The resources have been launched by the Royal Society and Professor Brian Cox and are available online. The Brian Cox School Experiments encourage youngsters to investigate a series of real-life activities across biology, chemistry and physics and are relevant to the curriculum across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
They tackle topics such as working out how to clean dirty water, investigating whether plants need soil to grow, learning how exercise affects heart rate and why different types of chocolate have different melting points, figuring out how to change the pitch and volume of a sound with instruments made in the classroom, and identifying what factors affect the size of shadows.
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