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The flame that will burn during the London Olympic Games was lit at Olympia, the birthplace of the Ancient Olympics, last Thursday. The torch is lit using the same method as it was at the ancient Olympic Games, a parabolic mirror.
Two very different wind related stories are featured in this week’s edition:
how did dinosaur wind keep the prehistoric planet warm and should the biggest wind farm in England and Wales be built?
Introducing the May edition of the Junior Newsletter for KS2/3. This edition contains three stories with accompanying questions from the past month, suitable for younger students.
Download your copy to find out how a travelling gnome has been helping science!
Are your students pro or anti-nuclear power and what arguments can they use to support their views? Do they understand what ‘pharming’ is or what scientists use the LHC for? In the week’s Science in the News-letter they can find all this out and more – just download by clicking on the button below.
The Moon appears to be bigger and brighter tonight as it’s elliptical orbit brings it closer to the Earth than at any other time of the year.
If you are teaching about the Moon at the moment this is a great story to teach about the Moon’s orbit and phases as well as the effect of its gravity on the Earth (as tides are expected to be higher this weekend as an effect).
The storyThere is no doubt that the gold medals for the London Olympic games are beautiful but how much gold is actually in them?
This is might well be the first of a few Olympic themed postings over the coming months. I wanted to come up with some ideas that were a bit different and unusual so this is my first offering: an enquiry lesson to use when teaching metal properties or density or just as a way of practising maths and science skills. More
Make sure you get a chance to look at Venus this week, as it is at its brightest (that is if the rain clouds disappear long enough).
In this week’s edition your students can find out why, along with being introduced to our oldest ancestor and a newly discovered species of amphibian.
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Fracking is a controversial way of mining for natural gas reserves that are buried deep underground in layers of rock. It is been banned in some countries but is being carried out in the USA and UK. A few weeks ago the scheme got the green light to be extended in the UK. More
Click the link below to download this week’s newsletter to use as a display or homework task. Your students can extend their knowledge by exploring stories that link to the GCSE core science curriculum. Items included focus on air pollution, genetics, plant hormones, plate tectonics and energy efficiency.
After an Easter break Science in the News-letter returns with five stories from the past two weeks for your students to explore.
These include looking at the possibility that we could be visited by alien intelligent dinosaurs and how computer models are being used to count penguins from space* More
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