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Bronze Award: Squeaky Clean
These materials look at three possible projects that relate to household cleaning products:
* Communications project - students gather information about cleaning products, compare them and explain how they are suitable for different cleaning problems.
* Practical project - students investigate how...
Bronze award: the perfect cup of tea
In this project, students carry out some experiments to work out how to make their perfect cup of tea. Then they write a standard procedure so that other people can make tea...
Bronze award: tree for life
This project revolves around the subject of trees and the life that trees support. The activity links to the work of the OPAL project.
The project should take about 5 hours to complete. There are three activities in this pack. They can be used to learn...
Bronze Award: Triathlon
These materials look at three possible projects that relate to a wet suit used in open water swimming during a triathlon:
* Communications project - students gather information about the materials wetsuits are made from and explain what features make them suitable for athletes.
* Practical project -...
Bronze award: which material is the strongest?
In this project, students test the strength of samples from different items of clothing to find out which material is the strongest. One way to see which material is strongest would be to hang weights from it until it breaks, with the one that holds the most weight being the strongest.
Bronze award: Why do we use shampoo?
This resource describes independent project work investigating the effect of shampoo on hair and developing microscopy skills.
Bronze award: worldwide washing
The Youth Grand Challenges is a new STEM competition that aims to inspire students aged 11-to-19. This resource provides a selection of ideas for research or practical projects on the subect of the spread of disease.
Curriculum links include pathogens, bacteria, epidemics, pandemics, malaria, water borne...
Computers are everywhere, running our lives, handling our social...
Brownian motion
This video illustrates how to show the movement of particles by Brownian motion. Instead of using the traditional smoke cell, the video shows how Brownian motion can be observed in a suspension containing micrometre diameter polystyrene spheres. Using a microscope and video camera, students can observe the motion...
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