DO Try This At Home
Biggar Science Festival
Exploration
Breaking out of Biggar
Your illicit chemistry
experiments have been
detected – you need to get
out of Biggar. Collect the
clues and work out how to
escape as fast as you can!
Gardening, Nature, Sustainability
10 gardening projects for kids
Gardners' World offers 10 garden activities for children
Space, Astronomy
SkyMap
Explore the skys with your phone.
Sky Map is a hand-held planetarium for your Android device. Use it to identify stars, planets, nebulae and more. (Android)
Plants, Nature
Botanic Gardens free courses
Welcome to Marley's School of Garden Magic. While we are all at home, the Garden's black cat Marley continues to live at the Botanics in Edinburgh. Let him show you around.
Free courses for older teens and adults from the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Engineering
44 Engineering and Science Challenges to do at home
Fascinating experimetns and challenges to do at home using everyday objects.
44 engineering and science challenges
from the engineers at Dyson.
Sustainability, Climate
Sustainable Building Design
How can we use physics to make buildings more efficient? Find out about some of the behind-the-scenes technology that helps to make the IOP’s home in King's Cross an energy-efficient, sustainable building.
Nature, Sustainability
Giving Nature a Home
Help give nature a home where you live with this brand new app from the RSPB. Every week we’ll give you new activities, quizzes or information to help you create a wildlife paradise in your garden and learn about the creatures you’re helping.
Space
NASA brings us a 10-year timelapse video of our sun.
Since 2010, the goal of the Solar Dynamics Observatory has been to understand the solar variations that influence life on Earth and humanity's technological systems.
Medicine
History of Medicine: Audio and Video
Audio and Video stories about the history of medicine.
Nature
RSPB Games and Activities
Use these pages to find fun activities, games to play and stuff to make.
Space, Astronomy
Sky View Lite
Explore the skys with your phone.
Sky View Lite is a hand-held planetarium for your Android device. Use it to identify stars, planets, nebulae and more. (Apple)
Plants, Nature
Botanic Gardens activities
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh activities for primary age children
Engineering
More Engineering and Science challenges to do at home
Fun science and engineering activities to do at home. Sponsored by the Institute of Physics
Sustainability, Climate
Understanding our Environment
How can we use physics to help understand our surroundings? Find out what exciting physics is around you every day and how the IOP’s home in King's Cross is contributing to physics research.
Nature, Sustainability
Giving Nature a Home
Help give nature a home where you live with this brand new app from the RSPB. Every week we’ll give you new activities, quizzes or information to help you create a wildlife paradise in your garden and learn about the creatures you’re helping.
Kitchen Science, Chemistry
Kitchen Science
Lots of fun science experiments that can easily be done at home.
Nature
Family activities from the Natural History Museum
Lots of things to do, courtesy of the Natural History Museum
Nature
The Big Butterfly Count
Help us take nature's pulse by joining the big butterfly count.
Climate, Sustainability
Debunking your cranky uncle
A simple to understand explanation of climate change and its causes
Film and Photography
The Slow Mo Guys
The world looks very different when it's slowed down. Watch this, and many other, amazing videos from the Slow Mo Guys
Space, Astronomy
A wide range of space related activities for younger children from the European Space Agency
Physics
The Marvin and Milo Collection
Here you can browse the entire back catalogue of Marvin and Milo physics activities.
Nature, Sustainability
RSPB Bug Hotel
Build a hotel to look after hedgehogs, frogs, toads & newts, bees & creepy crawlies into your garden
Kitchen Science, Chemistry, Physics
Home Made Ice Cream
Make delicious ice cream at home with science and without an ice cream maker.