Skill 2.8 Watching a Film
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity guides students through two viewings of a scientific film to help them to focus on specific areas of learning. After an initial viewing of the film, students formulate questions that will help to enhance their understanding during a second viewing. This helps students…
Go with the Flow CD-ROM
This multimedia package was developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme to help students understand the interesting and unusual properties of a range of fluids, semi-solids and solids. Published originally as a CD-ROM, the materials contain a collection of videos, animations and worksheets that are available as editable…
Fire: Flames and Chemical Change
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop ideas relating to flames, from hydrogen to candle wax. A flame is a chemical reaction between two substances in a gaseous mixture. Normally,…
QTC: A Remarkable New Material to Control Electricity
This booklet is part of the ‘Innovations in Practical Work’ series published by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). QTC (Quantum Tunnelling Composite) looks rather ordinary, but this rubbery black material shows remarkable properties. When squeezed its electrical resistance drops, and this unique property…
Gas and Pressure
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop the ideas relating to the pressure of the gas state and dependence of the boiling point on external pressure. The pressure of a substance in the…
Solubility
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to introduce the idea of solubility. Solubility is the amount of a substance that will dissolve in a certain amount of solvent. Students can confuse solubility…
Condensation of Water
This downloadable video is part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). It can be used to show water condensing out of the air. A pure sample of water is normally in the liquid state at room temperature, but water particles can remain separated when mixed with…
Recognising Dissolving
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to introduce and explain the phenomenon of dissolving. Dissolving is recognised by the formation of a clear mixture. Before mixing, solutes can be in the…
The Gas State
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to predict the possibility of the gas state with the particle model and understand that ‘gases’ are substances which happen to have boiling points…
Melting Behaviour
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop the idea that mixtures do not have precise melting and boiling points. Using properties that depend on the material only to distinguish between…
Substances Changing: Reaction at Room Temperature
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop the idea of chemical change by showing reactions that take place spontaneously at room temperature. These resources use novel approaches to cover…
Acids
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop ideas relating to the characteristic reactions of acids. These resources can be used to unpack the complexities surrounding the reactions of…
Change of State
These downloadable videos are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to introduce ideas of the energy changes which accompany changes of state. Melting requires an energy input for the change from solid to liquid and so the temperature…
Substances Changing: Dehydration
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop the idea that some crystals incorporate water molecules within their structures. Whether the change from hydrated copper sulfate to anhydrous…
Substances Changing: Reaction in Solution
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop the idea of chemical change by showing reactions that takes place between substances in solution. Many chemical reactions involve solutions and…
Crystals
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop the idea that substances in the solid state usually consist of crystals, even though this is sometimes not obvious. The first animation can be…
Rate of Dissolving
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop ideas relating to the factors which affect the rate of dissolving and the particle model explanation. The rate of dissolving depends on the surface…
Particles in Motion
Particles in Motion is a multimedia package developed jointly by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Originally published as a CD-ROM, it contains video clips and animations to support the teaching of basic ideas of chemistry in the 11-14 science curriculum. Topics covered include…
5/5- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Interactive resource
Separating Mixtures
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop understanding of filtration, evaporation and distillation as methods to separate various types of mixtures. Understanding filtering rests on…
Evaporation of Water
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to distinguish between boiling and evaporation of water below boiling point. Boiling forms a pure sample of water in the gas state (the big bubbles), evaporation…
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- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Video
Particle Theory
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to introduce a particle model to explain why a substance can exist in both the solid and liquid states and why different substances have different melting points. The…
Chemistry Captured: Video Materials for Teachers of Chemistry
This DVD of video clips was produced by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme in partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University. It offers students the opportunity to view a range of reactions at close range with the ability of pausing and replaying key features. Reactions…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
- Video
Skill 2.9 Observation to Support Practical Work
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, the aim of this activity is to help students carry out practical procedures efficiently and accurately without simply ‘following the recipe’. In the activity, students watch a brief video clip and analyse its usefulness in demonstrating a practical procedure. This helps…
Chromatography
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop ideas relating to paper chromatography as a method for separating mixtures. Paper chromatography can be used to separate mixtures of substances…
Fire: Combustion or Decomposition?
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop ideas relating to the distinction between combustion and decomposition in the context of ‘burning’ materials. Combustion is a reaction…
Melting and Freezing
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop the idea of a substance as a kind of ‘stuff’ which has a definite melting point. The idea of a melting point can be introduced using…
Diffusion
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop ideas relating to the intrinsic motion of particles and diffusion phenomena involving the liquid and gas states. Due to the intrinsic translational…
Substances Changing: Reaction on Heating
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop the idea of chemical change by showing a reaction that takes place on heating to a higher temperature. These resources cover the reaction between…
Chemistry Captured II: Video Materials for Teachers of Chemistry
This DVD of video clips was produced by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme in partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University. It offers students the opportunity to view a range of reactions at close range with the ability of pausing and replaying key features. The selected…
Substances Changing: Decomposition
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop the idea of chemical change by showing that in some reactions substances decompose. Chemical changes often involve two substances reacting together…
Skill 2.2 Invite an Expert
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, in this activity students are given the opportunity to choose, organise and benefit from outside expert speakers. Throughout, there is an emphasis on treating the speaker courteously. When an external speaker has been invited to address the group, the students are made responsible…