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What Can We See From Space?
This short activity introduces students to the ideas of the footprint and resolution of an image, asking them to choose and use appropriate methods to calculate how these quantities would change as they moved a camera to a series of vantage points above the surface of the Earth
What Can You Learn from a Textile Tree?
In this unit from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology, students design and make a simple tree structure using a variety of textiles, paper and card.
The unit allows students to handle and experience a variety of textiles and relate them to their everday uses. They make textile sample...
What can you lift?
In this task students are required to estimate dimensions and use given densities to calculate an estimate for the mass of a number of objects. Calculators and/or spreadsheets are recommended when substituting into the formulae for the volume and mass of the solids.
The teachers' notes give a suggested...
What Causes the Aurora? *suitable for home teaching*
This article from Catalyst looks at aurora borealis caused by the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetic field. It also explains how satellites are testing thoeires of how this happens. Auroral light emission occurs at roughly 100 km altitude. Energetic electrons in the solar wind cause the...
What causes the seasons?
Much of this video shows how many people do not understand how the seasons are caused. There is a small section at the end that attempts to clarify the cause.
Did you know that James West invented the microphone in your cell phone? That Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? Or that Dr. Percy Julian synthesized...
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 book challenges the theory of natural selection as an explanation for how evolution works, not in the name of religion but in the name of good science. The authors, a philosopher and scientist working in tandem, reveal major flaws at the heart of Darwinian evolutionary theory. The arguments will be...
Focusing on how designers use drawings in communicating their ideas and how they 'converse' with them as their designs develop, this book shows how experienced...