Charlotte is a Pollution, Prevention and Control Officer for the Environment Agency - "you could say I'm a policeman for the environment". In the video Charlotte explains that she found it a challenge being a woman in chemical engineering but had support from her university professor. The Environment Agency offered...

From The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), this book is aimed at post-16 chemistry students but will also be useful for students following technology or vocational courses. The book helps students to first understand the basis of polymer chemistry and the plastics industry. It moves on to consider...

This is a collection of over 100 resources covering post 16 genetics and genomics.  The resources are organised into the following sections:

•  DNA, genes and chromosomes
• ...

A Catalyst article about experimenting with waterboatmen and observing how they catch their prey. The equipment required for the activity is described.

This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2006, Volume 16, Issue 4.

Catalyst ...

This box of mathematics materials from the Shell Centre on Problems with Patterns and Numbers has become an influential book on the teaching of problem solving.

Problems with Patterns and Numbers focuses on non-...

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

• Identify what vibrates to make sound

• Describe the effect of larger vibrations on a sound

• Describe the effect of faster or slower vibrations on a...

Published by BEAM, this collection provides a selection of resources for teachers of primary and lower secondary mathematics. Included are a number of challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities and games to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding...

This intermediate-level resource for those learning to program with Python 3.x looks at conditional statements including ELSE and ELIF. The use of arithmetic and logical operators is covered, along with tricks and tips for more efficient and fault-free code.

An explanation of how different data values and...

These resources are from the archives of the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) which maintained and developed the National Curriculum and associated assessments, tests and examinations, advising the Secretary of State for Education on these matters. In May 2010, the Secretary of State...

This resource looks at how distance can be measured using sound. A brief description of sonar and radar is given, along with an explanation of the Doppler effect and the wave equation. Students then use this equation to answer a set of questions.

From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of: * Radiating from source to absorber * Photon shift energy * Multiple contributions * Radiations that ionise * Sources of ionising radiation Each topic is explored from the...

This activity, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, uses data from NASA’s Kepler space probe to determine the size of an exoplanet, and provides students with an insight into the advantages and disadvantages of the transit method of exoplanet detection.

This resource contains an interactive spreadsheet designed to illustrate teaching points and which could be used as the basis of investigations which involve reasoning about number and shape. Each page of the spreadsheet contains a different activity: