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Oxford Sparks: Key Stage 4 resources
A full set of resources which can be used to add research based contexts to lessons for 14-16 year olds.
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Explosive energy
This activity is based on work being carried out at The University of Oxford. A team is using laser-light to create tabletop supernovas to understand the origins of magnetic fields in our universe.
Students will carry...
Haber problems
This lesson has been designed to extend the more able following initial work on the Haber-Bosch process. It begins by viewing the video, which outlines why we need the process, problems associated with it and ways in which researchers at the University of Oxford are...
Nervous models
In this activity students view the 'You've got a Nerve' video and learn that Charles Sherrington named the gap between neurons synapses.
They then think about why we use models to explain difficult scientific concepts...
Nitrogen recycling
In this activity students play a game to help them to understand how nitrogen gets recycled throughout the environment. They will become nitrogen atoms and move from compound to compound in different areas of the ecosystem. They then apply what they have learnt to...