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SCHOOLS SCIENCE EVENT AGES 7-11
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PARTICIPATION EVENT
10am 11am 12pm
1:30pm 2:30pm
Cool Astronomy and
Weather - Schools
Workshop KS2
Cool Science Workshops
The George Centre
Tickets: School bookings
£4 for individual bookings
Duration: 45mins with repeats
Cool Science Workshops. A focus
on astronomy and weather for these
entertaining, hands-on, fun science
demonstrations with an amazing
collection of original equipment and
materials.
Reflections:
Discovering science, the universe
and having fun.
10am
Walk at
Culverthorpe Hall
Start: Culverthorpe Lakes
Community Walks Team SKDC
Meeting Point: Culverthorpe Lakes
Car Park, NG32 3NQ (between
Oasby and Culverthorpe)
Tickets: £1 booking fee numbers limited so book to
guarantee a place
Duration: 1hr 30mins for the
walk followed by 1hr talk and
refreshments.
Join this four mile ‘easy’ walk around
the parklands and surroundings of
Culverthorpe Hall which was built by Sir
Isaac Newton’s cousin Sir John Newton.
It is known that Isaac Newton visited with
Humphrey Babington.
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SCIENCE EVENT
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HERITAGE EVENT
11am
New Uses for
Old Weather
Dr Philip Brohan
The King’s School, Grantham
Tickets: £4
Duration: 1hr
To understand how the climate has
changed, a team of thousands of volunteer
researchers are reading and analysing
millions of archived records from 100 and
more years ago.
Award winning climate scientist Philip
Brohan tells of his quest to discover old
weather observations and new insights
into history through ‘Old Weather’
- a project which scoured ships’ logs
recovering Arctic and worldwide weather
observations made by United States ships
since the mid-19th century.
The success of Old Weather also depended
on the efforts of the Zooniverse team who
built the novel website interface which
allowed the public to digitize data with
minimum effort. King’s School capacity 150
Reflections:
Modern weather science relies
fundamentally on tools and concepts.
introduced by Newton
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