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Innovation Challenge - Session 9 - Who do you think you are?
Session 9 of the Innovation Challenge is: Who do you think you are?
In this session students will understand the importance of a company or product name, what a target audience is and the use of promotional tools.
Learning outcomes
Students will:
• Create a business...
The main source of information and guidance for the 10 sessions that you will run with your students during the Innovation Challenge can be found in the Teacher Toolkit.
There are lots of activities included in the...
Innovation Challenge - Teacher Guidance
Innovation is all around us; every day businesses are set up and new products or services created. Companies House states that around 500,000 new businesses are registered every year in the UK, with an average of 30,000 new products launched.
At the bottom of this page, you can download the Innovation...
Is there witchcraft and wizardry in the real world?
You may think that magic and spells only exist in your favourite books and movies. But can we make magic in the real world? This resource investigates how you can use science to make things change colour and state, or even disappear.
The activities are introduced with a quick objective and a preparation...
Key Principles of a STEM Club
What defines a successful STEM Club?
The STEM Clubs Programme supported by the Gatsby Foundation carried out research with schools across the UK and with STEM organisations to identify key principles that all STEM clubs should aim to achieve.
Enabling a STEM club to be supportive of...
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Laser cooling
Lasers can be used to heat things up, and also to cool them down. Using carefully tuned lasers, scientists in the UK quantum technology hubs are able to slow atoms down to just a few centimetres per...
Lights
In this resource students will carry out experiments with prisms, polarising film and 3D cinema glasses to explain some of the interesting properties of light and their applications.
Curriculum links include refractive index, total internal reflection, polarisation
Making bubbles
Inspired by the Born to Engineer video from Dr Eleanor Stride, an engineer who is developing a treatment for cancer that encloses cancer-treating drugs in bubbles, this resource supports students to increase their understanding of engineering in a food science context,...
Making music
In this activity, students create musical instruments using recycled materials. They are then asked to analyse the musical notes their instruments produce using free-to-download software. The challenge is for the students to see how close the notes their instruments make can get to those produced by real...