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Physics with Food
One of the things I love about physics is that you can find it everywhere. And more importantly, the ideas that we teach at school can be easily demonstrated using everyday objects.
As part of an IOP day for teachers, I put together a series of demos and experiments that all used food. They were chosen because they could be used to introduce or explore different physics topics.
We moved magnetic grapes, poured density cocktails and ate chocolate.
Density cocktail
More importantly (if there can be anything more important than eating chocolate) we also discussed how we would use the demos and experiments in class. Although many of the demos fit well into one or other keystage, the teachers suggested different ways that they could be used.
I’ve put together the activity guides here: Food Sheets Combined (pdf)
We also looked at the Rethink Your Drink campaign from California Department of Public Health. This links common soft drinks with the amount of sugar in the bottle or can. It can be used in physics to introduce the idea of energy stored in foods and in PSHE to look at healthy diets.
Comparing sweetener and sugar in diet and normal cola drinks
A-Level Physics Required Practicals
Films and resources to support the required practicals – help us decide what to do next!
Careers in Space
In the UK, the space sector is growing at an impressive rate. There are far more jobs than just ‘astronaut’ – but that’s often the only thing that people can think of when we ask them to name some careers involving space.
In 2014, according to the UK Space Agency, there were 34,000 people in the UK who were working in the UK Space Industry – and they’re not all living on the International Space Station! As well as that, the UK Space Industry supports 72,000 jobs in other sectors.
Here at NUSTEM we have found examples space-related careers.
This Space Careers STEM Session can be used as part of an assembly or lesson about future careers.
We’ve also produced a Space Careers Home Learning worksheet to follow the assembly / lesson.
Teachers notes can be found Teacher Notes and Guidance.
We hope these resources are of value to you. Please do let us know how you have made use of them.
Think Week 2015
Joe reports on our first Think Week summer school of science activities.
Giant Bubbles
Everyone loves soap bubbles. Most of us really love them. Particularly when they’re huge hovering things, hanging in the air or floating gently away.
Making large bubbles is easier than you might think. People argue endlessly over different soap mixtures (they’re a classic subject of after-dinner arguments conversation for science communicators), but standard household washing-up liquid is almost as good as even the finest formulations. The real trick is in the way you blow bubbles, as this film will show you.
This is another film from the Royal Institution’s ExpeRimental series, all of which are worth checking out.
We’ve written up an entire page about bubbles, including a beautiful way of viewing soap film colours.
Homemade lava lamp
You’ll find this activity all over the internet and in loads of science activity books, and this is a particularly nice film both illustrating it and exploring how you might use it as a family project. There’s plenty to discuss around around why some things float and others sink, and hence the concept of density.
This is another film from the Royal Institution’s excellent ExpeRimental series.
