STEM Clubs
Welcome to STEM Goes Wild STEM Clubs!
Welcome to our STEM Clubs! Our clubs provide hands-on, engaging STEM activities that spark curiosity and foster a love for science, technology, engineering, and math. Kids will experiment, build, and explore, gaining valuable skills in a fun, supportive environment. We run three clubs each week:
Bedworth Heath Community Centre (Thursday, 6.00 pm - 7.15 pm)
Cheylesmore Community Centre (Friday, 4.30 pm - 5.45 pm)
Fantastic Science and Where to Find It – A 7-Week STEM Adventure
March is an exciting month. It is British Science Week, we celebrate World Book Day, and it also happens to be my birthday. To bring all of these together, this term’s theme explores the connection between science, storytelling, and creativity through some of the most well-loved books in children’s literature.
Many of these stories have also been made into films, showing how science, technology, and imagination combine to create something extraordinary. This term, we will use these stories as inspiration for hands-on experiments and engineering challenges, uncovering the science hidden within the pages.
The Power of Books and Science
Reading and science are closely linked. Stories inspire curiosity, and science provides the tools to explore it. By combining both, we encourage creativity, critical thinking, and hands-on discovery.
As we celebrate British Science Week and World Book Day, we will step beyond the pages, bring these stories to life, and explore the fantastic science behind them.
Why These Books?
Each of these books encourages curiosity, problem-solving, and creative thinking—all essential skills in both science and storytelling. Many of them explore impossible ideas, yet science helps us understand and, in some cases, even recreate these concepts in real life. Whether through chemistry, physics, or engineering, we will take inspiration from these stories to explore scientific principles in a hands-on and exciting way.
STEM Club: Fantastic Science and Where to Find It
Week 1: Captain Underpants – Slime, Polymers & Flight – Silly transformations and unconventional science.
Week 2: The Chronicles of Narnia – A Magic Doorway & Simple Circuits – How can a spark of light change everything?
Week 3: Harry Potter – Wands, Potions & Electrical Magic – A little wizardry and a lot of science.
Week 4: Alice in Wonderland – Mad Hatter’s Tea Party & Chemistry – A topsy-turvy week of curious concoctions, and as a long-time Mad Hatter fan, I could not leave this one out.
Week 5: The Wizard of Oz – Defying Gravity & Forces in Action – It’s time to defy expectations and rise above the ordinary. What makes things lift, fall, and move in unexpected ways?
Week 6: Howl’s Moving Castle & Dog Man – Walking Castles & Mechanical Engineering –
Studio Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle is a masterpiece filled with engineering wonders, steam-powered machines, and magical transformations.
Howl will share the spotlight with Dog Man, as the newest film features walking buildings, making it a perfect science pairing.
Week 7: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Conveyor Contraptions & Engineering – Wonka understood the power of invention—now it is our turn.
