Resources

Bed rest

This animation explains how bed rest studies can simulate the effects of microgravity on the human body.  In this way, scientists can study a larger group of people than just the astronauts that we send into space.  The animation is part of the 60 Second Adventures in Microgravity and is narrated by David...

The Bedside Book Series are fascinating, interactive guides on a variety of subjects - physics, geometry and chemistry. They contain clear and concise explanations of different concepts, as well as profiles of key thinkers and their discoveries. A unique feature of this series are the simple, step-by-step exercises...

The Bedside Book Series are fascinating, interactive guides on a variety of subjects - physics, geometry and chemistry. They contain clear and concise explanations.

We all know it's wonderful to read bedtime stories to kids, but what about doing math? Many generations of Americans are uncomfortable with math and numbers, and too often we hear the phrase, "I'm...

Bee detectives

This KS2 resource looks at the importance of bees as pollinators and explores some of the threats they face. The activities are based around the work of ‘real world’ scientists in organisations such as Fera.

Activities include:

Pollination roleplay...

Honey is a tasty food, but do you know where it comes from and how it ends up on the supermarket shelves? Follow the story of honey from the worker bees visiting flowers, through what happens in...

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.

Includes a Bee-Bot, rechargeable batteries and unit, three activity mats and one set of 49 sequence cards.

Bee-Bot route decomposition activity

This activity gives SEND pupils the opportunity to create a program to control a single Bee-Bot around a complex course. Pupils learn to break down a problem into smaller parts, create an algorithm and a program to move a robot to a specific point and to detect and correct errors in the program by creating obstacle...

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.