Integrated Science Book 1
Integrated Science, from the Wreake Valley Academy, is a series of three books designed to support science teaching of students aged 11-14. They provided a balanced science curriculum that included biology, chemistry, physics and encouraged scientific investigation as a way of promoting scientific thinking and engagement in science. Book…
Top Science
This resource from the Association for Science Education (ASE) consists of a set of cards illustrating different careers showing the importance of science to each one. This resource is part of the SYCD: Science Year AKA Science collection. The resource provides students with information such as a simple job description, qualifications…
Concrete Without Quarries
This practical activity, from the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute, allows students to explore how nature creates calcium carbonate, a compound needed to manufacture cement, at ambient temperatures and using abundant, readily available raw materials. The cement used in concrete is manufactured from calcium carbonate, which is extracted from…
The Development of Students’ Understanding of Physical Characteristics of Air, Across the Age Range 5-16 Years
This report was intended to provide a longer term perspective on changes taking place in students’ understanding over the compulsory school years. The topic of air was chosen on the basis both of its importance throughout school science and its accessibility to students across the entire school age range. Contents of the report Section…
Life in the Water: Teacher Guidance
These teachers’ notes were produced to support the use of the series of video clips and activities about a Cape Farewell expedition to the Norwegian Arctic. The notes provide detailed guidance on each of the video clips and activities. They also suggest a series of six lessons based on the resources. The version of the notes…
Integrated Science Book 3
Integrated Science, from the Wreake Valley Academy, is a series of three books designed to support science teaching of students aged 11-14. They provided a balanced science curriculum that included biology, chemistry, physics and encouraged scientific investigation as a way of promoting scientific thinking and engagement in science. Book…
Cloud Chamber
This video from the Royal Institution shows tracks within a cloud chamber. A supersaturated layer of alcohol vapour exists just above the floor of the chamber and the ionisation radiation causes vapour to condense along the path of the radiation. An Americium source is introduced into the chamber so that tracks from alpha radiation…
Carbon and the Carbon Cycle
This resource from Defence Dynamics assists students when learning about carbon and the carbon cycle. In the first activity they consider changes in the carbon cycle and imbalances caused by human activity. The second activity looks at how carbon cycles in the environment and how carbon, in oil, is obtained for fuel. This includes…
Integrated Science Book 2
Integrated Science, from the Wreake Valley Academy, is a series of three books designed to support science teaching of students aged 11-14. They provided a balanced science curriculum that included biology, chemistry, physics and encouraged scientific investigation as a way of promoting scientific thinking and engagement in science. Book…
Nuffield Science 11 to 13: Year 1
The Nuffield 11 to 13 project provided a book for students and a Teachers’ Guide for each year of the course together with a file of Worksheets. The student books were not conventional textbooks. Less space than usual was given to exposition and factual information. The main aim was to generate interest using case studies to…
Who Wants to Be a Scientist?
This resource, from the Association for Science Education (ASE), is based is based on a well-known quiz format. It is a PowerPoint presentation, and works well in class or as a lunchtime competition using overheads.collection. The quiz could be run during lunch times as an inter-form competition, or within class time. After teachers…
Teachers' Guide I
This Nuffield Combined Science Teachers’ Guide covers the first five sections of the course which were planned to be taught to students aged 11-12. Contents Section 1: The world around us Section 2: Looking for patterns Section 3: How living things begin Section 4: Air Section 5: Electricity Appendix I: Notes on the…
Biotechnology: Bacterial Language
Those two simple, inexpensive, practical activities, from the Association for Science Education (ASE) explore cultivating glowing bacteria and the phenomenon of one species turning a bright purple. The glow is caused by luminous bacteria commonly found on rotting seafood. Ghostly glowing fish like this provided a clue that led…
Stings and Things: an Investigation into pH
Produced by the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC), this activity could be used as an extension investigation into pH for 10 -11 year-olds. This resource is also relevant to the curriculum for 12 -13 year-olds. Students look at the pH of household materials and then apply their knowledge of acids and alkalis…
Quizzes
Those quizzes have been provided by the Association for Science Education (ASE) and are based on the SYCD: Science Year Only Connect? theme. The subjects covered in the questions include: cells, reproduction, variation and classification, inheritance and selection.
Activities Pack II
This Nuffield Combined Science Activities Pack provided student booklets; one for each of the last five sections of the course. These booklets were not intended to be used as ordinary text books. Purposes Activities were to be used to: • start students thinking about a new piece of work, • give them ideas of things…
Quizzes
The four multiple choice quizzes, from the Association for Science Education (ASE), contain questions based around several biology QCA Scheme of Work units for Key Stage Three. They are part of the SYCD: Science Year AKA Science collection. The everyday science puzzles cover the questions: Moon blues: Can we really have a blue…
Secondary Science Technicians
Science technicians are an integral part of any school science team and offer invaluable back-up to science teachers. In this Teachers TV video, two science technicians at Manor School, York, work with Simon Quinnell, senior science technician at the National Science Learning Centre, to develop their skills, inspire students and…
Literacy
This resource, called Science EXTRA! Using Newspapers in the Science Classroom, was written by Ruth Jarman and Billy McClune, Graduate School of Education, Queen's University Belfast and has been provided by the Association for Science Education (ASE). The aims of the Newspaper in Science Education group are to: • Encourage…
Energy and Change: Background Stories for Teachers
In Background Stories for Teachers, the authors of the ‘Teaching about why things change’ project illustrate a new approach to the fundamental question 'why do things change?'. They do so with the help of stories about some scientific topics which show how the topics can be looked at in a new light. The collection…
SCISP Topic Book: The Importance of Patterns
This Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) topic book was written to accompany the first of the SCISP students’ manuals. Contents • What is a pattern? • Hard and soft water • Glass • Why plants and animals are as they are • The structure of crystals • The Sun, the Moon and…
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.…
Meet the Scientists
This resource, from the Association for Science Education (ASE) introduces a number of scientists working in a range of different careers and it consists of a set of careers activities shows science used in other work contexts. The resource is part of the SYCD: Science Year Can we; Should we? collection. The scientists describe: •…
University of the United Arab Emirates - Jojoba: Liquid Gold for the 21st Century
In 2000, two Indian scientists persuaded farmers to plant jojoba plants in their fields. In this Planet Science resource, students are asked to research the uses of jojoba oil – for fuels, cosmetics and medicines. They then take part in activities to make adverts for the fuel and cosmetics, to design a leaflet persuading farmers…
SCISP Teachers’ Guide 2: Interactions and Building Blocks
This teachers' guide continued introduction to the Integrated Science Project's concepts of pattern and problem. This approach covered qualitative and quantitative generalisations, and used patterns to solve problems. The problems were both practical and theoretical, everyday and laboratory. The importance of science to…
Meet the Scientists
This resource, provided by the Association for Science Education (ASE), introduces a group of scientists working in a range of different careers. The resource is part of the SYCD: Science Year Only Connect? collection. The scientists describe: • How they got into science • Where they have worked • What they…
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Who Wants to Be a Scientist?
This resource, from the Association for Science Education (ASE), is based on a well-known quiz format. It is a PowerPoint presentation, and works well in class or as a lunchtime competition using overheads. The quiz could be run during lunch times as an inter-form competition, or within class time. After teachers have saved the PowerPoint…
SCISP Teachers’ Guide 4: Interactions and Change
In the Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) course, the explanations of change used the concept of interaction under these headings: • Recognising change • A close look at a number of different changes • Stability Contents 1. Recognising change 2. Changes in behaviour 3. Changes in acidity 4.…
CREST Awards Through Industry-linked Projects
By the British Science Association, the CREST Awards help students to tackle science with an investigative approach. This case study describes how Queen Katherine's school science club have become involved with a local engineering company. The company supports the club by involving them in research and innovative STEM-based…
Science Focus: Working With Science 2
This student book accompanies the nine teaching units which make up Science Focus: The Salters’ Approach for Year Eight. Working with Science 2 is printed in black and white and can be used in the classroom or laboratory to support, enrich or extend lessons. Content is arranged as a succession of double-page spreads, each…
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…
Keys and Detection
Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the B units called ‘Communities and populations’ and ‘Charged particles’. This S unit provided enough material for eight double periods during a single-certificate science course. The teachers’ guide included four worksheets to supplement the students’…
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