Debate Kit - Stem Cells
This kit, produced by the Wellcome Trust, is designed to bring How Science Works (HSW) to life and develop students’ debating and discussion skills. The aim is to encourage students to begin to consider the ethical issues that stem cell treatments raise. Role play gives students a chance to explore the different sides of…
Debate Kit - IVF
This kit, produced by the Wellcome Trust, is designed to bring How Science Works (HSW) to life and develop students’ debating and discussion skills. The aim is to encourage students to begin to consider the benefits of, and the problems that may arise from, the use of hormones to control fertility, including in vitro fertilisation…
Debate Kit - Food Security
This kit, produced by the Wellcome Trust, is designed to bring How Science Works (HSW) to life and develop students’ debating and discussion skills. The aim is to show students how complex the issue of global food security is, and to encourage them to begin to consider and investigate some of the main issues surrounding…
Debate Kit - Drugs in Sport
Doping in sport usually means the use of performance-enhancing drugs, but is can also mean techniques like ‘blood-doping’. This debating kit, produced by the Wellcome Trust, explores the ethical issues around the use of drugs in sport such as possible harm to the athlete and unfairness. Role play gives students a…
Debate Kit - Are We Too Clean?
This kit, produced by the Wellcome Trust, is designed to bring How Science Works (HSW) to life and develop students’ debating and discussion skills. The aim is to encourage students to begin to consider and investigate some of the main issues surrounding the use of antimicrobial cleaners and antibiotics. Role play gives…
What's Your Limit?
Conditions on other planets are unlikely to be within the same ranges as that experienced by Earth. However, a degree of variance from ‘ideal’ ranges may be tolerable for a small number of organisms known as extremophiles. This investigation looks at the effects of subjecting a living organism (yeast) to some extreme…
Is There Life In There?
All life forms on Earth are based on organic biochemistry. This activity requires students to analyse an unknown soil sample (just recovered from a space mission to another planet!) and look for signs of possible indicators for life. Curriculum areas covered: • Cell biology • Food tests, including starch, sugar, protein…
Power Station Project
The Power Station Project is a simulated case study from the Science in Society series dealing with the various decisions that have to be made when a new power station is being planned. It was designed as an integral part of the Energy section of the Science in Society course. It is assumed that an Electricity Generating Board is…
Scientific Enquiry and its Place in the National Curriculum
This is a report of a SCORE workshop held in September 2011 at the Royal Society to explore the place of scientific enquiry in the national curriculum. The report summarises the main issues raised and describes the views of the participants. The workshop was chaired by Libby Steele, Head of Education at the Royal Society. The group…
Veritasium
In the build-up to the Christmas Lectures in 2012, the Royal Institution published a new video for every day of advent revealing the elements that really excite and inspire people. From the roof of the Royal Institution, Derek Muller from the Veritasium YouTube channel stresses the need to communicate the beauty and importance…
Your Days Are Numbered
This video, written and presented by Matt Parker and Timandra Harkness, considers the statistics of death. The only certainty is that everyone will die, but it is not known how or when this will happen. Based upon statistics, the odds of dying in particular ways are calculated and interpreted. The Normal Distribution curve is…
Dope-ocracy: an Olympian Pill Panic
This programme provides alternative view points for the debate around performance enhancing drugs in sport. Stating that the anti-doping crusade is both illogical and immoral, Professor Sam Shuster, a clinical scientist, argues that athletes lives and careers are needlessly destroyed and anti-doping rules have no evidence-base. Professor…
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: 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…
Young Journalists Academy Education Pack
In 2012, with support from the Wellcome Trust, the Young Journalists’ Academy summer school included a ‘Biomedical issues and the media’ strand. The strand featured sessions, workshops and visits from science journalists from the BBC, The Times, Eureka and the Wellcome Trust. This teaching pack was produced…
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…
Inventions
The activities in this resource aim to encourage students to create and invent, and develop aspects of applied science. Students make observations about inventions they may not have heard of and make inferences about how they might be used and why they were invented. The Warwick Process Science was compiled by an experienced team…
Teaching Traditional Research Skills in Science
This Teachers TV video highlights the importance of teaching practical research skills to Key Stage Four science students. A dependence on the internet in some subjects, but particularly science, can take students away from a hands-on approach to learning. Simon Pugh-Jones, of Writhlington School in Somerset, shows how science at…
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Precision or Process - KS3 Science
In this Teachers TV programme, two PGCE tutors analyse a Year Nine science lesson on healthy eating at Haydon School, Hillingdon, taught by Head of Science Dave Dennis. Malcolm Reed and Sasha Matthewman review footage of the lesson which is based on investigating the fat and salt content in both beef and veggie burgers. Central…
Lisa Green
In this professional development video from Teachers TV, science teacher Lisa Green receives advice on how to improve her presentation skills from motivation and creativity consultant Richard Gerver. Richard focuses on Lisa's performance in the classroom and identifies ways of giving her teaching more pace and movement to…
Alexandra Edwards
In this professional development video from Teachers TV, science teacher Alexandra Edwards receives advice on how to improve her presentation techniques from motivation and creativity consultant Richard Gerver. Richard is impressed by Alexandra's "game show host" approach to teaching but, like all performers, he…
Movement, Praise and Groups
This Teachers TV programme features Trainee teacher Nic Cooper who wants to improve her behaviour management. Nic is taking a top-set Year Seven science lesson on kidney function. Behaviour expert Sue Cowley helps Nic relax and praise her students more. Once the group work has begun, Sue notices that Nic spends much of the time…
The Bloodhound SSC Project
This Teachers TV programme looks at how the Bloodhound Project is inspiring Key Stage Three students to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Annie Beresford, an engineer from Bloodhound, comes to Bayhouse School to learn about the projects the school has set up based around the land speed record, culminating…
InvestiGATE
InvestiGATE, from the BP Educational Service includes a short video which looks at the ways scientists find out about the world. A comic strip scenario introduces the idea of air resistance and parachutes by looking at how eggs can land safely with the aid of a parachute. Children then pose ideas for carrying out a fair test, which…
Stepping into Science
This resource, part of Stepping into Science from the BP Educational Service, looks at the topic of materials. Designed for children aged four to seven years it contains a short video, which introduces an investigation to see which materials are waterproof. It includes information on how to set up a fair test, make a prediction,…
Secondary Science Technicians
Science technicians are an integral part of any school science team and offer invaluable back-up to science teachers. In this Teachers TV video, two science technicians at Manor School, York, work with Simon Quinnell, senior science technician at the National Science Learning Centre, to develop their skills, inspire students and…
Renewable Energy and Climate Change Podcasts
Produced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), these naked Scientist podcasts look at renewable energy and climate change in an accessible and informative way. The science of rubbish This podcast looks at the life cycle of rubbish, how to derive fuels from waste and even how the future for fuel production…
Earth Science Podcasts
Produced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), these naked Scientist podcasts look at Earth science questions in an accessible and informative way. Antarctica This podcast looks at how scientists in the South African National Antarctic Programme are studying the weather in space by monitoring the earth's…
Materials Podcasts
Produced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), these naked Scientist podcasts look at materials science questions in an accessible and informative way. When will 'indestructible' plastics finally degrade? Nothing lasts forever, so how long does it take plastics in the sea to break down? Super…
Biology Questions
Produced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), these naked Scientist podcasts look at biology questions in an accessible and informative way. Can we create a living organism? Is it possible to create life from basic elements? This podcast discusses the production of simple cells from basic elements in the laboratory.…
Naked Astronomy
Produced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), these naked Scientist podcasts look at physics questions in an amusing but also informative way. The oldest light in the Universe • The Planck mission which measures the cosmic microwave background. • Mapping the surface of Mercury. • How Lunar…
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