During these Licence to Cook practical sessions, students will: • prepare a range of meals – becoming more confident cooks • learn how to make a range of sauces/bases • demonstrate their safe use of a knife and other small tools and equipment • handle raw meat safely • develop a greater awareness of time planning...

This teacher guidance provides an overview of the Licence to Cook programme, setting out the structure of the course, describing how it could be delivered in schools and highlighting how the resources can be used to support food education for students. The guides for the cooking sessions and demonstrations offer...

These tutorials are part of the Licence to Cook course and cover four main learning areas: cooking, diet and nutrition, wise food shopping and hygiene and safety. The tutorials were designed to be taught at any point during the Licence to Cook programme, either before, during or after each of the sixteen cooking...

These videos are part of the Licence to Cook programme and support the demonstration, teaching and learning of different food skills and techniques. The videos, presented by Year Eight and Year Nine students to support each of the cooking sessions in the course, have been grouped into related areas to illustrate...

This Catalyst article looks at scuba diving, and how having a knowledge of physics is vital in helping divers to get out of dangerous situations. Divers must be trained to control their buoyancy, and to ascend and descend at a safe pace to avoid injury. Other factors explored in the article are the effects of...

A Catalyst article investigating if there is life elsewhere in the universe. Scientists have found many different ways of looking for life. This article looks at the exploration so far.

This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2004, Volume 14, Issue 3.

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This collection of resources looks at the Life Cycle Analysis of a mobile phone. Included in this resource are the student worksheets. teacher notes and a presentation.

Aimed at primary learners, this resource provides a lesson which looks at the life-cycles of plants and animals looking at several examples including human, frog and poppy. The main stages of development in each of these organisms are highlighted and the length of each...

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

• Recall that organisms are alive during all stages of a life cycle.
• Describe the life cycles of different plants and animals (e.g. a flowering plant, a human and a butterfly)....

This resource provides a range of practical activities, suitable for students across the primary phase. Activities link to work on comparing things that are living, dead and that have never been alive and exploring the life cycles of flowering plants and different animals. They are designed to help children develop...

This loop game from ASE, revises vocabulary and knowledge on the topics of moving and growing, habitats, life-cycles and keeping healthy. The resource consists of twenty-one question and answer cards, and guidance on how to use them with your class.

This resource is part of the ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary...

This ASE resource is a quick and effective game for revising and recapping subject knowledge. This resource consists of several question and answer activities useful for recapping and reinforcing key vocabulary. The life processes example recaps some of the principles that would have been covered in primary...

This document presents the recommendations and research findings of a report from the Wellcome Trust, published in 2004.

The purpose of the research was to investigate:
• the response of students and teachers to biology A level courses
• factors which made biology a popular option at AS and A...

This resource provides a cross curricular design and technology project for primary children, which looks at what plants need to grow and on water transport in plants. The context is provided by a story about a boy who moves to another planet to build a settlement there. The problem is to design a way of...

A Catalyst article describing how a decaying log is used by many different invertebrates and vertebrates. The damp environment is suitable for many species. This well illustrated article looks at some of them.

This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2011, Volume 21, Issue 3.

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