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We provide a range of free, and low-cost STEM resources for schools and further education. Our resources include theory presentations, activity sheets, information fact files, and informative posters for your classroom.

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We provide a range of free, and low-cost STEM resources for schools and further education. Our resources include theory presentations, activity sheets, information fact files, and informative posters for your classroom.
Computer Science - Algorithms and Problem Solving
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Computer Science - Algorithms and Problem Solving

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A presentation most suitable for KS4 looking at algorithms and problem solving. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore program design methods used to solve problems. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Problem Solving • Specification Requirements • Analysis and Design • Algorithms • Algorithms and Flowcharts • Pseudocode
Waves and Vibrations - Seismic Waves
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Waves and Vibrations - Seismic Waves

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at seismic waves. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the characteristics and applications of seismic waves. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 30 slides covering: • Tectonic Plates • Earthquakes • Seismic Waves • Measuring Seismic Waves • P Wave • S Wave • Surface Waves • Seismic Wave Behaviour • Looking Inside the Earth • Structure of the Earth
Health
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Health

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A presentation most suitable for KS3 looking at health. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore different areas of health. Explore things that can benefit or risk health. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 33 slides covering: • General Health • Physical Health • Mental Health • Social Health • Good Health • Bad Health • Regular Exercise • Nutrition • Disease • Drugs • Alcohol • Tobacco • Relationships • Hazardous Environments
Fat in Food
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Fat in Food

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A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at fat in food. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Recognise reasons for testing foods for fats and oils. Investigate two methods commonly used for testing foods for fats and oils. Explore how fat and oil food tests work. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 29 slides covering: • Lipids • Grease Spot Test • Distinguishing Lipids from Other Liquids • Water Spots • The Emulsion Test • Positive and Negative Results • Regulating Foods • The Food Industry
Earth Systems - Rocks
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Earth Systems - Rocks

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at rocks. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how rocks are formed. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 30 slides covering: • Igneous Rock • Sedimentary Rock • Metamorphic Rock
Composite Materials
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Composite Materials

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at composite materials. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the benefits, types and examples of composite materials. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Composite Materials • The Matrix • Types of Composite • Laminar Composites • Particulate Composites • Cermets • Electrical Contacts • Fibre Reinforced Composites • Glass Reinforced Plastic • Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic
Spreadsheets - Sorting and Filtering
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Spreadsheets - Sorting and Filtering

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at sorting and filtering in spreadsheets. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Identify how sorting and filtering can be used to find data in spreadsheets. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 18 slides covering: • Sorting • Filtering
Electronic Circuit Symbols
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Electronic Circuit Symbols

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This poster contains a collection of commonly used electronic circuit symbols and their meanings. Circuit symbols may differ only slightly but their intended meanings can be very different. There are two standards of symbols that you may encounter, ANSI/IEEE and IEC - both variants have been shown so that you can see the differences. The symbols include Resitors, Capacitors, Diodes, Transistors, Switches, Output Devices, Logic Gates and Basic Circuit Symbols.
The Integumentary System
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The Integumentary System

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A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the integumentary system. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate the components that make up the integumentary system. Investigate the function of the integumentary system. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • The Skin • The Structure of the Skin • The Epidermis • The Layers of the Epidermis • Keratin • The Cells of the Stratum Corneum • The Dermis • Subcutaneous Layer • Hair • Nails • The Functions of the Integumentary System • The Dermis and Thermoregulation • Sweating • Functions of Hair and Nails
Earth Systems - Distribution of Natural Resources
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Earth Systems - Distribution of Natural Resources

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at distribution of natural resources. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the distribution of mineral, energy and groundwater resources. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 26 slides covering: • Mineral Resources • Ore Deposits • Volcanic Processes • Hydrothermal Processes • Sedimentary Processes • Copper Mountains • Metal Resources • Energy Resources • Coal • Oil and Natural Gas • Non-Renewable Resources • Finding New Resources • Water • The Aral Sea
Earth Systems - Earth's Atmosphere
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Earth Systems - Earth's Atmosphere

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at the Earth’s Atmosphere. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the composition of Earth’s atmosphere. Explore how atmospheric conditions influence the weather. Explore how natural processes and human activities cause changes in the atmosphere. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 39 slides covering: • Composition of the Atmosphere • Air Pressure • Layers of the Atmosphere • The Troposphere • The Stratosphere • The Meosphere • The Thermosphere • Weather • Wind • The Water Cycle • Local Weather • Changes in the Atmosphere • Human Activities • Pollution and Health • Protecting Air Quality
Earth Systems - Geological Time
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Earth Systems - Geological Time

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at geological time. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how evidence from rock strata can tell us about the history of the Earth. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • Time • Rock Records • Dating Rocks • Relative Dating • The Principle of Uniformitarianism • The Principle of Original Horizontality • The Principle of Superposition • Principle of Cross Cutting • The Principle of Inclusion • Principal of Faunal Succession • Fossils • Relative Dating • Absolute Dating • Geological Time • Precambrian • Cretaceous Period • The End of the Cretaceous Period • Quaternary Period
Heat Energy - Thermodynamic Laws
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Heat Energy - Thermodynamic Laws

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at thermodynamic laws. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Energy • Heat and Work • First Law of Thermodynamics • Heat Engines • Gas Turbines • Efficiency • Second Law of Thermodynamics • Second Law Example (Entropy) • Second Law Example (Entropy) • Entropy
Word Processing - Introduction to Word Processing
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Word Processing - Introduction to Word Processing

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at the basic functions of word processing. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Identify some of the functions of Microsoft Word. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 14 slides covering: • The Interface • Typing Text • The Ribbon • File Commands • Saving • Printing
Using a Multimeter
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Using a Multimeter

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A presentation suitable for KS3/KS4 looking at ‘Using a Multimeter’. The presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Identify how to use a digital multimeter to measure DC voltage and resistance, and to test for continuity Main Skills: Apply knowledge, extract information and interpret written text. Duration: 30 mins 20 slides covering: • Digital Multimeter Features • Range Selector • Test Leads • Measuring DC Voltage • Testing for Continuity • Testing the Continuity of a Wire • Testing the Continuity of a Switch • Testing the Continuity of a Fuse • Measuring Resistance • Measuring the Resistance of a Lamp Assessment Sheet - Word Document based assessment includes questions that students should be able to answer directly from the presentation, or by applying the information from the presentation. The Assessment Sheet Teachers Guide provides the correct answers and solutions to questions in the assessment.
Earth Systems - Weathering and Erosion
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Earth Systems - Weathering and Erosion

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at weathering and erosion. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how geologic features may be reshaped by weathering and erosion. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 40 slides covering: • Weathering • Physical Weathering • Physical Weathering - Water and Ice • Physical Weathering - Wind Abrasion • Recognising Wind and Water Weathering • Physical Weathering - Hot and Cold • Chemical Weathering • Biological Weathering • Weathering - Human Activity • Erosion • Wind Erosion • Water Erosion • Water Erosion - Run-off • Water Erosion - Ground Water • Erosion - Human Activity • Reducing and Preventing Erosion • Deposition • Deposition - Rivers • Deposition - Deltas • Deposition - Wind
The Periodic Table of Elements
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The Periodic Table of Elements

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The Periodic Table is a list of all the different elements. The elements are categorised into groups that have similar properties. The elements are listed in order of their atomic number. This is the number of protons in the nucleus of each atom. The atomic mass of the most abundant isotope of each element is also shown on the table. The elements are grouped as Alkali Metals, Alkaline Earth Metals, Transition Metals, Holgens and Nobel Gases. The table shows the symbol, element name, atomic number, atomic symbol and realtive atomic mass.
Resistor Colour Codes & Ohm's Law
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Resistor Colour Codes & Ohm's Law

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The resistance of a resistor is indicated using a system of coloured bands on the component. This poster shows the colour code bands and the values that they represent. 4 and 5 band resistor colour code systems are both covered on this poster. Ohm's Law is also shown on this poster.
Circular Motion
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Circular Motion

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A presentation suitable for Grades 9-12 looking at circular motion. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Analyse accelerated motion in two dimensions using circular examples. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams and perform calculations. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Acceleration • Uniform Circular Motion • Average Velocity • Direction of Centripetal Acceleration • Magnitude of Centripetal Acceleration • Centripetal Acceleration and Rotation
The Digestive System and Health
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The Digestive System and Health

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A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the digestive system and health. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate major diseases affecting the digestive system. Investigate scientific, medical, and technological advances that help prevent diseases of the digestive system. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • Infections • Autoimmune Disorders • Crohn’s Disease • Ulcerative Colitis • Celiac Disease • Polyps • Cancer • Symptoms of Colorectal Cancer • Colorectal Cancer • Causes and Risk Factors • Treating Colorectal Cancer • Non-invasive Tools of Diagnosis