Resources
In this book, the author discusses the amateur naturalists and explorers who from the mid-eighteenth to early twentieth century explored the planet to discover new life forms, when the urge to explore the natural world reached every corner of society, and as humans were trying to discover more about life on earth...
The Species that Changed the World
A Catalyst article describing the species that have had the greatest impact on planet Earth during its billions of years of history. Which come out on top of the 'league table of life'? As hominids have only walked the Earth for part of its existence the article looks at the history of life, from the dawn of...
The speckled monster
This resource consists of three separate activities designed as an introduction to smallpox and the development of vaccinations resulting from Edward Jenner’s ideas, investigations and collection of evidence. Activity (a) introduces Jenner’s work through the JAMES film. Children then take part in a smallpox...
The speed of light
Hold a ruler or speed of light indicator, to test your reaction times by working in pairs with one student holding the ruler at...
The spilled juice problem
A sheet is shown containing six calculations that have been partially obscured by juice spilled on the sheet. The challenge is to work out what the calculations were, and their solutions.
The Spinning Earth
In this activity, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, students are introduced to the rotating Earth and the concept of longitude. They will carry out simple arithmetic that relates the 24 hour clock with the Earth’s rotation. The questions in the activity require an understanding of angle: one hour being equal to...
The Splitting Earth
This episode, from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), follows the Robots as they find out about the causes of earthquakes. They look inside the Earth, and to see how tectonic plates move, and learn about the links between earthquakes and volcanoes. They also visit two sites where NERC scientists are...
This is the first title of a two-book series in Singapore maths publishing, which comprehensively reveals the power of the stack model method as an intuitive and creative problem-solving strategy...
The Standards Unit: Improving Learning in Mathematics resources were produced as a response to the Smith report. The materials use active learning approaches originally designed for post-16 mathematics but for use across the secondary phase. The resources, and the work of the Standards Unit with leading maths...