This brief activity uses false-colour images of the Columbia glacier to introduce the idea of using sequences of satellite images to monitor change and focuses on the selection of appropriate data for an investigation.

In this card game from the IET, pupils learn about animals that hibernate during winter such as hedgehogs, bears, bats, bumblebees, ladybirds and moths. There is also an extension activity of a crossword.

Produced by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) this activity aims to encourage students to consider the wider environmental, social and economic implications of shopping. It can be conducted in small groups as an introduction to sustainability.

This is an widely used investigation where you determine the Young's modulus of a piece of copper wire. This can be expanded to test other wires or materials and helps students with their measurement techniques.

This series of textbooks for students from ages five to thirteen, published by Addison Wesley, was written by teachers for students with the aim of inspiring them by giving them a lively sense of interest and pleasure in mathematics and its creative use in everyday living. It was concerned with more than the...

This simulation allows students to learn about conservation of energy with a skater dude! Students can explore different tracks and investigate the relationship between the kinetic energy, potential energy, and thermal energy of the skater. They can also build their own tracks, ramps and jumps for the skater.

In this SATIS Revisited resource, students consider the Californian Gold Rush and its impact on the environment through pollution in the food chain and analysis of mercury in fish from local lakes and rivers.

This...

Published by the Nuffield Foundation this Revised Nuffield Advanced Biology Practical Guide is linked to the first six chapters of Study Guide II. Technical information and notes for teachers about the practical activities is given in ...

This resource from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) consists of the level 2 units. For each unit below there are comprehensive teachers' notes giving an overview of the unit, the aims and objectives for that unit, and prior learning or prerequisites and the equipment required...

Nuffield Design and Technology has developed a specific type of learning activity called a resource task. These short, practical activities are designed to teach capabilities in an engaging way.

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This resource can be used to demonstrate an understanding of the role of antioxidants in food processing to delay oxidation. A data based activity analyses types of fat in foods and an investigation into the browning of apples under varying conditions allows a quantitative measure of the oxidation reaction. 

This activity has a colourful and engaging reading page, themed around an interview with a real-life electrical engineer. The reading page is followed by targeted questions which cover a broad range of reading skills, along with some linked grammar questions, such as synonyms. Answers are also provided, making it...

In this activity children practise using scales to weigh different items of packaging. They then calculate how many of each item could be made from an average tree. 

The resource, which provides an authentic context for maths learning has been proved by the IET, (Institution of Engineering and Technology)....

Dallas Campbell shows how to make a simple rocket out of an old film canister and an effervescent tablet mixed with water.  He...

Students can take this online quiz to find out in a few short questions how their skills and passions could lead to an exciting job in engineering.

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