Resources
Find out why our senses are so important in this introduction to the sensory system. The reader is led through each sense in turn and is introduced to the body parts involved and what they do.
The SEP Energymeter is designed to be simple enough for KS3 students to use, and flexible enough for more advanced use at KS4 and beyond.
It just requires a supply and a load to be plugged into the meter, for example, a solar panel and a motor, and the meter will display the values of the power and the...
The Phone Flasher kit uses a cheap commercially-available device that flashes when it detects microwave radiation, for example from a mobile phone. For ease of handling, the kit has a Phone Flasher mounted on a box.
The SEP microwave indicator works in a similar way, though it is a more convenient instrument...
Electricity, Magnetism and Forces is one of the publication themes of the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme.
Both electrical and magnetic phenomena have been known since ancient times, through the action of friction to produce static electricity and through the existence of naturally occurring magnetic...
Energy and Power is one of the publication themes of the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme.
Understanding the energy concept is central to an understanding of science. It also happens to be a particularly difficult concept to explain. SEP has developed a series of publications that provide clear and...
How Science Works is one of the publication themes of the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme.
Recent changes in the curriculum have emphasised the importance of developing in students an understanding of what scientists do, the nature of science, and the way that science relates to the broader society. SEP...
The Learning Skills for Science (LSS) programme was first produced at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP) together with the Nuffield Foundation developed the materials to be used in the UK.
...The Learning Skills for Science (LSS) programme has been developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme from work done by the Weizmann Institute of Science.
The materials can be used by students who are...
Materials by Design is one of the publication themes of the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme.
The earliest artefacts made by humans used whatever materials were naturally to hand. The materials selected were those that had the appropriate properties for the job that needed to be done. Increasingly, as...
Matter and Change is one of the publication themes of the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme.
One of the most fundamental ideas that students should learn in science is that ‘stuff’ is made from atoms – the enormous variety of different kinds of materials that they see around them arises from a relatively...