Resources
A tough plastic extendible periscope ideal for demonstrating the practical use of mirrors. Size: 110 x 70 x 300mm extending to 470mm.
Periscope
You can’t see around corners… or can you? In this activity, carefully placed mirrors change the path light takes twice, making it possible to look over walls, around corners and even behind you – all without being seen.
Learning outcomes:
- Investigate how light travels in a straight line and can...
Periscopes
From the Centre for Science Education, and with support from Shell Education services, these materials help children to investigate light and reflection. A periscope is a simple device that enables children to see over walls or round corners. Rays of light hitting the mirror of the periscope are reflected twice....
Many programmers code by instinct, relying on convenient habits or a "style" they picked up early on. They aren't conscious of all the choices they make, like how they format their source, the names they use for...
The Template Toolkit allows programmers to embed Perl code and custom macros into HTML documents in order to create customized documents on the fly.
But unlike the others, the Template Toolkit is as facile at...
Perseverance film: activity and discovery pack
Perseverance is a NASA rover that landed on Mars, in February 2021. The rover is searching for past evidence for life on Mars and collecting samples to be returned to Earth with a planned sample return mission, from NASA and the European Space Agency, ESA.
This resource activity pack supports the video...
Persistence of vision
This video demonstrates how the human eye will average or blend fast-flashing red, green and blue lights to produce violet light. However, if a ball containing the red, green and blue lights are spun the individual lights are clearly visible. This is because the eye will not merge the separate colours if they...
Personal best
This case study describes how Steph Forrester became a senior lecturer in sports technology. Her research aims to support the development of better sports equipment for the user. ‘Better’ can mean helping an athlete achieve their personal best, providing greater comfort or allowing them to perform with greater...
This collection of Nuffield Maths resources explores Personal Finance. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level.
...Based in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd) promotes awareness and benefits as well as ethical, legal and social implications of personal genetics. This series of six interactive resources for teachers of secondary science will also engage students...