Resources
In this resource from STFC, students investigate the cutting edge research techniques which are being applied to food science. Powerful x-rays, produced in a particle accelerator known as a synchrotron, are being used to discover what happens at an atomic level when chocolate is made and what changes take place as...
This innovative series of TV-ROMs features the best of 4Learning's primary science television clips. The audio facility enables pupils to hear the text as they read it on screen, providing a useful tool for literacy. Extra screens are featured with games and quizzes, as well as printable worksheets.
Channel 4's new "Seeing Science" CD-ROMs for 5-7 year olds feature clips from Channel 4's new series "The Blue Dragon", as well as the best clips from Channel 4's archive of science programmes for primary schools and new footage. Subject areas covered are: Meet the gang; Introduction to the Blue Dragon characters;...
In this section of STFC's Seeing Science, two lessons allow students to explore how scientists work to control the outbreak of a disease. Can anthrax, a deadly disease lead to a cure for cancer? Early results using powerful x-rays produced in a particle accelerator known as a synchrotron suggest that it might....
These resources from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) look at parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Key Stage Three resources look at how synchotron radiation is used to look at the structure of proteins and viruses. The Key Stage Four lesson focuses on infrared radiation and its uses,...
Channel 4's "Seeing Science" CD-ROMs feature the best TV clips from Channel 4's archive of science programmes for primary schools. Here, there are 3 CD-ROMs, offering coverage of the Key Stage 2 science curriculum. Subject areas covered are: light; reflections; seeing; light sources; sound; and hearing.
In these STFC resources, students discover fascinating facts about materials and their properties. The Key Stage Three resources look at the many different facets of cement. The Key Stage Four resources examine ethics and science of oil drilling, oil being the basis for the plastics industry. The resource also...
This ‘Seeing Science’ CD-ROM features TV clips from Channel 4's archive of science programmes for primary schools offering coverage of the Key Stage 2 science curriculum. Subject areas covered are: What are plants?; Growth and Nutrition; Plants Provide; and Life Cycles.
The Science and Technology Facilities Council offers a variety of lessons to support secondary teaching of space science. The Key Stage Three resources consist of nine lessons based on the QCA programme of study:
•Our solar system
•Moving Earth
•Using models
•Because I said so!
•Is...