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Exploring Issues: a Teachers' Guide
Produced by the Citizen Science project, this teacher guidance summarises ideas on how to run successful discussions and debates within the secondary classroom. Examples illustrate how a range of techniques, such as TV chat show formats, can be used successfully.
These materials will help teachers to:...
Fast food chains
In this set of activities aimed at ages 6-7, children explore food chains of different animals, including humans. They learn about food chains in different parts...
Fat is essential. In these articles we get to grips with the world of fats and lipids to find out what they do, not just inside us and other organisms but also understand our dependence on fats and relationship with the world around us.
Fat
Published by the Wellcome Trust, the 'Big Picture' explores issues around biology and medicine.
Fat is a word that carries a lot of weight, conjuring up topics as diverse as obesity, hibernating animals, and what we eat and how we cook it. This issue of the Big Picture looks at the fats and lipids to find...
Fat at the cellular level
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Lipids are essential components of membranes and even communication. |
Fat chemistry
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Summary of the carbon bonds in fatty acids and triglycerides. |
Fat, nutrition and health
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Fat is essential for a balanced diet – how do we process it, and what is the link with obesity? |
Feeding a growing world
Students examine the sugar content of potatoes in relation to emerging interest in the carcinogen acrylamide produced when potatoes are cooked at high temperatures. Employing cutting-edge techniques to genetically modify E. coli bacteria, they will insert the jellyfish gfp gene to make the...
Flying fruit
Using a huge wall map of the world, flower pots, compost and videos, children find out everything there is to know about the fruit they eat. They investigate where their fruit has travelled from, and what transport was used getting it to the UK. Children explore the different parts of fruit and compare the seeds of...
Food and Diet
Published by the Wellcome Trust, the 'Big Picture' explores issues around biology and medicine.
This issue of the Big Picture, from the Wellcome Trust, looks at the role that food plays not only in human physiology but also in the individual's lives. Food is about so much more than sustenance. Food choice...