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Explores and explains basic layout techniques, giving expert tips, and demonstrating useful tricks employed by professionals. This illustrated book serves as a reference work for all professional designers, students...

Vitamin C

This video looks at how vitamin C was discovered and deficiency diseases,  and is useful for looking at working scientifically.

Vitamin C - the Elixir of Life?

Produced by The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), the activities in this resource allow students to examine science concepts applicable to the healthcare industries and the work of people in the sector.

The activities in the resources cover areas that include:
* Determination of the...

Produced by The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC),  this project is producied resources to support post-16 science courses. Each resource was developed initially by a teacher researching possible stories and activities in an industrial company that makes products which contribute to health care....

Vitamin D

Recent headlines point out a 400 % rise in rickets and other bone diseases as young people spend more and more time indoors. Recent UK health guidance recommends that everyone should consider taking a daily vitamin D supplement, particularly in autumn and winter. In this activity students make a personal decision...

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.

Each volume in this series focuses upon a particular type of food needed to keep the human body functioning properly. The books show how a wide range of foods are needed to maintain good health.

Vitruvian Man

This new curriculum resource from CensusAtSchool is presented at two levels of difficulty. This idea is relatively current as it links with the 'Da Vinci code' and the theory of the Vitruvian man as put forward by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519).

Vitruvian people

This video and worksheet set out a measurement challenge that can be carried out at home or in school.  Students must measure both their height and the span of their arms, several times to investigate whether, as postulated by Vitruvious, this length is the same.  The...

Viva Las Vegas

This activity shows how Earth observation can be used to study human geography by comparing the satellite images of Las Vegas over the last few decades. Linking to measurement of irregular areas and addition and multiplication of fractions, it asks children to measure the area of Las Vegas at three separate times...