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Key Stage Three: Watching Cement Set
In these two lessons from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)'s Seeing Science, students explore how scientists choose the right concrete for the job. Working in small groups, the pupils make concrete samples with various additives and carry out strength tests ensuring the tests are fair. A video...
These videos are excerpts from the We Are Aliens! planetarium show. They provide good starter activities for looking at life within our universe. They explore life within our solar system and the Earth and other planets that may contain life. The exoplanets videos go on to look at the possibilities of life outside...
Life in Our Solar System
Life in the extremesMicrobes can survive in the most hostile and inhospitable environments. Might similar places in our solar system be able to support them too?
Why are scientists interested in Mars?Why are...
Life in the Freezer *suitable for home teaching*
If there is life elsewhere in our solar system it’s likely to live in a pretty cold environment. In this resource, students investigate the effect of antifreeze on the freezing point of water and how it can allow fragile cells to survive extreme cold. In the video, Judith Green explains how students can plan an...
Little Book of the Big Bang
From the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), this cartoon booklet introduces particle physics, particle accelerators and the Large Hadron Collider. This clear, concise and entertaining booklet explains what a particle accelerator such as the LHC is and the questions it is trying to answer, such as ‘...
These learning materials describe ISIS, a particle accelerator facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Produced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), these resources will help students to:
* Improve their understanding of atoms, molecules, neutrons and muons
* Find out about...
Living in a Materials World: Introduction
This introduction to the Living in a Materials World CD-ROM describes the work of ISIS, a research centre based at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Appleton Rutherford Laboratory.
At ISIS, particle accelerators provide beams of neutrons and muons to enable the structure and dynamics of...
Locating lunar landers
This lesson goes into more detail about the specific Apollo missions that returned the Lunar samples in this kit. It also combines coordinate systems with high resolution Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images to challenge students to locate the lunar landing sites and hardware that was left behind on the surface of...
Lunar lift off
In this lesson, students will consider the differences in gravity between the Earth and the Moon and the meaning of mass, weight and gravity. They will then use stills from footage of the Apollo 17 Lunar lift off to calculate the speed during the initial ascent.
Curriculum links:
- Reading and...
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