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Three candles of different heights are lit in a closed space. Surprisingly, the longest candle goes out first. Can you solve the mystery?
Ages: 11-14, 16-19;
Do air convection currents really move as they are drawn in textbook illustrations? Let’s make invisible convection currents visible using mist.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
On the shoulders of giants: follow in the footsteps of Eratosthenes and measure the circumference of the Earth like he did 2300 years ago.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
What are slime moulds? And what do they eat for breakfast? Discover these fascinating giant microbes and explore chemotaxis and the scientific method with these slimy experiments.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16;
Would your students prefer to grow edible crops or wrangle with statistics? Here’s a way to combine these activities in a real-world application of statistical analysis.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
A citizen science project travelled over 7000 km to explore the microbial population in students’ mouths.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Rather than being a book in which one dips to search for the answer to a particular question or for a desired fact, Experimental Design for the Life Sciences is a book to read through in its entirety: the student begins at the beginning and works through, learning how to design a good experiment in…
Ages: 16-19;
| Issue 66
A twist on the candle mystery
Topics: Chemistry, Engineering, General science, Physics
| Issue 64
A misty way to see convection currents
Topics: Chemistry, Engineering, General science, Physics, Profiles
| Issue 63
The Eratosthenes experiment: calculating the Earth’s circumference
Topics: Astronomy / space, Earth science, Mathematics, Physics
| Issue 62
Moving slime: exploring chemotaxis with slime mould
Topics: Biology, General science
| Issue 50
Grow your own statistical data
Topics: Biology, Mathematics
| Issue 34
A safari in your mouth’s microbial jungle
Topics: Biology, Health
| Issue 6
Experimental Design for the Life Sciences (2nd Edition), By Graeme D. Ruxton and Nick Colegrave
Topics: Resources
