The Eco-design web is a useful tool to help students’ analyse an existing product or design. It can also be used to indicate areas of the product that can be redesigned to improve its environmental sustainability.

The environmental impact of a product throughout the different stages of its lifecycle are quantified in this activity. Data from the Eco-indicator 99 Manual for Designers is required for the final evaluation task.

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From the Centre for Science Education, the RA3 project aims to bring parents together with their children and teachers to explore the worlds of science, technology, engineering and maths.

In this activity, families investigate the impacts they have on the environment and consider their ecological footprint....

This booklet is an introduction to Ecological Energetics(production biology) and to indicate the general principles on which the subject is based.

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

Amy is an ecologist working with the Forestry Commission. Amy is very frank in the video about her school history, describing her school reports as "less than shiny", and the video conveys how applied scientific research focuses her naturally curious nature.

In the video Amy describes how she writes computer...

This is part of a complete science resource/programme for the National Curriculum at primary level, which introduces young readers to scientific concepts in a straightforward and easily accessible manner. All scientific terms are described in carefully controlled, integrated words and images. This book focuses on...

Part of a series of science textbooks designed for the National Curriculum. Targeted at the average and below average ability student, it also includes extension materials to Level 7 and higher. This student's book provides information, practical investigations and questions. This book focuses on ecology.

Explore fundamental concepts in ecology, from the nature of ecosystems and the basics of ecosystem structure and function, to the complex relationships within and between species and between humans and their...

Ecology is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray.

Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that had...

Ecology is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas...

These activities allow students to model how environmental scientists compare diversity in different ecosystems by using ordinary playing cards as ‘species’ to generate data to calculate Simpson’s Diversity Index. This can be completed in a single lesson. Some students find the concept of species diversity quite...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.