Science Bites: Edible Science
23 September 2025 - 02 October 2025
9:00 am-1:00 pm
Region(s): Wellington
Type(s): experiences
Get hands-on at Space Place with tasty, edible science these school holidays! Science Bites is an edible science workshop for tamariki aged 8–12 years old.
Learn about rainbow diffraction chocolate, make your own gummy worms, explore some glow-in-the-dark jelly, and more! All the projects in this workshop are safe to eat, meaning kids can taste their creations as they learn.
Tamariki will be excited to come home and share their new understanding of how science can be found in our everyday lives, even our kitchens!
Workshops include a complimentary planetarium show.
This school holiday programme will run each Tuesday and Thursday of the school holidays, from 9:00 am–1:00 pm, suitable for ages 8–12 years, $65 per tamariki.
Dates: 23, 25, 30 September and 2 October.
For more information and to book: www.museumswellington.org.nz/science-bites
Location: Space Place, 40 Salamanca Road, Kelburn, Wellington.
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In this recorded webinar, learn how kitchen science can be used to deepen students’ understanding of science in everyday contexts and demonstrate how simple kitchen ingredients and equipment can be utilised to excite and engage students in science learning.
See a selection of resources around kitchen science we've created on this Pinterest board.
Activity ideas
We have a range of kitchen science activities – see a few examples:
In this fermentation activity, students set up an alcoholic fermentation, prepare and view a slide of bacteria responsible for monolactate fermentation and find out about gut bacteria fermentation.
Investigate the process of making ice cream and explore the concept of states of matter through simple investigations.
Use the holidays to make bread – the global citizen science project Wild Sourdough explores the microbial communities in sourdough.
Discover how a class made fermented drinks using the Making fermented drinks – unit plan and Fermented drinks worksheets.
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