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…
Case Studies on Education-Industry Partnerships
From CIEC Promoting Science, this information booklet is useful for those wishing to develop successful partnerships between schools and local science-based industries. It is a collection of papers that describe how different groups have encountered and handled major issues and problems while developing their education-industry programmes.…
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…
Magnox
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these materials look at nuclear fission and nuclear reactors. The activities examine the trend in reactivity of the metals in group II of the periodic table and includes a brief study of isotopes in relation to nuclear fission and nuclear fusion reactions. They enable students to: • Look…
Let Sleeping Bags Lie
From CIEC Promoting Science, this series of activities investigates heat transfer and the thermal insulation properties of sleeping bags. In the investigation, students: • Consider the requirements for different categories of sleeping bags. • Measure the volume of air trapped in a number of materials used for sleeping…
Inclusive Science: Activities for 14-16 Year Olds
From CIEC Promoting Science, this book looks at providing opportunities in science for students with specific learning needs. As well as advice and guidance, it includes details of a range of practical activities and investigations. The book illustrates: • potential barriers to learning in mainstream science activities…
Hot Chocolate
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these activities help students to investigate the absorption of radiation, heat transfer and heat capacity. Taken from a real-life scenario, the students look at the effects of different colours on the amount of heat a container absorbs. This mirrors an issue encountered by a chocolate manufacturer…
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…
A Question of Cooling
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these materials help students to gain an understanding of a number of scientific ideas through investigating how a refrigerator works. The key ideas covered include: • liquids require heat to evaporate • some gases can be liquefied at room temperature by compression • vapours…
Polymers: Physical Testing
From CIEC Promoting Science, these activities are aimed at post-16 students following courses in technology, engineering, physics or materials science. The activities described allow students to gain experience and practice experimental technique in the testing of materials' physical properties. The tests include: • Compression…
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…
Generating Electricity
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities provide opportunities for children to extend their understanding of electricity by applying it to the concepts of electricity generation and its use in the electronics industry. During the activities, children…
Forces and Recycling
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities in this resource provide opportunities for children to revise their work on forces and to extend their understanding to the application of forces used in sorting and recycling materials. The key curriculum…