95 results found for 11-14-year-olds

Parabolic surfaces can be used to concentrate energy for example to focus sunlight to heat things. Using an old World War II spot light mirror we demonstrate how easy it it is to concentrate enough energy to cause combustion. Finally, we show how to ....

A workshop in Chemistry at Old Trafford.

Harry Kroto and Jonathan Hare give a workshop at the University of Sussex to local school children and simultaneously video conference with children at Leicester, Imperial, Cardiff, and Edinburgh universities.

Emma was a post-graduate student at the University of Nottingham, completing a PhD in the field of theoretical cosmology. As an undergraduate at the University of Sussex she made history when she became the first woman to win the top prize at the Sci....

Yadvinder works in the Geography department at Oxford University. He looks at how human activity and especially carbon dioxide emissions have changed the ecosystems of tropical rainforests. This work takes him on regular trips to his two research sit....

A brief look at the Physics behind sending signals along cables and via geostationary satellites. An experiment to measure the speed of an electrical pulse in a cable is described and the Physics of the orbits of communcations satellites is develope....

How bacteria can be used to solve a variety of environmental problems.

An introduction to acids and bases using simple kitchen equipment and some 'invisible ink'.

How simple algebra can be used to investigate cubes and other polyhedra up to icosahedra.

A simple introduction to our ideas about where the elements which make up the Earth originated.

Harry gives an introduction to the difficulty of writing large numbers in Roman Numerals

Development of the ideas which persuaded us to accept the theory of atoms and molecules as constituents of matter.

A brief introduction to getting over the problems of representing a sphere on a flat sheet.

How simple algebra can be used to investigate cubes and other polyhedra up to icosahedra.

A description and demonstration of the way in which craters formed by dropping objects into sand can be linked to some elementary physics

A better way to extract square roots, with rapid convergence

A pen and pencil method of extracting square roots

Mutiplying and dividing fractions: a systematic approach to this perennial problem.

Making life easy when using percentages. A sometimes fraught topic looked at differently.

Be wary of high interest rates! An introduction to how loans grow.

An Internet Buckyball workshop to 80 young children in Iceland which worked extremely well. It was the first test of the FSU Internet GEO project.

Separating colours by science

Conversation in science, art and design