Easy ideas for British Science Week

I can’t believe it’s time for British Science Week again. It seems like two minutes since we planned our space-themed experiments last year. If, like me, time has run away from you and you need some easy ideas for British Science Week, we’ve got some suggestions that might help.

Change and Adapt Activities

Birds, Beaks and Charles Darwin

Learn about Charles Darwin and natural selection through a simple bird and beak sorting activity.

Animal Adaptations – Mix up animals

Read about amazing animal adaptations and create your own mix-up animal.

Mixed up animals for an animal adaptation activity

Edible Life Cycle

Create an edible life cycle to discover how each stage is connected. My printable activity sheet is completely free to download so all you need is a selection of fruit and vegetables, sweets or pasta shapes.

Connections Activities for Kids

Model Neuron

Make a model neuron, to learn about connections between nerve cells.

Chain Reactions

Set up a chain reaction with outdoor items or small indoor items like dominoes, thinking carefully about the connections between each part of the chain.

Food Chains

Build food chains or webs to learn about producers and consumers.

Ecology Experiments for Kids

Make a model of a polar habitat. This is a great way to learn how animals adapt to their surroundings.

Another easy investigation for younger children is to model melting polar ice caps.

A homemade wormery is fun to make and a good way to make observations over time.

This mini ecosystem from Stir the Wonder is lovely too.

We made this visual model of sea pollution a few years ago and a clean up oil spill investigation is always fun to carry out and thought provoking too.

A large silver tray filled with blue water and ice cubes with polar animals on top for a science activity learning about melting polar ice caps

Space Science Investigation Ideas for British Science Week

This post comes with a full instruction book and printable challenge cards for lots of space themed investigation ideas for kids. The paper spinners are especially easy and inexpensive. You could even turn them into a whole school challenge, perhaps who can make the slowest falling spinner?

collection of easy space science experiments for kids #spacescienceexperiments

Set Up a Slime Lab

Another easy idea for British Science Week is to make different slimes and spend time exploring the textures. We even designed a test to investigate which slime gave the best splat!

Different edible slimes for kids - cornflour slime, fybrogel slime and more slimes for kids

Make a square bubble

Try some bubble science! Set up a make-your-own bubble wand station or investigate how to make a square bubble.

Bubble making station with pipecleaners- bubble science for kids

Or how about finding out how to make giant bubbles? We made our own mixture and used a hula hoop as a wand.

Hula hoop as a giant bubble wand with a girl inside a giant bubble

Edible Igneous Rocks

Make some edible igneous rocks with Rainy Day Mum.

You could also try one of my easy rock investigations, I have a whole booklet with activity ideas for identifying and classifying rock available to download.