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Harassed Guppies and Promiscuous Fruit Flies
In this podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), reporters find out what sexual conflict means for female guppies, how female promiscuity may be a good thing and why female mongooses all give birth at the same time.
In an extreme example of sexual...
Hardware theory: storage device top trumps
Students will need to be given various aspects of both secondary storage devices and what is expected of them in terms of creating the top trumps themselves. As background to the task the teacher needs to start by explaining the three main types of secondary storage magnetic, optical and solid state.
After...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
Harlow Carr Maths Trail
A resource containing a collection of puzzles and problems designed to help students discover the ‘real life’ mathematics that is all around them as they visit the Royal Horticultural Society garden at Harlow Carr. The trail encourages group work and collaborative problem solving, develops observation and recording...
This journal is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
The Harmsworth Natural...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
'What will happen as we use up fossil fuels? Are we facing an energy crisis? Where will we get our energy from in the future?'
Understanding the nature of energy, how it moves from one place to another and how it can be changed from one form to another will help us harness energy more effectively in the...
Harnessing Energy: Activity Sheets
Seven activity sheets produced by the Institute of Physics (IOP) to accompany the MODEL Project's Harnessing Energy video.
Worksheet one takes an overview of the topic. Worksheets two - seven are targeted at specific sections of the video.
Answers to all the worksheet questions are provided in the...
Harnessing Energy: Practicals
Eight practicals produced by the Institute of Physics (IOP) that help students to understand energy transfer and transformation and the use of energy in its various forms.
Accompanied by the Teacher and technicians'...
Harnessing Energy: Videos
This video, produced by the Institute of Physics (IOP), shows a physicist working at the Centre for Alternative Energy.
The physicist's job is to help people learn about conserving energy and using energy from the sun, wind and water in place of fossil fuels.
The video is presented as a...