Welcome to the Grand Bazaar. Here dozens of creative and hands-on table-top activities await science explainers and other science enthusiasts, whether new to the profession or seasoned. At each station, make things, build things or play with things in experiments presented by science centre and museum experts from nine countries. Meet colleagues, get inspired and draw new ideas for hands-on activities from these encounters.
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Head of Education
Newcastle
United Kingdom
I will be showing everyone how to make some simple origami dinosaurs and then explore how these can be hacked to depict other species.
Delegates will be challenged to use their ingenuity and knowledge of dinosaurs to come up with their own models.
Everyone gets a dinosaur to take home!
Director
Ian Russell Interactives
High Peak, Derbyshire
United Kingdom
Follow simple instructions to make your own stomp-rocket with one sheet of A4-size printer-paper and adhesive tape, then shoot it spectacularly fast across the room. The quality of its flight depends on how carefully you build it and how well you design the paper stabilising fins. This is one of the most entertaining, popular and engaging activities for any family event. Learn here how to do it!
Interactive Exhibit Developer - Science Show Performer
Winterthur
Switzerland
Let's discover sound in everyday objects...in our body!
People will listen music or other sounds by using Stethoscopes, Motors, Piezo Microphones applied to glass, wall, tables of the Gran Bazar, human body and more.
We will also try to visualize our voice with a simple and cheap home - made Visualizer
Join and enjoy :)
Senior Educator
Stenstorp
Sweden
From "mind hacks" to "mind reading"! For several years I have been working with the integration of science and technology with language development. I will present a range of "fun" activities (popular with visitors) that we use at our "table of science" (both in-house and at external events) to encourage discussion. All the activities are low cost and easy to produce yourself or find on the net.
Director
Aveiro
Portugal
Using simple and low cost materials people will explore science experiments related with physics of light and light-based technologies. I will present a set of experiments and demos focus on light properties, nature of colors, color shadows, LED technology and 3D projection. Simple experiments with light sources will allow us to understand science behind state of the art photonics technology used in our everyday life.
Founder and Director of AlElieh for Science Environment and Art Science and Maker Educator / consultant
AlElieh for Science Environment and Art
East Jerusalem
Palestinian Territory
using recycled material in different experiments and at the same time joyning art and science content and metod in inquiry based design of learning empowering the audience and encouriging them to revisit concepts explore and tinker with them through play with a strong hands on environmental education and recycling.
Head of Public Engagement
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Elin will demonstrate the effect that changing the instructions has on the variety and individuality of tinkering activities using the example activity of building catapults.
Science coach
Bergen
Norway
The visitors will make optical light cards. By pinning holes in a card and thread in optical fibres, they can add a LED and a button cell battery to make dots of light several places. Stars in the night sky, candles in a Christmas tree, lights in windows or just art with light spots. We do this activity at VilVite with visitors in December.
Head of Education
Gruppo Pleiadi
Padova
Italy
COLLISION COOKING TIME
How dangerous could be testing collisions in your kitchen? Less than you can imagine, but amazingly fun!!!
With simple ingredients you can find at home, we can differently mix them and change a mixture and…voilà: different kind of polymers balls guarantee us different collisions. See for yourself!!!
Educator
Trondheim
Norway
Crash a marble into a milk carton car! The task is to create the optimal marble track to make the car go as far as you can. Investigate potential energy, kinetic energy and collision energy transfer!
educator
Tromso
Norway
mathematical collisions for your mind.
Two-dimensional shapes with one or more than three surfaces, is it possible?
Take away one out of four end up with five, it does not make sense!
Come and experience mathematical teasers that makes your thoughts collide!
Head of Exhibition Section of the Science Museum, Thailand
Khlong Luang
Thailand
Play and learn physic through traditional toys
When we talk about “Physic”, it seem to be difficult. We have Traditional toy activities for visitors to make, play and learn some principles of physic such as inertia, lift force and resonance easily.