- Aerated Water
- Air Engine
- Air Table
- Are you Hot or Not?
- Balancing Act
- Bending Beams
- Block the gap
- Braille
- Bridge the Gap
- Chalk Wall
- Changing Faces
- Chaotic Motion
- Circle of Discovery
- Circle of Discovery- The Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Bridge Design
- Circle of Discovery-Ideas hub
- Circle of Discovery-Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Medicine
- Circle of Discovery-photography
- Circle of Discovery: Design - Earthquake
- Circulation
- Colour Wheel
- Communication Codes
- Communication Dishes
- Computer
- Crystallography
- Digestive System
- Down the Drain
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Fibre Optics
- Flight Simulator
- Gear Table
- Handshake Mirror
- Harmonograph
- High Flyer
- Hit the Target
- Horizontal Periscope
- Human Battery
- It's Electric
- Larger Than Life
- Lift Me Pull You
- Light Table
- Lock Box
- Making Waves
- Mini Harmonograph
- Mobile Phone
- Move It
- Nervous System
- Newtons Cradle
- Organ Pipe
- Organ Pipe Tune
- Oscillating Pendulums
- Pendulums
- People Power
- Periscope
- Prove Pythagoras
- Radar
- Radio Station
- Reactable
- Reflection Refraction
- Robot Arm
- Science of Sport
- Sensation
- Simple Camera
- Simple Circuits
- Smoke Tunnel
- Solar Energy
- Sound Waves
- Structures and Stresses
- Telescope
- The Exhibition
- The Eye
- The Lung and Chest Cavity
- The Wheel Race
- Thermal Imager
- Tornado
- Tower of Hanoi
- Universe Wall
- Up and Down
- Vertical Periscope
- Viscosity
- Viscosity Plungers
- Volume and Mass
- Vortex
- Watch Your Waste
- Weight Lifter
- Wheels Within Wheels
- Wind Tunnel
Radio Station
Activity.... Do – Think - Learn
The Radio Station lets you tune into radio broadcasts around the world.
Can you find station from another country?
The Science Bit
Here at INTECH this radio station is using am (amplitude modulation) radio receiver which carries very low frequencies, long wave, medium wave and short wave. The first radio signal was sent in 1901 from Cornwall to Newfoundland –a distance of 2740km.
Curriculum Links
Ourselves
- That we have five senses which allow us to find out about the world
Sound and Hearing
- To explore sounds using their sense of hearing
- To make observations of sounds by listening carefully
- That there are many different sources of sounds
- To turn ideas about hearing into questions that can be tested
- That we hear with our ears
- That we use out sense of hearing for a range of purposes, including recognising hazards and risks
- That there are many different ways of making sounds
Changing sounds
- That vibrations from sound sources travel through different materials to the ear
- To make careful observations to identify the types of material through which sound can travels
- That some materials are effective in preventing vibrations from sound sources reaching the ear
Last Modified: 26/07/2011
