School TEACHING RESOURCES
Curious About Science Teaching Resource
Teachers! Get ready for British Science Week 2026 with Curious About Science – a whole-school teaching resource, linked to this year’s British Science Week theme of ’Curiosity: what’s your question?’ Packed full of content for every year groups, you’ll have everything you need to deliver your own creative science day!
Teaching Resource
Curious About Science gives children the opportunity to discover the answers to some curious questions – and meet some curious people who made extraordinary advances and changed the world in extraordinary ways (all carefully chosen to support areas that each year group will be investigating at some point in 2025/26). And all tying in perfectly with the theme of British Science Week 2026, “Curiosity: What’s Your Question?“
The Curious About Science pack comprises …
Follow-up Worksheets: There is one of these for each year group to complete after taking part in the workshops. !
Full instructions for teachers.
A short opening film to explore the theme of “Curiosity: what’s your question?” – which can be shown at a whole-school assembly or to individual classes as a stand alone.
Changing Challenges – quickfire challenges designed to whet your pupils’ creativity.
Interactive, filmed workshops (one for EYFS / KS1 and one for KS2)
Fact Sheets: Each film ends by introducing the pupils to a scientist from the past, connected to their Science theme.
| Year Groups | EYFS – Y6 |
|---|---|
| Curriculum | Science |
| Pupil Numbers | Whole-School |
| Duration | One Day |
