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Energy, Electricity and the Environment
Now available as a PDF to download, this resource consists of bite sized text addressing key questions:
What is energy?, Why are fuels useful?, What are fossil fuels?, What are renewable energy resources?, What is nuclear fuel?, Where do we get electricity from?, How does a power station work?, What are we paying for when we use electricity?, What are the environmental impacts of electricity generation?, How can we reduce the waste of energy?
This material was originally published as a printed booklet in 2002.
Thinking About Science (Issue 2 2009)
This new Transformers material aims to build on the previous work and provide teachers with a clear outline and resources to help deliver a research project with KS3 students.
This resource aims to provide teachers with a useable framework from which to plan their own research projects to use with their classes.
It uses cross-curricular approaches to help make meaningful learning links for children, and links to Primary Frameworks for Literacy and Maths and QCA Schemes of work to help teachers meet school-based planning expectations and curriculum coverage.
TAS aims to help both teachers and pupils develop a variety of research and ICT skills. It develops / highlights creative approaches to learning which could help schools who wish to embark on the creative curriculum approach to learning.
Thinking About Science - Transformers
Transformers attempts to involve KS3 students in thinking about science, technology and local history. Its main purpose is to help students to identify the events and innovations that cause communities to change.
The module is particularly aimed at prompting students to sift out the ways in which science and technology feature as agents for change in our lifestyles.
The module hopes to engage teachers and their students in developing a learning method with which secondary schools throughout Britain can exchange information about how their local and more remote communities have been changed by events and innovations.
Thinking About Science - Transformers (1.67MB PDF file)
Health and Safety Reporters Online Teaching Pack
This new pack in our Reporters series develops KS 3 students' understanding of health and safety measures in a broad range of situations.
The downloadable units encourage students to investigate the science involved in current health and safety issues, and to both question and respect media coverage of incidents related to our safety.
This pack includes six picture pages, one introductory report and five reports containing information, statistics, student tasks, quotes, stories and extracts of media coverage relating to:
- Industry
- The Home
- Food
- Transport
- School
Teacher's Notes (261k PDF file)
6 Picture Pages (3.09MB PDF file)
Report 1: Introduction (39k PDF file)
Report 2: In Industry (318k PDF file)
Report 3: The Home (1.76MB PDF file)
Report 4: Food (1.78MB PDF file)
Report 5: Transport (1.52MB PDF file)
Report 6: At School (500k PDF file)
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Environment Reporters Teaching Pack
Following on from the Radiation Reporters, this resource enables students to further their understanding and consideration of the environment and sustainable development, engage in the science behind current environmental issues, improve their analytical skills, and make the links between environmental issues and industries and business sectors.
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These resources are now freely available.
Additional Support Material - 6 Picture Pages (261k PDF file)
Report 1: The Environment, the Media, Assessment and Presentation (119k PDF file)
Report 2: Leisure and Tourism (227k PDF file)
Report 3: Transport (117k PDF file)
Report 4: Sport (82k PDF file)
Report 5: Home and School (85k PDF file)
Report 6: Energy (251k PDF file)
Teachers Notes (25k PDF file)
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TAS
TAS (Talking About Science) is a free twice yearly online magazine for secondary science teachers.
The latest issue of TAS focuses on women in science, basic skills and careers in the nuclear industry.
Carbon Footprints
Carbon Footprints is a new online magazine for secondary students. Its aim is to get you thinking about science and how it affects your life.
It starts off by giving you some basic info and opinion about global warming to get you up and running so that you can check out what you really think.
But it's not just a read; there's lots of opportunity for you, your teachers and your family to have your say about global warming. And there's a chance to win real money for your efforts.
Scientists Talking - A Story of Three Boxes
This resource provides GCSE pupils with a case study that supports 'thinking about science' in the new Science GCSE specifications.
The case study illustrates the course of action taken when a particular nuclear power station in Wales comes to the end of its electricity generating life.
A Story of Three Boxes outlines how engineering solutions are developed in response to the scientific understanding of nuclear contamination. This kind of contamination occurs in parts of a nuclear power station during its lifetime.
The engineering solutions that are developed to cope with these problems, when the power station is decommissioned (dismantled), include matters of safety to people and care for the environment, as required by a variety of important, responsible organisations.
Radiation Reporters Pack
The objective of The Radiation Reporters Teaching Pack is to encourage pupils studying Key Stage 3 Science to develop analytical skills which will help them to have an informed and questioning approach to the way science-related events and phenomena are treated on TV, radio, the internet and in print. In short, the pack will enhance scientific literacy.
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If you have already received your copy of the pack you can download 2 additional, FREE Reports investigating radiation, dentistry and healthcare, and radiation and microwave ovens. Plus, download all the contents of the printed resource pack.
To download the free additional reports and the contents of the resource pack, click the links below.
These resources are now freely available.
Additional Support Material - 6 Picture Pages (150k PDF file)
Report 1: Radiation, the Media, Assessment and Presentation (55k PDF file)
Report 2: Mobile Phones and Radiation (171k PDF file)
Report 3: Radiation and Skin Care (51k PDF file)
Report 4: Radiation and Flying (89k PDF file)
Report 5: Background Radiation (125k PDF file)
Report 6: Radiation and Nuclear Waste (124k PDF file)
Report 7: Radiation, Dentistry and Healthcare * (67k PDF file)
Report 8: Radiation and Microwave Ovens * (51k PDF file)
*Additional Reports not included in original pack
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