This Nuffield Combined Science Teachers’ Guide covers the first five sections of the course which were planned to be taught to students aged 11-12.

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Aimed at primary learners, these resources link to aspects of mathematics, geography, science and computing.The activities use early astronaut photographs to encourage children to think about what features on the Earth look like from space, and satellite images to enable students to measure the growth of a city and...

The activities provided in the Little Inventors collection aim to inspire children to use their imaginations to help them to think up, and draw original, funny, fantastical or practical invention ideas with no limits, to solve a range of perceived problems from food waste to those experienced in the Victorian Era....

The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics (renamed Mathematics for the Majority) was set up to help teachers construct courses for students of average and below-average ability that related mathematics to their experience and provided them with some insight into the processes that lie behind the...

British ESA astronaut Tim Peake invites UK children to exercise alongside him as he trains two hours a day on the highest and fastest gym in the Universe – travelling at 27,600 km per hour and circling the world every 90 minutes. The triathlon styled challenge encourages schools to create their own ‘spaceathlons...

This collection of primary science resources provide complete lesson plans linked to curriculum objectives. Each resource is based around captivating educational films and includes classroom visuals, practical activities, subject knowledge and questions to assess the understanding of key points. The flexible lesson...

In this activity, alcohol and air are mixed in a large plastic water bottle before being ignited, to simulate the physics principles of...

This issue of Catalyst includes the following articles:

Fireworks: an Explosive Business

This article looks into how fireworks are made, set off and what gives them their particular colour or effect.

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Building Incubators, from the Centre for Science Education, is a set of teaching materials which offer a cross-curricular approach to learning about bioengineering and the survival of premature babies. The context is designing a temperature-regulated environment to help...

This is one of a series of resources from the IET designed around the theme of the future of flight with the purpose of developing pupils knowledge and skills in science, design technology and mathematics.

In this activity pupils learn about the density of materials in the context of comparing two...

This collection includes a wide range of resources to bring the Christmas theme into Science, Maths, Computing, and design and technology lessons.  Activities include:

• deciding which planet Santa might live on
• a coding lesson for lights on a Christmas tree,
• making a Rudolph the red...

A practical and much-needed resource for the KS1-2 computing curriculum exploring all aspects of computational thinking. The series breaks down this new curriculum...

The kits give teachers everything they needed to run a debate on a set topic and help their students develop their discussion skills. The activities provide a structured way to start discussions and to engage students in thinking about contentious science issues. Using eight characters, with different points of...

Developed by the National Centre for Computing Education, this collection contains quality-assured question banks which can be used with key stage 3 computing and GCSE computer science students. The collection includes a series of 10 topics, covering areas across the computing curriculum. Each topic area includes...