Knowledge, attitudes and experiences around science begin to form from early childhood. Naomi Hayward shares the value and challenges of including young children from deprived backgrounds in research to help us develop accessible, engaging and empowering learning resources.
Our Wonderlab+ website launched at the end of 2022, providing SMG with its first online destination designed especially for families with low to medium science capital. Here are 5 things that we’ve learned (so far) about how audiences are using the website.
Sophie Nicoll shares our experiences of developing a new interactive “Explore it, Make it”, designed to engage audiences with our collection.
The Science Museum Group are working on a collaborative research project which explores how to support early years audiences with science objects in our museums. Madeline Stanley reflects on the work so far and on the importance of play in early years learning and object engagement.
Museums and other informal learning environments provide an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the applications of maths, and to highlight how it influences our everyday lives. Here we share some of our top tips for exploring maths in museums.
In this first in a series of blogs on our nationwide Science In Your World programme, Kate Davis and Pete Jeffrey-Bourne introduce the programme and outline our first exciting steps.
For this year’s World Book Day, we take a look at some children’s storybooks with inspiring links to our Science Museum Group museums.
British Science Week (8th-17th March 2024) is fast approaching and as ever, the Science Museum Group Academy has your back if you’re looking for ideas to spark your learners’ enthusiasm, curiosity and sense of wonder.
Jonathan Long shares his experience and challenges of developing an activity trail for the Science Museum to engage audiences with coding and computing.
As the weather gets colder what better excuse is there than to keep warm and explore the science at home, at school or out and about with our fun and playful STEM activities.
Eileen Perrie, Engagement and Programming Manager at Locomotion, shares the experience of Locomotion’s partnership with Greenfield Academy to support their careers learning.
Whether they come as part of an educational group, with their family or as independent visitors, teenagers are an important audience to inspire and engage. Here we share some of our top tips for engaging young people, as advised by young people themselves.