Purpose: The internet of things is a growing technology that utilises data collected by devices from across the globe. In a school context, it can be used in school science to compare data from across the world.

Teaching approach: Some investigations require data to be collected over a period of time to...

Windmills and wind turbines are based upon the principle of trying to create a shape where air flow causes the maximum possible change in kinetic energy. Wind turbines are designed to convert the kinetic energy in wind into electrical energy to power millions of homes...

Where does the energy come from to keep London moving? In this lesson, students represent simple energy transfers (Sankey Diagrams) relating to change in motion for different modes of transport and different types of fuel in London.

Using examples from London’s transport, students explain how an increase in...

A podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In this recording, Richard Hollingham talks to expert seismologist Brian Baptie from the British Geological Survey, who uses musical software to find out if earthquakes are getting more frequent.

Another...

This Nuffield Primary Science Teachers’ Guide for teaching the Living Things in their Environment topic, to students aged 7-12, is divided into five chapters:

*Chapter 1: Introduction - covering useful strategies, the...

This starter activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), introduces students to how animals use sounds and how sounds change in natural phenomena in order to better understand how sound waves travel.

Year IV of Nuffield Physics was to be presented as a much more logical and closely knit programme than that of earlier years. The authors assumed that if previous work had been satisfactory, the students would have had sufficient experience and enjoyment to wish to...

The second year of the Nuffield 11-13 course is divided into more traditional units geared towards an understanding of science in everyday life, and in its relation to society. The title ‘How science is used’ for the second year book conveys both the continuity and change.

A concern for processes maintains...

This resource is designed to meet the specifications for the A-level practical endorsement in England (CPAC). It is a new version of the classic osmosis practical measuring the weight change of tissues in various osmotic solutions using pieces of bell pepper (Capsicum annum) instead of potato. This is a...

This excel file begins with finding percentages of amounts without using a calculator. There are various options to allow for different degrees of difficulty of the questions posed. Answers can be revealed and new sets of questions generated.

This resource, from Politeia, responds to the developments in the educational reform of mathematics, published in 2012. It contains a curriculum, drawn up by Professor David Burghes, Director of the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) at the University of Plymouth. Particular attention is paid to...

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

• Recall that light can change direction (refract) when it passes across a boundary between transparent media
• Describe how the angle light passes across a boundary between two...

Chris is a project engineer with E.ON. In this video Chris explains how his physics teachers at school were the inspiration for him to go into his current role, following a school trip to a nuclear power station. He discusses his experiences after completing a degree in Aeronautical Engineering and how he went on...