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Safe practical in short stay schools
This booklet provides useful guidance on providing safe and appropriate practical work in short stay schools, including:
-Planning lessons with practical work: a checklist
-Adjusting practical work to minimise risks
-Effective management of practical work: some examples
-Responding to activities...
Safe Sun Viewer
In this activity children are introduced to safe solar observation. Using everyday materials, the activity provides a step by step guide to create a safe sun viewer. A second activity investigates ‘sunspots’ and looks at how to use binoculars as a projector to see 'sunspots'. ‘Sunspots’ are areas of the sun which...
A concise account of the best advice available on health and safety in science for secondary schools...
A concise account of the best advice available on health and safety in science for secondary schools...
An invaluable practical guide on how to safely undertake a range of visually and intellectually appealing chemical reactions. Includes alternatives to some traditional activities such as the thermit reaction, exploding hydrogen, burning fuels using spirit burners and extracting caffeine from tea.
An invaluable practical guide on how to safely undertake a range of visually and intellectually appealing chemical reactions. Includes alternatives to some traditional activities such as the thermit reaction, exploding hydrogen, burning fuels using spirit burners and extracting caffeine from tea.
This collection includes resources which can help pupils aged 7 to 11 use the internet safely and respectfully. In addition, there are resources to encourage pupils to question the reliability of the information they receive from the internet.
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.
Safety at Work
A number of applied school science courses recommend that students should make a site visit to some aspect of the chemical industry. Such visits are often difficult to organise and some areas are almost impossible to get access to.
To partly address the needs of applied science courses and some A-level...