Resources

This series covers the entire programme of study for science at Key Stage 1. It will be supported with free downloadable teacher resources. Each title includes imaginative ideas for hands-on activities, experiments and investigations, discussion topics and critical thinking questions.

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Winners and losers

This resource helps students think about who the winners and losers are when making product choices.

Winners Podium

This resource from Boxford describes how a project to display large items can be made using the accuracy and build quality of CAD/CAM. It contains a description of the project, exemplar CAD files. Photographs show the finished winners’ podium, the wheels for moving it and the internal support beams. Sizes for the...

Behind every racing car or bike and driver, there is a multidisciplinary team of expert engineers, technicians and scientists using cutting-edge technology. Rewind to one year before the race. The team begin working on the challenge to improve every aspect of performance which can make the few seconds difference...

Winning Medals: Does Engineering Design Make a Difference?

This resource aims to give students the opportunity to investigate the impact of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) on wheelchair sport. Students create a presentation that provides a justified answer to the ‘big question’, does engineering design make a difference to a wheelchair athlete's...

Winning Science

The 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was won by Gurdon and Yamanaka, for their work on adult stem cells.

This Catalyst article explains how they discovered that a nucleus from an egg cell transplanted into a specialised cell can still develop into a fully functional organism. Yamanaka named these...

Winning the Lottery

Aimed at students in Key Stage Four, this task from CensusAtSchool uses the context of the National Lottery to look at theoretical probabilities and compare these to a experimental data. The worksheet contains a link to a site to simulate a lottery draw. The activity allows students to investigate successive events...

This book discusses how maths games can be analysed to discover winning strategies, and how often more complex games may be a compound of several simpler ones. The analyses start with basic theory using simple examples, but progress to detailed case studies of well known games ranging from the elementary to the...

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