Showing posts with label materials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label materials. Show all posts

Sunday, 29 May 2016

UNIT 8: FINANCIAL EDUCATION


  • The role of money
  • Purchasing strategies
  • Budgets
  • Companies
  • Describe different means of payment.
  • Identify financial concepts (income, savings, expenses...)
  • Create a personal budget.
  • Identify different types of companies and describe how they are organised.
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Tuesday, 23 February 2016

UNIT 5. MATERIALS



  • The origin of raw materials.
  • Properties of materials.
  • Manufacture of products from raw materials.
  • Uses of materials in technology.

  • Identify the origin of different raw materials.
  • Explain how some products are made.
  • Invent a new object, explain its utility, identify the materials it is made of and explain why these materials are appropriate.
  • Recognise the relevance of new inventions in society.




Mineral detectives
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/minerals/index.htm

Superconductors used in magnetic levitation trains