Resources

What are functions

This blog, from Mr CompSci, details key concepts of functional programming. This is a useful resource for teachers as well as students. It could be used as a revision resource, a reference or for students to prepare notes from.

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What are programmable systems?

In this activity, learners will self-assess and plan how to extend their current knowledge of programmable systems.

What Are Stem Cells? *suitable for home teaching*

This Catalyst article explains the use of stem cells to treat medical problems, and outlines new possibilities for the use of adult stem cells in treatment.

Currently, stem cells used for treatment are embryonic stem cells, since they have the ability to form any cell type in the body. The example of the use...

Scientists and doctors have come a long way from the early days of organ transplantation. What is now possible wouldn't have been imaginable 30 years ago. What will be possible in the coming years?

What are we doing to ensure that the most able young people are stretched and encouraged to continue studying science?

This paper recommends that more in-depth analysis of existing data, of interventions and their impact, is necessary before it can reliably be concluded that further action is necessary to improve stretch and progression in science post-16. 

What Are You Implying?

Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics.

This presentation provides students with an opportunity to explore their own grasp of logic and introduces a logical tautology called Modus Tollens.

This activity is designed to explore aspects of the subject which...

This series answers questions on a wide range of topics including geography, history and science in an accessible and fun way. Each title contains questions posed by children to make them accessible for younger...

What Can Soap Films Tell Us about Motorways?

This resource, from the Royal Institution, provides a series of activities which draw together a range of areas of mathematics and its applications, as well as considering how and why soap bubbles can provide the answers to some seemingly unrelated questions. Students design and test motorway networks connecting...