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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 the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

Fireworks

An ideal lesson plan for the lead up to fireworks night! This is about making sparkles flash with random intervals and colours. It can also be made more difficult by using LDRs.

Fireworks: an Explosive Business

This Catalyst article looks at fireworks and their history, how they are made and set off, and what gives them their colours and effects. The basic chemistry used in fireworks is looked at and how they work once the fuse is ignited.

This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2002, Volume 13, Issue 2...

First Aid in Mathematics gives all the help, support and practice needed for learning and revising Mathematics. It is planned to give  comprehensive coverage of core mathematical topics in clear and...

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.

The Oxford First Book of Science presents and explains the themes of science, with the emphasis on practical applications, required by the National Curriculum at KS1 and early KS2.

It includes themes such as...

The central aim of this book is determination of all possible groups of orders 1 to 15, together with some study of their structure. By  time this aim is realised towards  end of  book,  reader should have acquired  basic ideas and methods of group theory.

Included are some applications of permutation groups...

This book provided a supporting text for first examinations in statistics taken in schools and colleges.

First Exoplanet

From the European Southern Observatory (ESO), this video describes how an exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our galaxy, the Milky Way, from another galaxy has been detected. A team of astronomers observed the exoplanet using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The Jupiter-...

First Flight: the Wright Brothers

A Catalyst article about the Wright brothers who made the first powered flight. Unlike the try-it-and-see methods used in many of the previous attempts, the Wrights approached the problem of flight in a scientific way and beat the competition. This article looks at the Wright brothers' research and the wing shapes...