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The fascinating tales in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.
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.
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.
Disaster Relief
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies asks students to plan the relief aid for a fictitious tsunami along the South American Pacific coast. The project is centred on Concepción, Chile’s second largest urban conurbation. This was the scene of an actual tsunami in 1960, after an earthquake off the Chilean...
Disaster relief
The aim of this resource is to give students the opportunity to investigate the RAF use science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills when delivering humanitarian aid. Students will design and make a lander for aid delivered by aircraft.
Welsh versions of the guidance documents are included.
Disaster Response: How do Engineers Save Lives?
This suite of student activities, challenges and related resources aims to give students an insight into the roles of engineers following a natural disaster.
The short introductory activities increase students’ awareness of the range of types of natural disaster and the kinds of problems associated with them...
A trawl through the history of those scientific ideas which seemed plausible, at least to some, but turned out to be wrong. Includes flat earth, hollow earth, lost worlds and bizarre ideas about evolution; Piltdown...
This sub-collection of resources from the ‘Graphing Stories’ collection contains situations that give rise to jump discontinuities in graphs.
'Discover biology' helps students become biologically literate students to progress from science to scientific literacy.
The Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) network is an initiative which aims to create and inspire a new generation of nature-lovers by encouraging people to explore, study, enjoy and protect their local environment. OPAL began in 2007 with a total of 15 partners, headed by Imperial College London, working together to...