Drawing on a number of leading London medical and science centres, sporting events and venues, this unit introduces the topics of nutrition and digestion, health and the skeletal and muscular systems. Each lesson offers students the chance to develop the skills required to work scientifically and to develop their...

One of the major challenges in protecting the health of people in a city is to be able to provide water that is fit to drink. With an increasing populations we are faced with difficult questions:

Would people be happy to drink water that has been recovered from sewage directly?

Do we know or care what...

This collection offers a cross curricular approach to diet, sustainable food production and how human activity impacts upon our environment. It may be used as a workshop or as individual activities. The approaches used will enable students to come to decisions regarding their diet based on many factors including...

Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the unit called ‘Senses’. This B unit provided enough material for six double periods in the third year of secondary school (year nine). The teachers’ guide included seven worksheets to supplement the students’...

This resource uses the context of football to introduce a heart rate investigation. Students take part in suggested exercises and measure their heart rate and recovery time.  They need to plot of graph of their heart rate for different activities, and are encouraged to decide the axis and scale of the graph for...

Heat is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from...

This resource provides a structured approach and a set of questions to guide students' research into changing use of energy sources, looking at how and why the types of energy sources for domestic use have changed over time.

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

• Make qualitative predictions about the resulting temperature when hot and cold water are mixed

• Make quantitative predictions about the resulting temperature when hot...

In this activity, students consider the heating effects of infrared energy, and how this is used in a range of products. They design a simple experiment to measure the heating effect of toasters, thermal heaters, infrared mouse, kettles (with heating elements) and...

In this activity from the European Space Agency, students communicate with a rover on "Mars". The objective of the mission is to send an automatic message from Earth to a rover located on Mars via an Orbiter. This message is sent by a programmed, LEGO-built, robot running an automatic switch. The rover on Mars...

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

• Recall that offspring inherit characteristics from each of their parents.

• Recognise that an organism’s characteristics are affected by genetic information in cells and...

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) was recorded at the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, England and discusses how two researchers are using hi-tech physics to study different aspects of the environment.

The Diamond synchrotron is like...

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

• Describe how a person’s hand uses force to support different sized weights.         
• Describe how the size of force exerted by a spring changes as it is squashed.       
• ...