Whilst many of you will have been teaching triple science for a number of years, you may not know that there is a whole wealth of free support and resources on the National STEM Centre site designed support your teaching with ideas and suggestions.
The main triple science homepage provides an overview of all that is available in terms of resources and CPD, but if you want ideas, suggestions and resources then the best place to start is the Triple Science Community Groups. There are four community groups, one for each of the science subjects and one called Triple Science Eye which is designed to support more general cross subject issues including management and curriculum design. They are all free to access once you are registered with the National STEM Centre site.
I’ve put some direct links and highlights below to help you navigate through the resources;
Community Groups
Across the four groups there are hundreds of posts, many containing resources and lesson materials, all available free at the click of a mouse.
Has the Eclipse stirred you or your students’ interest? Pop over to the Astronomical Observation and Measurement, Life of Stars and The Universe topic in the physics group and have a look at the 20+ downloads, free software ideas including a massive Astronomy masterclass written in Prezi that someone has written and is sharing for free.
Can quantitative analysis be fun? Apparently so, go have a look at the posts on the Quantitative Analysis topic in the chemistry group and take your pick from the 10+ downloads and collection of links.
Teaching Biotechnology and need some ideas? – This topic in the biology group has 8 different lesson ideas and downloads as well as a whole host of links
Support on iTunesU
If you are an ITunesU user or fancy trying it out then go to iTunes and search for Triple Science Support and you’ll find a whole selection of resources there. Some of these resources are available for PC and Mac and others for Mac OS only.
The eLibrary
And, don’t forget the wonderful eLibrary at the main National STEM Centre Website. We have had a look through what is there and put together some subject lists that highlight the best resources for each Triple Science Topic – you can find these lists here.