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…
Industrial Encounters: Good Practice for School Links
From CIEC Promoting Science, this guide aims to help schools and science-based companies make the best use of their opportunities to liaise together. It concentrates upon using link activities to enrich aspects of the school science curriculum but there are many principles in the guide, with a more general application. There…
On Site: a Guide to Visiting the Chemical Industry
From CIEC Promoting Science, this guide provides practical information and advice about organising a visit to a local science-based industry. Visits can be engaging, stimulating and profitable for the students, teachers and companies involved. The guide looks at industrial links at both primary and secondary school levels and…
Controlling Reactions: A Case Study
These activities, produced by CIEC Promoting Science, are based on a BASF chemical plant at Seal Sands, Middlesbrough. They enable students to see how and why chemical reactions are controlled in a chemical plant. The materials contain full teacher guidance, student notes and activity sheets. Originally developed for GNVQ Advanced…
Cash and Chemicals
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, this resource looks to help post-16 students to improve their understanding of the working methods of science-based industry. The activity looks at the decisions involved in the design and development of a chemical plant to produce a chemical intermediate required by a new customer. Working…
Teaching and Learning About the Environment - Pack 3
This Teaching and Learning About the Environment pack, from the University of York Science Education Group, contains lessons on five environmental topics. All the lessons are fully supported by photocopiable student materials and accompanied by detailed teachers' notes. The lessons were developed by working groups of schoolteachers,…
Teaching and Learning About the Environment - Pack 2
This Teaching and Learning About the Environment pack, from the University of York Science Education Group, contains lessons on five environmental topics. All the lessons are fully supported by photocopiable student materials and accompanied by detailed teachers' notes. The lessons were developed by working groups of schoolteachers,…
Teaching and Learning About the Environment - Pack 1
This Teaching and Learning About the Environment pack, from the University of York Science Education Group, contains lessons on five environmental topics. All the lessons are fully supported by photocopiable student materials and accompanied by detailed teachers' notes. The lessons were developed by working groups of schoolteachers,…
Medicines for Pets
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities use the pharmaceutical industry as a real life context to encourage children to look at the properties of materials, changing state and separation techniques. Children investigate the challenges faced by research…
Life in the Water: Teacher Guidance
These teachers’ notes were produced to support the use of the series of video clips and activities about a Cape Farewell expedition to the Norwegian Arctic. The notes provide detailed guidance on each of the video clips and activities. They also suggest a series of six lessons based on the resources. The version of the notes…
Science in the Environment Pack 6: Management of Water Quality
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 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 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: 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…
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…
Don’t Have the Foggiest Which Is the Smoggiest!
Produced by Nelson Thornes, this resource helps students look at aspects of how science works. It looks at the different forms of smog that affect major cities because of their high density of population and air pollution from industry and motor vehicles. The activity is designed to let the students review the causes of different…
Governments Get Hot about Global Warming
Produced by Nelson Thornes, this resource helps students look at aspects of how science works. The aim of the activity is for students to critically assess some of the evidence that might connect our increased burning of fossil fuels to rising global temperatures. Students should realise that, although we are experiencing rising…
Competing Carbonates
Produced by Nelson Thornes, this resource helps students look at aspects of how science works. This activity challenges students to look critically at a plan to investigate the relative ease with which metal carbonates decompose. The plan involves the decomposition of carbonates to release carbon dioxide and subsequently turn…
Teaching Ideas and Evidence in Science at Key Stage 3
These resources were developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme in collaboration with five universities involved in initial teacher education, as part of a Key Stage 3 National Strategy project. Originally produced as a CD-ROM, the materials aimed to provide suggestions and activities for teaching about ‘ideas and…
Contemporary Science Issues: Lessons for Key Stage 4
These resources were developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme in collaboration with Keele University in order to provide support for teaching aspects of ‘How Science Works’. The emphasis of the materials is on ‘data, evidence, theories and explanations’ linked to ‘applications and implications…
5/5- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Teacher guidance
Beyond Fair Testing: Teaching Different Types of Scientific Enquiry
These resources were developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme and King’s College London in order to broaden the range of scientific enquiries for students aged 11-16. The materials provide teachers with examples of different enquiry types, e.g. classifying and identifying, developing systems, and pattern seeking.…
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- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Teacher guidance
Northern India - Chulas
In this Planet Science resource, students learn about the use of traditional wood stoves, chulas, which are used by the poor in India and lead to health and environmental problems. Students are asked to use scientific knowledge to assess the design of a new chula, discuss the difference between complete and incomplete combustion…
Lucknow India - Curry and Rice Makes You Hot: How?
Dr Srinath Singh, an Indian scientist is investigating how to grow rice which makes less methane which contributes to global warming. In this Planet Science resource, students are asked to discuss Dr Singh’s ideas, to carry out some research to convince farmers his ideas are viable and then to take part in a debate between…
Jaipur, India - Natural Dyes, Paints and Colours
In this Planet Science resource, an introduction on natural and synthetic dyes leads on to activities in which students devise an experiment for making a natural dye and testing its colour fastness. A feature on the Indian painter Shammi Banu and the techniques he uses to use paints made form natural sources like his ancestors is…
University of the United Arab Emirates - Jojoba: Liquid Gold for the 21st Century
In 2000, two Indian scientists persuaded farmers to plant jojoba plants in their fields. In this Planet Science resource, students are asked to research the uses of jojoba oil – for fuels, cosmetics and medicines. They then take part in activities to make adverts for the fuel and cosmetics, to design a leaflet persuading farmers…
London U.K. - Dissolving: The Acid Bath Murderer
The acid bath murderer used strong acid to dispose of the bodies of his victims in the 1940’s. Planet Science uses this gruesome story as a basis for activities which teachers could demonstrate to their students – examining whether small pieces of meat, fat, gristle and bone dissolve in acid and if alkali might be more…
Athens, Greece - Dissolving: Acid Rain
In this Planet Science resource, the effects of acidic gases emitted from power stations and cars on marble statues around the world is the stimulus for demonstrations and activities on acid rain. Students also consider the ethics of Lord Elgin removing the Elgin marbles from the Parthenon and are asked to come up with a solution…
Copenhagen, Denmark - Dissolving: Reactivity of Metals
During the war the gold medals of some Nobel prize winners were dissolved in Aqua Regia to prevent them falling into the hands of the Nazis. This story from Planet Science is used to introduce the fact that some metals (gold being unavailable in schools!) can be dissolved in acids and then reclaimed by electrolysis. Students then…
Egypt, 1st Century BC - Dissolving: The World’s Most Expensive Cocktail
The story of the pearl Cleopatra dropped into vinegar to impress mark Anthony is the basis for an investigation designed by Planet Science into whether pearls (or in this case, oyster shells or sea shells) dissolve in acidic solutions. The resource also explains where pearls come from and the chemistry behind dissolution.
SCISP Technicians’ Manual 4: Interactions and Change
The Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) technicians' manuals included classified lists of equipment, preparation guides, technical hints and lists of suppliers. The books were written to enable almost all school technicians to prepare for the Patterns lessons with as little help as possible from the teacher. Contents Classified…
SCISP Teachers’ Guide 4: Interactions and Change
In the Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) course, the explanations of change used the concept of interaction under these headings: • Recognising change • A close look at a number of different changes • Stability Contents 1. Recognising change 2. Changes in behaviour 3. Changes in acidity 4.…
9. Properties of Metals
This Association for Science Education (ASE) publication about properties of metals was developed in association with the British Aerospace Dynamics Group. At the time the Dynamics Group employed over 20,000 people at ten major design/production establishments throughout the UK and had its headquarters at Stevenage. The booklet…
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