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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.

We are relaunching our Home Educators sessions in our brand new science centre by investigating questions this half-term! Before new discoveries can be made, scientists have to develop a set of questions to guide their research. But just what makes a question helpful and focused? Using a series of different topics and scientific skills, your young people will be learning just that.

 

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What is the question?  Do you know what makes a good scientific question? Using real world examples can you identify the key elements needed and how to find the answers?

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Welcome to Cambridge Science Centre

Welcome to the new location of Cambridge Science Centre! In this first session we will be exploring the exhibits and learning more about all the topics we have to discover in the centre. But what can your young people learn and what questions do they have about the world around them?

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Reach the target

What do we mean when we ask a question and how can we use that to reach a goal? We will be exploring these topics by investigating the difference between accuracy and precision when reaching a target. (Please note: this session is designed to be run outside. Depending on weather conditions this session may have to be altered slightly, or swapped with another session from this block)

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Falling or Flying?

Falling or Flying will provide the opportunity for a deeper exploration of some of our exhibits. This will allow your young people to investigate the best ways for flight, floating and falling while thinking about how we answer questions where there are a lot of things that can change.

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What will float?

What will float and why do we want to know? We will be exploring sinking and floating in this session, including how to make heavier objects float and is it just solids that can float, to help your young people understand why we ask questions.

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Making objects move

In this session we are exploring gravity, energy transfers and chain reactions, helping us to learn how we build on questions. Once we can answer one, how can we bring in a further question or area to explore?

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What do you want to know?

Throughout this half-term your young people have been sharing their own questions about the world around them. But just what are the answers? This session will explore some of the topics your young people are curious about and help to provide answers to their questions.

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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.

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

 

 

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