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Take a look into the workings of our digital planet! From computer programs and WiFi to hardware and hard drives, this series will take you inside the computer and online world that you use...
How Cool Is Your Drink?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children design and make a healthy cold drink for another class member.
Each child will have to find out the preferences and needs of the consumer and will include feedback from that person as part of the evaluation process
...How Could a Carrier Make the Job Easier?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children design and make a carrier that meets the needs of a person who has to carry particular items.
The aim is to develop a carrier...
How could we augment ourselves?
The human body is an amazing piece of engineering. For thousands of years it has kept us running, thinking and, best of all, staying alive! But are there scientific innovations that we can use to make our bodies even better?
How damaging is radiation?
This video introduces common misconceptions about radiation. It then discusses the types of radiation that exists and considers how harmful they might be to us. Our exposure to background radiation is discussed.
How deep is your blue? Coloured chemistry with smartphones
In this activity students use a smartphone to determine the precise amount of copper in an aqueous solution of nitric acid. Students collect comparative values of different copper-solutions with special apps to produce a diagram and estimate the amount of copper, based on the Lambert-Beer Law that explains that the...
This third edition of 'How Designers Think' has been substantially rewritten following the second edition which was first published in 1990. Bryan Lawson has continued to try and understand how designers think, to...
How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. In this fourth edition, Bryan Lawson continues to try and understand how designers think, to explore how they might be better educated and to develop techniques to...
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Certain sea slugs have developed a remarkable defensive adaptation -- they can use the stinging cells of the sea anemones they eat to protect themselves. Whether adapting over millions of years or in the blink of an eye, this book examines the ever-changing world of animals.
Children will thrill at...