Discovery doesn’t end when FUTURES events finish — you can carry on exploring at home!
Our collection of free, downloadable worksheets and activities are designed for young people and adults alike. From simple science experiments to creative challenges, these resources let you experience research in a fun, hands-on way.
Supervision of young people is advised. Start your at-home discoveries now!
Everyone can be a researcher — and once you’ve completed an activity, you can download a certificate to celebrate your achievement.
[Please note – these activities have been produced over a number of years, and some of the links and resources may not be up to date]
Build A Cell
Make a model of the amazing insides of an animal cell with kit you can find at home!
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Build A Trilobite
Cut and paste out the three pieces of this iconic prehistoric animal!
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Build An Animal
See if you can correctly place the internal organs inside different animals!
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Cards & Climate
Explore weather and climate through postcards, and see how the changing climate might impact them!
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Create An Aerofoil
Using food dye and a hair dryer to learn about how wings create lift on planes.
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Genetics In The Kitchen
Learn how to extract DNA from fruit using nothing but household objects!
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Geochemistry Gardening Part 1
Separate out the colours of nature using household materials and some leaves!
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Geochemistry Gardening Part 2
Learn about how molecules of the Earth help us answer questions about the past when they happened 1,000s of years ago.
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How to Palaeo HOMOLOGY
Fill in the missing labels with the names of the bones in the arm of a theropod dinosaur, Allosaurus
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Let’s Be Melodramatic!
Try out interesting acting techniques from the world of 19th Century Theatre!
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Make your own seaweed fertiliser
Discover how to make useful things from green seaweed blooms
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SSGB – Colour The Seas
Download this printable colouring in sheet of the SS Great Britain!
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Grow crystals at home
How does the shape of a crystal affect the properties of a material?
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Tasting With Our Eyes? (Adults)
Find out how our vision affects our sense of taste in this interesting experiment with white wine! (ADULTS ONLY!)
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How does soap change the surface properties of water?
How do clouds form? This activity tests how soap changes the nature of water and what it can do
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Advanced Electron Microscopy of Semiconductors
How does crystal shape affect the properties of the materials?
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Bending Rainbows: Detection of tiny plastic
Is it possible to detect small plastic which are invisible to our eye?
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Using HeLa cells to stop virus infection
We want you to design your own virus, we created the Giggletilly virus – for a virus that gives you the giggles!
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Bouncy Ball Olympics and The Dunlop Test
Find out how to do your own science investigation using bouncy balls.
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Match The Methane
Try this online quiz to see if you can match the animal to the amount of methane it produces!
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Tasting With Our Eyes? (Kids)
Find out how our vision affects our sense of taste in this interesting experiment with flavoured water!
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Seeing inside our bodies
Use this paper craft activity to build your own model MRI Machine
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