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The Transitioning Beaker Trick
In this magic trick, a glass container filled with clear, colourless liquid is briefly covered and suddenly it has been swapped for a flask full of opaque dark-blue liquid. It can then be changed back without anyone noticing the swap. The trick uses the classic 'iodine clock' reaction.
The Transport Problem
In this SATIS Revisited resource students consider the conflict between the increasing use of energy and the need to reduce the use of fossil fuels in order to lessen carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change.
The aim of this unit is to introduce the idea that the discussion of controversial issues...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
This book explores the significance of the forests in Scotland, northern Scandinavia, Siberia, Alaska and Canada for all life on Earth. The author considers what the trees, and the people who live and work alongside them, have to tell us about the past, present and future of our planet, considering the accelerating...
The Trigonometry of the Right Angled Triangle
This unit from the Continuing Mathematics Project is concerned with the calculation of the sides and angles of triangles and how this is used by the surveyor, the navigator, and the cartographer. The development of the television, the light and the road have all relied...
This unit from the Continuing Mathematics Project is concerned with the calculation of the sides and angles of triangles and how this is used by the surveyor, the navigator, and the cartographer. The development of the television, the light and the road have all relied on trigonometry.
The objectives of the...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
The truth about toilet swirl - southern hemisphere
This video demonstrates the Coriolis effect. However, explains that much of what we see in terms of rotating water in either the northern or southern hemispheres is mostly due to other angular momentum sources in the body of the water.
An explanation of the Coriolis effect uses a scientific model (thought...
There have been many theories about what struck the Earth in central Siberia in 1908 with the force of 3,000 atomic bombs causing millions of trees to topple over and many still standing trees to lose all their branches. However, despite many expeditions and the efforts of generations of Russian scientists,...