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Produced by the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP), these images are useful for adding to documents, presentations or for use with an interactive whiteboard. Mainly simple line drawings, they can be cut and pasted into documents and image processing applications. The images in this resource are related to the...
Generic Grade Descriptors and Supplementary Subject
In January 2012 Ofsted implemented a new framework for inspection to be used by inspectors in the Section 5 inspection of schools and academies. At the same time Ofsted published supplementary subject-specific guidance for inspectors on making judgements during visits to schools.
The supplementary guidance...
Generic/Miscellaneous Risp Ideas
The first of two RISP activities, Venn Diagrams explores lines in co-odinate geometry and quadratic functions...
Genes and Disease
This video explores how modern genetic research is helping scientists to understand a rare life-threatening heart condition, as well as the more common skin condition, eczema. Susie Murray has a rare inherited heart condition called Long QT which, if left untreated, can lead to rapid heartbeats, blackouts and...
Mind-boggling progress has been made in our ability to sequence a genome accurately and quickly, and in our ability to process and understand the huge amount of data that sequencing produces. What do these developments mean for each of us – our health, our identity, and the world we live in – now and in the future...
Content includes: chromosome structure, karyotypes, amino acids, protein structure and function, nucleotides, DNA structure and genes, cell division: mitosis, meiosis, non-disjunction in meiosis, DNA replication, genomes, gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, the genetic code.
Genes and You
Published by the Wellcome Trust in 1997, this book provides challenging ways of incorporating scientific information into social situations. Teachers' notes complement the student activity sheets in a series of real-life scenarios.
...Genes and You
There are three questions on this worksheet about genes, what they control and how we inherit them. A choice of answers is presented for children to shade in the correct one and there are pictures to support reading.
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This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
These videos and supporting activities have been reviewed by teachers and piloted in schools, and are designed to increase awareness and understanding of genetic disorders and to explain how differences in our genes help to make everyone unique. By encouraging acceptance and tolerance of difference, these resources...