Accident and Emergency
In this Science upd8 activity students take on the role of a hospital Family Liaison Officer. They carry out research around cells, tissues and organs and then explain a patient's injuries using this knowledge. The activity can help to broaden students' ideas about careers in medicine.
Science Skills: Wind Power
This interactive resource from BP Educational Service sets students a real industrial science problem based on issues around using renewable energy resources and, in particular, wind power. Video briefings and an interactive laboratory provide students with the tools they need to solve the challenge. The challenge is based around…
STEM Choices: Summary of Good Practice
From the Department for Education, this resource is an accessible summary of good practice when delivering careers information and guidance. It will be useful for tutors, subject teachers, and careers advisers involved in STEM and other subject areas.
Physics in Schools IV: Supply and Retention of Teachers
This report, produced by the Centre for Education and Emplyment Research (CEER), looks at specialist physics teacher supply and retention in English schools. Physics is at the sharp end of teacher recruitment. It is the subject that schools find most difficult to staff. Some schools do not teach it, and others that do, use non-physicists…
Boxes and Bottles
Boxes and bottles come in all shapes and sizes. These Cre8ate maths activities explore some of the mathematics behind packaging decisions taken by manufacturers, they provide a platform for students to make conjectures and find efficient ways of recording results to justify claims they have made. In Boxing stock cubes students…
breakthrough: a Voyage, a Great Idea and Twenty Years of Hesitation
breakthrough was a termly resource for teachers published between 1999 and 2001. Each edition highlighted a number of discoveries and inventions and the people who made them. This edition was published in September 2001. Each edition of breakthrough included feature articles and regular items such as profiles of key scientists,…
Ways to Win
A collection of thirty two mathematical games. The aim of each is for students to decide whether there is a winning strategy. The games are: take the pegs, Tetromino chase, Solitaire, remove the cube, make it twenty-four, total 87, hedge me in, grab the last cross, sticks game, strategic darts, square chase, NIM, Pentomino chase,…
The Curriculum From 5 to 16: Curriculum Matters 2
This resource, published in 1985, was the second in a series of discussion documents published by HM Inspectorate intended to stimulate debate about the National Curriculum in primary and secondary schools. It suggests an approach to teaching a broad, balanced, inclusive curriculum for all students. The focus of this report is…
Mercury
Andrew Marmery and Olympia Brown, from the Royal Institution, celebrate filming the Christmas Lectures by sharing their love of element number 80. Mercury, called quicksilver by the ancient alchemists, is the only metal which is liquid at room temperature. Olympia shows how beautiful the metal looks as she moves it around a…
Teaching of Social and Ethical Issues Arising From Developments in Biomedical Research
This research, commissioned by the Wellcome trust, was undertaken by an interdisciplinary team led by Ralph Levinson and Dr Sheila Turner at the Institute of Education, University of London between May 1st and December 1st 1999. The project reports on five main areas: • The perceived importance amongst teachers (especially…
Integrated Science Book 1
Integrated Science, from the Wreake Valley Academy, is a series of three books designed to support science teaching of students aged 11-14. They provided a balanced science curriculum that included biology, chemistry, physics and encouraged scientific investigation as a way of promoting scientific thinking and engagement in science. Book…
Number Activities for Students Aged 11-13
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of Key Stage Three mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations and cross-curricular activities to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding of proprties of number. • Find my number - using properties…
Pixel Perfection
This investigation from Cre8ate maths involves students in finding the best size screen for a television. If you have a large flat screen and view a standard analogue or digital picture the individual pixels are visible if you are sitting too close to the screen. Working in small groups of 3 or 4, students measure the pixel density…
Working for Efficiency
This Cre8ate maths topic looks at simplified versions of three different network problems that are encountered in practical logistical planning. Paper rounds offers the opportunity for reasoning and proof as the arguments needed to establish Euler's theorem are within their grasp. It also, along with Cable connections and…
Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Make Sense
This resource from SMILE contains two books at different levels with activities focusing on fractions, decimals and percentages. Each activity is accompanied by teachers' notes. The notes give advice on appropriate ways of using the activity and any additional equipment required. Many of the activities are suitable for whole…
Louis Pasteur
A Nature of Science biography of Louis Pasteur. As a professor of chemistry, Pasteur was fascinated by microbes and their role in causing disease. Pasteur went on to develop a theory and method of 'antisepsis'; pasteurisation to kill harmful microbes in food and drink and a cure for rabies. The chapters are: 1. Louis…
Mathematics: Non-Statutory Guidance
The National Curriculum Council (NCC) published non-statutory guidance to support the teaching of mathematics in the National Curriculum in 1989, and again in 1991, to accompany the first revision of the National Curriculum. Non-statutory Guidance 1989 • The guidance materials for mathematics were written to provide a reference…
Energy and Appliances
Produced by Solar Spark, this short activity challenges students to put a variety of common appliances into the order of their electricity consumption. The activity can be used to stimulate consideration of issues such as: • energy generation and consumption • renewable energy • carbon dioxide • emissions…
Focusing on Interactivity
From Teachers TV, this video shows how Park View School in Birmingham has become one of the most improved in the country, more than doubling its pass rate for GCSE science. Head teacher Lindsey Clark attributes this dramatic change to a new system of student tracking, the charting of individual academic progress, and a focus…
Caesium
In the build-up to the Christmas Lectures in 2012, the Royal Institution published a new video for every day of advent revealing the elements that really excite and inspire people. Despite forgetting his periodic table party trick, presenter Dallas Campbell explains why travelling around the world made him partial to element number…
The Future of Energy
In this Cambridge University film, three academics look at wind power, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and material efficiency as examples of how we can cut our carbon dioxide emissions. Demand for energy is sky-rocketing and producing enough energy to meet this demand has significant environmental impacts and could cause catastrophic…
Assembly: Genetic Engineering
These assembly materials, provided by the Association for Science Education (ASE), considers viewpoints for and against human cloning. The aim is to make students more aware of their need for scientific understanding in the world outside school. Teachers could time the assembly to coincide with classes studying genetic engineering…
A Day in the Life of UK Space Scientists and Engineers
These videos provide an insight into the working lives of seven different space scientists and engineers in the UK. Each video has an associated file with suggested ideas of how you could use the videos in a lesson, posing questions to the students based on the videos and presenting ideas for research projects and class activities. Mat…
What Do Social Scientists Do? Psychology
This Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) resource looks at psychology as a career option. It begins by defining psychology as the study of the human mind, brain and behaviour. The resource then gives information about career possibilities and gives examples of sectors where psychology graduates are welcomed. Psychology provides…
Year Seven Fractions and Ratio Mini-pack
This unit from the National Strategies is a precursor to the Year Eight multiplicative relationships unit and the Year Nine sequel on proportional reasoning. Together they provide a sequence of core units across the key stage, addressing crucial concepts linking multiplication, division, fractions, ratio and proportion. Proportional…
The International Space Station and Skylab
Produced by FootageVault and using original NASA video, these clips illustrate life onboard the International Space Station (ISS) and its forerunner, Skylab. The clips cover a range of topics and show: • views of the earth • floating in zero gravity • approach of the Space Shuttle Endeavour • living in…
I Do and I Understand
This guide explains the intentions of the Nuffield Mathematics Project, gives detailed descriptions of the ways in which a changeover from conventional teaching can be made and faces many of the problems that will be met. The contribution of the psychologist Piaget to the development of mathematics is described, as is the significance…
Building the Digital Society
This Mathematics Matters case study looks at how mathematics converts digital data into useful information for business, the government and the public. Computers and networks stuffed with ever-increasing amounts of data are transforming our society, creating a digital world with its own rules and behaviours. We need mathematicians…
Good Ideas for Symmetry
While these activities from Polygon Resources focus largely on line symmetry, some lead on to rotational symmetry. Although much of the work in this booklet relates to two dimensional shapes, there are opportunities to extend into three dimensions. The need to think of planes of symmetry rather than lines is a way of ensuring the…
Case Studies in Biofuels Production
These materials are based on the Nuffield Council on Bioethic's 2011 report: Biofuels: ethical issues. The resources aim to help students consider the advantages and disadvantages of different types of biofuels that are being produced or may be produced in future as renewable sources of energy for transport. Using these…
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Go with the Flow CD-ROM
This multimedia package was developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme to help students understand the interesting and unusual properties of a range of fluids, semi-solids and solids. Published originally as a CD-ROM, the materials contain a collection of videos, animations and worksheets that are available as editable…
Case Study: Genetic Profiling
In this resource from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, students look at the ethical issues surrounding the ability of people to pay for a DNA analysis service to find out their personal susceptibility to certain diseases and conditions. The resource gives information about genetic conditions which can be profiled in this way. It…
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