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Protecting Your Head
Protecting Your Head, from the Centre for Science Education, is a set of teaching materials which offer a cross-curricular approach to learning about engineering. The context for the activities is the design of head protection for snowboarders where the risk of injury is significant but personal image is also important.
Teachers' notes and the starter activity are included at the start of the file called 'Protecting your head pack'.
Starter activity
* Which helmet is best?
Technology
* Wind tunnels
* Designing a helmet
Science
* Investigating polymorph
* Materials testing
Mathematics
* Tesselations
* Market research
Cross-curricular activities
* Dangerous sports?
* Injury and recovery
* Marketing 'safety'
* Should helmets be compulsory?
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Protecting your head - careers 129.31 KB
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Protecting your head pack 1.08 MB
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Protecting your head - activities 982.23 KB
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Protecting your head - mathematics 253.99 KB
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Protecting your head - technology 753.9 KB
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Sports headgear 98.6 KB