Piggiflu is Coming
A simulation from Science upd8 that looks at how a viral disease spreads in a model population (the school). It is interactive, relevant and involves large numbers of students. There is the potential for family involvement. The simulation continues for around 5 days, after which students can use ICT to analyse the data to see how…
Numbers and Patterns: Laying Foundations in Mathematics
This set of materials from the National Strategies is intended to help practitioners working with students in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and lower Key Stage One, to plan their mathematics provision and help students to secure some of the key mathematical ideas that they will use throughout the rest of their lives. The…
Earth 2
This Science upd8 resource is set in the context of astronomy. Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System. Through analysing data students justify whether or not they believe the 'new' planet to be Earth-like.
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Clippy Island - Investigation into Natural Selection
From the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), this selection of activities are suitable for Key Stage Four students investigating natural selection. Using spring clips of different sizes, students 'feed' on a range of seeds to see the effect of beak size. Different scenarios look at how seed availability…
Applications
These two books from the Shell Centre focus on applications. The tasks are intended to stimulate students' interest in, and understanding of, the world in which they live. As they pursue these tasks students will be involved in selecting materials and mathematics to use for their chosen task, checking they have sufficient information,…
Science 5/13 Units for Teachers: Early Experiences
The Science 5/13 Unit for teachers entitled Early experiences focuses on science for the youngest children (infants) in the primary school. Unlike other Units of the project, the activities proposed in Early experiences cover a range of activity-based topics and relate only to the objectives stated for the first part of stage one,…
SPACE Project Research Report: Forces
The Science Processes and Concepts Exploration (SPACE) project research report on Forces was published in 1998 by Liverpool University Press. It differs from the other SPACE reports since it concerns research carried out after the original SPACE project has been completed and includes students aged 11 to 14 years in the sample as…
Leapfrogs Action Books
This series of books from Leapfrogs offers a collection of explorations and investigations on a particular theme. In content they are less restricting than a simple work card. The Action Books are: Animations - slidescopes, flip sheets, zig zags, flick books, multi exposures transformations, enlargements, translations, rotations…
TRUMP Part 1: Introduction to Astrophysics
This introductory part of the TRUMP Astrophysics package gave an overview of the current picture of the Universe. It provided some information relating to telescopes and observations, and ended with two examples of physics in astronomy: • the use of line spectra to estimate the age of the Universe and • the use of line…
Science and Technology in Society 3
SATIS book three includes Air pollution - where does it come from?, Living with kidney failure, The second law of - what?, and Recycling aluminium. The ten units in this booklet are: 301 Air pollution - where does it come from?: A data-analysis exercise concerning sources of air pollution. 302 Living with kidney failure: A…
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Sensory Design Executive: Jenny Tillotson
This STEMNET resource describes the background and career of STEM Ambassador Jenny Tillotson, the Chief Executive Officer of Sensory Design and Technology Ltd. Jenny produces mood-enhancing clothes, jewellery and medical products. Reading science fiction novels set Jenny thinking about how the arts and science could work together…
Curriculum Guidance 10 - Teaching Science to Pupils with Special Educational Needs
In this publication, from the National Curriculum Council, the priority was to review how accessible the National Curriculum was to students with special educational needs (SEN). This publication draws on good practice in schools with students with special educational needs. It was produced with the help of a team of teachers and…
STEM Choices: Summary of Good Practice
From the Department for Education, this resource is an accessible summary of good practice when delivering careers information and guidance. It will be useful for tutors, subject teachers, and careers advisers involved in STEM and other subject areas.
Magic Dye
This activity, produced by Solar Spark, uses "magic dye", a mixture of three different dye molecules. The mixture contains a yellow disperse dye, a direct blue dye and an acid red dye. When a fabric is put into the mixture, the dyes only attach to the types of fabrics they can bond well with. For example, the blue and yellow…
Challenges
These resources have been provided by Mathematical Education on Merseyside who have been running Challenge and Senior Challenge, take-home competitions for February half term, since the late 1970s. The Challenge is aimed at students in Years Seven and Eight. Each challenge consists of about eight questions, with illustrations…
Accident and Emergency
In this Science upd8 activity students take on the role of a hospital Family Liaison Officer. They carry out research around cells, tissues and organs and then explain a patient's injuries using this knowledge. The activity can help to broaden students' ideas about careers in medicine.
Focus Year 9 Number Extension
The material in this Century Maths book is aimed at above average ability students. The approach adopted uses games, puzzles and investigations to support the development of the concepts being introduced. Contents of the student book: Arithmetic (1): appropriate level of accuracy, estimates to fairly complex number problems…
Encouraging Primary Science
Published in 1987 by Cassell, at a time when science had only recently become part of primary curriculum, this book aims to develop the confidence of teachers in teaching science in primary schools. It is aimed at head teachers, subject leaders and classroom teachers and looks at ways of creating a whole school policy for the teaching…
Animal Photoperiodism
Produced in 1970 by the Institute of Biology as part of its Studies in Biology series, this booklet looks at biological rhythms (biorhythms). These are the cyclic events which occur daily or seasonally in the lives of animals. This booklet looks at the study of the biological effects of day length. It is an introduction to photoperiodism…
Safety
This resource contains ideas for practically based activities which could be taught as a short course or slotted into the scheme of work as appropriate. The activities are safety in the home, the fire triangle, fire extinguishers, fuels, fire-proofing and road safety. The experiments can be carried out in any order and integrated…
Mount Etna - Europe's Biggest Volcano
This Catalyst article takes a look at Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily, the biggest and tallest active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world. The article explores the geology of the volcano, its history and the local habitat surrounding it including how the volcanic conditions create rich fertile soil.
Sound and Music
This Nuffield Primary Science book consists of 11 colourful, and highly illustrated, double-page spreads aimed at students aged 7-9. The book ends with a glossary and index. Contents • Blow your own trumpet • Be quiet • Comic sounds • Animal noises • Singing like a lark • Paul goes to speech…
Mathematical Reasoning: Activities for Developing Thinking Skills
This resource from SMILE Mathematics contains 27 activities with full teacher's notes and answers. The activities cover: Integers, powers and roots: Some sums, Half time scores, Tower of Hanoi Written methods: Largest product Equations, formulae and identities: Number pyramids Sequences, functions and graphs:…
Physics in Schools IV: Supply and Retention of Teachers
This report, produced by the Centre for Education and Emplyment Research (CEER), looks at specialist physics teacher supply and retention in English schools. Physics is at the sharp end of teacher recruitment. It is the subject that schools find most difficult to staff. Some schools do not teach it, and others that do, use non-physicists…
Try This - Make Your Own Cloud
In this Catalyst article an experiment is described in which the formation of clouds can be replicated. The experiment requires nothing more than a plastic bottle, warm water, matches and a small thermometer. This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2011, Volume 21, Issue 4. Catalyst is a science magazine for students…
Skeleton Shapes
This NRICH maths activity focuses on the properties of solids especially edges and vertices by comparing the solid shape and the number of balls of modelling clay and straws required to make a skeleton of it. This activity helps children begin to understand the various properties of common geometric solid shapes, concentrating on…
More About Sound and Music
This Nuffield Primary Science book consists of 11 colourful, and highly illustrated, double-page spreads aimed at students aged 9-12. The book ends with a glossary and index. Contents • Banding together • Sound games • How we hear sounds • Hard of hearing • Sound words • Echo echo • Writing…
Key Stage Four Electronic Products Capability Tasks
A set of Key Stage Four Nuffield Foundation capability tasks focusing on the design, making and evaluation of electronic products. For students to develop and reveal their capability longer more open tasks requiring designing, making and evaluating are necessary. Sometimes these activities are referred to as projects, or design…
Unit 5: Atomic Structure
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit provides some of the key ideas for one of the major theme of the course which is the attempt to explain large-scale things in terms of small-scale things. The Unit draws together ideas about electric charge and fields from Unit 3 into new patterns to explain new things. The central idea for the…
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…
Triple Science Case Study: Curriculum Model and Timetabling
From the Triple Science Support Programme, this case study illustrates how remodelling the timetable and changing the structure of Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four can mean students are given the time and the opportunity to build their confidence in triple science and develop the skills required to be successful. The case study…
A Love Letter to Science
This Catalyst article describes a film which has been made to provide a range of reasons for students to study science. During the film high profile scientists, writers and teachers describe how science provides the technologies which are used in everyday life, how it can protect the environment and how it protects humans through…
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