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Workshops, Shows and Talks
As well as Focus Times, pavilions, multimedia shows, the adventure playground and shop, Magna offers additional workshops, shows and presentations, which you can book to enrich your visit.
Click here to view our latest Teacher's Guide for Summer 2009.
The Kitchen Sink Show takes children on a journey around the kitchen and opens up a world of science fun. It's a curious, messy, slimy world full of the materials and objects of everyday life.
The show aims to motivate pupils to have a go, puzzle over problems and think through answers. Plenty of interaction engages them with ideas for science, at home or at school.
Many of our experiments use everyday materials, which are inexpensive, familiar to the pupils and might otherwise end up in the rubbish bin.
You'll find lots of ideas to enhance science lessons, science clubs and investigative work. The delivery and show content is varied to suit the age range of the audience. The Kitchen Sink Show supports a range of science topics in the National Curriculum around forces and materials and targets KS1, KS2 and KS3.
Price £1.15 (inc VAT) _ £1.00 (ex VAT) per pupil.
Click here for information on booking the Kitchen Sink Show to come out and visit your school. Click here to see the Kitchen Sink Show in action.
Learn how to make and test your own hot air balloon. Find out what makes a rocket move and investigate making one from everyday materials.
Why not build the activities into your science club?
Suitable for KS1, KS2, it supports learning about forces and materials and links to QCA work units Forces and Movement, Forces in Action and Forces and their Effects.
Price £1.15 (inc VAT) _ £1.00 (ex VAT) per pupil.
Take a look at forces in action with hot air balloons. Design and build your own model and then test them against the other teams'. Which will stay up longest, which will return to earth safely?
Suitable for KS3 it supports learning about how forces affect the motion of objects.
Price £1.15 (inc VAT) _ £1.00 (ex VAT) per pupil.
Explore the forces that drive rockets. Design your own, think about thrust, air resistance and balance, find out which rocket has the greatest range?
Suitable for KS3 it supports learning about how forces affect the motion of objects.
Price £1.15 (inc VAT) _ £1.00 (ex VAT) per pupil.
We've always been fans of electricity, and now pupils can enjoy the challenge of making a big circuit from all kinds of materials... Bella's off to a party, but how to get her clothes dry in a hurry?
Big Circuits is suitable for KS1 or KS2 and is adapted to support QCA work units: Using Electricity or Circuits and Conductors.
Price £1.15 (inc VAT) _ £1.00 (ex VAT) per pupil.
Turn detective, study the crime scene, gather the evidence and figure out who shot...This workshop introduces pupils to some simple forensic science techniques such as chromatography, blood spatter patterns, fibres and fingerprints.
It supports learning about scientific enquiry and thinking skills at KS2 and KS3. The content is varied to suit the age range of the audience.
Price £1.15 (inc VAT) _ £1.00 (ex VAT) per pupil.
Making slime is a great way for children to explore early learning about materials and how they can be changed.
It's also got plenty of ideas for you to take away and try out in class.
Suitable for KS1 it supports learning about materials and links to QCA work unit Grouping and Changing Materials.
Price £1.15 (inc VAT) _ £1.00 (ex VAT) per pupil.
How does water get cleaned up before it reaches our tap? What happens to it when we flush it away? Cleaning up aims to get pupils exploring the science behind water treatment and finishes with a tour of Aqua-Tek, Magna's water park.
This workshop is available whilst Aqua-Tek is open, from Easter to October half-term.
Suitable for KS2, it supports learning about materials and links to QCA work units: Solids, Liquids and how they can be separated, and Micro-organisms.
Price £1.15 (inc VAT) _ £1.00 (ex VAT) per pupil.
From the Ancient Greeks all the way to Magna, Hero's Engine is a brilliant example of simple technology. Easy to make and great to investigate. Pupils make their own engine and then adapt the design to make it spin as fast as possible.
Suitable for KS1 it supports learning about science, design and technology and could readily be linked to QCA work units Pushes and Pulls, Forces and Movement, and Winding Up.
Price £1.15 (inc VAT) _ £1.00 (ex VAT) per pupil.
Explore how the Templeborough steelworks has changed over the years. Find out about forging, casting and beer notes.
Suitable for KS2 and KS3, it supports learning about local history and links to QCA work units: What was it like to live here in the past?, and a local industry study for Industrial Change, Action and Reaction.
Price £1.15 (inc VAT) _ £1.00 (ex VAT) per pupil.
Whether it is being cloned, sequenced, fingerprinted, mapped, or genetically engineered, DNA has become an everyday topic in the media and the classroom. Introduce your students to the molecular framework of biology - with their own DNA!
Your students will extract genomic DNA from their own cheek cells and watch it precipitate from solution as floating white strands. The DNA strands are then easily collected and transferred to a glass vial, and the vial is fashioned into a necklace!
Suitable for KS3 or a G&T Y6 group.
Price £1.70 (inc VAT) _ £1.48 (ex VAT) per pupil
Magna offers both formal presentations and short introductory talks on a range of topics supporting lesiure and tourism, business studies and the origin of Magna. Please discuss your requirements when making your group booking.
Price: £60.00 (inc VAT) _ £52.17 (ex VAT) per presentation, introductory talks to groups are free of charge.
The following activities are run in partnership with the UK Bungee Club and can be included in the schedule for your visit to Magna.
Click here to view or download more information for schools about these activities.
Ride the Zip Wire at Magna and experience the forces and motion as you slide down the cable.
Zip Wire is suitable for pupils in KS2, KS3 and above.
Price: £3.50 (inc VAT) _ £3.04 (ex VAT) per pupil.
Climb 150ft up into the Face of Steel, step off the platform and abseil freely back to ground level.
Abseiling is suitable for pupils in KS3 and above.
Price: £11.50 (inc VAT) _ £10.00 (ex VAT) per pupil.
Powerfan is a machine engineered to provide a taste of freefall. Fully kitted out you step off the platform high up in the Face of Steel and make a fast descent towards the floor before the system kicks in and ensures a gentle landing.
Powerfan is suitable for pupils in KS3 and above.
Price: £17.50 (inc VAT) _ £15.22 (ex VAT) per pupil.
The Abyss is the world’s highest indoor Bungee Jump and the only permanent bungee jumping facility in the UK. With the bungee cord secured, leap off the platform and let gravity takeover.
Bungee is suitable for pupils aged 14 and over.
Price: £40.50 (inc VAT) _ £35.22 (ex VAT) per pupil.
