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My Eco Neighbourhood

By David Crewe

Discover what exactly is a carbon footprint and how we contribute to it.   Design a street with a power source, home appliances and community activities. Calculate the carbon footprint of your street and then re-design your street to be more environmentally friendly and reducing your carbon footprint.  

Early Years Activities

By Josh.Rodden

Activities aimed at learners early in their school journey. All themes include elements of role-play, experimentation, challenges and a take home craft for learners to grow and be inspired.   Choose from the following themes: SPACE: Little learners will dress up as astronauts to explore a distant planet.  Launch rockets and sort the  planets of … Continued

Wheels in Motion

By admin

Learners will develop skills that help them work collaboratively while building upon challenges and making improvement to their builds during the workshop. The class is split into groups and given the same set of LEGO pieces. Using a design brief the learner build a car that will travel down a ramp with the aim of … Continued

Egg Drop Challenge

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Creatively protect your egg from the effects of gravity through skillful engineering. Each group is given a set of materials that they have to use to protect an egg from cracking once dropped from a height. Presenters will discuss with the class ideas of how they could protect their eggs by providing real-life examples.

Bridge Builder

By admin

Experiment with building, creating and problem solving how bridges and structures are made. Learners can learn about the history and design of bridges and what makes them strong and successful. Groups are given a design brief to build the strongest bridge using the materials provided and then the bridges will then be tested to see which … Continued

Forces

By admin

Join Xplore! for a interactive science show as learners decide which force is used to make household items work by push, pull or both.   Years 3 to 6: Explore Newtons laws of motion through experimentation Investigate the effects of friction, gravity and air resistance Discover how magnets work

Construction Challenge

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Learn how to construct shapes within a team and individually to complete 2D and 3D shapes and patterns. Start with basic challenges. As you go through the workshop challenges start to build in difficulty. Challenges include building with large plastic blocks and wooden KAPLA blocks and could include building without using your thumb.   This … Continued

LEGO Coding WeDo 2.0

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Learners will combine LEGO construction and coding to get their build to move.   With our WE.DO.20 kit we have three separate workshops available:   Cooling Fan: A great way to introduce young learners to building with LEGO and coding. Learners will be introduced on how to build with LEGO using instructions. Then using the … Continued

Introduction to EV3s

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Our Introduction to EV3’s workshop is aimed for older primary students (upper Key Stage2) and lower secondary school students (Key Stage 3). Using the LEGO Mindstorms EV3’s students will get to learn how to code the EV3’s to move and use these basic skills to complete challenges such as avoid hitting LEGO minifigures. The sessions … Continued

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