Science Animal Classification

Students classify animals into broad groups (vertebrates and invertebrates, amphibian, bird, fish, mammal, reptile).

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Presentation

Mathematics SMILE Cards

The mathematics on these sets of cards from Smile is presented in the form of practical activities, games and investigations. They encourage an independant approach and are mainly suitable for Key Stage 3 students.

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Science SimEnergy 1

In this SimPhysics game the challenge for players is to help a family stay warm through the worst winter on record.

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Interactive resource

Technology Should Your Software Speak?

One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which children produce a multimedia presentation using software they are familiar with from previous ICT lesson time.

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Science Fake

In this Science UPD8 activity students use chemical techniques and reactions to investigate a crime scene.

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Engineering Formula One Race Strategy

This activity links mathematical processes such as empirical formulae, using derivatives to find optimum point, and integration, to sports technology units of the Advanced Diploma. It is supported by McLaren Racing Ltd.

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Results time again

  • posted by
  • John Holman
  • on
  • 25th August 2010

Every year I scour the A Level and GCSE results statistics for indications about the popularity of sciences. For many years in the 1990s and early 2000s this was a dispiriting job, as we saw a seemingly unstoppable decline in popularity, particularly in Physics and Chemistry, coupled with stories about the closure of numerous university Chemistry and Physics Departments.

All that is changing now, and we are seeing a renaissance in the popularity of school science. Take A level for example: Physics numbers are up 5.2% this year, Chemistry up 3.7% and Biology up 4.3%. This kind of growth, particularly in Physics, would have been unthinkable a few years ago. Looking next at the GCSE results, I see that numbers taking triple science are up by about 30% - triple science has been a real success story and we must be nearing the point now where it is on offer in every state school in the country. Triple science is an excellent preparation for A level, and we should not rest until this goal has been achieved. .

So, just what exactly is driving this resurgence in the popularity of science in schools? Economic realism must have something to do with it. With youth unemployment… More about Results time again

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