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Making Shadow Puppets
In this cross curricular activity, children learn about light and shadows by creating shadow puppets which tell the story of a myth or legend. Teacher’s notes provide a step by step guide to creating the shadow puppets, showing how to create moving parts; it also shows how to set up a shadow theatre to tell the...
Making Shadows
This activity, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, looks at how shadows are formed and what affects their size, direction and shape. Students place an object at the centre of a sheet of paper, and use a torch to produce shadows of different length and direction.
This activity can be used as an introduction...
Making Shadows
From Teachers TV, this video explores how shadow puppets can be used to explore light, shadows and storytelling. A shadowgraph theatre brings characters to life. The light source is a simple angle-poise lamp and the characters in the play are figures mounted on rods. The puppets tell a traditional folk tale about...
Designing and making successful automata involves combining materials, mechanisms, and magic.
This book explains how to design and construct small scale, simple mechanical devices made for fun. Illustrated...
Making solid nitrogen
This video begins by showing how reducing the pressure above water reduces its boiling point (it boils at RT). This is because the water molecules require less energy to escape into the atmosphere above it. It also shows that as the most energetic molecules boil, the liquid is left with less energetic molecules...
This series examines sound and hearing, introducing children to the idea that there are many kinds of sound and sources of sounds, as well as what different sounds are and how they are made.
Build 5 fantastic spaceships from household junk. Includes sticker sheet, space factoids and bonus plans for making solar panels and satellite dish. Adult help may be required.
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.
This book uses an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach to study everyday life in secondary schools in London and Helsinki. Employing a metaphor of dance, it explores the relationship between the official school (...