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Keeping Healthy

This topic, from the Association for Science Education, is designed to allow classes in schools across the world to explore and exchange information about common diseases, their treatment and the importance of lifestyle in determining good health.

Keeping Healthy

A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. Practical tests using “urine” samples illustrate chemical diagnostic testing for illness. Different types of illness are classified, also different types of micro-organisms and the body’s defences against them. Experiments show how bacteria grow and...

Providing a solution for teaching junior science, "New Star Science 5" books are aimed at the fifth primary school year. This "Pupil's Book" provides practical tasks and activities, with work throughout the topic and...

Teacher's Notes provide background topic information, photocopiable task sheets, a means of gauging pupil progress and guidance for using ICT.

Keeping hearts pumping

This Mathematics Matters case study, from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, looks at how mathematics modelling can aid investigations into the circulatory system. Blood-related diseases can seriously harm patients’ quality of life and even lead to death. Many of these diseases are caused by...

Keeping London moving

Where does the energy come from to keep London moving? In this lesson, students represent simple energy transfers (Sankey Diagrams) relating to change in motion for different modes of transport and different types of fuel in London.

Using examples from London’s transport, students explain how an increase in...

This series covers the entire programme of study for science at Key Stage 1. It will be supported with free downloadable teacher resources. Each title includes imaginative ideas for hands-on activities, experiments and investigations, discussion topics and critical thinking questions.

This book is about the...

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Keeping Ourselves Safe Near Dogs

Aimed at Key Stage Two, this resource explores the behaviour of dogs and their interactions with humans. Linked to PSHE and the topic of animals, it contains several activity ideas and accompanying worksheets including: a survey, role play and stimuli for discussion and writing.

The activities look at the...

Keeping the Heat in

This Nuffield Working with Science unit was designed to help students to understand the need to consume less domestic heating fuel, to know the main ways in which heat can be lost from buildings, to find by experiment which substances make good insulators and to write a...