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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 book is part of the Archive Collection which is available to view at the National STEM Learning Centre.
This new book by Tim Arnold and Steve Cayley, co-authors of the 2004 publication Video-conferencing in the Classroom is a resource book for teachers - from those thinking about getting started with video-conferencing to those who are already using it regularly in the classrooms. It includes advice about equipment...
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.
Viewfinder is the magazine of...
Vigilance Behaviour in Barnacle Geese
This resource looks at the vigilance behaviour of barnacle geese grazing in winter. Throughout the winter young geese learn where best to feed and how to survive by foraging with their family groups. When an individual is foraging it has to balance the risk of feeding with the risk of possible predation....
Viking Raid
This paired-programming activity from the Barefoot Computing project focusses on sequences in algorithms and programs.
Children create an animation of a Viking raid – ideally they will have previously studied Vikings...
Villages, roads and farms
In this puzzle, students are given diagrams showing different layouts of villages, roads and farms - acting as vertices, edges and regions. Students are given a series of rules and challenged to draw maps that meet a variety of different conditions.
These animations from the Wellcome Trust, illustrate that, unable to replicate without using the cellular machinery of more complex organisms, viruses invade and hijack their host's cells, resulting in serious disease.
The animations use the examples of Dengue virus to show how an RNA virus replicates using...
Virolution is the product of Dr Frank Ryan's decade of research at the frontiers of this new science - now called viral symbiosis - and the amazing revolution that it has had in these few years. As scientists begin...
The Virtual Body concentrates on essential human biology. Areas covered include the circulatory, sensory, and immune systems, homeostasis and genetics.