Resources by Best Evidence Science Teaching

Ecosystem components and dynamics

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Identify abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem.
• Recognise that there are different environmental conditions in different ecosystems, and this affects what lives there....

Electric Current

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Define current as a flow (of ‘electricity’) around a complete circuit that is measured with an ammeter.
• Recognise that current is the same at each point around a simple series...

Electrical safety

• Describe the effects of an electric shock on a person.

• Explain why there are no standard mains sockets in a bathroom....

Electrolysis of molten compounds

Electrolysis of solutions

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe the process of electrolysis in terms of chemical reactions occurring at the electrodes.
• Identify the cathode (or anode) in a diagram of the electrolysis of a solution of...

Electromagnetic spectrum

• Identify types of electromagnetic radiation that can be naturally occurring.
• Describe a range of sources of harmful electromagnetic...