Resources

Using Chasing the Wind in the Classroom

Produced by Teachers TV as part of the How Science Works series, this video can be used in connection with the Chasing the Wind programme.

In this video, Dr. Maggie Aderin talks about her work to measure the world's...

Using Chemistry to Reduce Animal Testing

This article discusses how chemical tests can reduce the numbers of animals used in the testing of new products.

The article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science Review 2015, Volume 25, Issue 4.

Catalyst is a science magazine for students...

Using coaching to enhance science specific professional development for primary teachers

Published in 2015, this research paper indicates that coaching and mentoring are significant features of effective professional learning for teachers. In science education, coaching is occasionally included in professional development for science subject leaders but only very occasionally used in formal subject-...

This series looks at what the Earth's natural resources are, where they come from and what we do with them. This book looks specifically at coal, oil, and gas.

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.

In this book, Michael Laxton takes a fresh look at all aspects of craft teaching. Dealing specifically with materials that can be used, he stresses that education myst familiarise children with those materials that make up their daily environment, that materials must be seen as agents through which children can...

Using Cooperative Group Work

[b]Functions and their derivatives:[/b] the objective of this activity is to develop skills in working with functions, their derivatives and function notation. The suggested activity begins by asking students to explain what is meant by f'(3) and what is the difference between f(2) and f'(2). There follows a...

Using coordinates to interpret and represent data

This resource develops the concept of working with coordinates to interpret horizontal or vertical intervals on graphs.

Students are presented with two graphs. The first shows the number of sodas in a vending machine against time for Monday, the second shows the same information for Tuesday. Students are...