Living & Working Together

Children can explore the world of work as they become cashiers, postal workers and mechanics or try out some everyday grown up tasks such as writing cheques, going shopping and making lunch

The Bank

• Try out the cashier’s counter with a ready supply of cheques and a real cash machine and bank cards to deliver Eureka! banknotes
• Explore the huge bank
• Use the Security cameras and monitors to spy on your friends
• Send money in a capsule to the shop or garage
• Create a coin rubbing and look at the coin collections
• Check out banknote security with the light board, magnifying glass and banknotes from around the world

The Square

• Look and listen to the wonderful musical fountain.
• Look up at the story tree at the many strange things which have got stuck in the branches.
• Come closer and listen – the tree is telling a story!
• Over by The Dig is a story jigsaw. Can you put it together so that the day in the story goes in the right order from morning to night?
  Explore the mini-beast wall
• If you’ve got lots of energy you could even have a game of hopscotch

The Dig

• Go down into the Dig to see underground pipes uncovered
  Look through into the cellar and search the ledge for mini-beasts
• See the crockery and bones from long ago which have been uncovered
• Try out the metal detector
• Go up to the tables and take a look at the fossils

Police Box

A Police Box has landed in the Town Square!

• Look inside and approach the Science Kiosk
• Choose an adventure
• Play the games and activities
• Connect with other Science Centres worldwide

The Marks & Spencer Shop

• Role-play being a customer, cashier or manager using the scanner tills, trolleys and baskets, buy food
• Use your senses with the smelly and feely boxes
• ‘Scan the world’ to find out where everyday foods come from

The Garage

• Put on an overall and become a mechanic!
  There’s a car waiting for it’s MOT and another which needs it’s tyres changing
• Fill up a tank at the petrol pumps and put a car through the car wash
• Put your favourite design on a car using magnetic symbols and pictures

The House

The Hall

• Flick the switches to see how much electricity is used
• There’s a Grandfather clock with a rhyme on it
• Try the different door knockers out

The Living Room

• Watch the TV showing clips from programmes around the world
• Sit in the peculiar arm chair and push the levers to move it around

The Post Office

Half of the room has been turned into a Post Office!

• Put on a uniform and cap, grab a post bag and start sorting and delivering

The Kitchen

• This contains a cooker, fridge, cupboards and drawers full of pots and pans and lots of play food
• What dish can you make?
• Use your senses at the smelly table and in the feely drawers

The Bedroom

• There are cubby-holes where you can listen to lullabies from around the world
• There are dream and nightmare cupboards to explore and a desk where you can draw your favourite dream

Granny’s Attic

• Dress up in the clothes from the chest and put on your own little play in the mini-theatre!
• Look at the old photographs of the Calder family who used to live here

The Balcony

• Put some symbols on the weather map and look at the pictures of clouds
• What’s the weather like today?

The Bathroom

• The things in the Eureka! bathroom are transparent
• Look inside the transparent toilet and bath
• Press the button to start the shower
• Play at the big water table
• Lift the bubble sheet and see all the colours of the rainbow in the bubbles you make