This document, by the Royal Society, provides the conclusions and recommendations from the largest survey of technicians in schools and colleges. It gives you evidence for what technicians should be doing or could do to support science education in schools. There are views from across education and case studies to...

A selection of worksheets and support material, provided by ASE, for use in mainstream science. Worksheet topics include the water cycle, structure of a plant, pressure, adaptation, states of matter, the heart and the carbon cycle.

There are twelve resource books in the whole series and this is a sample of...

The Royal Society and the Association of Science Education commissioned a wide reaching survey on the provision, roles, responsibilities, working conditions and opinions of laboratory technicians in secondary schools and colleges in 2001, and had over 5000 technicians responding, making it the largest survey of its...

Survival Rivals are hands-on experiments inspired by Darwin and produced by the Wellcome Trust.

The three resources in the series are:
* I'm a Worm, Get Me Out of Here (exploring natural selection)
* Brine Date (looking at sexual selection)
* The X-Bacteria (investigating antibiotic...

Explore the world of sustainability through the knowledge and expertise of those seeking to effect change and make a difference. Through a series of videos, webinars, articles, ideas and practical activities young people aged 11 to 18 and their educators can expand their knowledge, question the world around them...

These technical briefs focus on low cost approaches related to sustainable construction and materials.

Technical briefs are documents produced by Practical Action which are freely...

Suzie researches how the sun influences the planets in the solar system.  She also teaches physics to undergraduates and is involved in a lot of outreach.  Suzie is currently working on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. 

There are two cuts of the video – one aimed at primary aged children, and one for...

From The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), these activities investigate the crystallisation of sugar in the fondant of creme eggs.

Complaints of 'glass' in creme eggs, and other sugar confectionery products, are sometimes the result of the growth of very large crystals of sugar. In these...

In this activity students carry out an activity to see if they can tell the difference between drinks that contain sugar and those that contain sweeteners.

Students learn about chiral molecules and how sweeteners can...