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Nearly five percent of children under the age of 5 years and 18 percent under the age of 18 years, have food allergies. Although most children 'outgrow' their allergies, allergy to peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish may be life-long. Once diagnosed, most children can often find it confusing and difficult to...
Leukaemia accounts for 30% of all cancers diagnosed in children under 15 years in industrialised countries. The annual incidence rate of childhood leukaemia varies world-wide between 20 and 60 cases per million. Once diagnosed, most children can often find it daunting and difficult to understand why they require...
Epilepsy is about twice as common in children as it is in adults (about 700 per 100,000 in children under the age of 16 years compared to 330 per 100,000 in adults). Epileptic children can often find it confusing and difficult to understand what is happening inside their body. A seizure must be explained to a child...
More than 9,000 people in the UK are waiting for an organ transplant that could save or dramatically improve their lives. Most are waiting for a kidney, heart, lung or liver transplant.
For a child waiting for such a life saving operation the concept of an organ transplant is an overwhelming one to grasp,...
What's Your Limit?
Conditions on other planets are unlikely to be within the same ranges as that experienced by Earth. However, a degree of variance from ‘ideal’ ranges may be tolerable for a small number of organisms known as extremophiles. This investigation looks at the effects of subjecting a living organism (yeast) to some...
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What's your space height
Our height changes throughout the day. When we lie down at night, gravity no longer pulls in a direction to make us shorter, so our bodies stretch, and we return to our taller height again. However, astronauts who don’t experience the effect of gravity for months at a time grow taller.
In this activity...
Whatever Floats Your Boat
In this floating boat challenge, students are to build a boat that can float and support 25 pennies for at least 10 seconds —without leaking, sinking, or tipping over. Each team has access to some plastic wrap, plastic straws, paper cups, duct...
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.