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This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
Bioethics briefing no 1: ethics and bioethics in education
This briefing discusses how bioethics issues affect us all and how we hear about issues which fall into this category on a daily basis. News items about...
Bioethics briefing no 2: crop plant genetic modification
This issue covers the background in selective plant breeding over the centuries and then describes the more recent advances and the introduction of...
Bioethics briefing no 3: preimplantation genetic diagnosis
This edition covers issues concerning assisted conception and "designer babies", which is a term which is often heard in the popular media. Today an ever-...
Bioethics briefing no 4: xenotransplantation
As human-to-human transplantation has become more and more successful, it has almost become a victim of its own success. There is a shortage of donor organs...
Bioethics briefing no 5: stem cells
Stem cells have the potential to develop into different cell types in the human body and as such, can be used for tissue repair or, perhaps in the distant...
Classroom Space was developed by the University of Leicester with a grant from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC). It was designed to use the context of space science and astronomy to teach science in the secondary school curriculum. The resources are: * Water on Mars? * Weathering on the...
Differentiation Exercise
This interactive resource, produced by the University of Leicester, is designed to enable students to explore the differential function of a polynomial and conclude by forming a generalisation.
An instruction page explains to students that they should draw a polynomial. Then by sliding the slider the...
GENIE jumping genes
The aim of this activity is for students to use tiddlywinks to represent sections of jumping genes, which they then flick onto a poster which is representative of a section of the human genome. Where their "gene" lands either will or will not disrupt the gene and may then cause disease. An accompanying PowerPoint...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.