As astronauts travel to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, the need for nutritionally balanced meals becomes even more important for space missions. The amount of fat inside food packaged for spaceflight is analysed by researchers before the food is sent into space.

In this lesson, students will discover the fat...

Her Majesty’s Inspectors visited nine schools and one pupil referral unit that had been judged outstanding for behaviour in their most recent Ofsted inspection to find out about their behaviour policies and to discuss exclusion. The evidence gathered from these visits is presented in this report as good practice...

This video demonstrates an investigation of reflection at a plane mirror.  This is a required practical for students to be able to understand and carry out for GCSE Combined Science and Physics.

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

• Use ray diagrams to show how light refracts at a boundary between transparent media.
• Describe rules for the refraction of light at a boundary between transparent media.
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These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Recall that light can change direction (refract) when it passes across a boundary between transparent media
• Describe how the angle light passes across a boundary between two...

A trio of videos that investigates the refraction of light through a transparent block.  This first video allows students to see the experiment and the other two review the results and plot a graph to investigate the relationship between the incident and refracted angles.  This is a required practical for students...

From Nelson Thornes, this resource helps students studying physics at post-16, A2 level. In this activity students consider in detail the working of energy-recovery regenerative braking systems used in some hybrid cars, electric cars and in electric trains. The main aim is to practice the basic understanding of the...

Practical Action have supplied this teacher's pack to challenge students to use their STEM skills to come up with solutions to a problem of water shortage in Sudan. The pack includes a PowerPoint presentation and Teacher Guide so that teachers can outline the problem to their students. The PowerPoint makes...

This experiment from the IET helps children learn about oxidation, chemical reactions, acids and alkalis by testing a range of liquids on fruit slices left out for Rudolph on Christmas Eve. The resources provided include full lesson guidance, as well as a challenging maze puzzle to support assessment and increase...

This resource provides a lesson plan showing how to use system thinking to teach about ecosystems. The approach used in the lesson is based on education research which is summarised in a separate research summary document.

The lesson includes an activity where individual pupils are given an organism. They...

From Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), this practical activity was developed for Scottish Highers specifications, but the protocol can equally well be used for other specifications.

Students incubate...