Streamlined by Design and Wonderlab
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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Overview
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 a 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 to 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.
Details
- Curriculum links
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- Physics: Motion and forces
- Sciences - Forces, electricity and waves: Forces
- Physics: Forces
- Sciences - Forces and energy: Forces and energy transfer
- Group size
- Small groups, Whole class, Whole year group
- Participation level
- Hands-on, Watching or listening
- Duration
- 1 to 2 hours
- Cost
- Cost applies
- Location
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Offsite
- National Railway Museum, York
Learning outcomes
- Improve engagement, interest or enjoyment in STEM subjects
- Attainment and progress
Frameworks
EqualEx
- Introduce and Inspire
Essential 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:
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Enrichment framework
- 5 - An accessible and engagement enrichment offer
- 7 - An outcomes-focused enrichment offer
