This issue of Catalyst contains the following articles:

Investigating poisoning

This article looks at criminal poisoning and shows how forensic science is used to solve serious murder cases.

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This issue of Catalyst contains the following articles:

The World of Parasitic Plants

This article looks at types of parasitic plants and how they derive their nutrients from the root systems of other plants.

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This issue of Catalyst contains the following articles:

The Most Accurate Thermometer in the World

This article looks at how a highly accurate thermometer measures temperatures by finding the speed of sound in a gas.

This issue of Catalyst contains the following articles:

Catching a Comet

The Rosetta spacecraft is designed to catch up with, and explore, a comet.

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This issue of Catalyst contains the following articles:

Crash Investigators

Traffic police use ideas about speed, acceleration and force to determine what happened during road accidents.

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This issue of Catalyst contains the following articles:

From Pollutants in Whale Blubber to CSI Chemists

This article looks at scientists who are monitoring the accumulation of synthetic chemicals which are polluting the...

Climate Futures, from the Centre for Science Education and the Comino Foundation, is a contemporary curriculum resource that focuses on unraveling the complexity of climate change and environmental issues for lower secondary and upper primary students (10-14 years old...

Knowledge and Understanding of Science was a series of five books written to help teachers in primary schools with background understanding of science. The books deal with the topics in physical science which generally cause the greatest difficulty to primary teachers: Forces, Energy, Chemical changes, Genetics and...

A collection of four videos dedicated to interviewing leading ESA space research scientists on a variety of different lunar topics including:

• Making use of resources on the moon
• 3D Printing on the moon
• Living on the moon
• Future moon exploration

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The Nuffield Primary Science materials were based on the findings of a research project called the Science Processes and Concept Exploration (SPACE). This was the first set of resources published in the UK for primary science teaching that was explicitly based on a constructivist view of learning.

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Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. Ofsted reports directly to Parliament and is independent and impartial. They inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people, and those providing education and skills for learners of all ages.

Each week...

There were eighteen topics in Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry divided into two, corresponding to the two years of a post-16 A-level course.

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Waves and Radiation is one of the publication themes of the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme.

The last one hundred years has seen an explosion in the use of electromagnetic radiation for communication. Using simple practical kits, Radiation and Communication looks at the properties of...

This is a CPD taster created to give teachers a better understanding of what to expect when joining one of our secondary science courses. Below you will find a video and a task for you to do in your own time. Once you have done the activity, ...

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