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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Covid-19 vocabulary cards

These vocabulary cards allow you to introduce a range of Covid-19 terminology in a fun and engaging way. This charades based activity encourages pupils to act out or verbally explain scientific words from doctors and hospitals, to vulnerable and zoonotic. This activity provides a...

Neutralise the Threat A Smart Buildings Game

This resource produced by Siemens introduces the technology used to protect public health in smart buildings by way of an interactive online game.

A series of worksheets introduce viruses and bacteria and other activities allow students to model the spread of pathogens using glitter on their hands and...

The Ebola Outbreak

This Catalyst article investigates the Ebola outbreak. Defeating the outbreak of the viral disease Ebola in 2014-15 required great medical effort. Antidotes and vaccines are under development.

The article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science Review 2015, Volume 26, Issue 1.

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Disease dynamics: understanding the spread of diseases

Students may have learned in science lessons about how infectious diseases spread, but may not have considered the dynamics of their spread, and how maths can be used for such analysis. 

The cross-curricular ...

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