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This book provides a simple introduction to the origin, composition, physical features, and inhabitants of planet Earth.

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.

Our Solar System

This creative research project allows children working at primary level to discover our closest neighbours in space and develop their communication skills. Working in groups, children research the eight planets, comets and asteroids in our Solar System. They find out about moons and rings, which planets have them...

Find out how Earth's Moon formed and what it is made from. Discover how the Moon changes, what happens during an eclipse, and how spacecraft and astronauts have explored the Moon.

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There are endless facts to learn about space, but once the reader has absorbed them, do they really know how the universe works? It expands and changes thanks to some incredible processes -...

Our Universe and the Big Bang

Produced by Teachers TV, this video is part of the Teaching Astronomy and Space series. It looks at the size of the universe, its expansion and the Big Bang. Astronomer Pete Edwards attempts to explain just how big the universe is, and reveals how astronomers measure the distance to the stars using concept such...

 This book tells you what earthquakes are, when and where they occur, and looks at how people cope when they happen and what can be done to prevent their devastating effects in the future.

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Our vision: What is mechanical engineering?

Simon Taylor, chief engineer, introduces the work of the engineering team at the Mars factory in Slough. Ed Godsell, a project engineer who started on the Mars graduate scheme, explains the critical role of engineers in getting products onto the market. The production line runs 24 hours a day, every day of the...

This book from the Discovering Science series is about our world and its atoms.
Topics include:
• Doing chemistry 
• Doing chemistry quantitatively 
• Elements and compounds 
• The oxides of carbon 
• The oxides of carbon 
• An atomic theory 
• Getting to know gases 
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