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Listening to a Locust Brain

Produced by the Royal Institution, this short video illustrates how the nervous signals generated when a locust detects movement, can be shown.

The clip shows a locust which is immobilised to enable the nerve signals passing down its visual neuron to be detected. These signals are amplified and converted...

Listening to Learners' Thinking

Produced by LSIS, these resources encourage practitioners to actively listen to students' discussions. By doing so, it can give an insight into the students' understanding and misconceptions. The materials include two video clips of learners discussing how to rearrange a mathematical equation. Included with the...

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.

Listening to Sounds

This short programme from Teachers TV is suitable for Year One children. It shows an array of images and their accompanying sounds, for children to learn and recognise the associations. The sounds include a doorbell, car horn, opening a can of drink, sawing a log, drilling a hole and cracking walnuts.

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Literacy and Learning in Science

Produced in 2004, this Key Stage Three National Strategy guidance was produced for science subject leaders to help them implement literacy and learning in science as part of a whole-school initiative designed to improve teaching and learning and raise standards. It was...

Literacy for biology project

Publishedin 2009 by LSIS, this report describes research undertaken by Newham Sixth Form College. The project aimed to produce a set of strategies and resources in order to develop the literacy of science students to enable them to achieve in A - level Biology. A high proportion of students come from families in...

Literacy in Mathematics

This aim of this resource from the National Strategies, which was one of a series of Literacy in … series, was to exemplify aspects of the Literacy across the curriculum training file for individual subjects. It was intended to be used either within a mathematics department or as a self study module to develop...

Literacy in Science Training Materials

These Key Stage Three National Strategy training materials from the Department for Education are designed to run a session with science teachers to help them develop literacy in science - through a focus on scientific words, reading, writing and talk.

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.

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.