The Royal Institution - Christmas Lecture 2021 - Going Viral - How Covid changed science forever
The Royal Institution's 2021 Christmas Lecture - Going Viral, will be broadcast on the BBC in late December. Although the specifics of the lectures are a closely guarded secret, STEM Learning have pulled together a collection of resources from the STEM Learning eLibrary that will support themes addressed in this upcoming three lectures series:
Lecture 1: The Invisible Enemy (Viruses, immune system and testing)
Lecture 2: The Perfect Storm (Epidemiology, mathematical and behavioural modelling, future technology)
Lecture 3: Winning the War (Vaccines, genetics, the role of technology)
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Double Blind
This Science upd8 activity draws on clinical trials. Eight young volunteers had been in clinical trials before, but this time things went horribly wrong. Six of the eight were left fighting for their lives. In this discussion activity students consider whether new treatments should be ever tested on human...
Ceri Evans' Masterclass: DNA
In this video, produced by Teachers TV, award-winning teacher Ceri Evans inspires a group of talented Year Ten students from several London schools with an active lesson about DNA. It looks at the base pairs in DNA and how the DNA sequence is translated into the amino acid sequence of a protein.
Ceri uses...
Engineering in a pandemic
This resource explores the vital role engineers play in responding to a global pandemic. It is designed to provide practical and contextualised tasks that demonstrate the role that STEM-based learning plays in real-world engineering scenarios.
Challenges in this STEM resource include:
- building...
Zero days - Viruses, Bacteria, Funghi and Protists and how they spread
This resource uses the context of sports people staying healthy for as many days as possible, to look at various pathogens, how they can spread, and how their spread can be reduced. The concept of 'zero days' is used to explain why it is important that professional sports people do not become ill, so they can...