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.…
What Stuff Does
From Teachers TV, and part of the Science Tube series, this video contains five short clips that explore the properties and uses of some of the many materials that surround us. It looks at rock, water and carbon dioxide. The clips are: Rocky road reveals the processes involved at a quarry, from the rock being blasted out of…
Watching Over the Earth
This resource, from ESA, is intended to familiarise students between the ages of 11 and 14 with the subject of satellite imagery. Satellite images are of increasing importance in a great many domains and are dramatically changing the way the world and physical phenomena are perceived. Their use and understanding by students is one…
4/5- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Activity sheet
Wegener and Continental Drift
This main unit in the Ideas and Evidence pack from the Pupil Researcher Initiative is about how difficult it can be for new ideas in science to become accepted. Sometimes there is one missing piece in the new theory which takes a long time to discover. It can also be hard to persuade other scientists to accept that their ideas are…
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
This main unit in the Ideas and Evidence pack from the Pupil Researcher Initiative is about how difficult it can be to make predictions. Scientists can predict some things quite accurately, but in other cases it is much more difficult to make a prediction. A good example of this is trying to predict exactly when an earthquake or…
Reading About Science Book 4: Gases, Acids, and the Earth
The chapters in the book Reading About Science Book 4: Gases, Acids, and the Earth from Heinemann each deal independently with a specific aspect of the topics covered and is compete in itself, allowing the chapters to be read in any sequence. Each of the 20 chapters begins with information about an aspect of the topic and ends with…
Futurecade
Futurecade is an innovative interactive suite of games from the Science Museum that allows students to explore how science and technology impacts on their everyday lives. Futurecade’s four games are inspired by current and future technology in the fields of robotics, satellites and space junk, geo-engineering and synthetic…
- 5/5
- Publication year: 2010 to date
- Interactive resource
Recording Plankton Data
This Cape Farewell video clip shows how plankton data is recorded and used as evidence in scientific research. Activity H - Plankton data is based on a spreadsheet which students used to answer questions and look for patterns in data about plankton. The activity is designed to consolidate, practice and develop the students’…
The Voyages
This Cape Farewell video clip provides a general introduction to the voyage of The Noorderlicht to Svalbard and to the Cape Farewell scientists Simon, Val and Sarah. The scientists discuss their work with two teachers, Mike and Subathra. The presentation called Setting the Scene complements the first video clip by providing a…
Pupil Research Briefs – Earth Science Briefs
This Pupil Research Brief (PRB), designed by a team at the Centre for Science Education, supports the teaching and learning of earth science at GCSE and Scottish Standard Grade levels. Each brief was targeted at a topic within the curriculum at the time. The study guide provides a structure to guide the students through the brief…
- 5/5
- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Activity sheet
Pupil Research Briefs - General Teacher Notes
Pupil Research Briefs (PRBs), produced by the Centre for Science Education, were designed to support the teaching and learning of science (including the separate sciences) at GCSE and Scottish Standard Grade levels. Each brief was targeted at a topic within the curriculum at the time. Most PRBs also provided opportunities for…
- 5/5
- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Teacher guidance
Science in the Environment Pack 8: Oceans and Climate
The University of York Science Education Group ensured that all the Science in the Environment packs were organised according to broad environmental themes. Within each pack, a number of specific contexts were used to introduce the science content. In addition, each pack focused on the acquisition of particular skills and introduced…
Science in the Environment Pack 7: Timescales of Global Processes
The University of York Science Education Group ensured that all the Science in the Environment packs were organised according to broad environmental themes. Within each pack, a number of specific contexts were used to introduce the science content. In addition, each pack focused on the acquisition of particular skills and introduced…
Science in the Environment Pack 3: Atmosphere and Climate
The University of York Science Education Group ensured that all the Science in the Environment packs were organised according to broad environmental themes. Within each pack, a number of specific contexts were used to introduce the science content. In addition, each pack focused on the acquisition of particular skills and introduced…
Ginn Science Assessment Booklet: Written Questions Level (Year) Five
The Ginn Science Assessment Booklet of written questions for level five (students aged 9 to 10 years) was published in 1989. This was before the term ‘level’ acquired special meaning in the National Curriculum Assessment. Here 'level’ can be equated with ‘Year’. The questions are grouped in 10 sets,…
Earth and Weather
The Ginn Science level five students’ book Earth and Weather was written for students in Year Five (Primary Six) aged 9 to 10 years, and published in 1990. It relates to the content strand Earth and space. With the help of full colour illustrations it provides information about the Earth's orbit around the sun, the seasons,…
Ginn Science Homework Sheets Year Five
Ginn Science Homework Sheets are photocopy masters for setting science homework at Year Five (students aged 9 to 10 years). The tasks are practical activities that can be carried out at home with the support of parents or carers. Published in 1998, the links to the National Curriculum are to the 1995 revision. The homework sheets…
Weather
Ginn Science level three students’ book Weather was written for students aged seven to eight years and published in 1989. It contains 24 pages and related to the content strand ‘Earth and space’. Using full-colour illustrations, it begins by discussing different kinds of weather and distinguishes weather from climate.…
The Rainy Day
The Ginn Science story book The Rainy Day was written for students in Year Two (Primary Three) aged six to seven and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Materials and their uses’ and is intended for students to read independently. It tells the story of a family visiting a park and caught in a sudden rainstorm…
The Park in Spring
The Ginn Science story book The Park in Spring was written for students in Year Two (Primary Three) aged six to seven and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Earth and Space’ and is intended for pupils to read independently. It tells a story of how a park changed from early to late spring as the snow…
Ginn Science: Year Two Resource File
Ginn Science Year Two Resource File for teachers was first published in 1988 and revised in 1995 to accommodate the 1995 National Curriculum in England and Wales. The revised file, of over 200 pages, contains full instructions for use of the materials provided to support science throughout Year Two in England or Primary Three in…
Follow the Footprints
The Ginn Science story book Follow the Footprints was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Earth and space’. In full-colour illustrations it tells a story of two children following footprints and tracks in mud, soft sand and left after…
Summertime
The Ginn Science story book about Summertime was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Earth and space’. It illustrates, in full colour, the activities what a boy likes to be able to do and wear in summer, with a short sentence on each…
Winter
The Ginn Science story book about Winter was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1988. It relates to the content strand ‘Earth and space’. Through full-colour illustrations and no words it depicts various winter scenes showing people in thick warm clothing involved in activities…
The Weather Forecast
The Ginn Science information book The Weather Forecast was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1991. It relates to the content strand ‘Earth and space’ and shows how the television weather forecast represents different types of weather on the map and shows what each type…
Ginn Science: Year One Resource File
Ginn Science Year One Resource File for teachers was first published in 1988 and revised in 1995 to accommodate the 1995 National Curriculum in England and Wales. The revised file, of over 200 pages, contains full instructions for use of the materials provided to support science throughout Year One in England or Primary Two in Scotland…
Science: the Salters Approach – Book 4
This textbook accompanied the five modules in second half of Year 11 in the Salters' Science course at Key Stage Four. Contents • The Earth In Space • Evolution • Sports Science • Burning and Bonding • Energy Today and Tomorrow
Science: the Salters Approach – Book 3
This textbook accompanied the first five modules in Year 11 in the Salters' Science course at Key Stage Four. Contents • Seeing Inside the Body • Controlling Change • Making Use of Oil • Sound Reproduction • Waste Not Want Not
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