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Nuffield Physics Activities for GCSE
This pack of Nuffield Physics activity sheets was designed to match the National Curriculum Science: Physics at Key stage Four from 1996. The ideas were drawn from materials produced by various Nuffield projects over the previous ten years. The pack includes student sheets for 97 different activities.
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Space, Sports, Sun and Safety
This resource contains eight projects:
1. Using UV sensitive beads and sun cream to investigate the effects of ultraviolet radiation.
2. The aim of this activity is to encourage the students to come up with their own investigations, to explore how exposure to UV radiation varies in different countries...
Catalyst Volume 17 Issue 1: Full Magazine
This issue of Catalyst includes the following articles:
These resources have been created by Dynamic Earth as part of Protecting Our Planet Day (POP) events.
POP23 resources
Pressure in the deep has been designed to help...
Mars Diary Chapter Four: Science on Mars
‘Work with your rover to collect scientific samples then head to the lab. It's time to experiment!’
In this chapter students think about the challenges of running experiments on Mars using a robotic rover, including
- programming the rover to navigate,
- decrypting coded messages,
- ...
Galaxies *suitable for home teaching*
This resource has been devised by The Royal Observatory Edinburgh with the Institute of Physics Scotland, to inspire secondary science classes. They are mainly used by students aged 11-14 years but can be used from upper primary to upper secondary.
Students investigate galaxies. They use data from real...
Faye Cashman: Spacecraft Engineer
Faye Cashman is a Systems Engineer at Astrium in Portsmouth. In this video, Faye describes her work with all sorts of spacecraft systems such as communication satellites and the Mars Rover. She is currently working on a new telescope which will, in time, replace the Hubble telescope and uses infrared to see...
Careers Examples and Options
These two Future Morph resources aim to show students that there is a wide choice of options open to those who study sciences and mathematics. The resources consist of:
Career examples list
The list covers six...
The ESA/ESO Astronomy exercise series (measuring distances in the Universe)
The object of this resource, produced by ESA and ESO, is to present various small projects that will pass on some of the excitement and satisfaction in scientific discovery, to students. Using elementary geometrical and physical considerations, students will be able to derive answers that are comparable with the...
SPACE Project Research Report: the Earth in Space
The Science Processes and Concepts Exploration (SPACE) project research report on Earth in Space was conducted at two centres: at the University of Liverpool and King’s College, London and published in 1994 by Liverpool University Press. Each centre took responsibility for research in particular concepts and for...