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Curious About Science Teaching Resource Pack
Curious About Science gives children the opportunity to discover the answers to some curious questions – and meet some curious people who made extraordinary advances and changed the world in extraordinary ways (all carefully chosen to support areas that each year group will be investigating at some point in 2025/26). And all tying in perfectly with the theme of British Science Week 2026, “Curiosity: What’s Your Question?“
The Curious About Science pack comprises …
- Full instructions for teachers.
- A short opening film to explore the theme of “Curiosity: what’s your question?” – which can be shown at a whole-school assembly or to individual classes as a stand alone.
- Changing Challenges – quickfire challenges designed to whet your pupils’ creativity.
- Interactive, filmed workshops (one for EYFS / KS1 and one for KS2)
- Fact Sheets: Each film ends by introducing the pupils to a scientist from the past, connected to their Science theme.
- Follow-up Worksheets: There is one of these for each year group to complete after taking part in the workshops.
The scientists each year group will explore is as follows:
EYFS / P1: Individual in focus: Margaret Collins, whose curiosity about termites completely changed our understanding of social insect
Y1/P2: Individual in focus: George Washington Carver, whose curiosity about how plants make their food changed the way farmers work all over the world. Not bad for a boy born into slavery!
Y2/P3: Individual in focus: Alice Perry, whose curiosity about the way things work led to her becoming Europe’s first woman engineer – and one of the first women engineers in the whole world!
Y3/P5: Individual in focus: Ralph Braun, whose curiosity about why there were no vehicles adapted for wheelchair users like himself, saw him designing and inventing such vehicles himself – and founding a business to support other people with disabilities
Y4/P5: Individual in focus: John Edmonstone, who went from a life of slavery to becoming one of the most influential Black British scientists ever. So influential that he even taught Charles Darwin.
Y5/P6: Individual in focus: Mary Jackson, whose curiosity about the challenges of space travel saw her becoming NASA’s first Black woman engineer, working on the Gemini programme that paved the way for the Apollo missions.
Y6/P7: Individual in focus: Otis Boykin, whose curiosity about ways of making electricity safer to use enabled the invention of the pacemaker – an invention that saves tens of thousands of lives each year
You can watch the teacher instruction film here – https://vimeo.com/ascreatives/curious-about-science-teacher-film