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British Science Week: secondary activity pack (2025)

This activity pack provides a range of activities that promote cross-curricular learning, so that STEM can be linked to other curriculum subjects and to student's own backgrounds, lives and interests. It has been designed for British Science Week 2025 on the theme of 'change and adapt'.

Activities are suitable for students to complete in any setting, either in school, a club, an organisation, or at home with their families.

Get students thinking about how the world is changing and how we can adapt to those changes. You can also think about the types of change and adaptation we see in STEM, with endless options. For inspiration, the activities in the pack include:

  • Amazing animal adaptations
  • Guess what’s for dinner
  • Make a footprint tunnel to monitor mammals
  • Defeat the tumour
  • Waste-free lunch
  • Enrich my classroom with ergonomics
  • Evaporation in action
  • Your planet needs you
  • Bath bomb challenge
  • Droughts and floods

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