Welcome back to the Royal Institution!
After our £22 million refurbishment, this September we’re ready
to welcome you back to our science demonstration events in our fabulous Central
London venue. Visit our website www.rigb.org to book tickets.
Our new museum
displays cover the history of the Royal Institution and some of the important
discoveries and inventions that were made here. They look at the men and
women of science that have worked in our laboratories, their successes and
frustrations. The themes of the exhibition particularly support concepts
of ‘how science works'.
Read more about bringing
your school group to the Royal Institution.
The Royal Institution also has an extensive Science
for Schools Outreach programme for those who can’t make it to London,
delivering hundreds of science events at schools and science festivals around
the UK. Please contact us at schools@ri.ac.uk to find out more.
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Autumn programme of events at the RI in London
(please click on the event to find out more and to book places):
For all
the family
Saturday, September 6 Family
Fun Day
Suitable for children 5-14.
This summer the RI launches its new family fun days, where the whole family
can immerse themselves in science!
Key Stage 2
Tuesday, September 23 The
chemistry of absolutely nothing
What we are talking about is...air! A talk
packed with demos from the relative inertness of nitrogen to the explosive
nature of oxygen
Wednesday, October 1 Music to your ears
Science Made Simple
reveal the secrets from the basics of sound to the latest in music technology.
Monday, October 6 Be
a paper mathemagician
Paper folding is more than just
a creative hobby, it can be used as an entertaining way to learn mathematics!
Friday, October 10 Delights of Chemistry
Mike takes us through a mixture
of exciting and dynamic classical chemistry experiments that show how energy
is transformed, so the flashes and bangs are not entirely gratuitous!
Tuesday,
November 4 Fabulous Physics
This talk explores the surprises, delights, and
noises of classical mechanics.
Wednesday, November 12 Anatomy
for the terrified! Looking inside a heart
Learn about the most incredible pump in your body, the heart.
Includes a live dissection!
Tuesday, November
25 Breathing Easy
This lecture will help us to understand how one of the largest organs in
the body, the lungs, work.
Key Stage 3
Friday, October 3 Music to your ears
Science Made Simple reveal the secrets from the basics of sound to the latest
in music technology.
Wednesday, October 15 Nature, nurture or neither?
Prof
Steve Jones will show how hard it is to separate nature from nurture when
exploring our genes.
Tuesday, November 4 Fabulous Physics
This talk explores
the surprises, delights, and noises of classical mechanics.
Wednesday, November
12 Anatomy
for the terrified! Looking inside a heart
Learn about the most
incredible pump in your body, the heart. Includes a live dissection!
Friday,
November 21 Crash, Bang, Boom!
Shows how chemical rections can be great fun-
particularly when they evolve energy!
Key Stage 4
Wednesday, October 15 Nature,
nurture or neither?
Prof Jones will show how hard it is to separate nature
from nurture when exploring our genes.
Friday, November 21 Crash, Bang, Boom!
Shows how chemical rections can be great fun- particularly when they evolve
energy! A level
Friday, November 7 Shaping Science Students
Conference
This
event will be of interest to many advanced level students but will be particularly
useful for those studying AS/A ‘Science in Society’ (SiS). Several
ideas about ‘How science works’ in that specification will be
considered and additional guidance for SiS examination candidates will be
included in the conference materials. There will also be an opportunity for
students to meet the senior examiners. Speakers include Hugh Whittall, director
of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and Elizabeth Pisani, who has spent
ten years working as an epidemiologist and AIDS consultant.
Monday, November
24 Tomorrows Technology
Today, even the smallest feature on a computer chip
is hundreds of atoms wide. However, we are now able to place atoms more or
less exactly where we want! Nanotechnology changes the way we view many scientific
subjects. It will be possible to design new materials and extremely small
devices with their properties tuned at the atomic level.
Wednesday,
October 8 Statistics Open Day
We are delighted to announce the second Royal Institution–Royal
Statistical Society Statistics Open Day at the RSS in London EC1. Aimed at
students of Mathematics & Statistics at GCSE & AS levels, and their
teachers, this event will be accessible and of value to student and teachers
of all subjects in which statistics is taught. Please note this event will
NOT be held at the Royal Institution, but at the Royal Statistical Society.
For more information and bookings please contact Debra Hurcomb (d.hurcomb@rss.org.uk)
or 020 7614 3934.
You may also be interested in....
STEM Directories project
The STEM Directories, to be published in September
2008 and sent out to all teachers, will comprise a unique resource of three
volumes - Science, Engineering & Technology
and Mathematics. They will signpost science, technology, engineering and
maths (STEM) enhancement and enrichment activities across the UK for teachers
and lecturers in schools and colleges. For more information see www.stemdirectories.org.uk
Exclusive National Geographic Kids Magazine Subscription Offer!
The Royal
Institution has teamed up with National Geographic Kids to offer you or your
students 12 issues of this unique children’s magazine for the special
price of just £24 – a saving of over 30%!* Plus, subscribe now
and get a FREE inflatable globe beach ball!
There are three easy ways to
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- Call 0844 322 1213
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Please quote promotion code NGK79
* Based on the regular price of £35.88
for 12 issues.
We hope that you’ll either be able to come and see our
fabulous new building or we look forward to visiting you in your school.
Science for Schools team – Olympia Brown, Lisa Bailey and Lisa Hayes
Royal Institution
t. 020 7409 2992
e. schools@ri.ac.uk
w. www.rigb.org
