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Yummy yoghurt makers - CREST

A CREST investigation produced by Practical Action, in collaboration with the British Science Association, for primary pupils. 

Students find out  how farmers in Bangladesh can earn more money for their family by turning milk into yoghurt.  They go on to make a range of different flavoured yoghurts...

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Zero days - Viruses, Bacteria, Funghi and Protists and how they spread

This resource uses the context of sports people staying healthy for as many days as possible, to look at various pathogens, how they can spread, and how their spread can be reduced.  The concept of 'zero days'  is used to explain why it is important that professional sports people do not become ill, so they can...

Zero to Infinity

This is a Teachers’ TV programme from the series Painting with Numbers. In this episode Professor Marcus du Sautoy explains how humans have developed numbers for their mathematical needs. We learn that humans first began counting with whole numbers only, but then needed to invent others as their mathematical...

Pupils need to have great familiaraty with the numbers from 0-100. This book uses the hundred square to develop this facility. Highly original games, projects, investigations and puzzles tumble from the pages to make number work enjoyable for all pupils.

Zero follows the number zero from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe and its apotheosis as the mystery of a black...

Zeroes of a Recurrence Relation

Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics.

The Fibonacci sequence is an example of a linear recurrence relation (LRS). A matrix is used to calculate future terms, as well as running the sequence backwards to see how many zeroes appear. Algebra is used to prove the...

Zinc and Zirconium, their uses and their chemistry, can be used to illustrate many aspects of chemistry taught in schools today. Published as the result of workshops held at Brittania Zinc, Avonmouth, UK and MEL Chemicals, Bolton, UK, this book contains teachers' notes and photocopiable worksheets for students. It...

Zoetropes

From the Centre for Science Education, and with support from Shell Education services, these materials help children to investigate vision and light.

The zoetrope, or wheel of life, is a modern variation to a simple Victorian toy. When the separate images are viewed in the quickly-turning zoetrope, it...

Zombie Invasion

This Catalyst article looks at how Californians are being encouraged to prepare for the next big earthquake. It describes how earthquakes are produced by the relative movement of tectonic plates and how their intensity is measured using the Moment Magnitude scale. The article can be used to stimulate discussion on...