This resource introduces the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project (@BlackSeaMAP), a three-year...

Purpose: Observing changes over time can result in the collection of a lot of data. One method of keeping a central record for the class is to set up a blog or a wiki for the duration of the investigation where photographs, measurements, results tables and graphs can be collated. Using a digital record rather than...

This resource, from Siemens UK, looks at the use of wind farms to provide sustainable energy for a range of communities in a variety of settings. The selection of a New Zealand context is significant as Maori communities see themselves as being responsible for effective stewardship of the land for future...

A National STEM Learning Centre and Network Engineering Case Studies resource investigating the evolution of the Blu-Ray DVD player, starting with the invention of the laser in 1958. This is a science enquiry story of how these devices have evolved from the invention of the laser in 1958 to the high-tech blue laser...

In this lesson children investigate the insulating properties of blubber and consider how the adaptations of Arctic organisms help develop these.

Children imagine what it would be like to live in a really cold place like the Arctic. How would they keep themselves warm?

In this activity, from the Institution of Engineering and technology (IET), students investigate a use of electronic systems to improve health care.

They study a case where a Body Centric Antenna (BCA) increases the...

This Core Maths task involves substituting values into the BMI formula in order to make health decisions.

An introductory ...

This Core Maths task asks the question ‘How do you know if you are really unwell?’ The activity explores the data surrounding body temperature, shows how to summarise continuous data and explores the effect on summary statistics that changing the size of the class interval has.

Body temperature:...

This Nuffield Pathways Through Science module was presented in three episodes covering the study of human biology as well as adult concerns about fitness and health: Bd 1: Are you fit and healthy? Bd 2: Are you what you eat? Bd 3: Drugs - uses and abuses

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This activity looks at climate change and its effects on succession in a location in Norfolk over 12000 years ago.

Students carry out a simulation of a bog core analysis, based on work by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research together with data from the Department of Geography, University of...

This booklet contains a range of suggested activities and contexts for teaching about bonding and structure at A level. Curriculum links include ionic, covalent and metallic bonding, properties, shapes of molecules, structure, dot-and-cross, intermolecular forces, properties, bond angles, and intermolecular bonding...

This booklet contains a range of suggested activities and contexts for teaching about bonding at A level. Curriculum links include covalent bonding, ionic bonding, metallic bonding, bond enthalpy, bond angles, intermolecular bonding, links between bonding and properties...

This set of resources provides comprehensive coverage of the topic of logic, Boolean algebra and simplifying expressions using Karnaugh maps. There are a series of student activities involving deriving expressions from logic gate combinations, rules of Boolean algebra and building logic expressions. 

Key Stage Three National Strategy training materials produced in 2002 written to help subject leaders prepare their staff and students for Key Stage Three national tests in science (SATs). National Key Stage Three testing for all students aged 14 years old ended in 2009...