Activity ideas

There are lots of sources of ideas for public engagement and outreach activities and here is a selection of the best.

On our website

• Physics to Go
  Originally produced during Einstein Year, the Physics to Go pack contains everything you need to put on a successful event including activity ideas, general advice, tips on generating publicity and 20 physics tricks to stun your audience with
• Creative Physics Activities
  The Creative Physics Activity Pack contains everything you need to run a set of hands on and creative craft-based physics activities involving making a particle collision mobile, a planet and a galaxy sun-catcher
• Einstein's Birthday Party Pack (PDF, 152 KB)
  Why not hold a birthday party with a difference? The Einstein's Birthday Party Pack contains experiments and activities that make use of traditional birthday party materials such as straws, balloons and fizzy drinks

Elsewhere on the web

• Do Try This At Home
  Marvin and Milo, the Institute’s intrepid cat and dog team, test out experiments for you to try at home
• The British Science Association
  The British Science Association coordinate National Science and Engineering Week each March and produce Challenge Packs full of activity ideas
• Science Live
  If you are looking for a science presenter to take part in your event you can search this directory of presenters by location and subject area. You can also register yourself as a presenter
• STEM Ambassadors
  If you’d like to go into schools in your local area, become a STEM Ambassador and you’ll receive training, help and support to do so
• Exploratorium
  A great US science site including The Science Explorer which has lots of easy but impressive experiments
• Scizmic
  If you are looking for science club activities then Scizmic is the place to go. You’ll find a wealth of different science club ideas including experiments and debate topics for young people of all ages
• Bizarre Stuff To Make In Your Kitchen
  A collection of classic home experiments and demonstrations ranging from the simple to the downright dangerous
• NPL’s Learning Room
  Ideas, resources, experiments and events that can help support the education of physics
• Hunkin’s Experiments
  Hundreds of cool cartoons illustrating experiments with food, light, sound, clothes and a whole lot more
• Try Science At Home
  Lots of science activities which include full instructions and explanations