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On Your Marks, Get Set...
From the moment you leave the starting blocks, your sporting ability can be affected by science.
How do people balance, and what makes them fall over? What happens when a ball bounces, and why do balls have different surfaces? How is friction useful in sport and how do we use science to protect us from injury?
Watch plastic cups loop-the loop, and try to spot the trick in the game of crazy cricket. Dare you sit on a seat of nails?
This exciting and interactive show uses lots of audience involvement to make you think about sport as you never have before. Be prepared to limber up and join in for this show with lots of audience interaction.
"...everyone praised your genuine and infectious enthusiasm for science..." Assistant Head Teacher
Curriculum Links
Key stage 2
- Gravity pulls objects towards the Earth
- Friction and air resistance slow things down or stops them from moving
Key stage 3
- Conservation of energy
- Gravity
- Newton's laws of motion
- Rotational motion
- Moments
- Frictional forces including air resistance
- Force, area and pressure
- Inertia
About the show
Duration
30 or 45 minute versions available
Suggested audiences
- Age 7 and over
- Family or mixed age groups
- Festivals
Requirements
- Power sockets
- Projector Screen
- Two long tables
