This mystery can be used to introduce osmosis and diffusion. 

Two beakers are displayed at the front of the room. Both look identical in that they both contain a plastic zip--lock bag with a starch solution inside. The zip-lock bags are both sitting in a clear solution. What the students don’t know is that...

Produced by the Learning Skills Improvement Service, these materials help to demonstrate effective practice. This case study, by West Nottinghamshire College, looks at the theme of progression through STEM.

This project was designed to develop strategies which would help students to bridge the gap between...

This resource centres around five posters designed to promote discussion, which link to the topic areas of micro-organisms, keeping healthy, plants, life-cycles, how we see things and PSHE. The notes provide information for teachers including key teaching points and questions. They focus on the variety of micro-...

This report aimed to identify practical examples of good practice that promote good behaviour and that can be adopted by all schools. The authors identified aspects of practice that create the right conditions for good behaviour to be learnt. The authors further comment that whilst school staff work hard to support...

This collection of Learning Projects have been created as a result of the nationwide shut down of schools due to the Covid-19 outbreak across the UK. Designed for  to be used with children in EYFS, they are designed as projects based on themes, but linked to the curriculum areas that your child would be learning...

This collection of Learning Projects have been created as a result of the nationwide shut down of schools due to the Covid 19 outbreak across the UK. They are designed as projects based on themes, but linked to the curriculum areas that your child would be learning about at school. They aim to provide a broad and...

This collection of...

Produced by the Science Enhancement Programme (SEP), these materials are intended to complement the Learning Skills for Science (LSS) programme of student activities that are also available on the eLibrary.

The LSS programme comprises of activities divided into six skill areas. Each skill area is independent...

Purpose: Although teachers will often teach new practical skills directly, having digital support resources can be very useful. Such resources can be used to reinforce teaching by rehearsing techniques or by providing an aide memoire for rarely used skills.

Teaching sequence: The example provided teaches...