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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.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How far away are the stars? Explore in your classroom how astronomers measure distances in space.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Entertain your audiences with these tricky feats, which showcase Newton’s laws of motion in action.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Scientists are searching deep underground for hard-to-detect particles that stream across the Universe.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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.
Ages: 14-16;
Simulate a neuron in the classroom.
Ages: 16-19;
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.
Ages: 16-19;
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Heroes and villains: the science of superheroes
Topics: Physics, General science
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Science without borders: an astronomy-based school exchange
Topics: Physics, General science, Astronomy / space
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Cans with a kick: the science of energy drinks
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Health
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Parallax: reaching the stars with geometry
Topics: Mathematics, Astronomy / space
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Fantastic feats
Topics: Physics
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Science goes underground
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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Turning on the cosmic microphone
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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When things don’t fall: the counter-intuitive physics of balanced forces
Topics: Physics
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The resting potential: introducing foundations of the nervous system
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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Wind and rain: meteorology in the classroom
Topics: Physics, Earth science
