Skill 5.11 Evaluating Scientific Writing
This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, challenges students to assess their scientific writing according to set assessment criteria. Students are encouraged to: • formulate criteria for evaluating written work • discuss the concept of weighting different categories of criteria • carry…
Skill 5.10 Compiling a Bibliography
In this activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, students learn about the importance of a comprehensive and accurate bibliography, before compiling one of their own for an article they have written previously. In the activity, students become acquainted with and practise the way a bibliography is compiled using…
Skill 5.8 What Abstract?
In this activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, students learn how to write an abstract. These are often seen as the most important part of a scientific paper as they contain the key information in a brief explanation. In the activity, students write an abstract based on a scientific article. Upon completion,…
Skill 5.9 Writing an Abstract
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity requires students to write an abstract for a scientific review article they have produced. Students discuss the key features of an abstract and look at the difference between abstracts for research papers and reviews. They are then challenged to produce an abstract…
Skill 5.7 Writing a Scientific Review Article
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, in this activity students write a review article, paying particular attention to the structure, content, language and format used. Following the activity, students should be able to: • use their knowledge of the structure of scientific review articles to write a review on…
Skill 5.6 The Structure of Scientific Research Articles
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity requires students to examine the structure of scientific research articles, highlighting the differences between review papers and scientific reports. The activity will help the students to: • formulate criteria for evaluating written work • carry out…
Skill 5.5 Arranging a Scientific Report
This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, helps students to identify the structure of scientific studies and compare these with a standard written scientific report. The activity helps students to consider the differences between a scientific report that could be cited by others in the scientific community,…
Skill 5.4 Recognising a Scientific Report
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity gets students to recognise a scientific report, which has a uniform structure standardised throughout the scientific community. Following the activity, students should be able to recognise that a scientific report will: • have a title, abstract, clear study…
Skill 5.3 Copycat
This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, challenges students to consider what plagiarism is and why it is wrong. Students are shown that plagiarism is passing off somebody else’s work as their own. It can include getting another person to write their work, cutting and pasting from the internet or…
Skill 5.2 Appropriate Levels of Communication
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity requires students to pick out what makes a science story accessible and learn how to write at an appropriate level for a particular audience. Students analyse a piece of writing to look at how easy to read and understandable it is. They also use the Gunning Fog index…
Skill 5.1 Writing a Summary
This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, challenges students to summarise information from different sources on the same topic. Developing this ability will help students when they encounter complex activities and information. During the activity, students will practice: • locating and using sources…
Skill 4.8 Processing and Representing Data
In this activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, students are given a set of raw data and are asked to convert it into a data table before selecting an appropriate visual presentation. The activity will help students to: • organise large amounts of data effectively and clearly into a table • interpret…
Skill 4.7 Matching Graphs
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity encourages students to develop skills in analysing graphs and matching graph shapes to different phenomena. The activity looks at different shapes of graphs and how they describe the relationship between two variables. It is a revision activity from GCSE and is therefore…
Skill 4.6 Interpreting Graphs
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps student to formulate questions relating to graphs and so gain a deeper understanding of the data represented. This activity asks students to look at a graph and interpret the information it contains. They are then asked to devise questions which can be answered…
Skill 4.5 Using Data to Tell Stories
This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, challenges students to explore a large data set to identify any interesting trends. Students are then asked to suggest an explanation for each of the trends they identify. Similarly, the students are asked to identify and explain anomalies in the data. The activity…
Skill 4.4 Processing Large Data Sets
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity requires students to examine a complex table of data and generate statements relating to the evidence it contains. The activity will help students to: • extract information from numerical data • identify any patterns and trends • link conclusions…
Skill 4.3 Learning from Tables
This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, introduces students to the skills needed to examine a complex table of data and generate statements relating to the evidence. The activity will help students to: • extract information from numerical data, and identify any patterns and trends • link conclusions…
Skill 4.2 Types of Visuals
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity gives students a more detailed look at how specific objects can be represented in different ways, either by diagrams or by different scientific imaging techniques. Students compare different visuals of the same object and understand differences in the way the object…
Skill 4.1 Visual Representations
This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, introduces students to different types of visual representation that they may meet in their advanced science course. Students interpret the information contained in the visuals and discuss how different visual representations are linked. They get practice in considering…
Getting Out of the Classroom: KS3 Down on the Farm
Produced by teachers TV, this video follows a group of Year Eight students as they visit Rushall Farm in Berkshire to learn about how food is produced. Students can often have very little idea of countryside issues and how they relate to the food on their plate. In 2007, the Year of Food and Farming aimed to change this trend…
Stem Cell Research: The Lesson
Produced by Teachers TV, this video shows science teacher, Teresa Bennett, delivering a lesson around the controversial issue of embryonic stem cell research. Using the supporting video, which tells the story of a Parkinson's disease sufferer, Teresa introduces the students to the idea that stem cell research could cure a…
Cancer and the Genome: The Lesson
In this video, from Teachers TV, science teacher Lucy Hutt gives an extended lesson on DNA and proteins, as well as cancer and its underlying causes. The students then watch the related programme Cancer and The Genome: The Issue. To reinforce students' understanding of DNA, they perfrom a bacterial transformation experiment…
Fighting HIV: The Lesson
From Teachers TV, in this video science teacher Laura Seabright models a the spread of HIV transmission with a practical activity involving milk powder and starch solution. It is a tricky subject but the students handle the topic with remarkable maturity. After putting aside some common misconceptions about HIV and AIDS, Laura…
Hana Abbasi Lesson 2 Uncut
From Teachers TV, this video is part of the From Good to Outstanding series. In this programme, Hana Abbasi, a secondary science teacher, takes feedback from top schools inspector Clare Gillies. In this video, Hana delivers her second observed lesson, drawing on the advice of experts, as she seeks to raise her rating from good…
Hana Abbasi Lesson 1 Uncut
From Teachers TV, this video is part of the From Good to Outstanding series. In this programme, Hana Abbasi, a secondary science teacher, takes feedback from top schools inspector Clare Gillies. This video contains uncut footage of her first observed lesson on digestion, which features a starter, group and pair work, self-assessment,…
Hana Abbasi
From Teachers TV, this video is part of the From Good to Outstanding series. In this programme, Hana Abbasi, a secondary science teacher, takes feedback from top schools inspector Clare Gillies. Hana also takes advice from the Teachers TV online community who watch footage of the lesson. She then gets one-to-one CPD from secondary…
Subject Knowledge: Science
Produced by Teachers TV, this video provides an insight into climate change, the change in our world and a change in the way scientists view it. It can be used to explain the topics covered as well as illustrating ideas about how science works. Professor Andrew Watson of the University of East Anglia delves into the chemistry…
Coulsdon High School Year 9 Science
Part of the Uncut Classroom series from teachers TV, this video shows an uninterrupted science lesson for Year Nine students. As part of their work on genes, students consider whether cloning should be allowed and then present the ethical and moral issues. The lesson is recorded in full, creating a resource which is usually technically…
Haydon School Year 9 Science
Part of the Uncut Classroom series from teachers TV, this video shows an uninterrupted practical science lesson for Year Nine students. As part of their work on food and nutrition, the class are investigating fat and salt in food. The lesson is recorded in full, creating a resource which is usually technically difficult for schools…
Cross Curricular: Science Gets Fruity
Produced by Teachers TV, this video shows how science and musical theatre can be mixed. Students are inspired by visits from a physicist, a botanist, and a musician. The cross curricular day for Year Seven begins with an exploration of the physics of sound through drama. Next, the students get the chance to make music with…
Ceri Evans' Masterclass: Evolution
In this video, produced by Teachers TV, former teacher of the year Ceri Evans inspires a group of gifted and talented Year Ten students in an active lesson about Darwin's theory of evolution. The variety of games and challenges illustrated in the video gives some examples of effective ways to teach about one of the most…
Ceri Evans' Masterclass: DNA
In this video, produced by Teachers TV, award-winning teacher Ceri Evans inspires a group of talented Year Ten students from several London schools with an active lesson about DNA. It looks at the base pairs in DNA and how the DNA sequence is translated into the amino acid sequence of a protein. Ceri uses a variety of games and…
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