British Science Week 5th - 14 March

The theme in 2021 is 'Innovating for the future'.

Friday 12th March - Energy

• When we look out to sea, we see an array of wind turbines. What are these for and how do they work? This can be answered by local resident Dr. John Simnett assembling the components of his wind turbine and explaining how the combination of magnets and coils generates electricity, watch the video here. 

• What is energy? https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1572-what-is-energy

• Wendy’s static electricity provocation…   (more information in  pdf document at 12 March  Static Electricity.pdf).

• BBC Radio Podcasts The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry: The Hamster Power Hypothesis. "How many hamsters on wheels would it take to power London?" asks Judah from Virginia, USA. The doctors return with engineering, ethics and economics to answer this electric query. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000q3pn

• Infinite Monkey Cage: Can Science save us? Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by Stephen Fry, Eric Idle, Prof Tony Ryan and Dr Lucie Green to ask, 'Can science save us?' https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04bn0gp

• Under-fives - wind activity  https://preschooltoolkit.com/blog/observing-the-strength-of-the-wind-science-for-kids/

• 2pm Science with Neil – LIVE -   YouTube Big Science UK  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyOqJ1db4C0 Sweet Science (also see https://www.facebook.com/bigscienceentertainmentukltd/)

• Exercise can increase your mood and energy. Aaron Phillips is on a mission to support Whitley Bay residents to be healthy. Video will be prepared.

 

Shout out to Neil from Big Science UK for entertaining us each weekday and to all those who have undertaken Neil’s experiments. Don’t forget to send in your photos for the Whitley Bay Big Local Display! Email to  hello@whitleybaybiglocal.org or send directly to the WhitleyBay Big Local FaceBook page.