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National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
Measurement at home
This collection of resources, from the National Physical Laboratory, sets a number of measurement challenges for students that can be performed in their own homes, or in school.
All resources contain an explanatory video and a downloadable worksheet.
Students are invited to submit their results via the NPL website. Many resources also have a summary report of some of the results already collected by NPL.
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Vitruvian people
This video and worksheet set out a measurement challenge that can be carried out at home or in school. Students must measure both their height and the span of their arms, several times to investigate whether, as postulated by Vitruvious, this length is the same. The...
Measuring tap water temperature using sugar
This video and worksheet set out a measurement challenge that can be carried out at home or in school. Students must measure the time taken to dissolve the same mass of sugar in room temperature water, cold tap water and hot tap water. By comparing their results to...
Give me a second
This video and student worksheet set a challenge for students to make a pendulum that has a period of one second. The video explains how the frequency of a pendulum will change with its length, and how gravitational potential energy is transferred to kinetic energy (and back again) through each pendulum swing. ...
Where on Earth am I?
The video and worksheet set out a measurement challenge for students that can be carried out either at home or in school. They must use a smartphone or tablet to calculate their locations using G.P.S. (Global Positioning System). They are encouraged to take multiple readings and submit them to the NPL website,...
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| Subject(s) | STEM Clubs, Cross curricular, Mathematics, Science, Practical work, Enquiries and investigations |
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| Age | 11-14, 14-16 |
| Published | 2020 to date |
| Published by | 
Submitted by Jenny Toft-Eriksen on
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxgq4r |
