm. Calculator dad and little brother prefer water spills Most families have lunch between Internet access and mini thrills. 12 -1:00pm. Restaurants are very Printer busy then. Design your route taking into account Water-based rides are busier after walking and waiting time between rides. lunch. About this There are no fastrack tickets available Other rides have a typical wait of activity and you must include a 30-minute lunch- 5 minutes, or 15 minutes from 2:00- break and two 15-minutes snack/toilet 4:00pm. This activity tasks you to act as a stops! theme park manager, responsible Part 2 for ensuring that guests are happy. Try to fit in as many different rides as Plan your route To improve visitor experience, possible but don’t over-estimate and end Create a family fun-day leaflet that design a family-friendly route up disappointing the guests! contains an outline route on the map. through the THORPE PARK Resort, Include a timetable for the day, with short which includes a wide variety of Route Planner Details notes on ride arrival times, estimated rides making it the best day possible queuing times and walking time between for the entire family. Family enter at 9:30am and exit at rides. 5:00pm. Consider where and how the family Most Theme Park Managers aim to make could divide and meet up again waiting entertaining. They often study so that everyone can have their the psychology of queuing to help. For favourite experience. example, people in line for ‘The SWARM’ It takes 20 minutes to walk across experience sound and visual effects the park. The map is not to scale but based on an alien invasion. What could can be used to estimate distances/ you include on the leaflet that would times between rides. You could keep the family engaged while waiting? include estimates of ride times. The most popular attraction, ‘Derren Next steps Brown’s Ghost Train’, has a wait of Start a debate: Which route is the best? 45 minutes. Stealth, SAW – The Ride, #BSWThorpe Colossus and Nemesis Inferno all have queues of 30 minutes from Look out for THORPE PARK Resort’s 10:00-11:30am and from 1:00- Discovery Day Resources coming soon! 3:00pm. CHALLENGES PENGUIN WATCH: CITIZEN SCIENCE WITH ZOONIVERSE AND PENGUIN LIFELINES

Part 1 If the penguins are too small to Get online count or too far in the background, Head to www.penguinwatch.org don’t worry, simply mark any in the Toolkit register an account and log-in. foreground and then click “Too A computer/laptop many penguins to mark” or mobile/tablet If you want your school to sign up and Bad weather? Just click “I can’t tell” Internet access you want to adopt a specific colony, Partially obscured? Click as many A keen eye register as normal and then contact penguins as you can the organisation. Mark any other animals you see in the image too, so the scientists About this Part 2 can see how often they are found activity Pick out a penguin near the penguins’ nests This online activity involves you Climate change is having many individually marking adult penguins, Next steps negative effects around the world, chicks, and eggs in the image If you want to discuss a specific and one area feeling it more presented to you on the screen. image, or even the whole project, visit than others is the cold icy region Talk Penguin Watch to chat with the of Antarctica. Many wonderful How does it work? science team and other volunteers. wildlife species are in decline from changes to their food supply and Choose whether an individual To get involved with other citizen habitat, and there is a huge gap in is an ‘adult’, ‘chick’, ‘egg’ or science projects, head to our understanding of the Antarctic ‘other’, then click and drag the zooniverse.org ecosystem. As a result, Penguin marker to its centre Lifelines has teamed up with citizen Remove any accidental marks science organisation Zooniverse to using the black-and-white cross help measure changes to penguin populations.

Penguin Watch is a citizen science website that is trying to understand the lives of penguins. To do this, scientists have travelled to some of the coldest areas on the planet to learn more about penguin populations. However, they need your help to examine hundreds of thousands of images of wildlife in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean that have been taken over the past three years. Get involved and be a part of the conservation effort! CHALLENGES POSTER COMPETITION

Part 1 Part 3 Research your poster Send us your poster Investigate or imagine the different Posters will be judged on how creative Toolkit types of changes occurring in science and well-researched the ideas are and Paper (A4 or A3) and the natural world around you. how well the poster has been made or Creative materials such as Choose a topic for your poster and do drawn. pens, pencils, scissors, glue, some research around the idea: watercolours, paint, colouring Once your poster is complete, write crayons, glitter, pipe cleaners, What different types of change all your information on the back, felt, thread, wool, foil, clay, ˚ can we examine in nature? have your teacher, leader or parent/ straws, string, beads, stamps, Carry out a science experiment guardian fill in the online registration googly eyes, foam, sequins, pop ˚ and investigate the changes. form, and then post your entry to us. pops How has our world changed over ˚ the years? Next steps Think about how you might Celebrate! Whether you win a prize About this ˚ change the world in the future. or not, you can join makewav.es/ activity britishscienceweek for free, and Part 2 upload a picture of your poster to get Get creative and enter the British Make your poster a special BSW2017 digital badge. Science Association’s annual Once you’ve done your research, it’s poster competition. You can make time to get creative! For more details, along with the full set your poster about whatever type of rules and tips for educators, check of change you like, and enter into Your poster must be: out our website, britishscienceweek. our UK-wide competition with the org/plan-your-activities/poster-competition chance to win an array of prizes! 2D (flat) – if you make a model, ˚ you need to just send us a photo of it ˚ On A4 or A3 paper You can use pop up pictures, pull out tabs or use materials such as paint, drawing pencils, crayons and paper. Many activities found in this pack could also be entered into the poster competition, simply look for the paintbrush above. Or you can use them to serve as a source of inspiration to get you started. CHALLENGES ANSWER SHEET

ANAGRAMS GENUS PIN = Penguins MACHINE CAT LEG = Climate change ENCHANT GOO ONLY = Nanotechnology LIVER BERRIES = Irreversible I CARE NOT = Reaction EARTH WE = Weather