Technology in the National Curriculum 1990
Written the year after the introduction of the National Curriculum, this report from the Department of Education and Science specifies the Attainment Targets expected of students at all stages of compulsory education in technology. Programmes of Study are described, along with examples of work that students could be set, for Key…
STEM Knowledge Networks
This booklet provides twelve case studies from STEM Knowledge Networks. These were projects supported by the National STEM Centre in partnership with the National Centre for the Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (NCETM). Schools were required to enable at least two or more STEM departments to work collaboratively by releasing teachers…
Wellcome Trust Monitor
The Wellcome Trust Monitor is a unique survey of UK adults' and young people's views of science, biomedical research and science education. • Wave 1 (the baseline survey) was conducted in 2009 by the National Centre for Social Research who interviewed 1,179 adults and 374 young people. • Wave 2 was conducted…
Ensuring a High Quality, Localised Infrastructure for the CPD of Maths Teachers
The purpose of the study, produced by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) was to inform the establishment of the planned National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), but it is also hoped that this report of the study will be viewed as a useful contribution to the on-going debate about…
National Curriculum: From Policy to Practice
This booklet was written to provide a guide to the National Curriculum for students in compulsory education, those aged five to sixteen. Published in 1989, it examines the legal requirements of the curriculum in the light of the Education Reform Act (ERA) of 1988. Chapters aim: • to show how the ERA requirements relate…
Science and Mathematics Education 5-14
This report, produced by the Royal Society, has a triple purpose: • to provide a summary of the quantitative information that is available on attainment and the workforce in respect of 5–14 science and mathematics education across the UK • to explain the factors considered to have been influential in producing…
Motion 11-14
From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of: • Speed • Resultant force zero predicts constant speed • Resultant non-zero - changes in speed Each topic is explored from the following perspectives: • The…
Machines 11-14
From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of: • Levers • Pressure Each topic is explored from the following perspectives: • The physics narrative explains the physics of the topic using text, diagrams and video…
Electric Circuits 11-14
From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of: • Modelling simple electrical loops • Adding elements to circuits • Power and voltage Each topic is explored from the following perspectives: • The physics…
Magnetism 11-14
From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of: • Exploring magnets • Electromagnets at work Each topic is explored from the following perspectives: • The physics narrative explains the physics of the topic using…
Paper Magic: Folding Polygons
This resource produced by the Educational Television Company contains step by step illustrated instructions of how to fold a variety of polygons, using A-size paper. The polygons featured include a square, an equilateral triangle, an isosceles triangle, kites, rhombi, a regular pentagon, a regular hexagon and a regular octagon.…
Let's Investigate Handling Data
A series of three books containing a number of activities designed to explore topics covering the handing data objectives in the curriculum. Each book is split into four sections. Each section consists of teacher notes detailing objectives, language development, further activities and includes photocopiable material. Book 1 is…
Guides to Assessment in Education: Mathematics
Teachers make assessments all the time for a whole variety of reasons. Assessment is essential to teaching. It has to be acknowledged that although getting to know students thoroughly is part of a teacher's expected load, assessment does represent a noticeable burden. Above all, the report tries to emphasize assessment as a…
Adaptations to Arid Climates (Age 11-14)
In this ARKive resource, students learn about how different animals and plants are adapted to surviving in arid habitats. Working in groups, students design and carry out an experiment aimed at testing the effectiveness of different adaptations in reducing water loss. Using a worksheet as guidance, students also compare species…
Invasive Species (Age 11-14)
This resource from Arkive allows students to investigate the impacts that invasive species have on the environment, the effects that they have on native species and habitats, and the characteristics that make certain species good invaders. The activity looks at the different ways in which invasive species can potentially be controlled…
Model Cells
The cell is the smallest unit of life and for many millennia single celled organisms were the only form of life on Earth. It’s this type of life that astrobiologists are looking for elsewhere in the solar system. In this activity, wallpaper paste is used to build model cells Curriculum areas covered: • Cell biology • Cell…
Martian Death Rays
Could there be life on Mars? Perhaps so, although the high intensity of UV light means that it is unlikely to be found on the surface. The experiment demonstrates how bacteria grown on agar plates can be killed off by UV exposure. Curriculum areas covered: • Microbiology • Cell biology • Aseptic technique The…
What's Your Limit?
Conditions on other planets are unlikely to be within the same ranges as that experienced by Earth. However, a degree of variance from ‘ideal’ ranges may be tolerable for a small number of organisms known as extremophiles. This investigation looks at the effects of subjecting a living organism (yeast) to some extreme…
Rates of Reaction and Activation Empathy
High levels of ultraviolet radiation out in space drive reactions that can turn white beads into their coloured form. Students investigate how temperature affects the rate at which the beads turn back to white. At Key Stage Five, students can use the results sheet template to find the activation enthalpy. In the video, Judith…
Life in the Freezer
If there is life elsewhere in our solar system it’s likely to live in a pretty cold environment. In this resource, students investigate the effect of antifreeze on the freezing point of water and how it can allow fragile cells to survive extreme cold. In the video, Judith Green explains how students can plan an experiment…
Is There Life In There?
All life forms on Earth are based on organic biochemistry. This activity requires students to analyse an unknown soil sample (just recovered from a space mission to another planet!) and look for signs of possible indicators for life. Curriculum areas covered: • Cell biology • Food tests, including starch, sugar, protein…
Exo-planets
Finding exoplanets Exoplanets are planets outside our own solar system. Find out how scientists use ingenious methods to spot them. Goldilocks zone Finding the right conditions to support life is a delicate balance, and scientists are on the look out for exoplanets in the ‘Goldilocks zone’ – Not too hot, and…
Life in Our Solar System
Life in the extremes Microbes can survive in the most hostile and inhospitable environments. Might similar places in our solar system be able to support them too? Why are scientists interested in Mars? Why are scientists interested in Mars? Four scientists talk about why they are interested in the red planet, and how they plan…
Are We Alone?
It really is a small world We live in a global network of diverse communities, sharing resources, ideas and technology. As a species, we have always looked to the sky and asked ‘are we alone?’ A sample of one So are we alone? The simple answer is ‘yes’. Right now, we are alone. Despite all our searching…
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…
Key Stage Three Posters
These posters from the National Physical Laboratory are ideal for the Key Stage Three classroom. The accuracy and precision poster explains the difference between the two concepts. These ideas are equally applicable for Key Stages Four and Five. The sound poster explains the terminology of volume (amplitude) and frequency…
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 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…
Crest Challenges
This Challenge Pack from the British Science Association, aims to give students aged 11-16 and their teachers and educators support to create a science, technology, engineering or maths (STEM) project that they can enter into the National Science + Engineering Competition. Through creating a project, young people can explore…
Leading Space: Raising standards in STEM and other subjects
This publication is a report from the Leading Space Education Programme (LSEP). This is a Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) funded project that has worked with 30 schools in England with the aim of enhancing science, technology, engineering and mathematics education in secondary schools and using space to: excite;…
Nuffield Chemistry Book of Data
This Nuffield Chemistry Data Book contains the following sections: Section 1: Basic information Table 1.1 Selected symbols and abbreviations Table 1.2 Values of selected physical measurements Table 1.3 The elements Section 2: Masses, volumes, shapes, and sizes Table 2.1 Masses and volumes of 1 g-atom of elements at 25°C…
This Icy World
Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the Polar Regions. As Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, this film follows him to Greenland and the Antarctic as his research reveals the challenges we all face from climate change. He…
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