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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Keeping Healthy
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. Practical tests using “urine” samples illustrate chemical diagnostic testing for illness. Different types of illness are classified, also different types of micro-organisms and the body’s defences against them. Experiments show how bacteria grow…
Food for Thought
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. A text activity on world food supplies introduces a series of experiments on photosynthesis and the role of chlorophyll. Experiments on the effects of nutrient deficiency leads to consideration of the use of fertilisers. Preparation of nitrogen leads to discussion…
Balancing Acts
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award GCSE science course. This module deals with interactions between species in ecosystems. Students are shown how stable conditions lead to a natural balance in populations and how human activities can disturb this balance. Feeding relationships, food chains and food webs are studied…
Waste Not, Want Not
A Year 11 module from the Salters’ Key Stage Four double award science course. The breakdown of domestic waste is observed. A text exercises describes the processes used in a waste water plant. Natural cycles, including the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle are studied. Finally, students consider the extent to which household…
Staying Alive
A Year 11 module from the Salters’ Key Stage Four double award science course. This module explores the controlled and co-ordinated energy changes which maintain a complex series of interlinked metabolic processes in living tissues. Different objects are compared to revise the characteristics of living things. The structure…
Sports Science
A Year 11 module from the Salters’ Key Stage Four double award science course. The context for this module is the use of scientific ideas to explain human performance. Students discuss what is meant by being ‘fit’. They compare different uses of the word 'work' and are given a formal definition. Calculations…
Seeing Inside the Body
A year 11 module from the Salters’ Key Stage Four double award science course. This module deals with radiation and radioactivity, introduced through their uses in medicine, both for diagnosis and treatment. Students simulate non-intrusive tests made by doctors in diagnosing illness. The advantage of access to ‘inside…
Evolution
A Year 11 module from the Salters’ Key Stage Four double award science course. The module begins by considering variation within humans and in other species and how this could arise. The gene theory of inheritance is then studied, and finally the structure and function of DNA and applications in genetic engineering. The…
Controlling Change
A Year 11 module from the Salters Key Stage Four double award science course. This module introduces ideas about how living organisms control their internal environment and respond to changes in their external environment. Students are reminded that few living things can survive for long without water. A text exercise is used to…
The Ploughman's Lunch
In this biology extension module of the Salters’ Science course, an exhibition of foods is used to introduce examples of using microbes in food processing. Students make sauerkraut and learn about the establishment of microbial populations in new habitats. Positive uses of fungi (yeast) and bacteria (lactobacillus) are discussed. A…
Off the Blocks
In this Salters’ Science biology extension module, sporting contexts are used as a basis for study of various systems within the body. The module also considers how diet, exercise and life-style can contribute towards fitness and good health. The relationship between different sporting activities and body shape is illustrated.…
Industrious Microbes
This biology extension module from the Salters’ Science course reviews the history of biotechnology to introduce the use of microbes in large-scale industrial biochemistry. Student ideas about positive uses of microbes are reviewed. Students monitor the growth of single-celled organisms in fermenters to produce protein. Advantages…
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Growing Crops
This Salters’ Science extension module for biology deals with the breeding, cultivation and harvesting of plants as crops. Experiments on soil structure and nutrient content are matched with data about major crops to show why different crops require different conditions for growth. Controlled environments such as glasshouses…
Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences – Single Science: Biology
The Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences supplementary Worksheets and Teachers' guide for Biology enabled teachers to prepare students for separate-subject Biology GCSE examinations. The extra worksheets were arranged to fit in with the topics in the teaching order suggested for the main course. There were two extension strands…