The site
The electronic resources on this site give users an interactive experience, showing some applications of the science that they learn in school. All the pages have some sort of interactivity, such as a glossary entry or a question to test themselves. However, some of the pages have extra features, which use some of the more up to date technology of the web and the latest browsers.
Using this page
There aren't links back to this page from the pages below. Please use your back button to get back here after visiting the links. Or, open the links in a new window (using your right mouse button [Windows] or holding down your mouse button [Mac] and selecting that option from the menu). Then close the new window to return to this links page. The highlights are split into:
Interactive discussion (top)
The nuclear debate
Take part in the nuclear debate - have a discussion with the machine and then express your own views.
Flash fun (top)
Medicines timeline
Use the time machine to travel through the last 5000 years to find out about the main discoveries and developments in medicine.
Electricity timeline
Slide the time machine through the last 2000 years to find out about the main discoveries and inventions in electricity - who made them and when?
Big Bang time machine
Take a trip back through time to the Big Bang. Then come forwards again. On the way, discover when the Sun was born and when protons first roamed the universe.
Zoom into a cell
Use the microscope slider to zoom into a cell, seeing the nucleus the chromosomes and the DNA.
Animation of the heart
Roll over the highlighted words to see the structure of the heart on the image. Then click the link to see an animation of a beating heart (inside and out).
Build a circuit
Find out about series circuuits and then try building one for yourself (in Flash).
Four stroke engine
See the stages described, then click the link to pop open the flash animation.
Discover petroleum
Although this site is aimed at 10 and 11 year olds, it will still tell you about the oil indeustry in an entertaining way. Try game 5 to see a movie of how oil was formed.
Animations (top)
Diffusion animation
See how moving atoms cause diffusion.
Penetrating powers of alpha, beta and gamma radiations
Roll over the highlighted words in the text to see the radiations getting stopped.
Animation (A world of particles)
Showing how exchange particles carry forces
Interactive pictures (top)
Interactive rock cycle
Build up the rock cycle using roll overs and click on any terms to see an instant definition.
Electric motor
Roll over the highlighted words to see the stages in the sequence of a turning electric motor.
Cooling by evaporation - an interactive picture of a model
Find out why a liquid cools as it evaporates using interactive graphics.
Proton structure (A world of particles)
Roll over the highlighted words in the text to peel back the layers of a proton and neutron and see what we think is inside. This is rather like a teacher building up a picture whilst standing at the white/black/electronic board.
Rutherford experiment (A world of particles)
Roll over the bits of the diagram of the Rutherford apparatus to see experimental results; also, the table of evidence gets filled in as you roll over each piece of evidence.)
Cystic fibrosis (Medical research update)
The text guides the reader through two complicated sequences of diagrams.
The periodic table
Rolling over each element should display simple physical data about that element. If you click on the element it will search the site for occurrences of it. This will be upgraded shortly to show different data sets and be targeted at different age groups.
Quizzes (top)
Materials quiz
Test your knowledge of solids, liquids and gases - with feedback on your answers
Heart labels
Test your knowledge of the names of the parts of the heart.
Kidneys quiz
Test your knowledge of the kidneys and the names of their parts
Skin quiz
Test your knowledge of the skin
Hormones quiz
Test your knowledge about hormones and the location of organs and glands
Cancer quiz
Test your knowledge of cancer
Genome quiz
Test your knowledge about genes and the genome project
Try a synthesis (The chemistry of smells)
An interactive exercise to synthesise a smell molecule. Still under development - hence we're giving the right answers at the moment!
Catalysis
Test your knowledge of catalysis with feedback on your answers
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