Resources
Find out about the planet's most interesting animals. With fun facts and close-up photographs, these titles are the ultimate guides to the weird and wonderful world of the animal kingdom.Information about unusual...
Fastest freeze challenge
This well structured resource from the IET provides a quick and efficient way of learning about ice, roads and the impact of salt spreading. Most children will have real-world experience of winter, perhaps slipping on ice themselves, or seeing the gritters out on the roads. This resource provides children with the...
Fat is essential. In these articles we get to grips with the world of fats and lipids to find out what they do, not just inside us and other organisms but also understand our dependence on fats and relationship with the world around us.
Fat
Published by the Wellcome Trust, the 'Big Picture' explores issues around biology and medicine.
Fat is a word that carries a lot of weight, conjuring up topics as diverse as obesity, hibernating animals, and what we eat and how we cook it. This issue of the Big Picture looks at the fats and lipids to find...
Fat at the cellular level
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Lipids are essential components of membranes and even communication. |
Fast food may be quick and convenient, but many popular fast-food items are also high in fat. This innovative display combines ten food models with ten corresponding test tubes that provide a graphic representation of the saturated and unsaturated fat content of each food.
Food models include a cheeseburger...
Fat chemistry
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Summary of the carbon bonds in fatty acids and triglycerides. |
Fat is Not a Four-letter Word
This Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) school briefing looks at how obesity is viewed by the general public and how the war on obesity could lead to discrimination on the grounds of a person's size and intolerance towards the over-weight. The briefing examines the possibly doubtful science that can colour...