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Visit the National Railway Museum in York, and test your students' engineering skills with the Streamlined in Design show and the Wonderlab Gallery!
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Visit the National Railway Museum in York, and test your students' engineering skills with the Streamlined in Design show and the Wonderlab Gallery!
Streamlined by Design is a 20-minute show that explores the relationship between shape and speed. Can the right shape can make a train go faster? This show explores the force of air resistance, how engineers have worked to overcome it, and how nature can sometimes inspire design for faster, more efficient locomotives.
Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery is an unmissable new interactive experience for schools—where nothing is off limits. Pupils will play their way through 18 interactive exhibits and fuel their curiosity with amazing live experiments to learn the science and engineering behind the railways. Test their engineering skills as they step into the human wind tunnel, launch a rocket and build big.
The gallery enriches learning across the themes of Magnets, Forces, Energy, States of Matter, Maths, Science, Design and Technology.
Logistics and costs
The show runs several times a day for 20 minutes Monday–Friday during term time.
Capacity: 70.
Ear defenders are available for visitors who need them, as the show contains loud explosions.
Entry to Wonderlab - £5 per child. Accompanying adults are free.
Show + Wonderlab - £7.50 per child. Accompanying adults are free. This includes entry to Wonderlab and a timeslot for one show in the Weston Showspace.
Improve engagement, interest or enjoyment in STEM subjects
Improve attainment and progress in STEM subjects
Whichever curriculum your school follows, pupils should have the opportunity to carry out practical investigations in science that help them to develop their scientific skills. This experience builds the following enquiry skills:
The essential skills every young person needs to succeed in education and their future career. Find out more at the Skills Builder Partnership. This experience builds the following skills:
Creativity - the use of imagination and the generation of new ideas.
Listening - the ability to listen and understand information.
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