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This book introduces space concepts to young readers aged 4+. Large format, simple text and high-quality photos make this book ideal as a general introduction to topics or for group work.
Sci-hi explores and explains core science concepts and topics, firing students' curiosity about the world around them. This book focuses on space.
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 book provides numerous ideas for practical projects (which are demanded in a number of syllabuses) as well as conceptual problems. There is a strong emphasis on the real world. This book looks at statistics.
Exploring Statistics
This resource, produced by the Centre for Teaching Mathematics at the University of Plymouth, is designed to provide a series of short problems to stimulate discussion of statistics amongst students and between students and teachers; and to provide some longer investigations which search more deeply into the...
Exploring Technology is the second of a three-part series of publications for use in the study of technology in the middle school. This text explores modern technological systems. In all three texts, a historic perspective is developed to contribute to the complete understanding of modern systems, including...
Exploring the circular economy
The following lesson plans provide a good introduction to the circular economy, and can be taught in sequence or as stand-alone lessons.
The lessons plans include:
- Challenging common conceptions
- Exploring the circular economy
- Understanding the challenge of ‘finite’...
This edited collection is concerned with the teaching of design and...
Exploring the Deep Ocean
This Catalyst article describes discovering hydrothermal vents at ocean sea-beds. Hydrothermal vents form along mid-ocean ridges. A mid-ocean ridge is where the Earth’s tectonic plates are moving apart, usually at a rate of about 6 to 18 centimetres a year. The presence of hydrothermal vents had been predicted by...