Speakers from Industry: a Practical Guide for Teachers and Industrialists
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, this booklet offers advice and guidance for: • teachers who wish to bring industrial speakers into school • industrial speakers who would like an insight into the needs of teachers and their students. The booklet contains two sections that deal with: Part I - a general guide…
Industrial Encounters: Good Practice for School Links
From CIEC Promoting Science, this guide aims to help schools and science-based companies make the best use of their opportunities to liaise together. It concentrates upon using link activities to enrich aspects of the school science curriculum but there are many principles in the guide, with a more general application. There…
On Site: a Guide to Visiting the Chemical Industry
From CIEC Promoting Science, this guide provides practical information and advice about organising a visit to a local science-based industry. Visits can be engaging, stimulating and profitable for the students, teachers and companies involved. The guide looks at industrial links at both primary and secondary school levels and…
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.
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…
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…
Aluminium: Cradle to Grave
The resource pack is produced by CIEC Promoting Science. It looks at the life-cycle and environmental impact of aluminium products. Student activities and investigations help to illustrate curriculum science in real-life contexts. This includes: • Constructing a cradle to grave analysis of aluminium • Studying the…
Captains of Industry
Produced by CIEC Promoting Science, these resources challenge students to develop strategies for the profitable operation of fertiliser manufacturing in the United Kingdom. Students gain an understanding of how science is used in an industrial context. The use of energy and raw materials is related to the chemistry involved in…