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Join an exciting journey of exploration and discovery through our specially crafted Home Educator sessions.

Each session is carefully designed to engage young minds in open-ended learning experiences. Our expert Science Communicators will be on hand to guide you and your young learner through immersive activities, encouraging them to ask questions, make predictions, and experiment freely.

This coming Spring half-term we will be talking about…. ‘Up in the Air!’

As we look up in the sky, you can book our Home Education Sessions now and explore our atmosphere, flight, rockets and space.

Our home educators sessions are aimed at ages 7-11 years and will take place weekly on a Tuesday from 1-3pm. These will be located at our centre on Cambridge Science Park and will involve an hour of discovery guided by our team of Science Communicators, followed by up to an hour of exploration of our exhibits.

 

Home Educator Sessions

chimney pumping out smoke into a blue sky

7th January – Up in the Air!

What exactly is air? Take a closer look at the composition of air and at the layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. Find out about the effects of air pollution, how we can monitor pollution and how we can clean up our air.

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Hot air balloons in a blue sky

14th January – Hot Air Balloons

Hot Air Balloons use hot air to defy gravity but how? With hands-on tests, explore density and help us take to the sky with a sky lantern. Discuss the pioneers of hot air balloons and see if you can figure out where they went right – and wrong!

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A commercial airplane flying against a sunset

21st January – Plain Sailing

Can it fly? Why does it fly? How far can it fly? And how much weight can it carry? Engineers often create small-size models to test a product’s design. Model testing tells engineers how a design might perform in a real-world situation. The engineer can experiment with different shapes and materials to produce the perfect design for the task. In this creative engineering session you will design and make your own paper planes (or gliders!) and then see how they perform in a series of challenges.

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Rockets at Cambridge Science Centre

28th January – Rockets

Rockets are used in lots of places, including getting humans up into space. The forces required for this are incredible and in this session you’ll build some model rockets and consider those forces in action!

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Birds in Flight

4th February – Let There Be Flight!

Birds are masters of flight. From acrobatic to gliding, they have adapted to fly in different ways to survive environments around the world. Can you analyse these animals and understand how different birds have evolved to fly in different ways.

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Satellite orbiting the earth in space.

11th February – Space Flight

Space flight features in many TV series and films where the effects of no gravity or atmosphere aren’t fully explored. So in this session we will investigate the reality of these situations and find out why space stations and satellites don’t fall to Earth, when you should actually use your engines in space, weightlessness and more.

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Using a microbit at Cambridge Science Centre

18th December – Micro:pet workshop

In the last session of this half term you will be getting to experience one of the workshops we offer all around micro:bit coding. Your young people will be getting to use the micro:bits to create their own micro:pet and perhaps create a ‘day in the life’ of all the different things their pet might do. With some prompts and guides for their coding skills, the different things a micro:pet could do can be coded!

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What people say!

“We have thoroughly enjoyed the sessions for home educated children. The session and activities are carefully planned out and really engaging – well done!”

Useful information:

Our home educators sessions are aimed at ages 7-11 and will take place weekly on Wednesdays from 1-3pm, with the first half-term block running from 18th September to 23rd October 2024.

Each session will be held at our new centre on Cambridge Science Park and will involve an hour of discovery guided by our team of Science Communicators, followed by up to an hour of exploration of our exhibits.

To ensure we can offer the best possible experience for everyone, tickets are not refundable unless a session is cancelled by Cambridge Science Centre. Exchanges may be made under certain conditions, by contacting events@cambridgesciencecentre.org the Friday before the session by 4pm.

Parents must attend all sessions with their children.

When purchasing your individual session tickets or bundle, the price shown included both parent and child.

You do not need to be a member of Cambridge Science Centre to join our Home Educator sessions.

 

 

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