Scaling

This collection of STEM resources is based around the topic of scaling. Resources are listed in order of stage.

Make Your Own Solar System

Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Making a scale model of the solar system

Toad in the Hole

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Is it cheaper to cook a meal from scratch or to buy a ready meal? What difference does the number of people you're cooking for make?

Mixing Lemonade

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Can you work out which drink has the stronger flavour?

Tray Bake

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

My recipe is for 12 cakes - how do I change it if I want to make a different number of cakes?

Using the Haemocytometer

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Practise your skills of proportional reasoning with this interactive haemocytometer.

A Question of Scale

Stage: 4 Short Challenge Level:

Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?

Carbon Footprints

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Is it really greener to go on the bus, or to buy local?

Constantly Changing

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Many physical constants are only known to a certain accuracy. Explore the numerical error bounds in the mass of water and its constituents.

Fill Me up Too

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

In Fill Me Up we invited you to sketch graphs as vessels are filled with water. Can you work out the equations of the graphs?