PERK UP YOUR LOCKDOWN
BOOKS, GAMES AND SHOWS
Learning the table of elements is a tedious chore at school, but a gripping game at home if you learn by playing Top Trumps. You can know your elements before you’re ten years old! The way to victory is to know the facts.
To find out more and buy the cards visit HERE.
ARE WE NEARLY HERE YET? The book:
The history of the Universe, from the Big Bang till bang up to date. Scientists have worked it all out. So, we thought, it’s time to tell it like it is, in eleven short, sweet chapters. Track your journey, from your first appearance as an atom, a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang; helping the creation of stars and planets; turning into the miracle molecule, DNA; evolving through amoeba, worm, mouse and chimp, right up to the here and now.
14 billion years squeezed into 14,000 words; making it simple enough to be understandable to 9-11 year-olds, detailed enough to be plausible to their parents, fun enough to make them laugh and astonishing enough to make them gawp*.
Along the way, learn about why you get hiccups and goose bumps, and where viruses come from. You have your history written all through you, like a stick of Brighton rock!
This is the unadorned text, in manuscript form – it hasn’t been published yet – but we can’t wait to get it out there.
It won’t cost the earth; it’s cheaper than soil: just contact Richard Robinson at Richard@BrightonScience.com
Suitable for 9+. Especially of interest to grown-ups, we find, since it manages to be simultaneously short, light, broad and deep.
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BORED GAMES #1, #2, #3
Click on the names to receive your free set of 6 games.
Bored Games #1 Refreshingly different, surprisingly compelling and really, really simple. From the Mediaeval game of Nine Man’s Morris to an elegant new way to play Noughts and Crosses. All you need is a piece of paper, a lively mind and an opponent.
In Bored Games #2 you learn the game of Nim – five seconds to learn an infinity of games; and Horseshoe – the simplest game in the Universe, but still curiously elusive.
BoredGames #3 is two new ways to play Scrabble – Bananagrams and Snatch; both explained HERE
SCIENCE MAGIC SCIENCE MAGIC SCIENCE MAGIC SCIENCE MAGIC
In the kitchen in the bathroom in the living room in the bedroom
Download your FREE book by clicking on its image above. Each Science Magic book has over thirty easy tricks, using simple stuff from around the house, with simple instructions and clear science explanations.
Amazon review: “… incredible. I wish it was available when I was at school … explains in very easy english the principle of things like Newtons law of gravity to using the fingers on both hands for times table calculations … The magic side is easy to do and really hits home the principles used … Although you won’t be a “rocket scientist” or Nobel prize winner after reading it, you will be well on your way to wanting to know more about our world of science … Great for kids from 4 to 104 years.”
WEBSITES AND VIDEO CHANNELS
A wide range of fun videos. Eccentric, zany, explosive, hands-on, clear, useful, astonishing, hilarious: every video down below is at least three of those things. Many are all eight.
You can click on the links, or copy them and paste into your own science database.
To begin on-topic – what to do in a locked-down house; one that was not supposed to be a science funfair… Watch this for inspiration (click on the pic below). And don’t just watch, do the experiments! Dianna says it didn’t work in the dry run, so not all of them will work first time. Keep trying. You’ve got another three weeks.
Powers of Ten, by Charles and Ray Eames, (click the image below) is a jewel that has never lost its sheen since it was made in 1977. In ten breathtaking minutes, you zoom to the edge of the Universe and back again.
Anything by Drew Berry is astonishing. Drew recreates the actual shapes and behaviour of the molecules that busy themselves around every cell in your body. It’s unbelievable, but it’s truly happening, 38 trillion times over, in you, right now. This one, below, with ribosomes frantically knitting RNA, true to life, is a stunner. (Click on the pic).
And the list continues:
By the way, please get in touch with any new video discoveries you have made, or enterprises you have begun yourself that could be useful for young families at home.
HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
15 neat activities from an enterprising young mum
Huge rambling website, with much to be made among the muck
The National Physical Laboratory
Their weekly lockdown challenge
and HERE
Primary Science Teaching Trust
These are easy to do with things found around the house, and they’ll tick your curriculum boxes too.
For young people who need stretching
Science Buddies
looks very schooly (even has a careers page), but click on the Browse Science Projects page to find a good, easy, original collection of projects (probably with an adult nearby to help). One thousand of them!!!!
Jonathan Hare of Rough Science. offers one-to-one science
Crest awards are famous challenges in schools, but here they have looked out some projects you can easily do at home.
Projects that locked-down kids can do with locked-down dads.
Activate 1 and Activate 2
Simple science activities from Sphere Science –
‘Life is a figment of your imagination,backed up by a little experience’
20 fun experiments you can do at home
WEBSITES
Traditional but creative curriculum-based maths exercises
A website where, the more you get lost, the more you enjoy it.
A new approach to Maths
Interactive science demos online. Try their interactive prism HERE, and sign up for a free trial with their other kit.
Royal Institution
http://www.rigb.org/families/experimental
VIDEO CHANNELS
The best of the BBC and therefore the best in the world
Takes you from the beach down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench; the deeper you go, the weirder it is.
Steve Mould the Brave
And his channel is
Simone Giertz – SIMONE’S ROBOTS
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ
Tim Blais – A CAPELLA SCIENCE – for a scientifically accurate singalong 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTev4RNBiu6lqtx8z1e87fQ
Bill Nye.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealBillNye/videos
Bruce Yeany
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNk3CeLpCA0qIZsuzGl09cw
Stated clearly
Go Experimental
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvmS3U_JvmQh_LHtd7Q2Paw
V Sauce
https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce/playlists
Grand Illusions
https://www.youtube.com/user/henders007
ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news –
Emily Graslie – THE BRAIN SCOOP
https://www.youtube.com/thebrainscoop
Dianna Cowern – PHYSICS GIRL / PHYSICS WOMAN
https://www.youtube.com/user/physicswoman
Numberphile
https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile
In a Nutshell
https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt
Aunt Lindsey – THE FAB LAB
https://www.youtube.com/user/CrazyAuntLindsey
Steve Spangler
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSpanglerEffect
How Stuff Works
https://www.youtube.com/user/HowStuffWorks
Smarter every day
http://www.smartereveryday.com/
BBC EarthLab
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdsOTr6SmDrxuWE7sJFrkhQ
Slo Mo Guys
https://www.youtube.com/user/theslowmoguys
Engineer Guy
https://www.youtube.com/user/engineerguyvideo/videos
Life Noggin
https://www.youtube.com/lifenoggin
It’s OK to be Smart
https://www.youtube.com/user/itsokaytobesmart/videos
CGP Grey
https://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey
ASAP Science
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC552Sd-3nyi_tk2BudLUzA
Veritasium
Minute Physics
https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics
Mark Rober
https://www.youtube.com/user/onemeeeliondollars
PBS
https://www.youtube.com/user/pbsideachannel
SciShow
https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow
Kid Sites. Another 28 sites!
http://www.kidsites.com/sites-edu/science.htm
WHEN NORMAL LIFE RETURNS…
HANDS-ON HALF TERM – October 2020
Hands-On Half Term does what it says on the can: lets kids and parents get busy with their hands; do stuff together, and share the fun together. So many bright ideas for bright minds! Everything is amazing; it’s not surprising that everyone is amazed
SEE THE LAST PROGRAMME HERE, and look forward to our next outing.
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SCHOOLS TOUR
We’re constantly on tour – visiting schools and bringing science, education, and most importantly fun to as many educational establishments as we possibly can. If you’d like Brighton Science to come to a school near you, please do get in touch and let us know.
WIDENING PARTICIPATION
We roam Sussex and further afield, visiting youth clubs, scout huts, community centres, bus shelters, anywhere, making sure everyone has access to as much science as possible. Why? Because science is cool. I mean, sometimes -273.15º celsius.
Watch the 2017 video
Some of the highlights of Brighton Science Festival 2017:
POCKET SCIENCE FUNFAIR
This is Pocket Science taking over the giant geodesic dome at the Elderflower Fields festival which we filled with people, entertainment, and, yes, fun.
Oh, and some science as well.
