Activities

Explore the science behind archery by making a mini bow and arrow.

Find out how hot air balloons work by crafting your own and watching it fly up, up and away.

Use lemon juice to send secret messages, with this science experiment.

Learn about electricity and conduction and make a fun dough that conducts electricity.

Use the power of potatoes and pennies to create a circuit that lights up a bulb.

Put electricity to the test and make a moving car from recycled materials.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to form a research team and design a rover to explore uncharted worlds.

The truth is out there. Take a giant leap for mankind as we examine alien soil samples for signs of life.

Animate a creepy crawly using a simple, free programme.

Make your own toasty hand warmers for those cold winter walks.

Cook up something out of this world that an astronaut might enjoy, as we look at life on the ISS.

Discover more about satellites and how useful they are as we try to create our own orbital objects.

Explore the impact meteorite showers have on Earth by recreating some mighty impacts of your own!

Choose a theme, then design the sprites and background for a computer game.

Put your digital making skills to the test by solving a real-world problem.

Make a micro:bit game and see which group can score the highest.

Take the hassle out of choosing teams by making a programme to do it for you.

Get ready to share with a quick-fire presentation. What went well, and what did you learn?

Plan, film, and edit a video presentation about one of your digital maker projects.

Create a map of a wilderness area using Scratch and a micro:bit.

Put your digital skills to the test to solve a Scouts challenge.

Use a simple computer programme to create something that’ll help identify different leaves.

Create a custom map using Google Earth and the programming language KML. Which locations will you share?

Create a website to showcase your group with both HTML and CSS code.