This Catalyst article looks at hearing loss, which is usually associated with the elderly, straining to hear the TV while turning up their hearing aid. As a teenager losing the ability to hear correctly seems decades away but hearing loss is increasingly becoming a problem for young adults and teenagers. The...

A Catalyst article investigating if mobile phones produce harmful radiation. The short article compares the view points of a concerned parent, protester, scientist, official report and a complacent citizen.

This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2005, Volume 16, Issue 1.

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This resource is designed to support learning about the Polar Regions alongside curriculum content. It is laid out in 3 sections. An introduction which sets the scene for looking at survival of plants and animals in the Polar regions, followed by activities for teachers to select...

This series shows young children undertaking real art and design projects how to expand their skills and understanding of creative and practical processes.

The book has been written so that adults can develop the activities with children or children can use the book for ideas to develop themselves. All the activities have been successfully tried and tested with children...

How does snow form? Why are we always depressed after Christmas? How does Santa manage to deliver all those presents in one night? (He has, in fact, little over two ten-thousandths of a second to get between each of the 842 million households he must visit.)

This video uses an anechoic chamber to investigate whether an echoless environment can significantly change our perceptions.

According to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, published in 2016,  removing low-performing...

This resource is from a collection of Nuffield Maths resources exploring Hypothesis testing. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level. The resources typically include slide shows to introduce the topics, student sheets and teacher notes, as well as other relevant resources.

In the ‘Can they...

This immersive escape room activity introduces the BIFoR FACE (Birmingham Institute for forest research free air carbon enrichment) experiment and encourages learners to consider the impact of climate change on forest ecosystems. Learners work as a group to complete a virtual tour of BIFoR FACE before using...

The arctic ice is melting and the polar bears are struggling so they ask some children to help them. Together, they draw up a plan for how to reduce energy use and prevent the planet from warming.  

This article investigates the reasons behind extensive early browning of the horse chestnut trees.

This article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science Review 2016, Volume 26, Issue 3.

This resource pack contains a set of activity cards and an accompanying CD-Rom. 

The activities are designed to be used in pairs, groups or with the whole class to encourage children to discuss mathematics and give opportunities for them to give convincing arguments to support their thoughts and reasoning....

This title helps students join a journey through time, space and beyond and find out about the physical forces that make our world what it is and how science affects everything, from roller-coasters to fighter pilots...