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Exploring construction careers and study routes
This resource supports students to look at careers in construction, supporting them to use the Go Construct Ultimate Quiz and exploring a range of careers, their salaries and associated study routes.
Exploring Data: Coding Spreadsheet
Coding spreadsheet enables students to analyse the effect of coding data. Students can manipulate the values for x and the frequencies by which each value of x occurs. Students are required to understand and explain why the particular coding has been used. Once the question has been generated students calculate the...
Exploring Data: Outlier Tester
Outlier tester is a very simple but fun spreadsheet that gives students the chance to explore the definition of an outlier using the interquartile range to determine the values beyond which outliers fall. Sheet two provides definitions for determining where outliers fall. By manipulating the outlier values and/or...
Exploring Data: Quartiles for a Small Data Set
Playing with the quartiles for a small data set involves students using the values 1,3,5 and 7 on the spreadsheet to get the target quartile values for sample sizes of 20, 21, 22 and 23. The aim is to note by how much, or how little, difference to the quartiles is made by increasing the sample size by one. Sheet...
Exploring Data: World-wide Statistics
The worldwide statistics PowerPoint begins with a quiz regarding facts about the nations of the world. Students explore the data on the World figures spreadsheet to find the answers to the questions posed in the quiz. The presentation concludes by providing the answers to the questions and giving examples of...
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.
Inside this book, readers will meet the space robot engineers who use science, maths and technology to design and build incredible machines that do work in outer space. How do robot engineers turn ideas and sketches into fully functioning machines?
Why would a robot engineer be in a laboratory one day and a...
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.
Exploring Energy
The ten activities within this pack investigate environmental issues including: the greenhouse effect, recycling, sustainable energy sources and thermal insulation. Aimed at primary level, they are designed either for use in class or within a science week or club. The activities promote investigative work and...