The birth of electrochemistry: building a simple voltaic pile
Stacking up: use common household items like coins and paper explore one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 19th century.
    
    
    
    
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                    Stacking up: use common household items like coins and paper explore one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 19th century.                    
         
                    What can go wrong in a chemistry lab? Explore lab safety and consolidate the new knowledge by creating a fun horror story about a lab disaster.                    
         
                    How do discoveries happen in science? Despite popular stories of ‘eureka moments’, the reality is usually much more complex.                    
         
                    Scientists often need to communicate their subject to non-experts, such as policymakers and the public. This absorbing structured activity challenges school students to do the same.                    
         
                    As a lightweight, super-strong metal, beryllium is an engineer’s dream – but it also has some less convenient qualities.                    
         
                    How Anne-Flore Laloë is chronicling the life and works of a scientific institution.                    
         
                    Using nothing but a pig’s heart, a knife and a supply of water, you and your students can investigate how the heart pumps.                    
         
                    We all know what a kilogram is – or do we? Researchers worldwide are working to define precisely what this familiar unit is.                    
         
                    Until a few centuries ago, people believed that the world was made only of earth, air, water and fire. Since then, scientists have discovered 118 elements and the search is on for element 119.                    
         
                    How short is ‘very short’? Well, pretty short – between 120 and 150 pages. The pages are small, too, 175 mm x 110 mm, but then so is the type. ‘Introduction?’ …well, it depends what’s being introduced.                    
        
            
                The birth of electrochemistry: building a simple voltaic pile            
        
        
            
                Lab disasters: creative learning through storytelling            
        
        
            
                Discovery and controversy: stories from the chemical elements            
        
        
            
                Tell me about it: adventures in science communication            
        
        
            
                Elements in focus: beryllium            
        
        
            
                History in the making            
        
        
            
                From the bottom of our hearts: a hands-on demonstration of the mammalian heartbeat            
        
        
            
                Weighing up the evidence: what is a kilo?            
        
        
            
                The numbers game: extending the periodic table            
        
        
            
                Very Short Introductions to Evolution, Human Evolution and the History of Life, By Brian and Deborah Charlesworth (Evolution), Bernard Wood (Human Evolution) and Michael J Benton (The History of Life)