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For this activity you need lots of old newspapers, and some sticky tape.
Make 1 metre length sticks using newspaper.
Tightly roll 8 large sheets of newspaper, 4 and 4 placed as in the photograph, so that the length of the stick when the paper is […]
Whether or not you have plenty of water where you live it is interesting to see how we use water in our homes.
Cape Town in the 2018 dry season has a serious water shortage and water is rationed to 50 litres per person per day, as shown in this poster.
In 2018 Cape Town was in danger of running out of water. Half a billion people in the world face severe water scarcity all year round. Half of the world’s largest cities experience water scarcity
In 2018 the City of Cape Town rationed everyone to 87 litres a day and published this […]
These images are not shown to the same scale. An elephant is much bigger and heavier than a cat or a car. Can you arrange these things in order from lightest to heaviest? Can you estimate the mass of each of these things?
Cogwheels are very important for gears in machinery such as clocks, bicycles, cars and engines.
Pick two cogwheels. Place them close to each other so that the teeth fit into the gaps between the teeth of the […]
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