Heroes and villains: the science of superheroes
Challenge your students to work out which exploits of comic-book heroes like Superman might actually be possible – given a miracle or two.
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Challenge your students to work out which exploits of comic-book heroes like Superman might actually be possible – given a miracle or two.
Typical school exchanges focus on language and culture – but you can also build a successful exchange programme around science.
Ages: 14-16;
If you ever buy an energy drink as a pick-me-up, do you know what it contains? Here we use laboratory chemistry to find out.
How far away are the stars? Explore in your classroom how astronomers measure distances in space.
Entertain your audiences with these tricky feats, which showcase Newton’s laws of motion in action.
Scientists are searching deep underground for hard-to-detect particles that stream across the Universe.
A new tool lets astronomers ‘listen’ to the Universe for the first time.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Intrigue your students with some surprising experiments – it’s a great way to challenge their intuitions and explore the laws of mechanics.
Simulate a neuron in the classroom.
Why does it rain? Can we predict it? Give physics students a mass of weather data and some information technology, and they can try working this out for themselves.
Heroes and villains: the science of superheroes
Science without borders: an astronomy-based school exchange
Topics: Physics, General science, Astronomy / space
Cans with a kick: the science of energy drinks
Parallax: reaching the stars with geometry
Fantastic feats
Science goes underground
Turning on the cosmic microphone
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
When things don’t fall: the counter-intuitive physics of balanced forces
The resting potential: introducing foundations of the nervous system
Wind and rain: meteorology in the classroom