Published by the Wellcome Trust, this issue explores the biological basis of sex differences and the relationship between sex and gender.

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These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to practise gathering information from the internet. Students are challenged with a series of science-related questions and must use the internet to find the answers. This requires students to consider the best key words to use and...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to look at information from different points of view. While listening to a presentation, or watching a film, students are encouraged to consider what is being shown from a range of different perspectives, such as a scientist, sociologist...

Investigate properties of materials and decide which would be suitable for use on a spacecraft, in this resource aimed at upper primary children. A PowerPoint presentation, which includes an introduction from a space scientist, sets the real world context for their...

The focus of this activity is on the principle of hydrodynamics through testing boat hull designs in a test tank.

This activity gives students the opportunity to explore and develop their critical thinking and decision making skills through a practical approach....

Scratch is widely used in primary schools to teach children basic programming. This resource goes deeper, making use of the familiar Scratch environment to take students deeper into programming concepts such as:

• Algorithm design
• Parallel and sequential instructions
• Event-driven...