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Decorated cube problem
The net for a cube is shown. The each face of the cube has a different design. Four pictures of the cube are shown but one of the faces has been left blank. The challenge is to find out which design should be drawn on the blank face. This resource would be useful as an extension when teaching nets of cubes.
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This series provides a varied source of original decorative material, reproduced from rare antiquarian books. It also provides an invaluable reference as well as an extensive pictorial library of...
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Deep Mind resources
This resource allows students to explore advances that neural technology can offer to healthcare, focusing upon epilepsy. The 30 minute Deep Mind film acts as a starting point to the activities that follow. These include role play considering the ethics involved in the use of optogenetics (gene therapy with bio-...
Deep Progress in Mathematics: the Improving Attainment in Mathematics Project
This resource, provided by Anne Watson, Els De Geest and Stephanie Prestage, describes how a group of ten teachers taught low attaining groups in secondary school, and what features were seen to be important. The teachers had a shared commitment to improving the attainment of their lowest attaining students by...
The Deep Space Diary resources are a comprehensive series aimed at helping KS2 students find out more about our Solar System, light, colour, infrared and much more. There are six chapters that make up the Deep Space Diary; together they provide over 60 hours learning, but individual activities can also be...
Deep Space Diary Chapter Five: Groundbreaking Discoveries
‘Your telescope has captured intriguing data that we need you to analyse’
In this chapter students think about the unique signatures that come back from different objects in space, including:
- analysing infrared images and comparing them to visible light
- looking through datasets that...
Deep Space Diary Chapter Four: Journey to Deep Space
‘Plan your telescope’s launch carefully, so that it reaches its destination’
In this chapter students think about the programming challenges involved in deploying a space telescope, including:
- coding a series of commands to navigate it
- encrypting and decrypting messages
- ...
Deep Space Diary Chapter One: Astronomer’s Bootcamp
‘Get started by learning about the pioneering astronomers of the past’
In this introduction chapter students describe what they would like to be to discover in the universe, and then do a series of related activities including:
- plotting a constellation,
- creating a map our Solar System...
Deep Space Diary Chapter Six: Beyond Deep Space
‘Share your amazing discoveries with your fellow Earthlings, through words and images’
In this concluding chapter students are encouraged to summarise their findings from the other five chapters, by writing and illustrating a newspaper article and by creating a visual dictionary of the new scientific...