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This guide supports students following the Geology: Structure of the Earth topic. The topic, produced by Northumberland County Council, is designed to encourage self supported study and students are expected to work their way through independently, developing their study skills. This student guide introduces the...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Recognise that compounds made up of separate molecules have different boiling points.
• Describe the change in arrangement of particles when a hydrocarbon boils.
• Explain the...

These downloadable animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to introduce ideas of atoms and types of structures.

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Aimed at Key Stage Two, this resource looks at the problem of launching RNLI lifeboats from different types of terrain in all kinds of weather. Linked to work on forces, shape and space and design and technology, it introduces the concept that both force and area affect the pressure applied on a surface. Working...

A useful handbook for setting up a student-led STEM club, with exemplars from three schools.

It is increasingly recognised that giving students opportunities to act as ambassadors and mentors for STEM subjects outside of school can be of great benefit to the individual, their institution, and to the broader...

In this video from Osiris Educational Bill Rodgers discusses his...

Students who refuse to follow instructions are among the most...

This Nuffield Working with Science unit aimed to help students to analyse many facets of a local manufacturing industry. Students were expected to plan visits in detail, and well in advance. One of the aims was to give students practice in meeting and working with a...

A Catalyst article about the inner surface of lungs, which is coated with surfactant, allowing oxygen to enter the bloodstream. When babies are born very prematurely they can lack this surfactant, and this can make it very difficult for them to breathe. This is called Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS). This...

Impulsive, socially anxious, uncompromising - these are some of the characteristics you may recognise in the teenagers you know. Scientists at the University of Oxford are researching into changes that take place in the teenage brain that may explain this change in...

Stuff and Substance is a multimedia package developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). It aims to address the difficulties many students have in understanding fundamental ideas in chemistry. The carefully constructed sequence of content in Stuff and Substance develops the concept of a substance...

There are three themes in these materials:

• Substances: This introduces the idea of a substance by looking at properties and establishing that a substance can be in any of three states. A basic particle model is introduced.
• Mixtures of substances: This explores phenomena involving the mixing...