About Enterprise Soapbox
You can now bring science and enterprise to life with Enterprise Soapbox... not to mention the links to Maths, Languages, CDT, Art, PSHE, Citizenship and the Environment. Designed for use with KS3 and KS4, the kit can be used with primary and older students too.
The Kit contains everything you'll need to get started with soapmaking as soon as you open the box. It's as easy as making noodles in the microwave!:
- Time-saving and easy to use 70 Page Teacher Handbook- full of inspiration, ideas, curriculum links and things for the kids to get involved in as well as Risk Assessments to keep you all safe
- CD Rom with links and downloads for teacher and kids to use
- Enough (11Kg) Melt & Pour Soap base to make up to 140 bars of standard soap or 500 or 600 smaller soaps
- Pre-prepared and sealed soapmaking teacher demonstration kit to make 10-12 bars of soap and show how the science works
- Fragrance Oils
- Colourings
- Large Moulds
- Small Moulds
The handbook really allows you to bring the Scientific Entrepreneur out in your students - the 70 pages are laid out in 4 main chapters:
- The Science Bit
- The Enterprise Bit
- The Environmental Bit and
- The Fun Bit
Within the four 'science-teacher-approved' chapters of the handbook you will find over 60 activities and tasks for students to carry out and each of the sections in the handbook is linked to the KS4 Science and Enterprise curriculums at the end of each section.
Each of the activities and tasks is highlighted with a specially designed logo which shows teachers what type of task it is:
This is a Research Point for the students to undertake.
This is a Task for the students to undertake.
This is a Discussion Point for the students to undertake.
Here are some sample Activities and Tasks from the Handbook:
- Test the pH of Soap throughout the manufacturing process
- See how ingredients are blended and react in the saponification process
- Carry out market research
- Consider and plot the number of air miles travelled by the ingredients in a simple bar of soap
- Look at social entrepreneurship with Lord Leverhulme and Port Sunlight Village
- Run a business game and understand profit making and break-even
- Get to know the principles of marketing through the 5Ps
- Discuss climate change and testing on animals