These materials, from the Microbiology Society look at the work of Louis Pasteur and helps students to understand the growth of yeast. There are three resources that can be used together or separately and are suitable for Key Stage Two or Three students.

Marvellous microbes This comic strip...

Students watch a car production line to demonstrate mass production taking place. Details are given on the characteristics of mass production, and how it can be applied to engineered products. Students consider how they could describe batch production and its advantages and disadvantages. Students may begin to...

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

• Describe weight as the force needed to support an object or substance.    
• Describe mass as a measure of the amount of matter in an object or substance.  
• Explain the...

This resource from the Nuffield Foundation provides a set of 24 cards which students use to match graphs with descriptions of the real situations they represent. The slideshow includes the same graphs with added titles and labels. This can be used in a class discussion about the shapes of the graphs, the variables...

This resource develops the concept of exploring variables in everyday situations. In addition, students work on finding unknown values from known values, finding relationships between pairs of unknowns, expressing relationships in the form of tables and graphs, and rearranging formulas. The central theme of the...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand:

• Using the formula for the volume of a cone
• Converting between measurements

For this task, a tree trunk is thought of as being approximated by a cone. Students are given the formula for a cone, and the dimensions of a...

This video looks at the different grades of steel used in the frame design of a Brompton bicycle, typically steel tube and steel sheet. Designers consider several criteria when choosing materials for a folding bicycle, including strength, weight...

This activity asks students to plan and carry out an investigation to test the suitability of materials to absorb or insulate sound and to identify what other variables need to be considered when choosing a material to use in a building. Students also consider whether a...

Students consider how materials need to be tested for their suitability for a specific job before engineers in construction projects can choose them. The tasks will ask the students to think about what properties need to be considered, how these might be scientifically...

In this activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), students design an outfit that could be worn whilst participating in a sport. With a strong emphasis on developing creative thinking when generating ideas, the activity requires students to...

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The United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT) is a registered charity whose aim is to advance the education of children and young people in mathematics. Originally established in 1996, the UKMT organises national mathematics competitions and other mathematical enrichment activities for 11-18 year old UK students. The...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 8A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 8.

Mathematical diagrams covers: mileage charts, using flow charts to plan practical tasks, using flow charts for classification, networks and critical path analysis.

The...