WORLDbytes is a unique online Citizen TV channel set up and run by the education charity WORLDwrite. Dedicated to advancing new knowledge, skills and ideas, the charity promotes excellence in citizen reporting and provides free training to volunteer-learners which combines practical film making with tackling...

The We Are Aliens! teaching resources were produced to support the planetarium show made by NSC Creative. They have been produced by lead educators from the National Space Academy to use the context of space to teach physics, chemistry and biology in the curriculum. The resources contain practical activities,...

This Catalyst article investigates how polymer materials can be designed and printed with electrical properties that allow them to be used in wearable electronic devices. The article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science...

In this activity students are required to interpret information conveyed in unfamiliar forms: data from maps and tables, to explore the claims that "The frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation events have increased since the 1950s over most land area, and human-induced climate change is likely the main...

This activity enables teachers to introduce the work of the Environment Agency into their lessons and deliver elements of the national curriculum and is designed to be delivered either by a ...

This booklet has been produced to help teachers understand how to ‘work scientifically’ within the primary science curriculum for England. It includes progression of enquiry skills grids from Early Years Foundation Stage through to Key Stage Three and child friendly self and peer assessment posters to support all...

The CPVE edition of Nuffield Working with Science included two units that had not featured in the first edition. Guidance for both topics appears in the Tutors’ Handbook. .

The two topics are:
*Enterprise
*Pollution

Nuffield Working with Science was first published in the 1970s and then revised for CPVE in the 1980s. The programme was designed for ‘new sixth formers’ staying on at school for one year after the age of 16.

In the first edition there two Teachers’ Guides giving an overview of the programme and giving...

In the first edition of Nuffield Working with Science, this set of units was covered by Teachers’ Notes A. Only four of the units were retained and revised for the second, CPVE edition.

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In the first edition of Nuffield Working with Science, this set of units was covered by Teachers’ Notes B. Only three of the units were retained and revised for the second, CPVE edition. For the CPVE edition, the air pollution unit was merged into a new unit called...

In the first edition of Nuffield Working with Science, this set of units was covered by Teachers’ Notes C. All but one of the units were retained and revised for the second, CPVE edition. The Water Pollution unit contributed to a new CPVE unit called Pollution .

In the first edition of Nuffield Working with Science, this set of units was covered by Teachers’ Notes D. Only one of the units were retained and revised for the second, CPVE edition.

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In the first edition of Nuffield Working with Science, this set of units was covered by Teachers’ Notes E. Only five of the units were retained and revised for the second, CPVE edition.

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In the first edition of Nuffield Working with Science, this set of units was covered by Teachers’ Notes F. Only two of the units were retained and revised for the second, CPVE edition.

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Mini-Units were included in Working with Science because some teachers reported that for some students an eight-week unit was too long. They were designed to be completed in two or three weeks and were used to start a Working with Science course, or to fill in, towards...