As the London population has grown over time, pressure on water supplies has increased. This lesson, which sets the scene for the unit, considers changing sources of drinking water and the relationship that our domestic use of water has to the water cycle that students will have learned about in primary school....

This resource from London Curriculum  explores how statistical techniques are being applied to help solve the problem of air pollution in London. The resource consists of five lessons, covering Venn diagrams, graphs, correlation, representing data and careers:

Lesson 1: Using statistics to understand why air...

Learning Objectives

• Students will explore a site of relevance to the topic water quality. This may be to conduct some individual inquiry work on the quality of a local water source, such as a pond, lake or river.
• Alternatively the visit could be to a site involved in the water...

Drawing on a number of leading London medical and science centres, sporting events and venues, this unit introduces the topics of nutrition and digestion, health and the skeletal and muscular systems. Each lesson offers students the chance to develop the skills required to work scientifically and to develop their...

These activities explore how Londoners maintain and improve their health

Learning outcomes

• The learner can compare and contrast the health benefits of given activities seen on the visit both contemporary and historical.
• They should be able to explain how their chosen...

One of the major challenges in protecting the health of people in a city is to be able to provide water that is fit to drink. With an increasing populations we are faced with difficult questions:

Would people be happy to drink water that has been recovered from sewage directly?

Do we know or care what...

This resource, aimed at primary level, looks at diet and sustainable food production. Designed as a cross curricular workshop it links to the topic areas of the senses, healthy eating, sustainability and how human activity impacts upon our environment. Children identify some common foods using their sense of smell...

This collection offers a cross curricular approach to diet, sustainable food production and how human activity impacts upon our environment. It may be used as a workshop or as individual activities. The approaches used will enable students to come to decisions regarding their diet based on many factors including...

These problem solving Core Maths resources are suitable for small group work and discussion. The resource contains two modeling tasks which require the use of a spreadsheet.  The tasks are:

• Design a muesli and compare the costs...

This series gives factual information on a range of health...

This Catalyst article looks at 'Restored Hearing', a business which grew out of a school science project. It provides therapy for sufferers of temporary tinnitus, a debilitating hearing condition caused by exposure to loud noises. The article looks at how hearing loss can occur and how also explains how the...

Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the unit called ‘Senses’. This B unit provided enough material for six double periods in the third year of secondary school (year nine). The teachers’ guide included seven worksheets to supplement the students’...

A Catalyst article about how engineers use their understanding of sound waves to develop highly realistic sound systems for films, music systems and computer games. The same ideas can help people with eyesight and hearing problems. Sound waves are affected by their surroundings and the article examines this along...

Aimed at Key Stage Two, this resource looks at the function of the heart, how exercise affects heart rate, and the rate of recovery after exercise. Linked to PE and the topic animals including humans, it also aims to develop ...