Key stage 5 sessions offer students the opportunity to handle Museum specimens and take part in object-based activities involving group work and discussion. In addition to the workshops below, we are happy to tailor sessions for your students and curriculum needs. Sessions can be combined with a visit to the Botanic Garden or the Museum of the History of Science. Please use our booking form or send us an email.
Students handle and compare Museum specimens to explore the connection between taxonomy, classification and phylogeny. This is related to principles of natural selection, evolution and speciation across the natural world.
A Question of Taste: using PCR to investigate human evolution
In this workshop students learn something new about themselves. The workshop gives students the chance to analyse and compare their version of a bitter taste receptor gene (their genotype) to their ability to taste PTC (their phenotype). Students learn about molecular biology techniques by using research-quality equipment.
Across the world, 90 percent of people are meat-eaters, and the global consumption of animal products is rising. Click to view our online exhibition, and learn about cutting edge research into the health and environmental impacts of different foods.
Science is lifting the lid on the secret lives of bacteria – and revealing how the smallest of organisms are the key to understanding ourselves and some of our biggest questions.
