How Smart Is an Ant?
A Catalyst article about ants. A colony consists of hundreds, even thousands, of ants working diligently and cooperatively, perhaps to kill and carry a large prey item, build a large nest structure or develop and use road-like networks for foraging. Collectively, colonies of social insects can do amazing things and scientists invest…
Investigating Plant Growth Regulators
One of a series of resources from Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS) investigating key topics in plant biology. In this activity, students investigate the effects of the hormone auxin (Indole Acetic Acid or IAA) as a plant growth regulator, giving opportunities to look at auxiliary bud development, root development, and leaf…
Investigating Photosynthesis: Can Leaf Discs Make Starch in the Dark?
One of a series of resources from Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS) investigating key topics in plant biology. In this practical activity, students to investigate the role of light in starch production in leaves during the process of photosynthesis. By using leaf discs rather than whole leaves, a number of common misconceptions…
Handling Data
MEI GCSE Extension materials for handling data (statistics). Tasks are available on the mean from a frequency table, interquartile range and tree diagrams. The materials are aimed at students who are working towards GCSE Mathematics and would benefit from exposure to mathematics beyond the GCSE specifications. Aims The aims…
Getting Girls into Engineering: a Practical Guide
This London Engineering Project guide, from the Royal Academy of Engineering, describes efforts to attract more girls to engineering as a choice of subject for study and as a career. The guide aims to share the effective practice developed by the UKRC in the area of gender inclusion and focuses on sections of the population where…
Disinfectant Concentration and Effectiveness
Produced by Nelson Thornes, this resource helps students look at aspects of how science works. In this activity students are given the results of an experiment to investigate the effectiveness of different concentrations of disinfectant and their effectiveness at killing bacteria. Students are asked to suggest a prediction, draw…
Key Stage Three: Champion Chocolate
In this Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Seeing Science lesson, students learn how scientists, using experimental evidence have helped Cadbury's improve their chocolate. Video clips of the cooling stage in chocolate manufacture and research at the Daresbury Laboratory set the scene for experimental work in…
Leapfrog
The frogs in this Subtangent investigation have to be moved from one set of lily pads to another, following specific rules. This classic investigation is suitable for a wide age range of students. The number of frogs on each side can be varied allowing further investigation and generalisations for the number of moves to be made.
Trigonometry
This RISP activity gives students four properties - one side is 3cm, one angle is 90 degrees, one side is 4cm and one angle is thirty degrees. Students are required to find as many triangles as they can which contain any three of these four properties. Once the triangles have been found, students are asked to find the area and perimeter…
Wallpaper Patterns
Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics. Wallpaper patterns all have one thing in common; they are all produced by repeating a single fundamental tile by translation, that one basic rule gives rise to a range of possible patterns, each with their distinctive symmetries. Here the number…
Could Pi Be 3?
Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics. This presentation investigates the value of π in different types of geometry and provides a link for students to experiment with Hyperbolic geometry. The classic definition of a distance function, or metric, is given and a version of the Manhattan…
Supercontraction of Hair
This Unilever Laboratory Experiment, published in 1967, describes an experiment to measure the contraction of hair in a hot solution of phenol. The procedure is based on a school-made apparatus to measure the changes of length. The results are discussed in terms of hydrogen bonding and disulphide bonds between protein chains.
Midlands Mathematical Experiment MME Report 1962-63
This report begins with a brief history of the project in which a number of schools collaborated with the aim of developing a new approach to teaching mathematics in the Grammar School. The proposed new 'O'-level mathematics syllabus, and the need for change, is discussed in detail, looking at various aspects of “Modern…
Cooking Session 1: Getting to Grips
This is the introductory cooking session for the Licence to Cook Course. It allows students to become familiar with the cooking area and provides an opportunity to assess their practical capability. During the session, students make either a fruit fusion or dippy divers. The recipes do not require the application of heat and…
Cooking Session 12: Curry to Go!
This Licence to Cook practical session is about making a simple curry dish in one pan. It demonstrates the use of simple pieces of equipment in the preparation of a dish that students could easily prepare at home. During this session, students can make a spinach, potato and chickpea curry, lamb korma or Thai green chicken curry.…
Describing Sounds
In this resource from Teachers TV, a professor plays a variety of sounds to his assistant, Sam. She then indicates how she feels about each noise with a smiley, sad or neutral face. The sounds include a bird warbler, an alarm clock and a vacuum cleaner. This Key Stage One lesson starter stimulates discussion as children think…
Sorting
This resource from Maths Chest 1 is aimed at foundation stage and contains detailed teachers' notes for running activities on sorting. It is divided into three topics which should be taught in sequence at different times within the year. Each topic is organised into three visits or teaching sessions and contains reinforcement…
Tiana and Star's Story
This video features Tiana, who has broken a total of eight bones, and her sister Star, who has broken thirty-three. Tiana and Star talk about brittle bone disease and explain how it affects their lives. The teachers notes provide an explanation of the disease and how it is inherited. Curriculum links include ourselves, human variation,…
Invertebrate Respiration
Produced in 1980 by the Institute of Biology as part of its Studies in Biology series, this booklet illustrates the fundamental principles of respiratory physiology. It uses invertebrates as they present a diversity of adaptive strategies to the problem of balancing an animal's metabolic requirements with its accessibility to…
The Principles of Radiochemistry
The Principles of Radiochemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The purpose of this book was to introduce the principles of radiochemistry to sixth form and first year university students. Emphasis was placed on the principles and the mathematics was been kept…
Interpreting One-colour Trains as Fractional Parts
In this resource children are asked to build all of the possible one-colour trains to match the purple rod. Fitting them underneath they then resemble a fraction wall where children can describe the fractional parts of the whole purple rod. They then investigate the other coloured rods and their fractional parts, for example halves…
Solar Power: Electricity from the Sun
This booklet is part of the ‘Innovations in Practical Work’ series published by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). Solar cells use light from the Sun to generate electricity, and it is now quite common to see solar-powered consumer devices. What has held back the use of solar power in large-scale electricity…
Elements and Atoms
This unit of learning material from the National Learning Network Materials' Chemistry collection, looks at elements and introduces atomic structure. The resource describes how protons, electrons and neutrons make up atoms and describes how to define the atomic number of an element. It introduces the periodic table as a way…
Instant Ice-Cream
In this Science upd8 resource students take on the role of a marketeer trying to sell a new instant ice-cream vending machine. They use PowerPoint’s simple animation features and a gallery of images to explain the science behind the process of mixing flavours and quick freezing.
Good Ideas for 3D Shape
The activities in this book from Polygon Resources focus on shape and space. They are particularly designed to give students experience of designing and making solid objects and time to consolidate their ideas about solid shapes and their properties. Many of the activities require practical equipment such as interlocking cubes and…
Fibres and Fabrics
The Teaching Primary Science book Fibres and fabrics contains many suggestions for classroom work about fabrics and paper, both of which are made from fibres. It begins with a discussion of some of the problems of teaching and organising this topic and considers how they might be overcome. There are then several chapters focusing…
Scientist Interviews
In these videos, from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), scientists talk about what their jobs entail and what they enjoy most about their chosen career. The nine scientists are: *Dr Michael Pocock - ecologist An ecologist is a biologist who studies the relationship between organisms and their environment. A Levels:…
Fast Plants
This range of practical activities and resources provided by ASE is aimed to teach about plants and flowers in schools.Growing fast plants can provide rewarding results in a short time span and the ideas encourage all students to be involved with the activities. Students can examine their own flowers and model-making suggestions…
Architect's Skills
Architect’s skills, from Cre8ate maths, will develop the process skills involved in understanding and making sense of mathematical information. Students have to give unambiguous descriptions to enable their partner to build an identical copy of a hidden shape, whilst the partner has to listen and interpret the descriptions…
Differentiation Exercise
This interactive resource, produced by the University of Leicester, is designed to enable students to explore the differential function of a polynomial and conclude by forming a generalisation. An instruction page explains to students that they should draw a polynomial. Then by sliding the slider the gradient of the curve is plotted,…
Robot Challenge
In this Teachers TV video, a team of two schools from Yorkshire, design build and test a robot before travelling to America to take part in a competition against hundreds of other schools. The robot, made from a kit of 150 parts common to all teams, must be capable of competing in a basketball type game and the stakes are high. An…
Skill 3.1 Deciding Quickly if an Article is Useful
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity gives students the opportunity to practise quickly skim-reading a text to assess its usefulness. A guided activity asks students to quickly browse through a scientific article and extract information such as its title, author and the subject of any illustrations and…
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