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A selection of archived film clips from Footagevault and NASA showing historic space footage. Film clips available include: 'Saturn V rocket lift-off', 'The hammer and the feather on the moon', 'Astronauts leaping on the moon' and more. Footagevault has kindly provided clips which can be used with no charge.
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Like other Nuffield Working with Science units, this topic is intended to give students an opportunity to acquire relevant scientific information, skills, and attitudes, so that they may be able to put all these to practical use.
Students learn and practice how to behave scientifically and to increase their...
Football
This activity is based around video clips of the Swanscombe Tigers youth football team training and preparing for a game. There are three activities: • Pre-Match training which features several video clips showing players carrying out different football-related training tasks. Based on the players’ performances,...
Football in science teaching
What is the perfect curve of a ball’s trajectory, what must the ideal turf be like, and...
From the laws of physics on a skateboard to the effects of weather on a ball, this series explores the science behind these amazing sports.
Explore core science concepts in an engaging, high-interest format, with step-by-step guides to teach readers how to perform key moved in each sport; as well as...
Footprints of the Higgs Boson
This lesson focuses on scientific models and theories. It is set in the context of cutting-edge particle physics, focusing on evidence from experiments in the Large Hadron Collider. The lesson starts with an entertaining animation, set in the Large Hadron Collider, in...
Footprints on the Moon
In this lesson, students will learn a bit more about the Apollo missions and what the Astronauts did at the landing sites. They will then perform an experiment to determine which material, sand or flour, is most like the lunar soil, and observe samples of these under the USB microscopes to determine which is most...
Years ago, a little boy gazed at the moon, dizzy with the thought that he was looking at a world 200,000 miles away.
As he read atlases and library books and kept clippings on astronauts orbiting the moon, he hoped and hoped that they would find a way to land there. And one extraordinary day they did,...
For richer, for poorer
This play explores how we can both under- and over-eat and what this does for our health. Set in India it looks at two groups of people, rich and poor, and how both have poor diets for very...