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Tides Simulator and Workshop

Produced by the National Schools Observatory, this PowerPoint workshop and accompanying flash animation explains tidal activity on Earth. The workshop takes the form of a PowerPoint presentation that explains why tides exist, why there are two tides each day and covers related topics such as spring/neap tides and...

Introduction To Computer Programming

Introduction To Computer Programming using Basic progamming language.

Basic is a simple language emulating the more complex languages used in commerce and industry for financial mamagement, etc.

The exercise covers input, print, output, +, -, X,  ÷ , =, <, >, <> , if...then, while...wned,...

Burglar Alarm Made With a Clothes Peg

Electric Burglar Alarm Made With a Clothes Peg. Kits of ten sets are available to borrow if you are in Covetnry and Warwickshire or by arrangement.

The Safety Deposit Vault

This is an exercise with complex spreadsheets and mail-merged documents. It is based on an actual implementation in a vaut with over 1500 boxes of different sizes.

The simplified example uses nine boxes of three different sizes, each has the price for annual box rental.

Also recorded are the renters'...

Code and Decode

How to send secret messages to your friends.

Contains full teacher instructions. Uses Basic programming language.

Pupils shoud have completed the Introduction To Computer Programming


Make a spectroscope from recycled materials.

Compute Whole Number Pythagoras Triangles

An exercise to compute whole nu,mber Pythagorean triangles.

The project uses the Basic programming language.

Pupils should have completed the exercise Introduction To Computer Programming

Fan or Turbine Efficiency

A practical challenge for pupils based on a Design Council finalist project carried out by a 17 year-old.

The project includes the need for the pupils to provide a full report on their work.


House of Gadgets

An exercise in sustainability using recucled materials. Developed by STEM Coventry and IET Coventry and Warwickshire.

Pupils are asked to think of

- sustainability, which products can be re-cycled,?

- what would happen if nobody collected the waste?

- what happened to the glass makers...

Towers and Bridges with Marshmallows or Jelly Beans

Towers and Bridges with Marshmallows and straws or Jelly Beans and cocktail sticks


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