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One of a series of short videos from Liverpool University focusing on Carbon Dioxide levels in the atmosphere....

This resource is part of a collection of Nuffield Maths resources explores Data Handling. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in Higher Level GCSE and Level 2 Functional Mathematics.

‘Part-time work survey’ is a statistical investigation into students’ paid employment. Students design questionnaires,...

In this resource the mass of a group of objects is given, with the mean matching the number of objects. The mass of a subset of the objects is given, again with the mean mass matching the number of objects. The challenge is to calculate the mean mass of the remaining objects.

Solving the problem requires the...

There are three pictures given of multipacks of food. In each case, some items have been removed from the multipack, and the shopper wishes to purchase the quantities left. The prices are given for a full multipack for each product. What is the total grocery bill?

This resource, produced by SEPNet and Queen Mary University of London, uses Lego to represent the building blocks of matter. Different colour Lego bricks are assigned to different quarks and leptons. The quarks can be put together to make hadrons, such as protons and neutrons. The blocks can also be used to show...

In this lesson, students explore how physicists are collecting and using evidence from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to learn more about the origins of the Universe. They begin by watching an animation set in the LHC, and learn that physicists are using the LHC to try...

This Nuffield 13 - 16 module is one for the start of the three-year programme. This B unit provided enough material for six double periods in the third year of secondary school (year nine). The teachers’ guide included six worksheets to supplement the students’ booklet...

The Particles sub-collection is made up of pedagogical guidance and classroom materials for use with students. All materials were published by the Key Stage Three Strategy and the Secondary Strategy between 2002 and 2003.

Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the B unit called ‘Charged particles’. This S unit provided enough material for eight double periods during a single-certificate science course. The teachers’ guide included nine worksheets to supplement the...

Glaciers exposed to particulate matter (pollutants) undergo changes to their surface reflectivity. This phenomena called albedo leads to an increased heat absorption at the surface of the ice and as a result an acceleration in the melting process. This resource includes a practical activity that models the effects...

Heating accounts for over half of the energy used in homes in the UK. This Catalyst article looks at buildings designed to cut heating demand almost to zero. There are over 70,000 passive houses in Europe – just a few of them in the UK. To be described as ‘passive’, a house must meet strict criteria for energy use...

This resource features a task that involves generating sequences, finding an nth term rule, and solving equations in a practical context.

Students investigate a sequence of square patchwork cushions designed using combinations of right angled triangles and squares. Students then derive nth term rules for the...

A square patchwork cushion is made up of right angled triangles along the edges and squares in the middle. The first cushion made consists of only four triangles, the second is made up of eight triangles and four squares. Students are required to explore this pattern to find connections between the size of the...