This collection from Plus Magazine was produced as the result of a collaboration between Plus and Arctic Survey Education and provides a selection of teachers' resources and students' worksheets.

On 1 March 2009, three intrepid polar explorers, Pen Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley, set out on foot on a...

MEI Online resources for Edexcel FP1 provide a selection of materials for the modulus-argument form of complex numbers. These include thorough notes, a study plan, additional exercises, a multiple choice test and an extension piece of work.

This book from the SISCON series tells the story of the atomic bomb: from early discoveries in nuclear physics; development of the first bombs and their use in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; to fears in about nuclear warfare.

The work on the third edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry led to significant, but not drastic, changes in the content and presentation of the course from the revised edition. An important change was to start the revised course at the level of knowledge and understanding of chemistry that could be expected from...

The editors of the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry consulted widely and revised the topics in the light of detailed comments and advice from teachers. The team also had to take into account the subject criteria from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) when planning the number and...

These resources, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme in partnership with the Association for Science Education, are aimed at newly qualified secondary science teachers and their mentors. Originally published as a CD-ROM, the resources provide training activities and materials that can be used in a...

This Medical Research Council (MRC) resource discusses the brain - the most complex and least understood organ in the human body. It controls all of its activities, from breathing and listening to thinking and moving. MRC researchers are working to understand more about how the normal brain and the senses work, as...

The cell is the building block of life. Each of us starts from a single cell, a zygote, and grows into a complex organism made of trillions of cells....

Published by the Wellcome Trust, the ‘Big Picture’ explores issues around biology and medicine.​

This resource includes...

This report, published in October 2012, documents the activities and conclusions of a research project undertaken by the 157 Group, supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and in partnership with Association of Colleges (AoC). The 157 Group is a membership organisation that represents 27 large, regionally...

This booklet, in the Unilever Advanced Series was first published in 1965. The booklet was designed to show the relevance of chemical ideas met in advanced level courses to the study of fats and oils. The booklet described some of the analytical methods used in Unilever laboratories at the time to investigate...

The purpose of this booklet in The Unilever Advanced Series was to explain proteins to post-16 students as simply as possible in chemical terms, while putting the subject into the context of the biochemical significance of the molecules. The booklet was first published...

This Catalyst article looks at the noble gases (Group 0 or 8 in the periodic table) which are almost inert. This article shows how they were discovered through the use of fractional distillation and looks at their chemical and physical properties.

This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2011,...