These resources aim to support teachers who wish to carry out an action research project in the classroom to improve practice.

This resource contains twelve multiple choice questions requiring students to make juice in the correct proportions, increase the amount of ingredients in a recipe appropriately, express a situation given in words as a ratio, calculate speed and share an amount into a given ratio. The resource concludes with...

This well presented resource contains activities to help students identify predators and prey from their characteristics and adaptations.  It is then extended with activities to help students use the correct language to explain why certain characteristics are useful for prey. 

A series of flashcards with...

For the g-forces activity pupils will be able to discuss how astronauts use forces to simulate the effect of launch and landing on their bodies, when preparing to go into space. The pupils look at the forces on a ball at the end of a piece of elastic and discuss the forces on an Astronaut in a centrifuge. For the...

The fourth and final Royal Society ‘state of the nation’ report considers the ‘pool’ of the UK’s 16–19 year old students taking mainstream science and mathematics combinations suitable for entry to higher education. It makes three major points about these students.

• The size of this ‘pool’ is critical to...

This resource contains four instant maths ideas exploring how to represent data graphically. In the first task students record how long they watch TV, group the results and draw two separate graphs to compare boys and girls. The second task requires students to consider what type of diagram is suitable to represent...

In this activity, students use the data gathered during the Wii Fitness investigation to contextualise cumulative frequency curves. Curriculum links include grouped data, cumulative frequency graphs. box plots, median, quartiles and distribution.