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What Does the Fox Say?
This activity uses a humorous video to raise a serious question: can science tell us what animals are saying, and interpret their emotions? The Bow-lingual dog translator claims to detect animal emotions by analysing bark sounds waves. Students use research evidence to decide whether the device does what it claims...
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What factors affect the pitch and the volume of sound?
This resource provides a set of videos and a practical investigation aimed at supporting working scientifically in the classroom and relating science 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 what affects the...
What factors affect the size of a shadow in a shadow theatre?
This resource provides a set of videos and a practical investigation aimed at supporting working scientifically in the classroom and relating science 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 what affects the size...
What Forces Act in Stretching?
This concept cartoon focuses on forces. Concept cartoons provide an approach to teaching, learning and assessment in science, they feature cartoon-style drawings showing different characters arguing about everyday situations. They are designed to intrigue, to provoke discussion and to stimulate scientific thinking...
What Forces Do
These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:
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Understand that a force makes things change: the speed, direction and/or shape of an object.
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Explain changes caused by more than one force acting on an object at the...
Discover why you do what you doJoin Professor Robert Winston and introduce your child to the most powerful, complicated computer network that exists - their brain. From what the different parts of the brain do and why it changes at different stages in a person's life, to why sleep is so important for us.
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What happened to the cup?
Students investigate why some plastic cups collapse when filled with hot water and some don't. They compare the effect of hot water on a range of cups and relate their findings to the properties of the plasticsused for each cup: whether it is biodegradable or not, its melting...
