Fabric Fires
The Fabric Fires activity for Key Stage Three students looks at how different fabrics catch fire and burn. Students are asked to first consider the commonest reasons for fires in the home. They then test and compare a fabric and a cotton wool ball, firstly when untreated and then having first soaked them in a fire retardant solution.…
Bath Bombs and Rockets
This Teachers TV video shows how science AST, Alison Tiltman, is keen to work closely with other departments and encourage cross curricular learning. Combining science, design and technology, and maths, her Year Nine students take part in a challenge to imagine they are running their own cosmetics companies. As part of the project…
Corrosion: the Virus of Engineering
From the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP), this publication looks at the process and problems caused by the corrosion of metals. The first part of the publication gives background information for students on elements, atoms, ions and electrochemical reactions involved in rusting. This helps students to understand how different…
Recycling Cities
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these activities help students to examine the recycling of materials, concentrating on polymers and the potential for the recycling of waste plastics. In doing so, students look at polymers, the properties of plastics, purifying components of a mixture, waste disposal and sustainable development.…
Polymers: Information and Activity Book
From CIEC Promoting Science, this book is aimed at post-16 chemistry students but will also be useful for students following technology or vocational courses. The book helps students to first understand the basis of polymer chemistry and the plastics industry. It moves on to consider detailed information on individual polymers, including…
Plastics: Workshop Practices and Industrial Processes
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, this booklet contains information and activities of interest to teachers of design and technology. It looks at working practices in industry and schools relating to thermoplastics and provides an introduction to basic techniques for schools and the more common processes found in industry. The…
Futurecade
Futurecade is an innovative interactive suite of games from the Science Museum that allows students to explore how science and technology impacts on their everyday lives. Futurecade’s four games are inspired by current and future technology in the fields of robotics, satellites and space junk, geo-engineering and synthetic…
5/5- Publication year: 2010 to date
- Interactive resource
LAMP Topic Brief 9: Paints and Dyes
This Topic Brief was published as part of the ASE’s LAMP Project. This unit was developed from work carried out with non-academic boys and girls in the age range 14 to 16 years. It was tried with some success on groups of between 12 and 15 in an urban comprehensive school of 1750 pupils. The average reading age of the pupils…
Biorenewables Podcasts
From the National Non-Food Crops Centre (NNFCC), these two podcasts explore a range of applications and issues in the biorenewables sector. They are primarily aimed at a commercial audience but may be of use to teachers who want to gain a better understanding of plant-derived materials or, when used in part, as stimulus material…
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- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Audio
Renewable Building Materials
From the National Non-Food Crops Centre, this factsheet provides an introduction to the properties and advantages of renewable building materials. Renewable materials based on plants offer a sustainable alternative to conventional products in many applications. The factsheets give information on: • introduction to renewable…
- 5/5
- Publication year: 2010 to date
- Information sheet
A Level Performance Descriptors Science Subjects 2007
Produced in 2007, these performance descriptors for science subjects at AS and A2 levels were written to indicate the level of attainment characteristic of grades A/B and E/U boundary candidates across a series of assessment objectives. It was intended that they should be interpreted in relation to the content outlined in the specification;…
A Level Performance Descriptors Science Subjects 2003
Produced in 2003, these performance descriptors for chemistry science subjects at AS and A2 levels were written to indicate the level of attainment characteristic of grades A/B and E/U boundary candidates across a series of assessment objectives. It was intended that they should be interpreted in relation to the content outlined…
A-Level Criteria Science Subjects 2006
This set of subject criteria were produced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority in 2006 for Awarding Bodies to produce AS and A level science subject specifications, in biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, geology, electronics and environmental science. AS and A level subject criteria are intended to set out the…
Fortune Tellers
In this Planet Science resource, instructions are given for making a fortune teller so students can make one with their own questions and answers. Attractive templates are provided where the science topic links to a possible career. They can be used to stimulate interest among 9 to 13 year olds and suggest possible careers. The cooking…
Mercedes Maroto-Valer
An Impact! People case study from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). By pioneering innovative technology, Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer is helping the world tackle climate change. Supported by EPSRC, she leads the Centre for Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage at the University of Nottingham.…
New Light on Crime Scenes
A case study from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) archives which considers fingerprinting and DNA profiling, the cornerstones of crime detection. Now new techniques, pioneered by EPSRC-supported researchers, are set to take these methods to a whole new level. The Light It Up project has developed…
Super-Skinny Material That Could Transform Electronics
A case study from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) archives which looks at how sheets of carbon just a single atom thick could herald a new generation of electronics devices thanks to research supported by EPSRC. Graphene is incredibly thin and flexible, yet it is also the strongest material ever…
Pandora: How Do We Learn Without Taking Risks?
This resource, from Planet Science, provides teachers with case studies and information which can be use to plan lessons involving debates on two questions. The underlying message to students is for them to consider whether all scientific inventions are for the good of society. The two case studies considered are: 1. Alfred…
7. Safety in Gas Appliances
This Association for Science Education (ASE) publication about safety in gas appliances was developed in association with the British Gas Corporation. At the time, this was the only gas industry in the world to be involved in every aspect of gas supply. The booklet contained guidance for teachers and notes for students. It included…
An Introduction to Polymers
Published by the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP), this booklet provides an introduction to plastics, their history in product design and methods of working with thermoplastics. The text presents a range of valuable resource materials in TEP’s standard photocopiable format. It also includes sections on places to visit,…
Chemistry in a Blast Furnace
A Catalyst article about chemical reactions that occur in a blast furnace during the steelmaking process. This short article features a diagram of a blast furnace showing the active ingredients used to produce iron from ore. This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2006, Volume 16, Issue 3. Catalyst is a science magazine…
SATIS General Guide for Teachers
The SATIS 'General Guide for Teachers' is a booklet which complements the Teachers' Notes published with the individual SATIS units. It gives more general information about the proejct, about some of the teaching methods, and about other ways of introducing social and technological aspects into the secondary science…
CO2 Solutions: Carbon Capture Storage
Carbon dioxide is the major greenhouse gas contributing to global warming. Carbon Capture Storage uses cutting edge science and technology to reduce pollution from fossil fuel power stations. Carbon Capture Storage (CSS) describes industrial processes that separate and recover carbon dioxide from flue gases. The carbon dioxide…
Pesticides and Food
In this SATIS Revisited resource, students examine data, perform a risk assessment, and see how risks are sometimes reported in the media. This unit focuses on the consumer and considers whether or not we should be concerned about any pesticide residues that may be found on fruit and vegetables. In the first activity, Pesticides:…
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…
Control in Action: Designing a Fermenter
This is one of a series of focused units, from the Association for Science Education and the Design and Technology Association, to introduce students to important technologies and their applications. This unit features control systems and their applications to fermentation. The introduction to the unit: • introduces the…
Food Technologist
Jessica Chambers is a food technologist at Sainsbury's. This Department for Education clip could be useful when teaching microbiology, food technology, or as a context for applied science. Jessica's job allows her to gain experience of work in many different areas that include: • development of new products and…
Cosmetics Specialist Scientific Adviser
Shalkila is a scientific adviser for L'Oreal. Her role is to help market new fashion cosmetics and perfumes. This Department for Education clip can be used to illustrate science-based careers and also as an example of applied science. Shalkila's role is to explain how cosmetic products work. These are a mixture of chemical…
Technology, Invention and Industry
This book from the SISCON series contains stories of inventions, studies two important modern industries (plastics and microelectronics) and looks at the effects of their developments on society in the 1980s. Chapters in this booklet are: *Ingredients for invention - Market pull, scientific knowledge, Technological research,…
SATIS Update 91
The UPDATE 91 teachers' notes, which provided information to update and supplement the 100 units published between 1986 and 1988.
Science and Technology in Society 12
SATIS book twelve includes From Babylon to biotechnology, Earthquakes - in Britain?, Radiotelescopes, and Are you made of stardust?. The ten units in this booklet are: 1201 Agrochemicals and the environment: Data handling, information, questions and discussion. Attainment targets 1 and 2. 1202 Mapping the human genome: Reading,…
Science and Technology in Society 11
SATIS book eleven includes A special type of hearing aid, The eruption of Mount St Helens, and Project management. The ten books in this unit are: 1101 Breast or bottle? Information, questions, data-handling, discussion, devising stories, mini role-plays and a design brief. Attainment targets 1,3, 11, 12 and 13. 1102 A special…
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