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Swap Puzzle

Using a set of simple ‘swap puzzles’, this CS4FN activity helps students to learn, fundamentally, what an algorithm is and how they can be made more efficient. Students are encouraged to create algorithms for solving the puzzles which can be used by future players to win, with no understanding of the game, in as...

This book prompts children and adults to talk about what they like to eat, to ask questions and discuss their favourite foods. Each spread shows the name of the fruit or vegetable alongside a photograph.

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Sweet Chromatography

In this activity students use chromatography to separate the dyes in sweets. The resource looks at the information on food labels and provides some questions for students to answer about fat, sugar and salt content.

Students then place sweets on filter paper, adding water to dissolve the food colourings....

Sweet Learning Computer

To play a simple game called Hexapawn, an ‘artificially intelligent’ computer is created made entirely from sweets. The game is like a mini version of chess; the rules are explained fully, and a playing board drawn. The ‘machine’ then ‘learns’ how to improve its playing of the game by trial and error and by ‘...

Sweet or Sour?

Produced by Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), this investigation looks at the taste of different fruits and vegetables. Domesticated fruits and vegetables have all been selectively bred so that they contain a particularly attractive taste for humans.

Sweet Success

From The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), these activities investigate the crystallisation of sugar in the fondant of creme eggs.

Complaints of 'glass' in creme eggs, and other sugar confectionery products, are sometimes the result of the growth of very large crystals of sugar. In these...

Sweet success

In this activity students carry out an activity to see if they can tell the difference between drinks that contain sugar and those that contain sweeteners.

Students learn about chiral molecules and how sweeteners can...

From The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), these activities investigate the crystallisation of sugar in the fondant of creme eggs.

Complaints of 'glass' in creme eggs, and other sugar confectionery products, are sometimes the result of the growth of very large crystals of sugar. In these...

Sweeteners

This resource can be used to introduce how sweeteners and sugars affect blood sugar levels with a focus upon the condition of diabetes. A series of text based activities give an introduction to diabetes with a case study comprehension task as well as graphs and data table information to analyse. The foods...