Learning About Life for Ages 7 to 11 Years
This resource centres around five posters designed to promote discussion, which link to the topic areas of micro-organisms, keeping healthy, plants, life-cycles, how we see things and PSHE. The notes provide information for teachers including key teaching points and questions. They focus on the variety of micro-organisms, their…
Nuffield Biology Activities for GCSE
This pack of Nuffield Biology activity sheets was designed to match the National Curriculum Science: Biology at Key stage Four from 1996. The ideas were drawn from materials produced by various Nuffield projects over the previous ten years. The pack includes student sheets for 96 different activities. Teacher guidance is provided…
Investigations in Applied Biology and Biotechnology
The resource pack, written by Peter Freeland, contains 50 practical investigations designed to introduce aspects of applied biology and biotechnology. The topics are wide ranging, including enzymes, food manufacture and fermentation technology, together with health education, plant propagation, pest control, waste disposal and soil…
Minibeasts Activity Book
The Minibeasts Activity Book comprises photocopiable sheets with teachers' notes on activities all relating to minibeasts. The resources are written for mixed ability classes and an extension is provided for the more able. They relate directly to topics on animals in the local environment, habitats, interdependence and adaptation…
Genes and You
Published by the Wellcome Trust in 1997, this book provides challenging ways of incorporating scientific information into social situations. Teachers' notes complement the student activity sheets in a series of real-life scenarios. In addition to looking at the biology of genetic disorders, inheritance, genes, chromosomes…
Plants and Animals
Produced by the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP), these images are useful for adding to documents or presentations, or for use with an interactive whiteboard. Mainly simple line drawings, they can be cut and pasted into documents and image processing applications. The images in this resource are related to the topic of plants…
Humans
Produced by the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP), these images are useful for adding to documents, presentations or for use with an interactive whiteboard. Mainly simple line drawings, they can be cut and pasted into documents and image processing applications. The images in this resource are related to the topic of humans…
Molecular Modelling for Advanced Level Students
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry represents the manufacturers of most of the medicines and vaccines supplied to the National Health Service, in the UK. As part of their programme to encourage the study of science in schools, in 1995, the ABPI produced a book for post-16 students, on the subject of molecular…
Understanding Food Additives
From CIEC Promoting Science, this booklet is the forerunner of its Understanding Food Additives web site. The booklet contains information on a range of food additives and extensive suggestions for practical activities to investigate food and food additives. Food additives described in the booklet include: • Acidulants…
Dental Dilemmas
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, this resource looks at the testing of materials in the context of dentistry. Students first look at the properties of teeth and the nature of toothache before going on to test materials for a range of properties. Experimental methods detailed include: • testing the relative hardness…
Case Studies on Education-Industry Partnerships
From CIEC Promoting Science, this information booklet is useful for those wishing to develop successful partnerships between schools and local science-based industries. It is a collection of papers that describe how different groups have encountered and handled major issues and problems while developing their education-industry programmes.…
War Against Pests
From CIEC Promoting Science, these materials help students to understand key ideas in the use of agrochemicals. These include: • synthetic and natural pesticides • biological control • food chains and the management of ecosystems • predator-prey relationships • benefits and drawbacks of using agrochemicals…
Vitamin C - the Elixir of Life?
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, the activities in this resource allow students to examine science concepts applicable to the healthcare industries and the work of people in the sector. The activities in the resources cover areas that include: • Determination of the vitamin C content lost into solution during the cooking…
Science Specials Needs Supplement
From CIEC Promoting Science, this book contains a range of science investigations that have been adapted for secondary-school students with particular learning needs. In these activities appropriate teaching and learning strategies allow special needs students to play a full part within science activities. Additionally, the teacher…
Tablet Coating: Not Just a Pretty Colour
These activities, produced by CIEC Promoting Science, help students understand about the formulation and design of coating used for tablets taken as medicines. Designed originally as a unit of GNVQ teaching, the materials contain a range of practical investigations that would be useful for students studying post-16 chemistry, applied…
Frozen Assets
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, this activity engages students to consider the responsible use of chemicals and an analysis of the impact of a product through all the stages in its life. In this context, students attempt an analysis for different de-icers that might be used on roads in winter. They consider the costs and other…
Waste Away
From CIEC Promoting Science, these resources allow students to consider the problems of industrial waste disposal. In particular they focus on the biological treatment of industrial waste using air as a source of oxygen and problems that such biological treatment plants face. Aimed at students aged 12-14 years, the activities…
Industrial Encounters: Good Practice for School Links
From CIEC Promoting Science, this guide aims to help schools and science-based companies make the best use of their opportunities to liaise together. It concentrates upon using link activities to enrich aspects of the school science curriculum but there are many principles in the guide, with a more general application. There…
Science Focus: Working With Science 1
This student book accompanies the seven teaching units which make up Science Focus: The Salters’ Approach for spring and summer terms in Year Seven. Working with Science 1 is printed in black and white and can be used in the classroom or laboratory to support, enrich or extend lessons. Content is arranged as a succession…
Science Focus: Looking into Science 1
This student book accompanies the seven teaching units which make up Science Focus: The Salters’ Approach for the spring and summer terms of Year Seven. Looking into Science 1 is a full colour book which can be used to support, enrich or extend lessons. Content is arranged as a succession of double-page spreads, each of…
Salters' Science Focus: Teachers' Guide 1
The Salters' Science Focus course provides a rich variety of different types of learning activities, which are described in sufficient detail to be taken and adapted into any Key Stage Three scheme of work. This guide covers Year Seven of the course Science Focus: the Salters’ Approach. It provides a suggested scheme of…
Salters' Science Focus: Teachers' Guide 3
The Science Focus course provides a rich variety of different types of learning activities, which are described in sufficient detail to be taken and adapted into any Key Stage Three scheme of work. This guide covers Year 10 of the course Science Focus: the Salters’ Approach. It provides a suggested scheme of work for each…
Science Focus: Working With Science 2
This student book accompanies the nine teaching units which make up Science Focus: The Salters’ Approach for Year Eight. Working with Science 2 is printed in black and white and can be used in the classroom or laboratory to support, enrich or extend lessons. Content is arranged as a succession of double-page spreads, each…
Science Focus: Looking into Science 2
This student book accompanies the nine teaching units which make up Science Focus: The Salters’ Approach for Year Eight. Looking into Science 2 is a full colour book which can be used to support, enrich or extend lessons. Content is arranged as a succession of double-page spreads, each of which is closely linked to a particular…
Salters' Science Focus: Teachers' Guide 2
The Science Focus: the Salters’ Approach course provides a rich variety of different types of learning activities, which are described in sufficient detail to be taken and adapted into any Key Stage Three scheme of work. This guide covers Year Eight of the course, suggesting a scheme of work for each of nine units of study.…
Ethics, Morality and Crop Biotechnology
Written in 1996, and published by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), this book looks at issues surrounding the use of genetic modification in agriculture. The chapters in the book cover: Moral and ethical concerns • What are moral and ethical concerns? • How can moral and ethica…
Ethics, Morality and Animal Biotechnology
Written in 1999, and published by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), this book looks at issues surrounding the ethical use of animals in the field of biotechnology. The chapters in the book cover: Current developments in animal biotechnology • Why are genetically modified animals produced…
Energy and Change: Background Stories for Teachers
In Background Stories for Teachers, the authors of the ‘Teaching about why things change’ project illustrate a new approach to the fundamental question 'why do things change?'. They do so with the help of stories about some scientific topics which show how the topics can be looked at in a new light. The collection…
Preventing Heart Disease
This Problem Solving with Industry module was devised by the Centre for Science Education in collaboration with local health promotion groups. In this module the problem is to design an effective campaign or a piece of material promoting ‘Healthy Hearts’. This can then be used in the School or College community Tasks •…
Dam Algae!
This Problem Solving with Industry module was devised by the Centre for Science Education in collaboration with Yorkshire Water. In this module students study the problem of blue-green algae in an upland reservoir. Tasks • Task 1 - reading a newspaper article about a reservoir turning green, and responding to a memo from…
The Body Machine
The Ginn Science topic book The Body Machine is a 48 page book for students aged 10 and 11, published in 1991. It discusses the human body as a complex machine in which bones and muscles work together to give support and allow movement. It provides a drawing of the human skeleton with all main bones identified, and described how…
National Assessment Sheets in Science Levels Three to Five
Ginn Science National Assessment Sheets in science for levels three to five of the National Curriculum, and levels C to E of the Scottish 5-14 guidelines, were published in 1997. They comprise photocopiable sheets which aim to help teachers to monitor and assess their students’ knowledge and abilities in science and to provide…
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