TRUMP Part 1: Introduction to Astrophysics
This introductory part of the TRUMP Astrophysics package gave an overview of the current picture of the Universe. It provided some information relating to telescopes and observations, and ended with two examples of physics in astronomy: • the use of line spectra to estimate the age of the Universe and • the use of line…
Magic Dye
This activity, produced by Solar Spark, uses "magic dye", a mixture of three different dye molecules. The mixture contains a yellow disperse dye, a direct blue dye and an acid red dye. When a fabric is put into the mixture, the dyes only attach to the types of fabrics they can bond well with. For example, the blue and yellow…
Accident and Emergency
In this Science upd8 activity students take on the role of a hospital Family Liaison Officer. They carry out research around cells, tissues and organs and then explain a patient's injuries using this knowledge. The activity can help to broaden students' ideas about careers in medicine.
breakthrough: a Voyage, a Great Idea and Twenty Years of Hesitation
breakthrough was a termly resource for teachers published between 1999 and 2001. Each edition highlighted a number of discoveries and inventions and the people who made them. This edition was published in September 2001. Each edition of breakthrough included feature articles and regular items such as profiles of key scientists,…
Growing Up
This activity encourages children to consider how bones grow as we grow. Working in groups, children measure the height, distance around the skull, length of a foot and length of a lower arm for each person in order to investigate whether taller people have longer bones. This activity was produced by Genetic Disorders UK and…
Mathematical Needs
In 2009, the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME), who provide these resources, embarked on the Mathematical Needs Project to investigate how both the national needs and the individual needs of students, from age five to nineteen in England, could be met by a curriculum, delivery policy and implementation framework. The…
Shape and Space
This resource from Maths Chest 2 is aimed at Key Stage One and contains teachers' notes for running activities on shape and space. It is divided into four topics which are designed to be taught in sequence at different times within the year. Each topic is organised two sets of activities both of which include teacher-led…
Number - Pack 2
This resource from Maths Chest 2 is aimed at Key Stage One and contains the teachers' notes for running activities on number including: recognising, counting, ordering, number bonds, addition and subtraction. It is divided into 19 topics which are designed to be taught in sequence at different times within the year. Each…
Practice Book 2a
These materials, produced by the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) for the primary extension of the Mathematics Enhancement Programme, include the pages from Practice Book 2a, with detailed lesson plans and all necessary resources to accompany them. Students are introduced to sets and relations, they select…
Unit 5: Atomic Structure
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit provides some of the key ideas for one of the major theme of the course which is the attempt to explain large-scale things in terms of small-scale things. The Unit draws together ideas about electric charge and fields from Unit 3 into new patterns to explain new things. The central idea for the…
Skeleton Shapes
This NRICH maths activity focuses on the properties of solids especially edges and vertices by comparing the solid shape and the number of balls of modelling clay and straws required to make a skeleton of it. This activity helps children begin to understand the various properties of common geometric solid shapes, concentrating on…
Stimulating Physics: Repackaging Physics
Market research was conducted to better understand factors affecting young people's decision to study physics at university. This research informed the re-design of promotional materials for the University of Salford's existing physics degree courses. The physics department at Salford saw an increase in applications…
Pixel Perfection
This investigation from Cre8ate maths involves students in finding the best size screen for a television. If you have a large flat screen and view a standard analogue or digital picture the individual pixels are visible if you are sitting too close to the screen. Working in small groups of 3 or 4, students measure the pixel density…
Boxes and Bottles
Boxes and bottles come in all shapes and sizes. These Cre8ate maths activities explore some of the mathematics behind packaging decisions taken by manufacturers, they provide a platform for students to make conjectures and find efficient ways of recording results to justify claims they have made. In Boxing stock cubes students…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics Teachers’ Guide 2: Units H to L
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the Revised Advanced Nuffield Physics included a plan summarising the relationship of the work to topics covered earlier for each of the units. The guidance offered many teaching suggestions, including details of the suggested experiments and demonstrations. There were references to other resources,…
Quick Guide: Micro-organisms in Medicine
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide looks at how microbes have been used to produce valuable chemicals such as antibiotics since the 1940s. The guide is a simplified summary of complex ideas for the busy practitioner teaching out of subject or needing a refresher. This is a resource produced by current…
Unit 6D Controllable Vehicles
From the Nuffield foundation this resource looks at control systems, their design and uses. Developed from the QCA scheme of work, children design and make a control system for an electric vehicle. In the activity, children are challenged to produce a vehicle, powered by an electric motor, that can go in forward and reverse directions…
From Counting to Calculating
From Counting to Calculating, part of the Mathematics for the Majority series produced by The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics, is aimed at expanding teachers’ knowledge about the use of number in calculations in order to pass on this understanding to higher secondary students within their lessons. This…
Science for Understanding Tomorrow's World: Global Change
Science for Understanding Tomorrow's World: Global Change is a book containing student activities and teacher guidance for courses for the 16–20 age range in biology, chemistry, earth sciences, physics and general studies. The resources were developed by the Education in Global Change Project and published by the International…
What is HD?
This comprehension activity, from Genetic Disorders UK, looks at the main features of Huntington’s disease (HD) and how it affects the brain. Students consider Huntington’s disease as a progressive neurodegenerative disease and the issues surrounding genetic testing for a late onset disease. After answering the…
How Rich Is Your Habitat?
This practical activity uses a simple and convenient model of the real environment in order to demonstrate the principles of random sampling and how to estimate biodiversity. Students use different coloured sugar balls to represent different species in order to put Simpson's Diversity Index to the test, which takes into account…
Determining Dry Weight
This experiment is a continuation of Determining Doubling Time. Students create a standard curve of absorbance against yeast concentration, and use this to determine the concentration of yeast produced over time. The standard curve (dry mass, grams per litre) is generated from known concentrations of dried yeast in sterile broth.…
Attracting and Stretching
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on forces. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students are introduced to the mysteries of magnetic forces, and springs are revealed during this topic. During an investigation into magnets, students find out which materials…
Mathematics: Non-Statutory Guidance
The National Curriculum Council (NCC) published non-statutory guidance to support the teaching of mathematics in the National Curriculum in 1989, and again in 1991, to accompany the first revision of the National Curriculum. Non-statutory Guidance 1989 • The guidance materials for mathematics were written to provide a reference…
Primary Science with ICT: Pupils' Entitlement to ICT in Primary Science
Produced by Becta, this teacher guidance booklet looks at the use of ICT in primary school science. It describes a range of ICT-based activities for Key Stages One and Two. These include: • Plant growth • Plants and animals in their environment • Moving and growing • Light • Sound • Data handling •…
Working for Efficiency
This Cre8ate maths topic looks at simplified versions of three different network problems that are encountered in practical logistical planning. Paper rounds offers the opportunity for reasoning and proof as the arguments needed to establish Euler's theorem are within their grasp. It also, along with Cable connections and…
Science From Wood
The Teaching Primary Science book Science from Wood was intended to complement the two texts in the Science 5/13 series Working with wood, stages one and two and Working with wood background. The activities proposed were expected to apply more to younger age groups, with suggestions of ways of using the most economical sources of…
Estimating Length Using Standard Form
Produced by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service, these materials are designed to raise awareness of the importance of estimating in engineering and to practise the skill. The activity includes discussion and matching sets of measurement cards to cards describing an object. The resource comprises: • Teacher notes…
Revised Nuffield Physics Teachers’ Guide Year 4
The Teachers’ Guides for Revised Nuffield Physics sought to convey the spirit of the approach and its rationale while providing all the technical details for the experiments (based on the Guides to Experiments in the first edition). The guides suggested a language for talking about ideas in physics at an appropriate level at…
Year Seven Fractions and Ratio Mini-pack
This unit from the National Strategies is a precursor to the Year Eight multiplicative relationships unit and the Year Nine sequel on proportional reasoning. Together they provide a sequence of core units across the key stage, addressing crucial concepts linking multiplication, division, fractions, ratio and proportion. Proportional…
Rock Formation and Deformation
Produced by the Earth Science Teachers' Association, these materials help students understand rock formation and deformation. Activities look at topics which include: • Weathering • Sedimentary structures • Porosity • Modelling deformation in rocks • Metamorphism • The rock cycle •…
Quick Guide: Genetic Modification
Produced by the Triple Science Support Programme, this quick guide discusses how genetic modification is the alteration of an organism’s genes using methods other than traditional breeding. The quick guide is a simplified summary of complex ideas for the busy practitioner. This is a resource produced by current experts in…
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