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Solar powered engine
This is one of a series of resources from the IET designed around the theme of the future of flight with the purpose of developing pupils knowledge and skills in design technology, engineering and mathematics. Jet engines used on aircraft produce...
Solar Roadways
A crowd funding web site recently raised more than two million US dollars to fund solar roadways. These roads, claim the developers, will remain snow-free, and, at the click of a switch, can be transformed into car parks or even sports pitches. In this activity students consider whether solar roadways are worth...
Solar Surface
This Catalyst article is about the surface of the Sun. The article looks at a sunspot as seen by the Japanese Hinode solar observatory. Sunspots enable research about the nature and activity of the Sun. They are regions of strong magnetic activity and the article reports on the history of research into sunspots....
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 the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
Solar System
This resource provides an activity in which children create a scale representation of the distance of the Planets away from the Sun. Using the scale of one sheet of toilet paper = 50,000,000 km children calculate the number of sheets of toilet paper required for the correct spacing of the Planets from the Sun. This...
This is one title in a series of reference books packed full of facts and statistics about a particular topic. The narrative is kept to a minimum to aid the most efficient access to facts, and dozens of maps and...
Introduces readers to the ever-popular topic of space and the amazing worlds that make up our solar system. Includes fun projects such as making ice-cream comets, a bedroom planetarium, and observing the Moon in the...
Combining a fact packed information book and an integrated interactive CD-ROM in a plastic wallet, this title provides quizzes, puzzles and games on the subject of the Solar System.