Resources

Explaining and Exploring Mathematics is designed to help you teach key mathematical concepts in a fun and engaging way by developing the confidence that is vital for...

Explaining Electric Current

Produced by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service, this resource is a kinaesthetic activity in which students experience being part of a 'circuit'. A rope loop is passed around the group to represent the current flowing in a circuit. One student, the power supply, adds movement to the rope. The students see...

Explaining evaporation

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Recognise that evaporation occurs in different liquids, not just water.
• Predict that evaporation will occur in liquids with a temperature that is less than or greater than that of...

Explaining evolution

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Recall that all living organisms need energy for life processes, which is provided by cellular respiration.
• Distinguish between cellular respiration and breathing, including the...

The 'Explaining' series looks at a range of conditions, illnesses and disabilities that affect children and adults all over the world. The books explain why they occur, how they are diagnosed, how they affect people...

Explaining in secondary science classrooms

This paper from the May 2016 Using STEM Research Conference looked at two research projects  which were intended to develop beginning and experienced teachers’ explanations in secondary science classrooms.

The first study involves beginning teachers and is focused on developing their understanding of what is...

Explaining Inheritance

A Catalyst article about the hunt for an explanation of inheritance. The role of chromosomes was announced in 1903 and the structure of DNA was revealed in 1953, both of which were major scientific breakthroughs in this field of research. This article examines the history of inheritance.

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Explaining Physics emphasizes the applications and social effects of physics, and extends its treatment of energy and electronics.

 Introductory page to each unit to bring out the relevance of the material to...

 Starting in the classroom, or the laboratory, with the most common occurence - a teacher offering an explanation, it proceeds by analysing the nature of specific explanations so that teachers can gain fuller...