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Pinball Power

The simple pinball machine in this activity is made from a cardboard box, with ice lolly sticks as the flippers. It provides a great opportunity to explore the science of forces and motion. Game on!

Learning outcomes:

• Investigate simple mechanisms and Newton’s Laws of Motion
• Use...

Pinball wizard

This Core Maths PowerPoint presentation explores a game using a quincunx. Students are asked to consider possible prize structures for the games and are introduced to Pascal’s triangle.

Pinch of Salt

This resource by The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC) puts curriculum science into real-world contexts and provides a cross-curricular approach to salt.

Children undertake a range of hands-on investigations that look at the use of salt. This includes the use of salt to treat icy roads and...

Pinhole camera

In this activity students make a pinhole camera and use it to take a photograph which is then developed using 'kitchen' chemicals to make a developing solution.

Resources required:

* Card to make pinhole camera, 'kitchen' chemicals to make the developing solution and bought...

Pinhole photography

This resource provides the instructions for making a pinhole camera, taking a photograph and developing the photos in a dark room.

PIP Kombi enables young children from 2 years of age to construct and arrange wooden components into inventions of their own design and to play and interact with them. The...

Pipeline shapes

This resource looks at how engineers collect natural gas from the seabed below the North Sea and transport it back to shore. Children are asked to investigate the best shape for the pipelines by creating a model pipeline and making observations on how they work.

Piping Stress Engineer: Danny Finn

This STEMNET resource describes the background and career of STEM Ambassador Danny Finn, a piping stress engineer.

Danny works for a company that build facilities to liquify natural gas before its transportation. His specialism is in determining whether pipe work will survive its required operating lifetime...