In this activity, children learn that a shooting star or meteor is a piece of rock that lights up as it travels through the Earth’s atmosphere. They also work scientifically to investigate how craters are formed when a meteor...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Predict the temperature of different materials that are all in thermal equilibrium with the room

• Predict the temperature reached by mixing samples of water that are...

This concept cartoon focuses on temperature change in chemical reactions. 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...

Inspired by the Born to Engineer video from George Edwards, a young engineer whose understanding of temperature measurement helps him to create a newly engineered product, this resource supports students to increase their understanding of engineering by learning about temperature control and its importance in the...

This task assesses understanding of graphs and box plots.

A graph is given that shows the highest average temperature for each month in California and Washington. The task is to say what is the same about the graphs, and what is different. A subsequent task is to select correct box plots for California and...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand applying Pythagoras’ theorem in an unfamiliar situation and calculating areas of circles.

During the Edo period (1603-1897) of Japanese history, geometrical puzzles were hung in the holy temples as offerings to the gods and as challenges to...

This collection has been produced in celebration of ten years of continuing professional development run through the National Science Learning Centre. These practical experiments and demonstrations have been selected by the National Science Learning Centre, and their key partners, as the ten experiments that...

This worksheet challenges students to answer a series of questions themed around tesselation. It provides worked examples, examiners top tips and answers to each question. The resource is useful for teaching maths content in design and technology, or as a maths activity sheet.

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), introduces students to the idea of creating a rule that can be used to create tessellated patterns, thus understanding what is required to make interlocking units.

The resource has three parts.

Continue the patterns 1 provides tessellating patterns produced on squared dotted lattice paper. Students are required to continue each of the patterns.

Continue the patterns 2 provides tessellating patterns produced on isometric dotted...

This resource contains eight instant maths ideas, designed to provide students with the opportunity to investigate which polyominoes tessellate, which triangles tessellate, which quadrilaterals tessellate, design their own shape that tessellates and find tessellating patterns in art and nature. Student resource...

In this activity, learners will improve and further develop their programmable pedestrian crossing system using the micro:...

In this activity, students review their results from a previous investigation to form a hypothesis, consider the validity and size of the data set collected, and question if the data would be sufficient to confirm their claim.