A presentation suitable for Grades 6-8 looking at Earth systems. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how Earth systems interact. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • Atmosphere • Hydrosphere • Geosphere • Biosphere • Earth Systems • Interactions • Water and Atmospheric Interactions • Albedo • Ice • Feedback • Snowball Earth • Earth System Feedback

A presentation suitable for Grades 6-8 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

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the respiratory system and health. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore major diseases that affect the respiratory system. Explore scientific, medical and technological advances that help prevent and treat diseases of the respiratory system. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 29 slides covering: • The Role of the Respiratory System • Asthma • Asthma Inhalers • Bronchitis • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) • Emphysema • Pneumonia • Lung Cancer • Medical Advances to Fight Lung Cancer • Prevention of Respiratory System Diseases • Treatments of Respiratory System Diseases • Surgery to Treat Respiratory System Diseases

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the voluntary muscles. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the function and structure of voluntary muscles. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 20 slides covering: • Muscles, Tendons and Joints • Antagonistic Pairs • Controlling Muscles • Skeletal Muscle Tissue Structure • Histology of Striated Muscle • Voluntary Muscle Appearance • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: Z-lines • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: I-band • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: H-zone • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: A-band • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: M-line • Voluntary Muscle Contraction

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at heat transfer. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the concepts of thermal energy transfer, including conduction, convection and radiation. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 19 slides covering: • Transfer of Heat • Conduction • Convection • Radiation

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

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the human digestive system. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the structure of the human digestive system. Explore the function of components of the human digestive system. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 42 slides covering: • Holozoic Nutrition • GI Tract • Mastication • Swallowing • The Stomach • Duodenum • The Liver • Pancreas • Small Intestine • Carbohydrate Digestion • How Enzymes Work • Digestion in the Small Intestine • Secretion Control • Large Intestine

A presentation most suitable for KS4 looking at computer science operators and control structures. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore operators and control structures used in computer programming. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 21 slides covering: • Mathematical Operators • Comparison Operators • Logic Operators • Control Structures • Sequences • Selection • Iteration • Subprograms

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at ground and surface water. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore sources of ground and surface water. Identify the effects of human activity on ground and surface water. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 35 slides covering: • Water and Life • Fresh Water • Surface Water • Run-off • Watershed • Ground Water • Aquifers • The Water Table • Water Quality • Water Pollution • Effects of Water Pollution

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at Earth systems. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how Earth systems interact. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • Atmosphere • Hydrosphere • Geosphere • Biosphere • Earth Systems • Interactions • Water and Atmospheric Interactions • Albedo • Ice • Feedback • Snowball Earth • Earth System Feedback

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at Earth’s early history. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate the formation and early history of the Earth. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams, tables and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 26 slides covering: • The Formation of Our Solar System • Dating the Formation of Our Solar System • Radiometric Dating • The Early Earth • Life

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at temperature and heat. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the concepts of thermal energy, temperature and heat. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: 30 mins 30 slides covering: • Energy • Solids and Liquids • Gases • Thermal Energy (U) • Temperature (T) • Temperature Scales • Kelvin and Absolute Zero • Temperature and Energy • Heat (Q) • Specific Heat • Methods of Heating • Hot Plates • Burners

A presentation most suitable for KS3 looking at exercise. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the different systems within your body that work together while exercising. Explore the risks and benefits of exercise. Explore the effect of lactic acid on muscles. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 25 slides covering: • Energy for Exercise • Effects of Exercise on the Muscles • Effects of Exercise on the Lungs • Effects of Exercise on the Heart • The Benefits of Exercise • The Risks of Exercise • Lactic Acid

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

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at the wonders of the universe. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the universe and some of its objects. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 32 slides covering: • Distances in Space • Light Years • Stars • Star Clusters • Nebulae • The Carina Nebulae • Milky Way • The Discovery of Galaxies • Galaxies • Groups of Galaxies • The Universe • How Big is the Universe? • Back in Time

A presentation looking at how to calculate resistor colour code values and tolerances. The presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Calculate the maximum and minimum resistor values from the colour code. Main Skills: Interpret written text and apply knowledge. Duration: 30 mins 22 slides covering: • Colour Codes • Four Band Colour Codes • Five Band Colour Codes • Examples • Preferred Values • Important Considerations

A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at how to calculate the total resistance of resistors placed in parallel. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Calculate the total resistance for circuits with resistors connected in parallel. Main Skills: Interpret written text, interpret diagrams and perform calculations. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 16 slides covering: • Worked Examples • Reciprocal Calculations • Product Over Sum Method • Break Up Calculation

A poster showing the planets in our solar system - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Urnaus, Neptune. The poster also features Lenia the Alien.

This poster represents a mixed collection of images of different life forms. It can be used for a large number of different classroom activities. e.g. Find the names of the living things in the poster. Connect the pictures to form food webs. Select all the creatures that live in fresh water. Select all the animals that are native to Africa. Find all the predators on the poster.

This new publication is designed to share experiences of delivering the Engineering Diploma together with some examples of best practice. The content of the magazine has been written by practitioners for practitioners. We hope you will find the articles of interest and perhaps, might be moved to contribute something to our Autumn edition. If you would like a free printed copy of the Engineering Diploma magazine, have any comments, or would like to submit an article for the next edition, please contact Kerry Woods, the Engineering Diploma magazine editor: editor@engineeringdiploma.net