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Hooke's Law of Springs

This Catalyst article looks at the work of Robert Hooke, an employee of the Royal Society, Britain's oldest scientific society. His job was to present two or three different experiments each week to the assembled members of the society – and this was at a time when experimentation was new and there were no books of...

Hope Beyond Hype

It is long journey from basic stem cell research to a reliable stem cell therapy. This comic book explores the role of stem cell researchers and the process they undertake as they try to move stem cell research on towards clinical trials and therapies. A selection of card games is provided which can be used to...

Hopewell geometry

This task is designed to assess how well students understand similar triangles, using Pythagoras’ theorem, and using trigonometry to find angles.

The Hopewell people were Native Americans whose constructed earthworks using right triangles. The task shows eight right triangles.

The first tasks are to...

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 the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

Horizontal Gene Transfer

This animation shows how bacteria exchange genes on small pieces of DNA called plasmids through a process called horizontal gene transfer. 

Bacteria are able to exchange genes quickly within a population on small circles of DNA called plasmids. This animation shows how bacteria exchange plasmids through a...

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.

Hormones and Their Effects

This resource from the ABPI introduces students to the major endocrine glands, and hormone function in puberty, the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and growth. Specific examples include insulin, adrenaline, ADH, and plant hormones.

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Focusing on the main physiological systems of the body, each title in this series closely examines a specific system or set of organs, its function, its role in the health of the individual and its relationship to other organs or systems.

Read Me books are designed to engage reluctant readers with exciting, and even disgusting, subject matter at a low reading level.

This series looks at how even some of the most unlikely and smelly places can...