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…
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…
New Degree - Integrated Sciences
The Stimulating Physics Network worked with the Universities of Leicester, London South Bank, Surrey and East Anglia to develop a new interdisciplinary degree course. Two video clips introduce the course, presented by Professor Derek Raine at Leicester and Professor Jim Al-Khalili at Surrey. The third clip discusses the problem-based…
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.
Maths Activity in the Early Years - Topic Booklets
This Eigen publications material is designed to support the teaching of early mathematics concepts. The booklets are independent of each other each with a specific focus. • Step on it develops numbers to 20 by physical activity using numbered carpet tiles. • Puppet maths gives ideas for the use of glove puppets in…
Science Skills
This interactive resource from BP Educational Service sets students six real industrial science problems. Video briefings and an interactive laboratory provide students with the tools they need to solve the challenges. Each challenge is based around a core curriculum topic, and helps to develop science skills. The six challenges…
STEM Choices: Summary of Good Practice
From the Department for Education, this resource is an accessible summary of good practice when delivering careers information and guidance. It will be useful for tutors, subject teachers, and careers advisers involved in STEM and other subject areas.
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…
Physics in Schools IV: Supply and Retention of Teachers
This report, produced by the Centre for Education and Emplyment Research (CEER), looks at specialist physics teacher supply and retention in English schools. Physics is at the sharp end of teacher recruitment. It is the subject that schools find most difficult to staff. Some schools do not teach it, and others that do, use non-physicists…
Try This - Make Your Own Cloud
In this Catalyst article an experiment is described in which the formation of clouds can be replicated. The experiment requires nothing more than a plastic bottle, warm water, matches and a small thermometer. This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2011, Volume 21, Issue 4. Catalyst is a science magazine for students…
Special Study: Food Science
This Nuffield Advanced Chemistry Special Study enabled students to see something of the scope of the field of food science, and to appreciate its dependence upon chemical principles. The objectives were: • to show the function and place of food in the human organism. • to show food as a dynamic macromolecular system with…
Section Three: Handling Data Lessons
These lessons, from the Targeting Level 4 programme by the National Strategies, are designed to support teachers working with year seven students who need to consolidate work at level three and extend into level four. The lessons, which are quite detailed, focus on teaching strategies to address the stated learning objectives. They…
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…
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,…
Down to Earth: Staying on the Ground
This practical activity from The Royal Society can be used to explore gravity, air resistance, forces or seed dispersal. Using the template provided, students can make a ‘helicopter’ and time how long it takes to fall a chosen distance. To extend the activity, students can be given a blank sheet of paper and asked…
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…
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…
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…
Triple Science Case Study: Curriculum Model and Timetabling
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how remodelling the timetable and changing the structure of Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four can mean students are given the time and the opportunity to build their confidence in triple science and develop the skills required to be successful. The case study…
More About Sound and Music
This Nuffield Primary Science book consists of 11 colourful, and highly illustrated, double-page spreads aimed at students aged 9-12. The book ends with a glossary and index. Contents • Banding together • Sound games • How we hear sounds • Hard of hearing • Sound words • Echo echo • Writing…
Key Stage Four Electronic Products Capability Tasks
A set of Key Stage Four Nuffield Foundation capability tasks focusing on the design, making and evaluation of electronic products. For students to develop and reveal their capability longer more open tasks requiring designing, making and evaluating are necessary. Sometimes these activities are referred to as projects, or design…
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…
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…
A Love Letter to Science
This Catalyst article describes a film which has been made to provide a range of reasons for students to study science. During the film high profile scientists, writers and teachers describe how science provides the technologies which are used in everyday life, how it can protect the environment and how it protects humans through…
Number Activities for Students Aged 11-13
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of Key Stage Three mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations and cross-curricular activities to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding of proprties of number. • Find my number - using properties…
Louis Pasteur
A Nature of Science biography of Louis Pasteur. As a professor of chemistry, Pasteur was fascinated by microbes and their role in causing disease. Pasteur went on to develop a theory and method of 'antisepsis'; pasteurisation to kill harmful microbes in food and drink and a cure for rabies. The chapters are: 1. Louis…
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…
Science and Technology in Society 8
SATIS book eight includes The water pollution mystery, Hypothermia, The technology of toilets, Stress, and Radiation - how much do you get?. The ten units in this booklet are: 801 The water pollution mystery: A data-analysis exercise about solving the problem of death of fish in a river. 802 Hypothermia: Reading and questions…
Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Make Sense
This resource from SMILE contains two books at different levels with activities focusing on fractions, decimals and percentages. Each activity is accompanied by teachers' notes. The notes give advice on appropriate ways of using the activity and any additional equipment required. Many of the activities are suitable for whole…
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…
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