We’ve created a range of activities based around recordings of our public events as enriching resources for your post-16-year-old students. Each resource includes activity sheets for the relevant subject area and focuses students on a specific section of the recorded event (around 8 to 15 minutes long). The activities are designed to challenge A level Biology, Art, Sociology or Psychology, or BTEC Health and Social Care students.
Enrich your studies
A workshop at Wellcome Collection, Camilla Greenwell. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Changing Our Planet, Changing Our Minds
Teachers and students can find A-level activities for Biology based on Joycelyn Longdon’s presentation about her work as an activist and researcher on environmental issues surrounding climate change.
A level Biology
This activity sheet contains event recording links and three student tasks focusing on ecosystems, species extinction and AI, and biotechnology.
A level Art
This activity sheet contains event recording links and three student tasks focusing on infographics as an artistic communication method, an inspiration and creation task, and artist analysis in the form of a presentation.
A level Sociology
This activity sheet contains event recording links and four student tasks focusing on race, identity and difference feminism, the social responsibility of wealthy societies for climate change, a documentary task on climate and race, and a curriculum-mapping task.
A level Psychology
This activity sheet contains event recording links and three student tasks focusing on the psychology of conservation behaviours, protest and environmental change, and student knowledge and application of different psychological approaches.
Young People, Mental Health and Recipes for Self-care
A level Art
This activity sheet focuses on an animated poem called ‘Something New’, about a creative research programme, written and read by Koleka Putuma, with illustrations by Ivyy Chen. It explores and illustrates the coping activities young people used to manage the challenges of the spring 2020 Covid-19 lockdown. It contains event recording links and three student tasks focusing on artist research, a found objects group sculpture task, and a poetry and illustration task.
BTEC level 3 Health and Social Care, unit 11, ‘Psychological Perspectives’
This activity sheet focuses on a clip in which Wellcome’s Mental Health research team presents an intervention programme called ‘The Active Ingredients’. It contains event recording links and three student tasks focusing on psychological perspectives. Tasks include an analysis that demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression, medication as a viable treatment option, and a research task on psychological approaches.
BTEC level 3 Health and Social Care, unit 4, ‘Enquiries into Current Research in Health and Social Care’
This activity sheet focuses on a clip in which Wellcome’s Mental Health Research team presents an intervention programme called ‘The Active Ingredients’. It contains event recording links and three student tasks focusing on current research enquiries. Tasks include communicating research approaches and public engagement, analysis of a mental health research intervention, and creating a research plan.
Supporting Ourselves While Supporting Our Communities
These activity sheets focus on a conversation between climate activist Daze Aghaji and writer and podcaster Natasha Lipman as they reflect on their recent experiences of balancing personal wellbeing with supporting their communities.
A level Sociology
This activity sheet contains event recording links and four student tasks focusing on social and cultural construction, online behaviours and society, the experience of the chronically ill and creating a research plan.
A level Psychology
This activity sheet contains event recording links and three student tasks focusing on personal identity online, theories of positivism, behaviourism and psychoanalysis in relation to social media and student knowledge, and application of the theories of psychology.
Happiness exhibition artist interview films
These A level Art and Photography activity sheets focus on four interviews with artists who contributed work to our Tranquillity and Joy exhibitions. Amalia Pica, Jasleen Kaur, Stefanie Posavec and Chrystel Lebas all discuss how their work highlights different aspects of the emotion Happiness.
A level Art – Amalia Pica
This activity sheet contains interview recording, exhibition background and event links. These are followed by three student tasks focusing on creative transformation, paired experimental communication and research into performance art.
Artist interview: Amalia Pica (PDF 147kb)
A level Art – Jasleen Kaur
This activity sheet contains interview recording, exhibition background and event links. These are followed by three student tasks focusing on visualising emotional states, and two linked activities on the theme of cultural appropriation.
Artist interview: Jasleen Kaur (PDF 242kb)
A level Art – Stefanie Posavec
This activity sheet contains interview recording and exhibition background and event links. These are followed by three student tasks focusing on data and creativity, art-themed research, and collage.
Artist interview: Stefanie Posavec (PDF 181kb)
A level Photography – Chrystel Lebas
This activity sheet contains interview recording, exhibition background and event links. These are followed by four student tasks focusing on photographer research, object-based photography, photographic technique and personal reflection.
