From the Centre for Science Education, and with support from Shell Education services, these materials help children to investigate vision and light.

The zoetrope, or wheel of life, is a modern variation to a simple Victorian toy. When the separate images are viewed in the quickly-turning zoetrope, it...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens focuses on the importance of water as a precious and finite resource. It explores solutions that increase access to drinkable water including rainwater harvesting, waste water recycling, desalination, stopping leaks, reducing water use and water management. Water is...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens highlights the strain that a growing and ageing population is putting on healthcare systems. It presents solutions, including keeping healthy, personalising medicine, preventing diseases and reducing costs through efficient processes and infrastructure.

Eat...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens considers the pressure that increased waste, pollution and reduced air quality places on our environment.

From Rubbish to Resource is a design and make project in which students source waste products and make them into something not only useful but also...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens provides an opportunity for students to consider the changes they can make as individuals to shape our cities and world for a more sustainable future. Sustainability is an issue for leaders and planners, but it is also our responsibility as individuals to make sure we...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens shows the multi-faceted decision-making, holistic urban planning and monitoring needed when shaping and running our cities.

Bringing the City Back to Life is a business studies and enterprise project where students are asked to identify empty property or land in...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens presents the diverse risks in a city and ways in which these risks can be detected, prevented and responded to in order to make the city more resilient. It focuses on safety and security, including incidents such as crime, access control and fire.

Safe...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens explores the increased need for transport infrastructure as people move to cities and discusses the significance of road and rail electrification and explores green transport choices, integrated traffic solutions and e-mobility. Get Everybody Moving is a research...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens highlights the difficulty of matching energy supply and demand, and providing green energy. Explores the move to a new electricity age and presents solutions for green energy, smart grids, energy storage and uptake of renewables. You’re Electric is a research and...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens introduces the challenges of the future for cities and shows how demographic change, urbanisation and climate change impact all parts of people’s lives – from politics and the economy, to quality of life and the environment. Project 2050 is a research and presentation...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens highlights the high levels of inefficiencies in most buildings and offers solutions such as smart buildings, reducing resources and making buildings more efficient. Super Cool Uniform is a design project where students need to research optimum working temperatures in...

Dr Laura Hobbs is a research scientist at the University of Strathclyde and the Scottish Association for Marine Science. She uses data from instruments, called echosounders, that use sound waves to monitor the depth and abundance of zooplankton in the Arctic Ocean. Studying copepods, her research has shown that...

Zoos is a PowerPoint template from the Association for Science Education (ASE) for students to produce their own presentation on the habitat, adaptations and feeding relationships of a particular animal.

The activity improves students' ability to select relevant information for a presentation, develops their...

This ebook provided by RISPs constitutes a collection of forty open-ended investigative activities for use in the A Level pure mathematics classroom. The book consists of two parts: the first part of the ebook lists all activities indexed by topic together with the teachers' notes. The second part advises on how to...