Resources
What Forces Act in Stretching?
This concept cartoon focuses on forces. Concept cartoons provide an approach to teaching, learning and assessment in science, they feature cartoon-style drawings showing different characters arguing about everyday situations. They are designed to intrigue, to provoke discussion and to stimulate scientific thinking...
What Forces Do
These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:
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Understand that a force makes things change: the speed, direction and/or shape of an object.
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Explain changes caused by more than one force acting on an object at the...
Discover why you do what you doJoin Professor Robert Winston and introduce your child to the most powerful, complicated computer network that exists - their brain. From what the different parts of the brain do and why it changes at different stages in a person's life, to why sleep is so important for us.
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What happened to the cup?
Students investigate why some plastic cups collapse when filled with hot water and some don't. They compare the effect of hot water on a range of cups and relate their findings to the properties of the plasticsused for each cup: whether it is biodegradable or not, its melting...
What happens to emitted carbon?
This three-minute video provided by Liverpool University highlights aspects of the carbon cycle, focusing on the human-influenced rise in Carbon Dioxide over time. The video looks at principal sources of CO2 and at systems involved in the absorption of the gas from the atmosphere.
This video was...
What Happens to Your Empty Drinks Cans? *suitable for home teaching*
Using real data from CensusAtSchool 2000/2001, this resource explores issues around the disposal or recycling of the empty aluminium cans in schools. Students discuss the issue, calculate statistics, draw graphs and look further into what happens to empty cans in their own school.
What Happens to Your Food? is an ideal intro duction to food, eating and digestion, using interactive fol d-out flaps to help explain to young readers the whole fasci nating journey of a meal through the human body...
An engaging and very visual series that introduces young readers to the idea of the recycling process.
An engaging and visual series that introduces young readers to the idea of the recycling process, 'What Happens When We Recycle' explains the importance of reusing our resources.