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This volume combines fun with education for kids who want to investigate science outside of the school curriculum, using household and garden resources. Adult supervision may be required for some of the projects.

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.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his...

Surf and the Simpsons

California is one of the top surf locations in the world and also home to Universal Studios. This video from Teachers TV focuses on the protection of the coastline and Universals Studios' initiatives to become environmentally friendly.

Off shore oil drilling, polluted beaches and waste running into the...

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.

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.

Surface Area and Volume

This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of surface area and volume, from counting the number of cubes in a solid to find the volume to finding maximum volumes of a solid.

Surface area and volume pack one...

Surface Area Inquiry

This resource from Inquiry Maths is designed to encourage students to explore connections between surface area and volume.

The surface area...

Surface area to volume ratio of cells

This Core Maths task asks students to consider the relationship between surface area and volume and how this applies to cells. The materials include a presentation that can be used to lead students through the task and to aid discussion.

The teachers' notes contains a suggested starting point for the...

Surface tension: capillary rise

The aim of this investigation is observing the capillary rise of water in capillary tubes and extending this to determine the surface tension of water.  This will test students measuring skills and get them to discuss errors in measurements too.