Assessing Pupils Progress in Secondary Science at Key Stage Three
Assessing Pupils Progress (APP) was produced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), and Capita (under contract to the Department for Children, Schools and Families) and is a structured approach to periodic assessment, written to enable teachers to: • use diagnostic information about students’ strengths…
Maths Magic
Maths Magic’s aim is to make mathematics more appealing and enjoyable for students and to open up new opportunities for them in STEM subjects and careers. Maths Magic is a STEM project funded by HEFCE to help widening participation in Higher Education. This collection consists of twelve teaching ideas covering a variety…
Society for General Microbiology
This collection contains a selection of resources from Microbiology Online, which has been devised by the Society for General Microbiology (SGM) to support the teaching and learning of microbiology in the classroom across all age ranges. SGM is a professional body for scientists who work in all areas of microbiology. It is the…
Understanding Life
Understanding Life is the educational website of The Physiological Society. It provides support for the teaching and learning of physiology for students aged 11-19 years. The Society’s Understanding Life web site has been developed for those teaching physiology to students aged 11-19 years. The Society’s resources and…
Kent Mathematics Project
This resource from the Kent Mathematics Project, published by Ward Lock Educational, was developed by a team of mathematics advisers and provided teachers with a wide range of resources for use with students of all abilities. The record keeping system which accompanied the project allowed detailed reports for individual student's…
breakthrough
breakthrough was published three times a year for science teachers between 1999 and 2001. The editor was Peter Ellis who gathered contributions from a wide range of authors. The aim was to provide a termly pack of resources on the history and nature of science and technology and the people who made the stories. The emphasis was on…
Cooking for Schools
Cooking for Schools was inspired by Bettys & Taylors' Chairman, Lesley Wild, and her cookery book 'A Year of Family Recipes'. It aims to encourage young people to become enthusiastic about cooking for themselves, and their friends and families, and to give it a go. Bettys works with local schools through their…
Ideas, Evidence and Argument in Science (IDEAS Pack)
The IDEAS pack consists of a set of training materials for use on continuous professional development courses together with a resources file to support the teaching of ideas and evidence in school science. The material draws on the work undertaken with teachers involved in the ESRC-funded project on Enhancing the Quality of Argument…
Nuffield Home Economics
Nuffield Home Economics was developed with the support of the Nuffield Foundation between 1977 and 1981. The project had its origins in a series of in-service courses organised by the Centre for Science and Mathematics Education at Chelsea College. These courses were set up for home economics teachers who asked for help in deepening…
New National Curriculum Mathematics
The New National Curriculum Mathematics series of books are updated versions to ensure full coverage of the 1995 revised National Curriculum. Each book covers one level of mathematical content split into four sections: number, algebra, space, shape and measures, handling data. Using and applying mathematics is integrated throughout…
Darwin Inspired: Secondary School Materials
The Charles Darwin Trust uses the intellectual and cultural heritage of Darwin, through his approach to science and his work at Down House and in the immediate countryside, to inspire a deeper understanding of the natural world. Darwin Inspired materials promote enquiry-based learning. Students are challenged to make observations,…
The Avenue Reclamation Project
The Avenue is a former industrial site in Chesterfield. It manufactured coke from coal and during this process the site was heavily contaminated with hydrocarbon waste. The project describes how, in 2011, the site was in the process of being decontaminated so the land can be re-used. The activities in this collection consider some…
Take Flight: Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire
The resources in this collection have been produced by Innovate Educate as part of the materials developed for the Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire website. The resources in this collection are focused on science, design and technology. The range of activities are suitable for primary school children and secondary school students up…
Assessment of Performance Unit Design and Technology Reports for Teachers
The Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) was set up in 1975 within the Department of Education and Science (DES) to promote the development of methods of assessing and monitoring the achievement of students at school, and to seek to identify the incidence of under achievement. The APU commissioned research teams to create instruments…
Ofsted Design and Technology Reports and Resources
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. Ofsted reports directly to Parliament and is independent and impartial. They inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people, and those providing education and skills for learners of all ages. The aim of all this work…
Acclaim: Exploring the Lives of Leading Scientists
Acclaim was a national programme to increase the public recognition and appreciation of the work of leading scientists in the UK. It was a collaboration between the Royal Society and the Centre for Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University, with support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Medical…
Science Teacher Education Project
From 1970, the Science Teacher Education Project (STEP) was supported by the Nuffield Foundation to enable groups of tutors to cooperate in devising and trying out materials that would contribute to the improvement of professional training. In three years the project produced the publications listed below. STEP was a response…
Integrated Science - the Wreake Valley Project
Integrated Science, from the Wreake Vally Academy, is a series of three books designed to support science teaching of students aged 11-14. The books were published in 1976 well before the introduction of the National Curriculum for science. In many ways it heralded the National Curriculum by providing a balanced science curriculum…
Olympic and Paralympic Games
In 2012, the Olympic and Paralympic games will be held in London. These resources look at a wide range of topics that can all be linked to the games. They cover science, technology, engineering and mathematics and can be used in individual lessons or as part of a cross-curricular Olympic and Paralympic theme. Materials in this…
Task Maths
Task Maths, written by Barbara and Derek Ball, was published in the early 1990s by Thomas Nelson to provide a mathematics programme for secondary schools covering the revised 1991 National Curriculum. The course consists of five student books, one for each year, and parallel teacher resource books. Task Maths provides one set…
Salters’ Science for Key Stage Three: Science Focus
The Salters’ science courses were developed in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s to provide a complete balanced course in science for Key Stages Three and Four (ages 11-16). This section of the STEM elibrary covers the Key Stage Three materials. The timing of the development allowed a particularly close relationship…
The Salters' Chemistry Course
Work on the Salters’ Chemistry Course, published by the University of York Science Education Group, began in 1983 before the era of the National Curriculum. The starting point was a workshop during which a group of chemistry teachers set out to produce sample lesson materials to show how chemical principles could be introduced…
NASA Space Math
This series of activities from NASA are based on a weekly series of space science problems distributed to teachers in the United States, from 2004 to 2010. They were intended for students aged 9 to 19 looking for additional challenges in the mathematics and physical science curriculum. The problems were created to be authentic glimpses…
The Royal Institution
Produced by the Royal Institution, these short videos cover a range of topics and provide ideas for fascinating demonstrations. In the series, Tales from the Prep Room, one of the Institution's technicians tries out a range of demonstrations that could be adapted for use in the classroom. They illustrate how to demonstrate: •…
Teaching and Learning about the Environment
The Teaching and Learning about the Environment project, from the University of York Science Education Group, produced four packs of resources containing lessons on environmental topics. All lessons were fully supported by photocopiable student materials and accompanied by detailed teachers' notes. The lessons were developed…
Eigen Maths
This large collection of mathematics resources was produced by Eigen Publications during the period 1983 – 1987. It was almost exclusively written by Dave Kirkby and Des Wilson who set up Eigen Publications. The material in the collection consists of a large number of A5 booklets (nominally 12 to 16 pages) intended for teachers,…
Rolls-Royce Careers Resources
Produced by Rolls-Royce, this toolkit of resources helps students to see the connection between STEM subjects studied in school, college or university and future job opportunities. The resources are designed to help students to understand: • The wide range of jobs and industries which require STEM skills. • The future…
Keys to Chemistry
The student books and teacher books in the Keys to Chemistry series were written by Graham Hill and published in the 1970s. The series explained chemistry for students aged 11–16. Each student book was accompanied by a book for teachers (not available here). Book 1 covered the chemistry in an introductory secondary school…
Secondary Science Curriculum Review
The Secondary Science Curriculum Review, published by Heinemann and the Association for Science Education (ASE), ran from 1981 to 1986 with a dissemination phase from 1986 to 1989. The Review operated under the aegis of the School Curriculum Development Committee and was supported by the ASE. In addition, it received support from…
Energy and Change
The approach and the materials called Energy and Change were developed during the project 'Teaching about why things change'. The work was done by Jon Ogborn and Richard Boohan from 1992 to 1995 and a grant from the Nuffield Foundation supported the development work. The project set out to devise simple, everyday and coherent…
Problem Solving with Industry
Problem Solving with Industry originally consisted of 30 short problem-solving exercises devised by the Centre for Science Education Sheffield Hallam University in collaboration with a range of industries. A selection of these units were updated and revised to match the requirements of GNVQ Science in 1995. It is this selection which…
Ideas and Evidence
The Ideas and Evidence pack was developed to help teachers introduce contemporary science issues into their lessons in exciting ways. The pack was also intended to bring to life a range of historical case studies. The pack was produced in 2001 at the Centre for Science Education of Sheffield Hallam University as part of the Pupil…
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