This activity is based around video clips of the Swanscombe Tigers youth football team training and preparing for a game. There are three activities: • Pre-Match training which features several video clips showing players carrying out different football-related training tasks. Based on the players’ performances,...

Aimed at primary level, this resource provides a cross-curricular design and technology project linked to the topic of sound. Children design and make their own simple stringed instrument, so they can make a soundtrack for a movie clip. This enables them to learn and experience properties of sound and discover more...

Purpose: An important form of investigation that can be difficult to manage in classrooms is ‘observation over time’. Fixed length lessons reduce the number of possibilities for observation to those changes that occur within minutes rather than hours. One solution to this problem is to use time lapse photography to...

This resource is based on the Inventive podcast. The podcast mixes engineering fact with fiction. Each podcast features interviews with engineers. In this activity, CEO and chemical Engineer Enass Abo-Hamed, and integration engineer Majot Chana are the inspiration for George Sandifer-Smith to write 'Data is Truth...

From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of:

* Gravity and space

* Orbits and satellites

* The solar system and beyond

* Sun, Moon and Earth Each topic is explored from the following...

From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of:

• Modelling simple electrical loops
• Adding elements to circuits
* Power and voltage

Each topic is explored from the following perspectives:...

This film clip shows how steam is used to drive turbines in power stations which burn fossil fuels. It then looks at how turbines can be adapted to be driven by alternative energy sources, and examines the advantages and disadvantages of energy sources such as wind, to solar, biomass, hydroelectric power, tidal and...