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Mini lectures: molecules

This lecture from the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings outlines the importance of small molecules in living organisms. The lecture describes the discovery of various vitamins, neurotransmitters, hormones and odorants (including pheromones). The lecture's emphasis is on the contribution to science of the Nobel...

Mini lectures: neutrinos

This mini lecture from the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings provides a historical perspective on the work of Pauli in postulating the existence of the 'ghost particle' with no electrical charge and virtually no mass. Following the discovery of the neutrino and its associated 'flavours', the lecture then explores...

Mini lectures: quantum mechanics

This lecture from the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings outlines the development of the field of quantum mechanics. The lecture describes the work of Planck, Einstein and Bohr and includes the idea of wave-particle duality, the photoelectric effect to Bohr's model of atomic structure. The lecture's emphasis is on the...

Mini lectures: science, ethics and society

This 11-minute lecture from the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings explores the ideas of ethics, morality and values. The lecture describes the part played by the Nobel intergenerational meetings in Lindau in reminding scientists and society of their responsibilities. Hippocrates' view that "man belongs to nature;...

Mini lectures: subatomic particles

This mini lecture from the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings takes a historical view of sub-atomic particle theory from the earliest work of Thompson and, subsequently, of Rutherford. Nobel prizewinners' recorded speeches provide the soundtrack to their discoveries of nuclei, protons and, then, neutrinos.  The...

Mini Market - 1 - Deliveries

This activity is an ideal opportunity to use the real-world context of logistics as an application of solving multi-step mathematical problems and evaluating the outcomes. It is one of three mathematical problem-solving activities with a...

Mini Market - 2 - Area manager

This activity is an ideal opportunity to use the real-world context of logistics to demonstrate the practical use of greedy...

Mini Market - 3 - Electric Van

This activity is an ideal opportunity to use the real-world context of logistics to develop students' use of formal...

The students are given the data or a diagram to solve a problem - which of four characters is a murderer. To find out, the student must solve all or most of the questions on the sheet to...

Mini Robot Wars

Mini Robot Wars, from the Centre for Science Education, is a set of teaching materials which offer a cross-curricular approach to learning about engineering. Students build a small Robot Wars type robot controlled by an umbilical chord and two forward and reverse...