Resources
Investigating problems faced by people in remote areas
This resource considers the social implications and challenges faced.
Suggested learning outcomes include:
- To know what is meant by a remote area.
- To understand the social problems and challenges faced by people living in remote...
Investigating Rock Permeability
This resource contains an activity in which children test the permeability of various rocks. It contains a brief summary of the background knowledge and a sheet in which observations may be recorded and conclusions drawn from the test.
This resource has been provided by Sigma Science.
Investigating RTAs *suitable for home teaching*
A Catalyst article about road traffic accidents (RTAs). After the accident police and other investigators try to establish what went wrong. This may be with a view to prosecuting a motorist, or simply in an effort to improve road safety. An understanding of the physics of motion plays a large part in such...
These materials, from the Earth Science Teachers' Association, contain hands-on activities that will help students to understand processes such as the water cycle and phenomena like climate change and plate tectonics.
Investigating Seed Germination
One of a series of resources from Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS) investigating key topics in plant biology.
This activity allows students to investigate many factors that influence seed germination, including temperature, light, nutrient levels, pollutant effects, tropisms and so on.
It...
Investigating simple linkages
Investigating simple linkages using card models.
A mechanism is a device that changes movement in some way. Linkages are a type of mechanism. There are different types of linkage, each of which change movement in different ways.
This could be used in Key Stage 2 as a stand-alone activity or as an...
Investigating Sound
Produced by Teachers TV, this video illustrates how enthusiastic science co-ordinator Katrine Shears gives hints and tips about successful investigations using her experiments on sound as an example. Year Six children at Bobbing Village Primary School are conducting their own investigations to find the most...
Investigating Stationary Points and Finding the Value of the First Derivative at a Particular Point on the Curve
The mathematical solution initially explains how to use calculus to find the stationary points of the curve y = x/(16+x2) by rewriting the equation as a product using index form and using the product rule to find the differential. The stationary points are found by equating the differential to zero and...
Investigating Streamlined Shapes
This activity will allow students a practical opportunity to apply the formula of speed to establish and consider why streamlined shapes are advantageous.
The activity gives students the opportunity to explain what...
Investigating teachers’ use of information about cutting edge research
In this small-scale scoping study, the questions around whether and how teachers of STEM subjects access information about cutting edge research to inform their classroom practice, and how this impacts on the students they teach, was explored.
This study supports STEM Learning’s aims to explore the effective...