This booklet contains a range of suggested teaching activities and contexts for teaching about cell division, cell diversity and cellular organisation at A level.  Topics covered include: cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis, tissues, organs, differentiation and stem cells.

Although produced to support the teaching...

This teaching guide provides a range of ideas and resources for teaching about cell structure at A level. Curriculum links include cells, microscopy, organelles, cytoskeleton, prokaryote and eukaryote cells.

Although produced to support the teaching of OCR AS and A Level Biology A specifications (H020 and ...

The Cells sub-collection is made up of pedagogical guidance and classroom materials for use with students. All materials were published by the Key Stage Three Strategy and the Secondary Strategy between 2002 and 2003.

The Central Heating Project was a set of three related projects dealing with the theme of central heating each aiming to achieve the same educational aims but in different ways.

The project taught students about the technical and economic factors as well as interpretive and evaluative skills.

The...

Experienced teachers, working for The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), have created over 100 teaching and learning resources and a suite of interactive and informative websites for use by teachers and students. They show how science works in real-life contexts and demonstrate how the chemical...

The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC) has produced a large number of educational resources that help to illustrate the practical application of curriculum science and technology in real life contexts. With a strong emphasis on student investigations, the resources in this collection allow students...

This set of resources was provided by Centre of the Cell, an educational and health charity which aims to raise career aspirations and improve educational attainment, improve the lives of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, inspire the next generation of healthcare professionals, widen participation in...

A 3-D movie that journeys into the human cell revealing a chromosome’s centromere.

From the Wellcome Trust, these animations illustrate the life cycle of the protozoan parasite that causes Chagas' Disease.

The parasites use a blood-sucking insect called a triatomine as an incubator and vector. The...

This video demonstrates how two masses, one free-falling and the other falling but attached to a chain, accelerate at different rates. Students are asked to make a prediction.

Slow motion video shows that the mass attached to the chain accelerates faster than the free-falling mass.  This because as the chain...