Let’s Dissect – the Digestive Tract
This tutorial, from Bristol University’s Let’s Dissect, highlights the structure and function of the digestive tract, including the salivary glands, oesophagus, stomach, duodenum, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small intestine, villi, large intestine and rectum. Curriculum links include the digestive process, enzymes,…
Let’s Dissect – the Kidney
This tutorial, from Bristol University’s Let’s Dissect, highlights the structure and function of the kidney and includes a video of a kidney dissection with accompanying narration describing the anatomy. Curriculum links include the excretory system and homeostasis. The process of kidney dialysis is also explained…
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Let's Dissect - the Heart
This tutorial, from Bristol University’s Let’s Dissect, includes a video of a heart dissection with accompanying narration describing the anatomy. Following this, there are slides which highlight the position, structure and function of the main parts of the heart, including chambers, vessels, valves and heart wall. A…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Skill 2.3 Observing from Different Points of View
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to look at information from different points of view. While listening to a presentation, or watching a film, students are encouraged to consider what is being shown from a range of different perspectives, such as a scientist, sociologist, technologist…
Futurecade
Futurecade is an innovative interactive suite of games from the Science Museum that allows students to explore how science and technology impacts on their everyday lives. Futurecade’s four games are inspired by current and future technology in the fields of robotics, satellites and space junk, geo-engineering and synthetic…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Volume of Cylinder 2
This Virtual Maths resource demonstrates a practical application of the formula for finding the volume of a cylinder. Voids created by auger piling, created when constructing a piled wall, are filled with concrete and the engineer on site has to calculate the volume of concrete required. Also available is a tool which shows a…
Volume of Cylinder 1
This Virtual Maths resource demonstrates a practical application of the formula for finding the volume of a cylinder. A cabinet has to be built to hold drums of oil and the presentation shows how to convert units, before using them to find the radius of a cylinder and thus the diameter. Students then calculate the necessary dimensions…
Surface Area of Semi Cylinder
This practical activity from Virtual Maths provides the net of a semicylinder, which is used to construct a 3-D model and calculate the surface area of the shape. Students are prompted to measure dimensions and find the area of the semicircles and rectangles. Their results are put into a structured table to enable them to find the…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Volume of a Brick
These resources from Virtual Maths include a presentation and video which explain the technique used to find the bulk density of a brick, using the water displacement method. Because a brick is quite a complicated shape, in so much as it is not even and has a rough surface, to calculate its volume accurately it is weighed in air…
Basic Structures
This resource from Virtual Maths illustrates the basic principle of bending moments and shear force. These are the effect that altering a load, both at a point and uniformly distributed on a beam, has on the beam and the reaction forces.
Transposition of Formula
This resource from Virtual Maths looks at the transposition of formulae by demonstrating the relationship between three terms. Each term can be selected as the subject of a formula and there is an option to substitute numbers for letters, which will allow students to link arithmetic skills to algebraic manipulation. There is also…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Algebra Games
This resource from Virtual Maths reinforces the distinction between equations, expressions and formulae. It is an interactive game with three levels where students use keyboard arrows to manipulate a wheelbarrow in which they catch equations, expressions or formulae as a selection of all three drop down the screen. An explanation…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Waterproof Hanky
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teachers' notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. This demonstration illustrates the power of water's surface tension and the…
Straw Oboes
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. This is a noisy, amusing demonstration of the physics of music. Using a drinking straw,…
Tame Tornado
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. This is a good visual demonstration of forces, and in particular vortices. This demonstration…
The Power of Words
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. Using a rule and a sheet of newspaper, this demonstration shows just how much force air…
Potato Straw
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. Could you push a plastic straw into a potato? Try doing it slowly and the drinking…
Shrinking Coin
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. This demonstration gets a 2p coin through a hole the size of a 1p coin. It seems impossible…
Magical Match
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. In this demonstration, the uneven contraction of a match causes it to bend. The same…
One in the Hand
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. Can you crush an egg in your hand? Demonstrate how force over a large area won't…
Lager Lamp
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. This demonstration is a twist on the old lava lamp. Watch nuts rise and fall in lager…
Extra Bounce
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. This experiment is all about conservation of energy and momentum. Drop each ball separately…
Erupting Fizz
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. Oil and water won't mix but use a carbonated drink, some salt and an Alka-Seltzer…
Egg-citing Physics
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. Spinning hard-boiled and uncooked eggs demonstrates momentum. The raw egg is filled…
Cloud in a Bottle
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. This simple demonstration can be used to show water condensation as a 'cloud'…
Cartesian Diver
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. This classic demonstration helps to get students thinking about how pressure can influence…
Bernoulli Balls
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. Impress your audience by keeping a ball in the air using only a hairdryer. The upward…
Balloon Kebabs
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. Amaze your audience by pushing a kebab skewer into a balloon. The trick is to stop the…
Amazing Marshmallows
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. Show how reduced air pressure in a bottle causes the air inside marshmallows in the bottle…
Alka-Seltzer Rocket
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this Physics to Go video shows a short demonstration that can be used to engage your students. The teacher notes include the equipment needed, tips and contain a full explanation of the physics involved. This demonstration shows how the idea of pressure can be shown using just a 35mm film…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Building Bonanza
From the Science Museum, this interactive game is a good way to engage students in thinking about the materials, and other factors, needed to make a more sustainable house of the future. Students are given choices over things such as building materials, heating, lighting, construction and insulation. This gives students an opportunity…
- 5/5
- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Hungry Mice
From the Science Museum, this interactive game encourages students to think about renewable and non-renewable energy sources. Students need to guide their 'Hungry mice' as they find and eat energy sources. Renewable ones are replaced but non-renewable resources disappear. The game is a way to engage younger students in…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
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