CIEC Promoting Science
Experienced teachers, working for CIEC Promoting Science, have created over 100 teaching and learning resources and a suite of interactive and informative websites for use by teachers and students. They show how science works in real-life contexts and demonstrate how the chemical industry is relevant to society.
Resources cover all age ranges and help to:
• enhance the effective teaching of science and technology
• create enthusiasm in school students and children for science and technology
• generate an improved level of understanding between schools and science-based industries
• create a better understanding of the nature and role of science-based industries within society
HEALTH and SAFETY
Any use of a resource that includes a practical activity must include a risk assessment. Please note that collections may contain ARCHIVE resources, which were developed at a much earlier date. Since that time there have been significant changes in the rules and guidance affecting laboratory practical work. Further information is provided in our Health and Safety guidance.
Forces and Recycling
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities in this resource provide opportunities for children to revise their work on forces and to extend their understanding to the application of forces used in sorting and recycling materials. The key curriculum…
Generating Electricity
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities provide opportunities for children to extend their understanding of electricity by applying it to the concepts of electricity generation and its use in the electronics industry. During the activities, children…
Medicines for Pets
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities use the pharmaceutical industry as a real life context to encourage children to look at the properties of materials, changing state and separation techniques. Children investigate the challenges faced by research…
Medicines from Microbes
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities provide an opportunity for children to think about micro-organisms and come to understand that they can be both helpful and harmful. This approach makes the children's investigations more relevant and engaging. The…
Pencils, Poems and Princesses
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, this resource follows a storybook approach to science. The materials are divided into three sections, each looking at a different aspect of science but always linked to the use of stories as an exciting and motivating context for young children. The first section contains science investigations…
Plastics Playtime
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. In these activities, children test and classify plastics before investigating their thermal insulation and shock resistance properties. The children then design, make and test a package for a fragile object, using plastics and…
Renewables Don't Run Out
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. The activities provide opportunities for children to consider the use of plant material (biomass) for renewable energy. They go on to look at some of the problems that using biomass can pose and to think about other applications…
Runny Liquids
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. Children consider the properties of liquids in the context of a company which produces a thick, sticky liquid that needs stirring and transporting. The activities provide an opportunity to learn about the properties of liquids…
Smart Bricks for Smart Plants
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. In these activities, children compare plants grown in a variety of nutrients. They investigate the best conditions to grow turf for a sports pitch. During the activities, children also look at plants and see how the structures…
Turf Troubles
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. A sports company wish to provide a turf surface at a sports ground suitable for a range of activities. Information is required on suitable grass types and the best growing conditions. They also need to know how much water…
Water for Industry
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help to put curriculum science in a real life context. Children follow the use of water from a reservoir, through an industrial site where it is treated, used as cooling water, and treated again before being returned to a river. Using this context, children investigate: •…
The Essential Chemical Industry
This resource, provided by CIEC Promoting Science, is intended for students studying A level chemistry. It gives an up-to-date description of the industry; all units include information provided by industry experts and are presented so that the material is relevant to the curriculum. In this sample, six units have been selected …
Pinch of Salt
This CIEC Promoting Science resource puts curriculum science into real-world contexts and provides a cross-curricular approach to salt. Children undertake a range of hands-on investigations that look at the use of salt. This includes the use of salt to treat icy roads and the purification of salt from rocksalt by making a solution,…
Breathing Made Easy
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources help students understand asthma, its diagnosis and treatment. Through role play, practical work and demonstrations, students investigate lung structure and function, peak flow and breathing, and look at the medicines used in the treatment of asthma. HEALTH and SAFETY Any use…
Healthy Drinks and Tasty Toothpaste
These CIEC Promoting Science materials allow children to investigate tooth decay and the effectiveness of toothpaste. This science investigation pack draws on the example of a toothpaste manufacturer who wants to develop an appealing toothpaste, that provides maximum protection against the effect of sugar in drinks. Activities…
Kitchen Concoctions
CIEC Promoting Science resources put curriculum science in real-life contexts. These materials focus on the use of mixtures in the kitchen and can be used to illustrate the properties of materials. Students examine a mince-pie as a 'mixture' and compare 'real' dairy cream with imitation aerosol cream. A…
Green Chlorine
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these materials help students understand the underlying principles of electrolysis and how this process is used in the manufacture of chlorine from brine (salt solution). Students see how the technology has developed and changed the efficiency of the process. Students also look at a risk benefit…
Farming Tales
These resources are produced by CIEC Promoting Science and are designed to illustrate the value and benefits of agricultural science to the community. Materials involve students in a range of active learning, developed from real life contexts or 'stories' taken from the agrochemical industry. The materials also provide…
Feel the Force
These CIEC Promoting Science resources look at forces in real-life contexts. Students have an opportunity to learn about the properties of air and air resistance. The context is that of a transport company looking for ways to reduce the drag of their lorries and so improve fuel economy. Children undertake a series of investigations…
Emergency Care
These resources have been produced by CIEC Promoting Science. Activities explore the work of people who develop and test blends of PVC for use in medical equipment. Topics covered include how PVC is produced, why PVC is used for medical applications and how it is tested with the likes of simulated stomach contents and gastric…
Cough Syrup
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these materials put curriculum science in a real-life context. The activities are based on the development of a new cough syrup. Children identify the best conditions for growing micro-organisms to produce the active ingredient in the cough medicine, and the best way to collect it. They then…
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