Resources
Which crisps are crispiest and what makes them un-crisp?
A CREST Bronze Award activity in which children investigate the conditions required to keep crisps fresh.
Which Fruits Would Be Good in Your Salad?
In this unit from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology, students design and make a bowl of fruit salad to share with the other children in the class. Students need to consider the look, feel and taste of the fruit salad so that it matches the requirements of the group, as revealed by their own...
Which fuel is best?
This resource contains a series of tasks which builds pupils' knowledge and understanding of combustion and how to evaluate what makes a good fuel. In the initial task pupils' are introduced to the properties of complete and incomplete combustion and this is then applied to the combustion reactions that take place...
Which hits the ground first
A basketball and a 5kg medicine ball are dropped simultaneously. Which one hits the ground first? It seems obvious that the heavy one should accelerate at a greater rate and therefore land first because the force pulling it down is greater. But this is forgetting inertia - the tendency of mass to resist changes in...
Which Imaging Technique?
This resource, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), allows students to investigate the wide range of sophisticated imaging technology available in modern hospitals, and to explore the latest ideas in search-and-rescue robotics.
...Which Imaging Technique? - Practical
In this practical activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), students investigate aspects of signal processing. Working in teams, students convert an analogue brain signal into a digital format and transmit it across the classroom to another...
Which lorry should a controller send?
The task within this resource is a real-world example of analysis and problem solving that can be used to support a lesson on computational thinking.
It uses the scenario of a controller in a logistics company who schedules all the lorries and drivers to make deliveries during the course of the day. Pupils...
Which material and why
This is one of a set of resources produced in conjunction with the engineering company Arconic. The resources are designed to support teaching of key engineering concepts at both key stage 3 and key stage 4, including the new GCSE in Engineering. This resource focusses on selecting appropriate materials for an...
Which Material? 1
In this activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), students carry out some data analysis to find the best material from which to make a prosthetic foot. They plot graphs of stress against strain and calculate the modulus of elasticity for a...
Which Material? 2
In this practical activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, students investigate the properties of smart springs and see how they might be used as muscles in a robotic arm. This activity can be used as an extension to the related activity ‘...