In this activity, students use data on electricity consumption to investigate how average values are calculated. They also consider how accurate a source of published data is and whether it may contain bias.

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This extension activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), follows on from the How Much Waste?...

This book answers questions such as how did Walter Reed solve the mystery of yellow fever? Will balls of different masses fall at the same speed? This series shows how the reader can accomplish experiments and...

This series shows how the reader can accomplish experiments and interpret the results.

The main purpose of this booklet is to provide a tool for analysing science practicals to clarify their objectives, highlight main features, and evaluate their effectiveness.

The Practical Activity Analysis Inventory (PAAI) is intended to be a useful tool which will stimulate thought about practical...

In this resource, from the DfES Standards Unit, students learn to define a sequence using the
general form of the nth term, define a sequence inductively, recognise and define an arithmetic and a geometric progression and to reflect on and discuss these processes. Students should have some understanding of...

An assessment lesson where students will put to practice the knowledge they have learnt in relation to what inclusive design is and why it is important for a designer to include for ALL, ensuring it fits all needs. Students will complete a series of activities where their abilities are impaired when completing an...

This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of analysing and interpreting data, from reading information from a bar chart to interpreting cumulative frequency graph.

Analysing and interpreting data pack one...

'Analysing exemplary science teaching' is a text that seeks to combine educational theory and practice through analysis of a series of teachers' descriptions of 'exemplary' science lessons. The book comprises edited...

There are a lot of books in which science education researchers tell science teachers how to teach. This book, refreshingly, is written the other way round.

There a number of accounts by outstanding science...

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

• Apply correctly the rules for potential difference and current in a parallel circuit.
• Explain the effects of adding a component to a circuit in parallel.           
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These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Recall the rules for current and potential difference in a series circuit.
• Predict the effect that changing components in a series circuit has on current and potential difference...

This Cape Farewell video clip shows scientists back at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, analysing the samples of phytoplankton and zooplankton taken in the Arctic, identifying species and counting their abundance.

Activity G - Plankton analysis is...

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