Search results

Refine by resource type

Refine by year level

Refine by learning area

Refine by topic

Main topic Specific topic Related topic
Listed under:  Science  >  Matter  >  Chemical elements  >  Transition metals  >  Iron
Video

Elliot and the Surfing Scientist: Getting iron out of breakfast cereal

You probably know your body needs iron and that you can get it from the foods you eat. Join the Surfing Scientist team as they attempt to extract iron from a bowl of breakfast cereal. What method do you think they will use?

Image

Anchor from the 'St Jean Baptiste'

This is a large anchor, made of wrought iron in about 1760. It is 4.45 metres long, 2.87 metres wide and 68 centimetres thick, and weighs 1400 kilograms. It is one of three anchors lost at Doubtless Bay in the north of the North Island of New Zealand on 27 December 1769 from the 'St Jean Baptiste', a ship captained by Jean ...