Resources
The Mosquito
A National STEM Learning Centre and Network Engineering Case Studies resource investigating how science is used to build devices that drive groups of youngsters away from buildings.
Hearing loss is age-related: this...
The most able students: examining failure to achieve
Ofsted survey report investigating why many of the most able students from non-selective schools fail to achieve their potential.
The Most Accurate Thermometer in the World
Almost every scientific experiment or industrial process requires a measurement of temperature. For example, the specification of the length of an object is meaningless without reference to the temperature at which the measurement was made. And all chemical and biological processes are intrinsically temperature-...
The most amazing thing about trees
This video applies physics to explain how trees can move water up their trunks over 10m, which is the natural limit of sucked water. The ideas of transpiration, osmotic pressure and capillary attraction are considered. The explanation shows how a negative pressure is be obtained from the intermolecular forces and...
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.
The most radioactive places on earth
This video explains how ionising radiation comes from natural sources, including bananas, which are used as a scale in the video. Derek Muller goes to Hiroshima, a uranium mine, the lab of Marie Curie, the Trinity nuclear bomb test site in New Mexico, in an aeroplane in flight, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. He also...
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.
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.
The Motor Car
The work suggested in this Nuffield Working with Science unit was planned so that students should:
1. be aware of the advantages of a systematic approach to car selection and purchase
2. be aware of the legal and social responsibilities of car ownership
3...
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.