Understanding Stuff
STEM for Fun
These web sites contain useful information of many of the topics that we will or have covered.
Tech
- How electricity works
- How the Internet works
- How your PC works
- Basic electronics
- Electronics Class (10 lessons)
- How to build a robot arm with paddlepop sticks
- What's inside a computer?
- How a disk drive works
- What's in a smartphone? (PowerPoint version)
- Robot links
Flight & Space
- How wings work and more info also here
- Make a delta-wing paper plane
- Cosmic Eye - from an atom to the Universe
- The known universe - a digital map
- How far have radio waves travelled from earth?
- Deep Field Galaxies (4.6 billion years ago)
- Planets and sun size comparison
- Universe Size Comparison
- International Space Station (ISS)
- Water in our Solar System (PowerPoint version)
- Ocean worlds in the Solar System
- Ice Crater on Mars (82km wide)
- A Space Trip through the Solar System
- Where is the Milky Way in the Universe?
- Paper aeroplane
Coding & Keyboard Skills
- HTML Editor
- HTML Example (view the code here)
- How to create a web page in Windows
- Scratch Editor
- Touch-typing tutorials & games
- Touch-typing posture
- QR Code Generator
- Scratch Coding for Arduino
- Edison programmable robot
- How to make your computer talk
- Visual Basic Script (VBS) Programming