Measurement Good Practice Guide: a Beginner's Guide to Uncertainty of Measurement
This publication from the National Physical Laboratory is an ideal resource for secondary teachers but could also be used by students at post-16 level. It can be used as a basis for best practice for taking measurements within the laboratory. The guide explains the basics of errors, uncertainties, spread, standard deviation, random…
Leading Space: Raising standards in STEM and other subjects
This publication is a report from the Leading Space Education Programme (LSEP). This is a Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) funded project that has worked with 30 schools in England with the aim of enhancing science, technology, engineering and mathematics education in secondary schools and using space to: excite;…
Key Understanding in Mathematics Learning: Paper 1 Overview
This review, published by the Nuffield Foundation, presents a synthesis of research on mathematics learning by children from the age of five to the age of sixteen years and identifies the issues that are fundamental to understanding children’s mathematics learning. The report concentrates on three main questions regarding key…
Assessing Ethics in Secondary Science
This report, published in 2009, is based on a seminar held in London in 2008 at the Nuffield Foundation. It discusses why teaching ethics in science is important and examines approaches to the assessment of ethics in science considering key issues, such as the importance of ethical debate in science classes, the specifications which…
An Invisible Revolution? Applied Science in the 14-19 Curriculum
This report, published by the Nuffield Foundation in July 2009, examines the major issues of policy and practice surrounding applied science qualifications, taking account of empirical evidence where it is available. The report is centred on the following questions: • what is distinctive about applied science qualifications,…
Creative Encounters: Feasibility Study for a Touring Exhibition to Promote Creative Learning in Science
Published by the Wellcome Trust in 2007, this report is the product of a feasibility study for a touring exhibition to promote creative learning in science. The study involved: • Evaluating the Trust's objectives for such an exhibition and making recommendations on the feasibility of meeting these objectives (and advising…
Believers, Seekers and Sceptics: What Teachers Think about CPD
In 2005 the Wellcome Trust commissioned this survey of teachers and managers in state maintained schools in England, focusing on three main aspects of continuing professional development (CPD): • What do different types of teacher want from CPD? • What are the benefits of CPD, and for whom? • What, if anything,…
Improving the Assessment of Practical Work in School Science
This report, published in October 2012, reviews how practical work in science is currently assessed in England by the three main awarding bodies (AQA, Edexcel and OCR) for GCSE, A level and for certain other qualifications. Comparisons are also made with the way in which practical work is assessed across a range of other subjects…
The Little Books of Gaia
Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. The spacecraft will provide the positions and velocity measurements of around 1 billion stars – which is about one percent of the stars in our galaxy. The Little Books of Gaia are A4-page-size summaries that cover different aspects…
Case Study: Ewan Bloomfield - Energy Consultant
In this case study, Ewan Bloomfield explains how he came to be an energy consultant. He describes what attracted him to the job, his education history and what gives him job satisfaction. He then talks about seeing how his work affects people's lives, especially when working within developing countries across the world. He…
Case Study: Ella Sprung - Editorial and Production Assistant
In this case study, Ella Sprung, explains how she came to work as an engineer. She describes her ambitions when younger, her education history and the role models who inspired her. She then talks about seeing how her work affects people's lives, especially when working within developing countries across the world. She is now…
Case Study: Gita Patel - Financial Controller
In this case study, Gita Patel explains how she came to be a financial controller. She describes her ambitions when younger, her education history and the role models who inspired her. She then talks about seeing how her work affects people's lives. Having travelled widely, she is able to see how the organisation that she works…
Case Study: Lucho Osorio - International Co-ordinator
In this case study, Lucho Osorio explains how he came to be an International Co-ordinator working in the Practical Action Markets and Livelihood programme. He describes his ambitions when younger, his education history and how he got where he is today. He then describes the tasks that give him the most job satisfaction and talks…
Everyday Mathematics
Planning a Kitchen: SMILE card 1310 is a booklet which requires students to design a kitchen. The first task is to calculate the cost of buying the constituent parts of a kitchen. Students have to measure furniture in their own kitchen and draw a scale diagram. Students are given scale plan drawings of furniture they can use in the…
Imaginings
Imaginings: SMILE card 2112 is a collection of multi-levelled activities to develop mental imagery skills. The activities are grouped together into seven topics; starter, 2D, folds, creases and cuts, cubes, 3D, rotations and bits and pieces. The activities provide an excellent opportunity to use mathematical language. The tasks vary…
The Highway Code
The Highway Code: SMILE card 1314 is a booklet of activities using the signs found in the Highway Code as a context. The booklet begins with a page of road signs. The first task asks students to categorise the signs by placing then into a two way table based upon their shape and their colour. The second activity requires students…
Hexaflexagons
Hexaflexagons: SMILE card 0828 is a booklet giving detailed instructions on how to make a hexaflexagon. The resource includes photographs showing how to flex the hexaflexagon. There are instructions on how to colour the hexaflexagon and how to make a record of all the flexes. The resource concludes by showing a variety of alternative…
Spirals
Archimedes’ Spirals: SMILE card 1998 is a booklet of activities beginning by explaining how to draw Archimedes’ spirals using the ‘cotton reel method’. The second activity uses a ruler, protractor, string and tracing paper to work out which of the spirals given is an Archimedes spiral. Polar graph paper is…
Reckonings
SMILE Card 2324 is a booklet containing six sections; counting activities, place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, number puzzles and types of number. Counting activities gives details of a task explaining how to generate sequences and the game fizz-buzz. Place value has four activities. Number lines:…
Neuroscience and the Law
Produced by Debating Matters, this topic guide puts the neuroscience and the law debate in context, providing information, a reading list and weblinks. The resource encourages students to debate issues such as: • Diminishing responsibility • The limits of neuroscience • A question of free will • 'Neuroscience…
Factory Farming
Produced by Debating Matter, this topic guide looks at factory farming and encourages students to discuss the arguments for and against. The topic guide gives information, reading lists and weblinks. Students debate issues such as: • Animal welfare • Environment issues • Feeding the planet • Whether factory…
Raising Standards in STEM and Other Subjects: Using Space-related Contexts and Applications
The Leading Space Education programme has been funded by the STFC since September 2008. A network of schools was established and supported by SSAT, to develop and embed high-quality, space-themed educational practice. All schools started from different prior experiences of engagement with space education and are from a wide range…
The Continuum of Design Education for Engineering
This booklet examines the development of engineering expertise and makes recommendations on ways to harness, encourage, facilitate and reward it. Covering all Key Stages from Foundation Stage to post-16 and higher education, the booklet states the case for design and technology in schools to encourage an understanding of engineering,…
Interaction: the Relationship Between Science and Design and Technology
This report looks at the very separated relationship of science and technology subjects in secondary schools at the time. It tries to identify reasons why there was very limited use of cross-curricular activities and makes recommendations to encourage better relationships, collaboration and cooperation between departments. Contents Executive…
Tourist Town - Dominating Sets
Many real-life situations can be modelled in the form of a network or “graph” of the kind used for colouring in the Poor Cartographer – Graph Colouring resource. Networks present many opportunities for the development of algorithms that are practically useful. In this activity, the junctions, or “nodes,”…
The Chocolate Factory - Human Interface Design
The aim of this activity is to raise awareness of human interface design issues. In a world where poor design is rife, people have become accustomed to dealing with problems caused by the artifacts with which they interact, sometimes blaming themselves instead of attributing the problems to flawed design. The issue is greatly heightened…
Kid Krypto - Public Key Encryption
Encryption is the key to information security. The key to modern encryption is that using only public information, a sender can lock up their message in such a way that it can only be unlocked by the intended recipient. The resource begins with a detailed explanation of the activity and how the process of encryption works and…
The Peruvian Coin Flip - Cryptographic Protocols
This activity shows how to accomplish a simple, but nevertheless seemingly impossible task -making a fair random choice by flipping a coin, between two people who don’t necessarily trust each other, and are connected only by a telephone. The resource begins with a detailed explanation of the activity and suggestions for…
Sharing Secrets - Information Hiding Protocols
Cryptographic techniques enable information to be shared with other people, yet still maintain a surprisingly high level of privacy. This activity illustrates a situation where information is shared, and yet none of it is revealed: a group of students will calculate their average age without anyone having to reveal to anyone else…
Ice Roads - Steiner Trees
Sometimes a small, seemingly insignificant, variation in the specification of a problem makes a huge difference in how difficult it is to solve. This activity, like the The Muddy City problem, is about finding short paths through networks. However, this activity allows for the introduction of new points into the network if it will…
Continuing Professional Development for Teacher of Mathematics
Provided by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME), this resource was written in 2002. It includes recommendations on the steps to be taken, at that time, to raise the quality of mathematical provision in schools. Concerns regarding the poor uptake of students continuing to study mathematics at Post 16, the reduced…
E-assessment: Where Next?
This Teachers TV video Professor Richard Kimbell explains how e-portfolios could be used to assess students' design and technology work. This video looks at using mobile phones to test Key Stages Two, Three and Four students at the time of their choosing, abandoning the idea of ascribing numerical marks to students'…
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