Resources by Association for Science Education (ASE)

LAMP Topic Brief 6: Gardening

This unit was developed in 1977 from work carried out in establishing an outdoor resource area within the grounds of a large urban comprehensive school. During the course of its development, the unit was used with lower ability students in the 14 to 16 years age range, forming one six week section of a modular...

LAMP Topic Brief 7: Health and Hygiene

This topic brief was published as part of the ASE’s LAMP Project. The brief was developed for third year pupils following a Nuffield...

LAMP Topic Brief 8: Space and Space Travel

This topic brief was published as part of the ASE’s LAMP Project. This topic was written for students aged 13 to 15, following a Mode 3 CSE course based on Nuffield...

LAMP Topic Brief 9: Paints and Dyes

This Topic Brief was published as part of the ASE’s LAMP Project. This unit was developed from work carried out with non-academic boys and girls in the age range 14 to 16 years. It was tried with some success on groups of between 12 and 15 in an urban comprehensive school of 1750 pupils. The average reading age of...

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This publication provides an overview of relevant ideas in secondary school mathematics and where they are used in science. It aims to clarify terminology, and indicate where there may be problems in student understanding. The publication includes explanations of key ideas and terminology in mathematics, guidance...

The aim of this booklet is to enable teachers, publishers, awarding bodies and others to achieve a common understanding of important terms that arise from practical work in secondary science, consistent with the...

Let's Investigate

These ASE resources illustrate an approach to investigations for students with specific, moderate or severe learning difficulties in a special school. The ideas described here are used to help individual students progress and can be applied to any mainstream or special...

Life Is Loopy

This loop game from ASE, revises vocabulary and knowledge on the topics of moving and growing, habitats, life-cycles and keeping healthy. The resource consists of twenty-one question and answer cards, and guidance on how to use them with your class.

This resource is part of the ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary...

Life Is Loopy

This ASE resource is a quick and effective game for revising and recapping subject knowledge. This resource consists of several question and answer activities useful for recapping and reinforcing key vocabulary. The life processes example recaps some of the principles that would have been covered in primary...