Measurement Good Practice Guide: a Beginner's Guide to Uncertainty of Measurement
This publication from the National Physical Laboratory is an ideal resource for secondary teachers but could also be used by students at post-16 level. It can be used as a basis for best practice for taking measurements within the laboratory. The guide explains the basics of errors, uncertainties, spread, standard deviation, random…
Fact Sheets
These fact sheets, from the National Physical Laboratory, are ideal posters for the classroom. They include illustrations and images to accompany the text. The following curriculum areas are covered Acoustics: sound, frequency and ultrasound Einstein: relativity, mass energy relation and speed Electricity: current and voltage Ionising…
The Little Books of Gaia
Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. The spacecraft will provide the positions and velocity measurements of around 1 billion stars – which is about one percent of the stars in our galaxy. The Little Books of Gaia are A4-page-size summaries that cover different aspects…
What Could Nano Do for You?: the Scale of the Universe
These materials, from the Royal Society, look at nanotechnology. Nanomaterials are usually measured in nanometres (nm). 1 nm can also be written as 1 x 10-9 m which is one billionth of a metre. The activity helps students to understand how this compares to the rest of the universe. A quiz helps to give students an idea of scale…
Cosmic Rays: Mysterious Extraterrestrial Visitors
Produced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Cosmic Rays is a colour A5 leaflet that opens out into an A2 double-sided wallchart describing cosmic rays and where they come from, what effect they have on Earth and how they are used in scientific applications. Sections of the leaflet cover: • The discovery…
Galaxies
This resource has been devised by The Royal Observatory Edinburgh with the Institute of Physics Scotland, to inspire secondary science classes. They are mainly used by students aged 11-14 years but can be used from upper primary to upper secondary. Students investigate galaxies. They use data from real research in group work and…
4/5- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Exoplanets
This resource has been devised by The Royal Observatory Edinburgh with the Institute of Physics Scotland, to inspire secondary science classes. They are mainly used by students aged 11-14 years but can be used from upper primary to upper secondary. Students investigate exoplanets. They use data from real research in group work and…
space:uk - Winter 2011, Issue 33
This issue of space:uk, published by the UK Space Agency, focuses on the planet Mercury and the spacecraft being designed and built with the aim of investigating the 'weird' planet. The issue reports on current news stories including the launch of the two Galileo 'In-Orbit Validation' (IOV) spacecraft, new missions…
space:uk - Spring 2012, Issue 34
From the UK Space Agency, this issue of Space:UK magazine contains a variety of news stories and features on: • Green planet - how space is helping to save one of the world's more valuable resources • Space, time and LISA - the UK-built mission to invesitgate ripples in space and time • Free-fall science -…
space:uk - Summer 2011, Issue 32
This issue of Space:UK, published by the UK Space Agency, focuses on the new Hubble space telescope, big plans for small satellites and the development of the UK spaceplane. The issue includes news stories about current events, research and developments as well as conference news. There are also special articles: • Bigger…
Triple Science Case Study: Collaborative Approaches
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how triple science can raise attainment and become sustainable through strong collaboration from partner schools and engagement in relevant support programmes. The case study provides some background information about Ormesby School (Middlesbrough); the barriers…
Triple Science Case Study: Student Selection and Valuing Practical Work
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how enabling students to self-select onto the triple science course and providing them with meaningful opportunities for practical work in Key Stage Four, achievement and uptake in sciences at post-16 can increase. The case study includes some background information…
Triple Science Case Study: Leadership and CPD
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how the benefit of strong leadership and targeted professional development can improve specialist teachers’ capacities to deliver triple science effectively. The case study includes some background information about Northolt High School (Middlesex); the…
Triple Science Case Study: Curriculum Model and Timetabling
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how remodelling the timetable and changing the structure of Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four can mean students are given the time and the opportunity to build their confidence in triple science and develop the skills required to be successful. The case study…
Triple Science Case Study: CPD and Effective Guidance
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how providing specialist teachers with the confidence to deliver the additional triple science units through professional development can develop all teachers in their capacity to deliver triple science effectively. Careful and tailored student guidance can also…
Triple Science Case Study: Leadership and Review
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how under strong departmental leadership and regular review of the Key Stage Four curriculum offer triple science has developed and how it has contributed towards the increased flexibility in science. The case study includes some background information about…
Triple Science Case Study: Curriculum Models
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how trialling different curriculum models and providing additional time in Year Ten for students to grow and develop confidence with science, as well as deploying teaching staff effectively can lead to success in delivering triple science. The case study provides…
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…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
- Interactive resource
Radiations and Radiating 14-16
From the Institute of Physics, these documents are designed to be downloaded and viewed as a single module. They form an interactive resource which provides extensive teacher guidance and classroom activities. Each topic contains a physics narrative, teaching and learning issues and teaching approaches: • The physics narrative…
Science in the Environment Pack 4: the Technological Environment
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 1: Eye on the Environment
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…
Cosmology: the Origin and Development of the Universe
This book on cosmology, from the Royal Astronomical Society, provides a good primer for those teaching A-level physics courses or GCSE Astronomy. The resource begins by introducing the history of measurements in cosmology, from Aristotle to Galileo and Newton. It gives brief explanations of: • the inverse square law for…
- 5/5
- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Case Studies from 2011: Technology and Engineering
A set of case studies which highlight some of the research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in 2011. 3D printing 3D printing technology that can create full-scale consumer products, even in chocolate, is one step closer to commercial reality. Tiny flying machines will revolutionise surveillance…
Case Studies from 2010
A set of case studies which highlight some of the research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in 2010. Valuable materials extracted from industrial waste Living with environmental change: Why use dwindling supplies of valuable raw materials when an EPSRC-funded project shows that they can…
Case Studies from 2009
A set of case studies which highlight some of the research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in 2009. The chocolate powered race car with a green future Energy: The world’s first fully sustainable racing car, developed with EPSRC support, is paving the way for ‘green motorsport’…
Club Activity Pack
These resources from Planet Science provide a series of pen pictures of a scientist and a related experiment which can be used at home or as science club activities. Activity A: Great Social life: Toyin Solanke The geologist Toyin Solanke provides the inspiration for a simple activity demonstrating how oil is formed and how it…
History, People and FAQs
This resource, from the Living in a Materials World CD-ROM produced by Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), describes the achievements of some of the physicists and chemists who have contributed to our scientific understanding of the structure and behaviour of atoms. Historical developments describes the work and…
Research at ISIS
The research section of the Living in a Materials World describes some of the projects undertaken by ISIS, an experimental facility at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Particle accelerators at the facility produce beams of neutrons which can be used to study atomic and sub-atomic…
Particle Accelerators and the Accelerator Tour
This resource, from the Living in a Materials World CD-ROM produced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), describes how particle accelerators are used to research matter at the atomic and sub-atomic level. The resource looks at the history of research into particles and describes each of the three main types of…
Living in a Materials World: Introduction
This introduction to the Living in a Materials World CD-ROM describes the work of ISIS, a research centre based at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Appleton Rutherford Laboratory. At ISIS, particle accelerators provide beams of neutrons and muons to enable the structure and dynamics of condensed matter to…
Sir John Pendry
An Impact! People case study from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Professor Sir John Pendry is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and his revolutionary work on materials has opened the doors to a world of new possibilities. With EPSRC support, Pendry established an entirely…
Light at the End of the Tunnel
A case study from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) archives which looks at how making low-energy LED lighting cheaper and more widely available could slash UK electricity consumption by up to 15%. EPSRC-supported researchers are developing new ways of producing gallium nitride (GaN) – used in…
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