Python Projects

This series of resources supports the teaching and learning of the computer programming language Python. The series of activities, produced by Code Club have support sheets for each of the activity projects. They are easy to follow and support progression in the learning. The activities require studenst to: *control...

How a Human Arm Bends

This activity is designed to enable students to be able to gain an understanding of how a human arm bends due to muscular contraction, to understand that a robot arm can use contraction or rotation to achieve movement and to understand that shape memory alloys can revert back to a previous shape when heated. Robot...

Robot Arm Design

In this activity students design and model a robot arm in 2D, need to be able to name the main parts of a robot arm and to be able to design and make a 2D card model of a 3D product. Robot arms are an example of a programmable system. They are used in a wide variety of industrial applications, ranging from loading...

3D Modelling

In this activity students design and model a 3D robot arm. Robot arms are an example of a programmable system. They are used in a wide variety of industrial applications, ranging from loading machines to assembling cars, welding parts together and spray painting products. They are also used in applications such as...

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 1-4

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity. Activity 1: This activity looks at chemical effects in the film industry and students make some fake blood. Activity 2: This activity describes a ‘magic’ trick using chemical...

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 5-7

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity. Activity 5: Students use a foaming agent to make a foam fire extinguisher. Activity 6: Students float bubbles on carbon dioxide gas to examine them more closely. Activity 7:...

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 8-10

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity. Activity 8: This demonstration shows neutralisation and the range of indicator colours. Activity 9: Students explore the chemistry of fragrance. Activity 7: Students carry...

Salters' Chemistry Club: crystal gardens

This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students' curiosity. Students use metal salts to grow a crystal garden in a solution of sodium silicate.

Salters' Chemistry Club: fake stained glass

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity. Students make sugar glass using food colouring to give a stained glass appearance.

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume Two: Activities 3-7

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.Activity 3: Students explore a simple cross-linking reaction between two polymers by making bouncy balls out of custard powder.Activity 4: Students see how gas pressure...