Below are activities that we carry out in Schools and other events, These can be combined in workshops such as 'Blood, bones and gory bits', which includes from three of the activities below - Bones and Organs, Blood and Cells and Maggot Racing. We can tailor sessions to suit your needs and so contact us if these sorts of activities are of interest.
Blast-a-Biofilm
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The "blast-a-biofilm" workshop is a hands-on activity for school children developed to introduce microbes and biofilms. Biofilms are common in nature and, as the favoured mode of growth for microbes, biofilms affect many parts of everyday life. This workshop introduces children to good and bad microbes whilst children participate in their own "experiment". It also highlights the key concepts of biofilms by allowing participants to first build, then attempt to ‘blast,’ a biofilm, thus enabling the robust nature of biofilms to become apparent.
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Virtual Rehabilitation Movement Games
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The "virtual rehabilitation movement games" teaches children about body movement, the function and importance of muscles and how rehabilitation is needed when muscles have trouble functioning properly. This workshop highlights the key concepts of how physical exercises can help make muscles stronger. The games perform up to seventeen unique movements which are grounded in movement sciences to enable standardised, objective analysis of movement performance via wireless motion sensors attached to the front and back of the body. The sensors capture the tiniest movements in the body in 3D and in real-time. In a twenty five minute session for a group of eight to ten children, each child will play the selected game for two minutes.
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Bones and Organs
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This session includes a “guess how big” game where the children guess how long the guts in our body are, how heavy our brains are, and how much skin covers our bodies plus an activity where the children have to work out where various bones and organs go in our bodies.
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Blood and Cells
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A session on blood in the body including ‘Guess how many bottles of blood are in our bodies’, blood cell facts and job descriptions plus a hands on creating element where the children make (and keep) a cell out of modelling clay. |
Maggot Racing
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The Maggot Racing workshop aims to outline the clinical application of maggots in wound care and healing using a short poster presentation. Following the presentation children get the opportunity to take part in a fun and interactive maggot race. Each group names a maggot and encourages it towards the finish line. The owner of the winning maggot receives a certificate. |