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We consume many drinks every day and they all have an impact of some kind on our body. This book distils the scientific evidence on the world's most popular drinks to see if we can get to the bottom of questions such as: Is a regular glass of wine good for our health or not? Should we worry about energy drinks? Is...

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Drinks Cans

Drinks cans are made by stamping out circular discs from a sheet of tin. Given the dimensions of the sheet of tin and the diameter of the circle stamped out, students are required to calculate the wastage and to investigate whether there is a more efficient method. The problem requires students to be able to...

Drinks Unit Guide

This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered:
* The provision of a safe water supply
* The production of different kinds of drink

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Drip, Drip, Drip

This resource pack contains eight activities based around water and personal finance education. Each activity is aimed at a specific age group at primary level and provides curriculum links to aspects of mathematics, science and PSHE. The activities are:

*[b]Needs and wants associated with water[/b]-Assess...

Drones: friend or foe?

The drone resource box is aimed at key stage 3 or key stage 4 students and could be used as a six-session curriculum resource or a drop down activity day. The resource explores how drones work and how they can be used for civilian, humanitarian and commercial purposes. Each session will be based around a different...

Drop Dead Gorgeous

This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies engages students in discussion about attractiveness, using photographs of the faces of famous people. The aim of this unit is for students to explore the golden ratio as a determinant of attractiveness. In particular the link to facial beauty is explored using the...

This is the story of a drop of water, told by a gifted science writer and illustrated with remarkable paintings. Meredith Hooper takes us back thousands of years to see where the Earth's water came...

Drop it

In this activity from the IET, pupils use the context of the theme, the future of flight, to design a method or system of getting emergency aid pallets from a future aircraft to the ground safely.

Pupils analyse existing methods of achieving this then use the information they've gathered to create...

In 'Drop the pink elephant', Bill McFarlan reveals how to avoid the deadly trap of allowing poor communication skills to obscure the readers meaning and reduce their effectiveness.

This book is filled with helpful, simple and practical advice on how to make their words count for more. Readers can put these...