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This collection of resources supports teachers to run the V&A Innovate National Schools Challenge with their students. It contains downloadable resources and inspiring videos that will helps students participate in the creative design process needed to approach the 3 design challenges:
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V, S and E
Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics.
There are six ways to write the total edge length, total surface area and volume of a cube, or cuboid, in order of size. This presentation challenges students to find a cube for each order. Autograph files are provided to...
Vaccination Policy
Produced by the new economics foundation (nef), this resource contains activities to help students to discuss and understand the issues around childhood vaccination programmes. The materials contain teacher guidance, student information and a range of activities that promote discussion and debate.
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Vaccinations and Their Risks
This resource from Defence Dynamics looks at the process of vaccination and how it stimulates the immune system to provide an active immunity to the pathogen. It encourages students to understand the risks involved in having a vaccination and how attitudes to vaccinations can be influenced by different personal...
Vaccine initiative: are vaccines safe?
This cross-curricular activity introduces the concept of vaccination, specifically for COVID-19, using stimulus materials enabling student discussion opportunities. The way in which vaccines work, what they contain and the most common side effects are explained using simple scientific terminology. Some anti-vaccine...
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Vacuum Bazooka
This video from whynotchemeng shows the use of a vacuum cleaner to create a bazooka that fires film canisters. The pressure difference in the tube caused by the vacuum cleaner, makes the air outside push the canister at high speed through the tube.
This book describes twenty-nine unusual but practical experiments, detailing how they are done and the math and physics behind them. It will delight both casual and inveterate tinkerers. Of varying levels of...
Vacuum forming your beep tester casing
In this activity, learners will use a vacuum former to manufacture a suitable casing for a programmable product. It provides information on vacuum forming, in the context of creating a sports product for a micro:bit.
Valuable Lessons - Engaging with the Social Context of Science in Schools
This document presents the executive summary and findings of a report which was carried out by a team from the Institute of Education, University of London, for the Wellcome Trust and published in 2001. It investigates how, and in which curriculum subjects, controversies arising from bioscience are tackled in...