Resources
Snooker Balls, Plum Puddings and Solar Systems
A Catalyst article looking at what matter is made of. Snooker balls, plum puddings and solar systems have all featured in descriptive models of atoms. The article explores how people’s ideas about atomic structure have changed over the years by using specific examples of scientific study.
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Find out everything you need to know about snow, including how to throw your own snow party, with the 'Weather Watch' series. Each book in this appealing series focuses on a different type of weather: how weather can...
Snow sparkle slime
This well structured resource from the IET provides a quick and efficient way of making slime, themed around Christmas snow. Children can get their hands busy making their own ‘Snow Sparkle Slime’ whilst learning about polymers, materials and states of matter. An extra activity included in the resource is the snow...
The long-awaited follow-up to the international bestseller The Jelly Effect Communication is supposed to cause something. That's the point of it. So, what do you want to achieve following your communication? Do you...
Snowboard Designer
Liza Brooks is a snowboard designer. This Department for Education clip illustrates the link between studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects at school with careers in design and manufacture.
Liza describes how her job involves looking at the science that goes into a...
Snowflake Seashell Star is a colouring-in exercise book with designs created and inspired by mathematical patterns.
Snowman challenge
In this Core Maths resource students are given the open-ended task of designing a snowman. Students are given some basic information about the density of different types of snow and some relevant formulae, and are asked to design a ‘life-sized’ snowman and give a full mathematical description of it.
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Will a boat sink if it sails into deep water? Should you fall asleep in a shady spot? Why does a cold glass get wet on the outside? In this boldly original book, a group of young friends ask intriguing questions...
Will a boat sink if it sails into deep water? Should you fall asleep in a shady spot? Why does a cold glass get wet on the outside?
In this boldly original book, a group of young friends ask intriguing...