Homework Help
St Ann's Valley Library St Ann's Valley Centre, 2 Livingstone Road, Nottingham, United KingdomJoin library volunteers in a very special homework help session with lots of fun science based activities to take part in!
Join library volunteers in a very special homework help session with lots of fun science based activities to take part in!
Venture into outer space and delve inside the human body with hands-on activities. Activities include: An inflatable planetarium from ExplorerDome Hands-on activities from the Nottingham Molecular Pathology Node The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of BioFilms in our everyday lives from the University of Nottingham Using magnets to understand the brain with the University […]
Work with artists and technologists to build inventive marble machines with science, technology and everyday materials.
Pop in for exhibitions and hands-on activities about how computers use sensors, how to grow a garden up a wall and the future of cities.
Pop down for some easy to learn science busking and information about the festival. JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT
The Festival of Science and Curiosity comes to the Avenues!
Explore creative coding and build robotic inventions in this workshop led by Bright Box Makerspace.
Family activities in the Hall and Park about 'The Big Problem' - the impact of humans on their environment. Get the chance to handle real museum objects and specimens!
Step into Nottingham's Industrial Heritage, from Tudor mines to the world's first video recorder. Get stuck in with a special festival engineering activity about cogs and gears.
Pop in for exhibitions and hands-on activities about how computers use sensors, how to grow a garden up a wall and the future of cities. These activities will be particularly suited to people with additional needs and disabilities.
Get creative with technology by designing superhero-inspired gadgets and gizmos.
Family activities in the Hall and Park about ‘The Big Problem’ – the impact of humans on their environment. Get the chance to handle real museum objects and specimens! These activities will be particularly suited to people with additional needs and disabilities.
Put your engineering skills to the test with this city-wide competition.
How do brains work? How old are fossils? What does a heart sound like? Storytelling, games and hands-on activities in your local library.
Play, learn and be creative in virtual reality at these interactive demonstrations.
Simple sensory science for under 3s and their adults.
Put your engineering skills to the test with this city-wide competition.
Why is spider silk stronger than steel? How small can you make a computer? How does sound travel? Storytelling, games and hands-on activities in your local library.
Carve and sculpt fruits and vegetables to create your own edible superfood heroes, then see if they can power an LED light.
Play, learn and be creative in virtual reality at these interactive demonstrations.
Simple sensory science for under 3s and their adults.
In this workshop you'll be able to draw to noisy rhythmic music, alongside some very peaceful and sotto voce mark-making.
Join Outsider Artist Collective and Cool Science Pete at Green’s Windmill for a night of moon gazing and astronomical wonder! See the full moon, learn more about the solar system and enjoy homemade pizza off the community garden pizza oven.
Put your engineering skills to the test with this city-wide competition.
How do you code a computer game? What does Carbon Dioxide do to our oceans? What does a plant scientist do? Storytelling, games and hands-on activities in your local library.
See the night sky and navigate through the constellations inside the wonderful world of Inflativerse, the University of Nottingham’s inflatable planetarium.
The Festival of Science and Curiosity comes to the Mill, with extra special activities including maths puzzles and physics games! FIND OUT MORE
Play, learn and be creative in virtual reality at these interactive demonstrations.
Simple sensory science for under 3s and their adults.
Simple sensory science for under 3s and their adults.
Travel 33.9 million miles down Cobden courtyard into the orbit of Mars, where we'll be looking back at our home planet from afar. We'll be inviting families to create shadows and drawings that can be projected onto a screen while warm up over a hot drink and listen to the music of everyone's favourite starman […]
An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.
An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.
An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.
Build inventive marble machines with science, technology and everyday materials. In this hands-on workshop with Bright Box Makerspace you and your child will work with artists and technologists to turn cardboard tubes, pipes and recycled materials into creative contraptions that light up and make music — or just noise!
Combine your love of baking (and eating!) with a passion for space with this creative family activity! Booking essential. To book a place for this activity please call 0115 915 6878. There will be six 45 minute sessions at 10.15am, 11am, 11.45am, 1pm, 1.45pm & 2.30pm. Accessibility Information: All of the centre and […]
Dive into a gene pool, challenge your family to a reaction-time competition and explore the journey of medicines from powder to pill. Hands-on activities in your local market.
Explore Wollaton Hall’s secret specimen collection and be wowed by full-sized human body collages from Keith Bloody Mary and Dr Lisa Chakrabarti, exploring ageing and exercise.
How do virtual reality games work? What would it be like to live on Mars? How does sound travel to our ears? Hands-on activities in your local library.
Come take some time out to listen to the plants, hear what they are saying and think about what you might like to say back. Join poet Matt Miller in the Camelia House for this playful and imaginative writing session.
Create your own comic book with illustration artist Francis Lowe. Use your own narratives and lived experiences to question the world we live in by creating your own cartoon characters and stories.
Paint the bones in your hands with fluorescent paint and see what happens when we turn off the lights! Build a spine using everyday materials you can find in your kitchen. Be wowed by full body anatomical painting. Join us for a fun, creative anatomy workshop suitable for all the family.
Build inventive marble machines with science, technology and everyday materials. In collaboration with Bright Box Makerspace. Use recycled and everyday materials to design and construct amazing ball runs. In this hands-on workshop led by Kisha Bradley from Bright Box Makerspace you and your child will turn cardboard tubes, pipes and wooden tracks into creative contraptions.Make your marble […]
Use salt dough and your imagination to make a creation of your own invention - the more curious the better!
Make music from plants, using circuits and sensors. Explore Wollaton Hall’s secret specimen collection. Be wowed by full-sized human body collages from Keith Bloody Mary and Dr Lisa Chakrabarti, exploring ageing and exercise.
Take part in producing work for an exhibition of Incredible You - a colouring book developed by scientist-artist Dr Lizzie Burns to celebrate the beauty of the body under a microscope.
Take part in producing work for an exhibition of Incredible You - a colouring book developed by scientist-artist Dr Lizzie Burns to celebrate the beauty of the body under a microscope.
An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.
How do plants grow? What does an animal skeleton look like? What does a slinky sound like? Find out the answers to these questions and many, many more with lots of hands-on activities in your local library!
Join author Jonathan Emmett for an entertaining blend of science and storytelling and discover how the Borks evolved from blue, smooth-furred and short to yellow, shaggy-furred and tall. For children aged 5 -9 and accompanying adults. Tickets are free but booking is essential. Accessibility Bulwell Riverside Library has an accessible level entrance with automatic doors and […]
How do virtual reality games work? What would it be like to live on Mars? How does sound travel to our ears? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with hands-on activities in your local library!
Build and programme your own prototype space rover ideal for exploring distant planets in this hands-on workshop! The workshop will use Lego WeDo 2.0 software. No charge for workshop but please book to avoid disappointment! Accessibility The library has an accessible ramped entrance with automatic doors and is all ground level. […]
Take part in producing work for an exhibition of Invisible You - a colouring book developed by scientist-artist Dr Lizzie Burns to celebrate the beauty of the body under a microscope.
An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.
Explore how to make music and instruments out of fruit, veg and recycled stuff in this fun family digital session at Hyson Green Library.
How can we make plastic from sugar? What does the DNA of a strawberry look like? What can we build from lego? Find out the answers to these questions and many more through lots of hands-on activities in your local library! Accessibility Aspley Library has an accessible ramped entrance with manual doors and is all […]
What does our galaxy look like? What sound does a spring make? What are the different constellations in our night sky? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with hands-on activities in your local leisure centre!
Build and programme your own prototype space rover ideal for exploring distant planets in this hands-on workshop! The workshop will use Lego WeDo 2.0 software. No charge for workshop but please book to avoid disappointment! Accessibility The library has an accessible ramped entrance with manual doors and is all ground level. […]
Take part in producing work for an exhibition of Incredible You - a colouring book developed by scientist-artist Dr Lizzie Burns to celebrate the beauty of the body under a microscope.
An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.
Learn to combine the world of textiles with electronic components to create soft and flexible circuits. Stitch with conductive thread and integrate a felt landscape with LED lights. Basic hand sewing experience is recommended but not required. The event will take place in the Performing Arts Studio. Accessibility There is designated disabled car parking across […]
How can we use computer games to train horses? How does electricity conduct around our bodies? What do germs look like on our hands? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with hands-on activities at your local library! Accessibility Hyson Green Library has an accessible ramped entrance with automatic doors and is […]
Become a young physicist for the day. Cover topics from the world of physics, including: energy, forces, gravity, teleportation, wormholes, quantum physics to name a few – this session will be full of discussions, maths, demonstrations and experiments.
Build and programme your own prototype space rover ideal for exploring distant planets in this hands-on workshop! The workshop will use Lego WeDo 2.0 software. No charge for workshop but please book to avoid disappointment! Accessibility The library has an accessible ramped entrance with automatic doors and is all ground level. […]
Fircroft Community Garden will be open for you to enjoy some food, get creative and explore the wonder of nature!
Broadway’s Near Now presents ANOTHER PLANET by The Gramophones Theatre Company, an audio adventure for an adult and child (7+) to experience together.
Ever wondered what it would be like to travel through space? We need the bravest galactic explorers for a mission to investigate ANOTHER PLANET and find out if humans could survive there.
The Science of Liquorice and Sweet things - OASIS Children's Science Celebration night for 5 to 11 year olds.
Free entry to the Natural History Museum plus science-themed demonstrations in the Great Hall and talks in the Education spaces.
Come along and join in some fun, hands-on experiments and activities in the Minster!
Enjoy a fun family nature walk at Bennerley Viaduct. Booking essential.
Enjoy a fun family nature walk at Bennerley Viaduct. Booking essential.
Using their creativity and innovation learners will consider the real-world problem of non-verbal communication as they design a product or solution of the future.
Find out how colours mix and spread using chromatology and have a go at Tie Dye!
Enjoy a fun family nature walk at Bennerley Viaduct. Booking essential.
Come along and join in some fun, hands-on experiments and activities at Nottingham Cathedral.
Come and let your creative construction skills bloom with a full day of making whatever you want out of Lego.
Enjoy a fun family nature walk at Bennerley Viaduct. Booking essential.
Bennerley Viaduct stands 20 metres above the beautiful Erewash Valley. But would an egg survive the drop? Only one way to find out!