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Looking for biology enlightenment for Dd, 14, struggling with interest at GCSE

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GCSEBiostruggles · 13/12/2025 18:02

Anyone have any ideas that I can do for day trips or at home to actually engage her in it? I have some time over this holiday to really look at what she is doing but suspect going over the school work might just make her hate it (and me) more. Do we have any museums that have good interactive biology specific sections? I've not been to the London Science Museum since she was about 5 but don't remember it being set up into set areas in this way? I mainly remember the space bit and the hands on messy play bit downstairs tbh!

Any inspo out there?

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BeansAndNoodles · 13/12/2025 18:06

How about the Hunterian Museum or the Wellcome Collection

BeansAndNoodles · 13/12/2025 18:08

Oh and my DD (young adult, studying Biology at uni) really likes the Grant Museum of Zoology too

GCSEBiostruggles · 13/12/2025 18:34

Amazing, thank you @BeansAndNoodles , that gives us a lot to go on for the holidays!

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BeansAndNoodles · 13/12/2025 18:38

GCSEBiostruggles · 13/12/2025 18:34

Amazing, thank you @BeansAndNoodles , that gives us a lot to go on for the holidays!

Not sure how interactive any of them are but DD has loved all three suggestions. She especially likes the jar of moles at the Grant Museum Grin but she was always a slightly gruesome child (had her own animal bone/skull collection from about age 8).

Some of the temporary exhibitions at the Wellcome Centre are very very good.

sanityisamyth · 13/12/2025 18:39

The science museum isn’t actually great for anything biology or chemistry based. It’s mostly physics/engineering.

The Natural History Museum next door is better for biology - natural selection, evolution etc.

Where do you live? The Eden project is good to explore.

AwkwardPaws27 · 13/12/2025 18:44

The Old Operating Theatre is pretty cool too - more history of medicine than biology as such, but pretty fascinating.

Kew Gardens is a good option too for plants and fungi; ecology, biodiversity, implications in drug development etc.

GCSEBiostruggles · 13/12/2025 18:57

BeansAndNoodles · 13/12/2025 18:38

Not sure how interactive any of them are but DD has loved all three suggestions. She especially likes the jar of moles at the Grant Museum Grin but she was always a slightly gruesome child (had her own animal bone/skull collection from about age 8).

Some of the temporary exhibitions at the Wellcome Centre are very very good.

I've just shown her the suggestions and she said The Hunterian looked awesome. Also a very gruesome child and wants to see things in jars...

We are in Kent and I can't think of anything around here, but I am probably missing something obvious!

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Leopardsandcheetahsarefast · 13/12/2025 18:58

Zoology museum Cambridge

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