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Fat, nutrition and health
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Fat is essential for a balanced diet – how do we process it, and what is the link with obesity? |
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Fats, Oils and Soaps
A Catalyst article investigating a few of the uses of naturally occurring oils. These oils are extracted from animal fats or plant seeds and can be turned into a variety of compounds including soaps, fuel and margarine. The article looks at oils as fuels, their use in paint and detergents and problems with their...
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.
Favourite colour tally chart
This resource focusses on producing a tally chart to record and analyse data about favourite colours. This activity introduces tally charts to the pupils as a really quick and easy way of recording data. They will learn how to produce one and how it can be used to find out the favourite and least favourite colours...
Faye Cashman: Spacecraft Engineer
Faye Cashman is a Systems Engineer at Astrium in Portsmouth. In this video, Faye describes her work with all sorts of spacecraft systems such as communication satellites and the Mars Rover. She is currently working on a new telescope which will, in time, replace the Hubble telescope and uses infrared to see...
Fearless frames
This task is designed to assess how well students understand maximising a volume.
The task looks at designs for freight containers made using metal frames. For the first task, 60 metres of metal tubing is available and students must design a container in the shape of a cuboid that maximises the volume of the...
This series takes a fresh look at the animal world. It explores various textures and explains why texture is important for protection, disguise and display.
Fee Fi Foo Fum
This lesson plan with starter, main and plenary from CensusAtSchool suitable for Year Eight students develops the concept of ratio. Students will Investigate the Golden Ratio (also known as Phi) using the ratio of height to belly button height data collected and presented as a dataset.
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Feed the Birds
This resource, from the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB), allows students to recognise common birds and to carry out two investigations which involve the feeding behaviour of birds.
*Observing garden birds to study the effect of the colour of food items on consumption
*Observing...