Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to practise and consolidate their knowledge and understanding of shape and space. The three games, with their mathematical content, are: *Angles - identifying right, acute and obtuse angles in shapes *Coordinates grid game - generating co-ordinates...

This report is the outcome of a project initiated by the Royal Society in August 2010. The project was prompted by a high degree of concern about aspects of the provision of education in Computing in UK schools. The project was guided by an Advisory Group that brought together individuals and representatives with a...

In this independent research project students research the causes and consequences of diarrhoea and dehydration. They find out about the different treatments available for dehydration and design some experiments to compare commercial and homemade oral rehydration salts.

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Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to gain information from video presentations.

In this activity, students practise watching a scientific video that covers specific learning objectives. They watch the video twice. The first viewing is intended to convey a general...

This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, is based on a popular game and helps students to develop skills of listening and communicating. Students have to understand and relay spoken information to their peers without losing its main content and meaning. This simple activity will help...

In this activity students use chromatography to separate the dyes in sweets. The resource looks at the information on food labels and provides some questions for students to answer about fat, sugar and salt content.

Students then place sweets on filter paper, adding water to dissolve the food colourings....

This National Strategies booklet describes teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities beyond level five.

The activities described in this supplement build upon and develop activities suggested in Teaching mental mathematics from level five: algebra and are designed to...

This activity, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, introduces students to ways of combining errors (uncertainties) from two independent measured quantities. Using the equation for Doppler shift, the error in the rotational velocity and time period are calculated....

From the Centre for Science Education, and with support from Shell Education services, these materials help children to investigate forces and motion.

Water rockets can be made using plastic bottles and these are propelled by pressurised water. The rockets need to be launched in a suitable open area such as...

This NRICH maths activity is intended for students who are already familiar with sample space diagrams. The interactive activity offers an ideal context in which to consider the messy randomness of experimental results and the certainty of the long...

Aimed at students in Key Stage Four, this task from CensusAtSchool uses the context of the National Lottery to look at theoretical probabilities and compare these to a experimental data. The worksheet contains a link to a site to simulate a lottery draw. The activity allows students to investigate successive events...

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting presentation that enhances the design technology curriculum by giving Year 4 pupils the opportunity to make a calcium rich food product and to prepare vegetables safely.  This session also gives pupils the challenge of working as part of a group to apply...

This resource offers a real life context for the Year 6 maths curriculum by giving pupils the chance to calculate profit and solve multi step problems. Throughout this session pupils will revise and apply formal calculation methods when deciding on a selling price for their dishes and they will also need to...

This resource offers a real life context for Year 6 pupils to solve problems involving area and perimeter while designing a restaurant floor plan. Pupils will apply their maths learning to design their restaurant seating area. The session builds in the chance to use online shopping websites to calculate the cost of...

The Nuffield Physical Science course explored the regions of common interest to physicists and chemists. The course focussed on the contributions that physics and chemistry make to the study of the structure and properties of materials. The physics topics explored the interlocking roles of matter, energy and...