Resources by Queen Mary University of London
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Electronic Engineering for...
Emotional robot
A short starter activity for students of all ages. It would make a good introduction to lessons on robotics or artificial intelligence and could spark a discussion on how neural networks might be used to create human-like behaviour. Equally, when discussing HCI design, it might move the debate beyond keyboard and...
Fission and Fusion: a Physics Kit
This resource, produced by SEPNet and Queen Mary University of London, uses Lego to represent the building blocks of matter. Different colour and size Lego bricks are assigned to protons, neutrons and electrons. Fusion is shown by joining bricks together and fission by breaking large collections of bricks apart....
Game Show Algorithms
Although this activity is not in the form of a lesson plan, the activity illustrates a good series of steps that students could either work through as a class, or in smaller groups/pairs. They could then be asked to pick from a selection of...
Hexahexaflexagon
This presentation, from Paul Curzon at QMUL, uses a folded paper geometric shape called a hexahexaflexagon to teach about abstraction, data representation and graph data structures, while encouraging computational thinking. A video (linked from within the presentation) shows how to make one of the geometrical...
Hieroglyph pixel puzzle
Combine Egyptian Hieroglyphics with the teaching of pixels and digital images in computing, with this colour by Egyptian hieroglyph pixel puzzle.
The resources in this collection show how you can take basic physics and chemistry demonstrations and change them into magic tricks. Each resources comes with teachers notes and a video which shows how to carry out the trick.
Instant Freezing Water Trick
In this magic trick a container of water appears to freeze just by touching the surface of it.
The liquid is not water, but a super saturated solution of sodium acetate. Placing a few sodium acetate crystals on the tip of your finger and touching the liquid causes a chain crystallisation reaction. This...
Invisible Palming
This activity from the Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) team at QMUL is an introduction to algorithms suitable for those in upper primary school. A ‘self-working’ magic trick is shown – this is a trick that works every time, as long as the process is followed exactly. No understanding of the trick is needed by the...
These six lessons and activities introduce children to algorithms, logical reasoning and context, cross curricular pattern spotting...