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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.
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
Earth Systems - Earth's Energy Balance
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Earth Systems - Earth's Energy Balance

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at Earth’s energy balance. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the concept of the Earth’s energy balance. Recognize how changes in the Earth’s Energy Balance affect the global climate Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 32 slides covering: • Energy • Energy Balance • Atmosphere Gases • The Greenhouse Effect • Upsetting the Earth’s Energy Balance • Radiative Forcings • Earth’s Energy Balance • Radiative Forcings - The Sun • Radiative Forcings - Atmospheric Aerosols • Radiative Forcings - Volcanoes • Radiative Forcings - Greenhouse Gases • Radiative Forcings - Surface Albedo • Forcings and Feedback • Feedback and Water • Earth’s Energy Balance
Earth Systems - Formation of Crustal Features
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Earth Systems - Formation of Crustal Features

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at the formation of crustal features. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Relate plate tectonics to the formation of crustal features. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 30 slides covering: • Tectonic Plates • Plate Movement • Boundary Events • Plate Boundary Types • Convergent Boundaries • Oceanic Trenches • Divergent Boundaries • Sliding Boundaries • Rift Zones and Valleys
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
Heat Energy - Convection of Thermal Energy
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Heat Energy - Convection of Thermal Energy

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at convection of thermal energy. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate how heat is transferred by convection. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 20 mins 17 slides covering: • Heat • Transfer of Heat • Convection • Examples of Convection - Home Heating • Examples of Convection - Mantle • Examples of Convection - Weather
Heat Energy - Temperature and Heat
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Heat Energy - Temperature and Heat

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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
Earth Systems - Life and the Earth - Coevolution
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Earth Systems - Life and the Earth - Coevolution

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at life and the Earth - coevolution. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Recognise how living organisms have changed the atmosphere, the oceans and the surface of the Earth. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • Life • Changing the Atmosphere • Iron Formations • Changing the Atmosphere • Changing the Land • Changing the Land and the Atmosphere • Changing the Oceans • Coevolution
Earth Systems - Humans and Ecosystems
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Earth Systems - Humans and Ecosystems

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at humans and ecosystems. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how increases in human population and consumption of natural resources have an impact on Earth’s systems. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 29 slides covering: • World Population • Population and Resources • Energy Consumption • Population and Energy Use • Water Consumption • Ways to Reduce Water Consumption • Change of Land Use • Waste • What Can We Do? • Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Earth Systems - The Rock Cycle
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Earth Systems - The Rock Cycle

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at the rock cycle. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how the Earth’s materials are cycled in the rock cycle. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Time • Igneous Rocks • Sedimentary Rocks • Metamorphic Rocks • Processes of the Rock Cycle • Magma • Cooling • Mid Atlantic Ridge • Weathering • Erosion and Transport • Deposition • Burial/Compression/Cementation • Heat and Pressure • Melting Again • The Rock Cycle
Kinetic and Potential Energy
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Kinetic and Potential Energy

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at kinetic and potential energy. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate kinetic and potential energy and their transformations. Main Skills: Interpret written text, make decisions and predict outcomes. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 26 slides covering: • Kinetic Energy • Potential Energy • Gravitational Potential Energy • Elastic Potential Energy • Energy Changes
Power and Mechanical Energy
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Power and Mechanical Energy

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at power and mechanical energy. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Calculate mechanical energy of a physical system. Calculate the power generated in a physical system. Main Skills: Interpret written text, make decisions and perform calculations. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 29 slides covering: • Work and Power • Total Mechanical Energy • Kinetic Energy • Potential Energy • Calculating Mechanical Energy Examples
Work-Energy Theorem
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Work-Energy Theorem

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at the work-energy theorem. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate quantities using the work-energy theorem. Main Skills: Interpret written text, make decisions and perform calculations. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 21 slides covering: • What is Work? • Energy • Kinetic Energy • Work-Energy Theorem • Calculating Work • Friction Force • Force at an Angle
Space - Wonders of the Universe
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Space - Wonders of the Universe

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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
Structure of Metals
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Structure of Metals

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at the structure of metals. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Recognise the atomic, crystal and grain structure of metals. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 22 slides covering: • Atomic Structure • Metallic Bonding • Crystals • Crystal Structure • Body-Centred Cubic • Face-Centred Cubic • Hexagonal Close-Packed • Changing Crystals • Solidification • Grains • Grain Structure
Calculation of Resistors in Parallel
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Calculation of Resistors in Parallel

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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
Space - Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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Space - Asteroids, Comets and Meteors

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at asteroids, comets and meteors. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore asteroids, comets and meteors. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 32 slides covering: • Asteroids • Comets • Halley’s Comet • Meteors • Meteoroids • Meteorites • Impact Craters
Space - Space Exploration
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Space - Space Exploration

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at space exploration. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the considerations and accommodations needed for space travel. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 31 slides covering: • Very Early Space Exploration • Early Rockets • First Rockets in Space • First Rockets in Orbit • First Life in Space • First Human in Space • Yuri’s Trip • Race to the Moon • Mars Landing • New Spacecraft Technology • Ion Thrusters • The ISS • Space Exploration • Travelling to the Stars
Space - Living in Space
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Space - Living in Space

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at living in space. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the considerations and accommodations needed for space travel. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Propulsion • Food • Drink • Waste Removal • On-board Power • Oxygen • Communication with Ground Control • Radiation Protection • Living Accommodation
Space - Space Travel Equipment
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Space - Space Travel Equipment

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A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at space travel equipment. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate some of the equipment needed for space travel. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 28 slides covering: • Space Travel • Temperature • Solar Radiation • Oxygen and Pressure • Mercury Space Suit • Gemini Space Suit • Apollo Space Suit • Future Space Suits • NASA Technology
Human Impacts on Earth System Relationships
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Human Impacts on Earth System Relationships

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A presentation suitable for Grades 6-8 looking at human impacts on Earth system relationships. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how humans are impacting Earth system relationships. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams, and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 23 slides covering: • Human Impacts on Earth Systems • A Warming World • Atmospheric Climate Change • Impacts on the Hydrosphere • Sea Level Rise • Coral Bleaching • Deforestation and Earth Systems • Impact on the Hydrosphere - Ocean Acidification • Impact on the Biosphere - Ocean Acidification • Computer Modelling