Speakers from Industry: a Practical Guide for Teachers and Industrialists
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, this booklet offers advice and guidance for: • teachers who wish to bring industrial speakers into school • industrial speakers who would like an insight into the needs of teachers and their students. The booklet contains two sections that deal with: Part I - a general guide…
Cough Syrup
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these materials put curriculum science in a real-life context. The activities are based on the development of a new cough syrup. Children identify the best conditions for growing micro-organisms to produce the active ingredient in the cough medicine, and the best way to collect it. They then…
Water for Industry
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. Children follow the use of water from a reservoir, through an industrial site where it is treated, used as cooling water, and treated again before being returned to a river. Using this context, children investigate: •…
On Site: a Guide to Visiting the Chemical Industry
From CIEC Promoting Science, this guide provides practical information and advice about organising a visit to a local science-based industry. Visits can be engaging, stimulating and profitable for the students, teachers and companies involved. The guide looks at industrial links at both primary and secondary school levels and…
Runny Liquids
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. Children consider the properties of liquids in the context of a company which produces a thick, sticky liquid that needs stirring and transporting. The activities provide an opportunity to learn about the properties of liquids…
Medicines from Microbes
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities provide an opportunity for children to think about micro-organisms and come to understand that they can be both helpful and harmful. This approach makes the children's investigations more relevant and engaging. The…
Plastics Playtime
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. In these activities, children test and classify plastics before investigating their thermal insulation and shock resistance properties. The children then design, make and test a package for a fragile object, using plastics and…
Pinch of Salt
This CIEC Promoting Science resource puts curriculum science into real-world contexts and provides a cross-curricular approach to salt. Children undertake a range of hands-on investigations that look at the use of salt. This includes the use of salt to treat icy roads and the purification of salt from rocksalt by making a solution,…
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…
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.…
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…
Turf Troubles
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. A sports company wish to provide a turf surface at a sports ground suitable for a range of activities. Information is required on suitable grass types and the best growing conditions. They also need to know how much water…
Renewables Don't Run Out
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities provide opportunities for children to consider the use of plant material (biomass) for renewable energy. They go on to look at some of the problems that using biomass can pose and to think about other applications…
Medicines for Pets
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities use the pharmaceutical industry as a real life context to encourage children to look at the properties of materials, changing state and separation techniques. Children investigate the challenges faced by research…
Smart Bricks for Smart Plants
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. In these activities, children compare plants grown in a variety of nutrients. They investigate the best conditions to grow turf for a sports pitch. During the activities, children also look at plants and see how the structures…
Room for Improvement
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, this booklet contains a variety of practical investigations for children aged 8-10 which provide a focus for planning and carrying out science and technology based activities. Set around the context of redecorating a bedroom, the activities encourage children to undertake the following investigations: •…
Reclaim It
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these materials encourage primary children to use reclaimed materials to make a range of products that include a model person, stacking toy, necklace, model car and powered roundabout. The skills pupils develop during the activities include: • measuring, centring and marking out •…
Kitchen Concoctions
CIEC Promoting Science resources put curriculum science in real-life contexts. These materials focus on the use of mixtures in the kitchen and can be used to illustrate the properties of materials. Students examine a mince-pie as a 'mixture' and compare 'real' dairy cream with imitation aerosol cream. A…
Is There Anyone Out There?
This resource was funded by the UK Space Agency and developed by ESERO-UK and CIEC Promoting Science. It is based upon the quest to discover more about the solar system through space projects such as the European Space Agency’s Aurora programme, and NASA’s Curiosity mission seeking to gather evidence of life on the planet…
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Healthy Drinks and Tasty Toothpaste
These CIEC Promoting Science materials allow children to investigate tooth decay and the effectiveness of toothpaste. This science investigation pack draws on the example of a toothpaste manufacturer who wants to develop an appealing toothpaste, that provides maximum protection against the effect of sugar in drinks. Activities…
Feel the Force
These CIEC Promoting Science resources look at forces in real-life contexts. Students have an opportunity to learn about the properties of air and air resistance. The context is that of a transport company looking for ways to reduce the drag of their lorries and so improve fuel economy. Children undertake a series of investigations…