Recycling Cities
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these activities help students to examine the recycling of materials, concentrating on polymers and the potential for the recycling of waste plastics. In doing so, students look at polymers, the properties of plastics, purifying components of a mixture, waste disposal and sustainable development.…
Polymers: Information and Activity Book
From CIEC Promoting Science, this book is aimed at post-16 chemistry students but will also be useful for students following technology or vocational courses. The book helps students to first understand the basis of polymer chemistry and the plastics industry. It moves on to consider detailed information on individual polymers, including…
Polymers: Physical Testing
From CIEC Promoting Science, these activities are aimed at post-16 students following courses in technology, engineering, physics or materials science. The activities described allow students to gain experience and practice experimental technique in the testing of materials' physical properties. The tests include: • Compression…
Product Design: Polymers in Sleeping Bags
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, this set of activities allows students to investigate the properties of polymers in relation to the design requirements for a sleeping bag. Students carry out an investigation of the design and manufacture of sleeping bags as a product analysis exercise. This helps students to develop technological…
Product Design: Sports Shoes
From CIEC Promoting Science, these activities deal with the different stages of market research, product design, selection of materials and manufacturing processes in the sports shoe industry. Through a range of activities and practical investigations, students gain a greater understanding of: • Development of a new sports…
Product Design: Pop Bottles
From CIEC Promoting Science, these materials consist of three parts relating to the choice of materials and production processes involved in the manufacture of plastic bottles for carbonated drinks. The three sections are: Section 1 is concerned with the shape and other design features of plastic pop bottles and consists of four…
Reclaim It
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these materials encourage primary children to use reclaimed materials to make a range of products that include a model person, stacking toy, necklace, model car and powered roundabout. The skills pupils develop during the activities include: • measuring, centring and marking out •…
Speakers from Industry: a Practical Guide for Teachers and Industrialists
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, this booklet offers advice and guidance for: • teachers who wish to bring industrial speakers into school • industrial speakers who would like an insight into the needs of teachers and their students. The booklet contains two sections that deal with: Part I - a general guide…
Plastics: Workshop Practices and Industrial Processes
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, this booklet contains information and activities of interest to teachers of design and technology. It looks at working practices in industry and schools relating to thermoplastics and provides an introduction to basic techniques for schools and the more common processes found in industry. The…