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Solar-powered refrigeration trucks
This resource provides an excellent real-world example of the application of energy transfers, energy use, energy and power calculations. It uses the context of a truck fleet manager for a logistics company deciding what type of refrigeration unit to buy for trucks needed to transport chilled food. The options are...
Read the book and search the CD with this series of interactive reference guides. Each title includes key facts and statistics about flora, fauna, people and places and helps to develop information handling and computer research skills.
This book provides nets to middle school children (9-13) to assist with a more detailed study of solid figures. This gives the opportunity also to understand the relationship between the surface area and volume of a solid. The special 3D drawings provide an inexpensive set of models which occupy no valuable storage...
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.
Solids, Liquids and Gases
A range of interactive and print-out practical activities provided by the Association for Science Education to help children understand the properties of solids, liquids and gases and the changes that take place when materials are heated
...Solids, Liquids and Gases Traffic Lights
An ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary game providing a quick and easy way of assessing whole class knowledge - no writing required.
The resource comprises guidance on how to manage the game and ten questions, or statements (with answers). You may wish to print out the questions for ease of use. Each pupil will...
This is part of a complete science resource/programme for the National Curriculum at primary level, which introduces young readers to scientific concepts in a straightforward and easily accessible manner. All scientific terms are described in carefully controlled, integrated words and images.
Solids, liquids, gases
The relationship between energy and states of matter is sometimes difficult for students to comprehend. This activity helps to reinforce the notion that, when energy is added to a system, the molecules themselves do not change but their motion and relative positions do change.
While the model is a...
In view of the research indicating that approaches to teaching mathematics vary in their effectiveness, choosing the appropriate pedagogy is critical to students'...