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How Will Your Beast Open Its Mouth?

One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which children design and make an animal with a moving mouth.

Children study their own mouth and head movements and those of animals before designing their animal's mouth. The mechanisms used by the children are restricted to a...

How Will Your Roly Poly Move?

One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Students design and make a simple push-along toy (a roly poly) using a mixture of found materials, paper and card.

The toy should be designed to provide amusement in both its appearance and the ways it moves. It may be for the...

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This new edition of a classic Usborne title has been updated for the latest generation of readers. It contains lots of imaginary machines, specially invented to show how your body does some of its most important jobs...

Hozelock- Engineered in Britain

As part of the Engineered in Britain series, this film shows how Hozelock products are designed, developed and manufactured through a process of sketching, developing key concepts and presenting ideas to consumers. The company needs to flexible to meet sudden demands in its products as the weather changes....

Hubble Explores a Barred Spiral Galaxy

A Catalyst article about the Hubble telescope exploring a barred spiral galaxy, known as NGC1672 in the astronomers’ New General Catalogue. The image was made by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and was released in April 2007. NGC 1672 is situated 60 million light years away, in the constellation of Dorado. The...

Hubble Space Telescope

This video clip from NASA shows how the Hubble Space Telescope has changed the way scientists look at the universe, without the interference of Earth's atmosphere. Find out how this telescope works and a bit of history about the man after whom it is named. The presentation is aimed at primary students but the...

Hubble Space Telescope

This film, from Twig World, shows how scientists working on the Hubble Telescope, orbiting 400 miles above the Earth, fixed a fault by giving the telescope a pair of spectacles. The key points made in the film are: •The Hubble Telescope took eight years to build, from over 400,000 parts. •Initially, a fault in...

Hubble's Universe

The aim of this resource is to understand the levels of structure in space – Solar System, galaxy, Universe. The spreadsheet exercise allows students to discover this structure in a graphical form. Students can find more...

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.