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This book on whales and dolphins is part of a series which is intended to enable the reader to discover many fascinating facts about a wide range of subjects.;It explains how whales and dolphins swim, dive and feed, how they are designed for and adapted to their environment, how they use each of their senses, and...
Whales and waves
This Catalyst article looks at sperm whales and their ways of communications. Sperm whales can dive deep into the ocean. They use sound waves to communicate in the dark and to detect their prey.
This article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science Review 2016, Volume...
Whaling
A Catalyst article about whaling. During the last century whales were hunted and killed by many nations for the valuable materials they provided. Whale populations collapsed as a result. The article looks in detail at this example of human impact on the environment and details whale populations throughout the world...
This animation explains the influence that genes have on our everyday lives, from the colour of your eyes to the way your body works, grows and develops. The resources include: * An animation which explains how we are made of cells, where our genes can be found, what genes do and how this leads to variation between...
What 'Genes' Means
This easy to understand animation explains the influence that genes have on our everyday lives, from the colour of our eyes to the way our body works, grows and develops. It illustrates how we are made of cells, where our genes can be found, what genes do and how this leads to variation between people. The effect...
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Questions and answers provide a beguiling and friendly way of accessing information for children. In this volume, answers come thick and fast in the top two-thirds of the spread with text and illustrations, while a...
What affects your heart rate?
This resource provides a set of videos and a practical investigation aimed at supporting working scientifically in the classroom and relating it to real world experiences. In the first video Professor Brian Cox joins a teacher to find out how to set up and run an investigation to find out how exercise affects heart...
What Am I?
This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and technology (IET), asks students to investigate a simple piezoelectric device. The engineers behind the Watt Nightclub in Rotterdam investigated the use of the piezoelectric effect to turn the energy created by...
What are atoms and isotopes?
This video explains how atoms are the fundamental building blocks of all matter and that they are made from sub-atomic particles (proton, neutron and electron). The simple structure of a hydrogen atom is made from plasticine. The video explains how adding a neutron to the hydrogen atom does not change its...