These technical briefs focus on low cost approaches related to sustainable construction and materials.

Technical briefs are documents produced by Practical Action which are freely...

This resource provides classroom activity and a presentation on sustainable design.

Become an engineer and share your idea for innovations that work towards a sustainable future for our planet and our goal of reaching net zero as a country.
 
All teams who enter will have a chance to:

• Share their innovation with real engineers,
• Win individual and team prizes, ...

Suzie researches how the sun influences the planets in the solar system.  She also teaches physics to undergraduates and is involved in a lot of outreach.  Suzie is currently working on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. 

There are two cuts of the video – one aimed at primary aged children, and one for...

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...

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 ‘...

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...

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...