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If you're intrigued by puzzles and paradoxes, these 200 mind-bending logic puzzles, riddles and diversions will thrill you with challenges to your powers of reason...
What is the role of a designer?
In this resource a presentation and linked activities provide design and technology teachers with opportunities to highlight the different values and beliefs that designers may hold. Students can engage in exploring their own values about the responsibilities of designers and companies too. The presentation ...
What is an invasive species? What sort of problems can they cause? Once invaded, is it ever possible to get rid of the invader? How do these plants and animals "invade" an area?
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...
What is Urban Sustainability?
This resource, from Siemens, looks at how a sustainable city should meet the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Urban sustainability is the idea that a city can be organised without excessive reliance on the surrounding countryside and be able to...
What is water made of?
This very basic video shows what people believe water is. It might be useful as a discussion point.
What Is Wood?
This student sheet invites students to consider lignification in detail. Students take thin sections from successive internodes of the shoot and calculate the lignification index of each section. These can then be compared with sections from other parts of the plants to consider where lignin is deposited in other...
What Is Your Real Star Sign?
By constructing a model of the constellations in the zodiac, students can learn about the relative motion of the Sun and the Earth. Students can find their own star sign and discover how the view from the Earth will change as the Earth orbits the Sun. The model allows them to see how the night sky changes over a...