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Baking Bread

This resource looks at the irreversible change associated with making bread. It includes teacher guidance for activities, a recipe for chapattis, photographs and a worksheet. It also contains suggestions for teaching the topic to younger learners.
Although designed as a science resource it could also be used...

This series, designed for Key Stage 3, caters for all abilities through an easy-to-use format. It encourages exploration and investigation, relating science to everyday situations and features step-by-step guides to experiments. Extension material is included for all ability students.

Intended for study at Key Stage 3, the books in this series offer a wide range of pupil activities to give a comprehensive and balanced coverage of the requirements of the National Curriculum in science. This book looks at nature.

Balance the broomstick

In this activity learners will make use of the theme of Halloween to learn how a simple lever works and how it can be balanced. They will work through a series of examples to see whether different animals sat at each end of the broomstick will balance it or not. They will then find as many ways of balancing the...

Balanced and Unbalanced Forces

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Identify pairs of forces that are balanced or unbalanced.

• Calculate the size and direction of the resultant force of two forces acting along the same straight line....

Balanced forces - R2P

This resource provides a lesson plan showing how to use bridging analogies to teach about balanced forces.

The research summary provides a concise overview of the difficulties experienced when teaching this topic and the common misconceptions. Elements of this research, such as ...

Balanced Meal

This resource for Key Stage Three students provides detailed information about each food type and gives examples and daily portion allowances. The resource would link to studies about food, diet and health, and the life processes and nutritional needs of humans. 

Balanced or unbalanced forces?

This resource asks pupils to apply their knowledge of forces, resultant forces and the affect of forces on the motion of an object. The first task checks pupils' ability to be able to interpret force arrows to describe qualitatively the motion of a lorry and calculate the resultant force.  Pupils are then asked to...

This comprehensive, up-to-date course covers the varied content of all the science, general science and integrated science syllabuses of all the GCSE exam boards. It also satisfies the National Curriculum programmes of study for Key Stage 4.

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.