A National STEM Learning Centre and Network Engineering Case Studies resource investigating the super magnets used in MRI scanning machines.

Can MRI scans discover if you're telling lies?

In this activity, student groups become multidisciplinary teams of hospital staff working on new leaflets or videos to help patients prepare for MRI brain scans.  Through the activity, students enrich their understanding of the brain as an organ, and apply their...

This resource provides a set of videos and a practical investigation aimed at supporting working scientifically in the classroom and relating science to real world experiences. In the first video Professor Brian Cox joins a teacher in a classroom to demonstrate the setting up and carrying out of the experiment. In...

From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of:

* Levers

* Pressure

Each topic is explored from the following perspectives:

• The physics narrative explains the physics of the topic using text...

Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the unit called ‘Energy’. This B unit provided enough material for six double periods in the third year of secondary school (year nine). The teachers’ guide included 11 worksheets to supplement the students’...

The machines of the future pack outlines a project challenging students working in teams to design a household product that uses machine learning.  Activities encourage students to research current technology, develop and plan the concept for their product, reflect on previous knowledge and present their work.

You may have seen Maggie Aderin-Pocock presenting BBC's The Sky at Night, asking Jeremy Paxman to hold a torch while she described a lunar eclipse, or on the sofa of a breakfast television show or The One Show talking enthusiastically about science. You may not know that she has hung out of the back of military...

This activity, produced by Solar Spark, uses "magic dye", a mixture of three different dye molecules. The mixture contains a yellow disperse dye, a direct blue dye and an acid red dye. When a fabric is put into the mixture, the dyes only attach to the types of fabrics they can bond well with. For example, the blue...

Produced by the Earth Science Teachers' Association, these resources start by looking at the viscosity of liquids and relate this to magma involved in volcanic eruptions. They go on to show the properties of magma and the resultant landscapes that are formed as well as how cooling rates influence the rocks formed...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Identify magnetic materials that are attracted to both the north- and south-seeking-poles of a magnet.
• Describe the rules of attraction and repulsion between two magnets.
• ...

This series of activities from NASA take a mathematical approach to looking at magnetism. They are intended as supplementary problems for students looking for additional challenges in mathematics and physical science from age 14 to 19 years.

The problems were created to be authentic glimpses of modern...

From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of: • Exploring magnets • Electromagnets at work Each topic is explored from the following perspectives: • The physics narrative explains the physics of the topic using text,...