This Nuffield Pathways Through Science module covered structure, bonding, as well as an introduction to quantitative chemistry with calculations based on amounts in moles. The topic was presented in three episodes:
Mm 1: Plastics
Mm 2: Metals
Mm 3:...

This study unit offers some practical strategies that teachers can use to improve their understanding and practice of assessment for learning. 

Assessment for learning is key to personalised learning because it is a powerful means of helping teachers to tailor their teaching to pupils to get the best...

In this activity students create a graphical ready reckoner to assess physical fitness. The challenge is to construct the ready reckoner and ultimately use it in practical situations. Students are required to plot straight line graphs.

This collection of interactive excel sheets look at radians, arc length, sector area, converting to and from degrees, and other related problems.

The first sheet displays a sector of a circle and corresponding...

This is a series of interactive excel sheets exploring linear regression.

The first sheet plots a scatter diagram and line of best fit for a small set of bivariate data. The mean and product moment correlation...

This file illustrates the use of the Sigma notation particularly with linear expressions. It begins with a static sheet showing four examples including some non-linear examples suitable for class discussion.

The...

This issue of Catalyst includes the following articles:

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This guide, from triple science support, offers background information and practical suggestions to support practice when teaching about fieldwork and gives suggestions for securing progression and follow up activities. The guide provides advice on how fieldwork can support the following areas of the curriculum:...

This guide, from triple science support, has been produced to provide advice and guidance for teachers wishing to engage with a researcher from a local university and to support the teaching of genomics with enhancement and enrichment opportunities. The guide offers background information and practical suggestions...

This guide, from triple science support, provides practical advice and guidance to enhance and enrich the teaching of the electromagnetic spectrum using the context of medical physics. Most students are engaged by the ideas that medicine brings to the curriculum so this guide can be used as a tool to raise...

The story of the Siemens brothers, and their involvement in the invention and development of innovative and ground breaking technology, provides the stimulus for this set of resources designed for KS3 learners. The resources include:

• interactive games and supporting teaching activities and worksheets...

If the reader struggles with the maths in science, this series of books is for them. These textbook companions will help improve their essential maths skills for chemistry, physics and biology whichever awarding body specification they are following....

KS4 Networks Unit Instructions:
This is a series of four, 30 to 60 minute, sessions that will go through the basics of networks. Each
session has:

• Step by step instructions.
•  A presentation with the information needed broken into chunks. The idea being you read a chunk of information...

This suite of videos, from the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), looks at elements of progression in multiplication across the primary school. The videos are:

Multiple representations of multiplication In the context of children practising table facts and...

This resource contains two maths activities. The first gives pupils the opportunity to make and fly paper planes, measure distance travelled accurately and mathematically record data. This maths activity gives pupils the chance to learn more about how the wing span and fuselage length can affect the distance a...