Brookes Science Bazaar
‘Our World in Motion’
FREE fun for the family
Saturday 17 March 2012
11am - 4pm
Discover the secret behind a dinosaur’s speed...explore gruesome boils and diseases...take part in the Insect Olympics...just some of the exciting hands-on activities at the Brookes Science Bazaar!
Join us at our Gipsy Lane Campus for a range of drop-in sessions and competitions for children aged 5-15 years.
Run and organised by staff and students from across the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences plus the Centre for Health Medicine and Society: Past and Present, the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, and the Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology.
Photos from last year's Science Bazaar
The exciting activities taking place on the day
No booking required, just drop in!
The ABC of Amazing Butterfly Colours
Colour your own butterfly, spot the alphabet hidden on the wings and much more!
Real or pretend?
Using the Babylab, find out how psychologists study children’s understanding of the difference between real and pretend people and events.
Who do you believe?
How do we know who to trust? Using puppets, children will be challenged to work out who is the best person to learn from.
Mirror tracing
How would you cope if you had to look at the world reversed, as it appears in a mirror? An exciting game that’s fun for children and adults.
A World of Illusion
What you ‘see’ and ‘hear’ doesn’t always reflect the physical world. Experience startling visual and auditory illusions that will reveal the way our brains try to make sense of the world.
Noisy Food
Imagine silent crisps, biscuits or celery without a crunch? Listen to foods and find out how the sound is formed and how it reaches our ears.
Boils aRe US
Explore the gory history of plagues and disease, boils and other gnarly bits! Get yourself a boil or two or make your own Plague Doctor mask, with medical make-up artist Julia Hyland.
Face Painting
Come and have your face painted!! Be transformed into a dynamic dinosaur, scary spider or a fabulous flower and take part in the activities with style!
Dynamic Dinosaurs
Explore how giant dinosaurs moved despite their size and investigate how you would fare if pitched against these deadly predators if they roamed the earth in 2012.
Biological Olympics
Can you run as quickly as your blood? How fast do your lungs expand and contract? Compete in the Biological Olympics and discover the answers to these questions and many more!
The Instructions for Life
Find out about DNA – an instruction manual written using only four letters. Learn how this code works and take home a bracelet or zip-pull of your name written in the language of DNA.
Video loop
Watch cancer cells invading, how electron microscopes find beauty in the weirdest things, the busy world of a plant cell and a day in the life of scientists… and many others!
And along came a spider, and a fly and a myriapod: Arthropods up close
Eight legs or six? Eight eyes or two? A closer look at the arthropods using microscopes to explore their development and evolution.
Health and Fitness
Using a patient simulator, find out how to take a pulse, listen to different breathing sounds and discover what they mean. Learn real skills used by health and fitness professionals.
Microscopy Marathon
Find every day objects from home with the colours of the Olympic rings ( for example a blue piece of paper, a yellow cake, a black pencil, a green leaf, a red flower) and bring them along to the Science Bazaar to discover what they look like under the microscope. Let’s create a new record of the highest number of samples observed with microscopes in one day! Be a science athlete, run a microscopy marathon with us!
Insect Olympics
How high can insects jump? How fast can they run? Encounter real insects and find out about their incredible abilities.
Peeling Back the Petals
What is in a flower and how does it work? Why is it so beautiful? Why are there so few red flowers in Europe but lots elsewhere? Discover the answers to these questions and more.
Poetry Comptition
Feeling inspired by science?! Enter your poem about a science activity you have taken part in and you could win prizes and the opportunity to have your poem read on stage in May at the Pegasus Youth Theatre.