Resources by Wellcome Trust
Displaying 291 - 300 of 302
This book is part of the Archive Collection which is available to view at the National STEM Learning Centre.
Wellcome Trust Monitor
The Wellcome Trust Monitor is a unique survey of UK adults' and young people's views of science, biomedical research and science education.
* Wave 1 (the baseline survey) was conducted in 2009 by the National Centre for Social Research who interviewed 1,179 adults and 374 young people.
*Wave 2 was...
This book is part of the Archive Collection which is available to view at the National STEM Learning Centre.
From the Wellcome Trust, these short animations can be downloaded and used in the classroom. The animations help students to understand a range of biological processes and diseases. These include:
* The genome, methods used in DNA sequencing and the translation and transcription of DNA into proteins
*...
Wellcome Trust: Tree of life *suitable for home teaching*
Produced by the Wellcome Trust, these resources include an interactive evolutionary tree and a video of the Tree of Life. These materials will help students to find out more about the work of Charles Darwin and evolution. The resources contain:
Tree of life video: The video is a short...
What do drugs do
|
How do drugs work, what do they target in our cells, and how does understanding this enable us to find other agents to combat disease? |
What Is Gene Therapy?
Produced by Nowgen, with support from the Wellcome Trust, in these videos Dr. Mat Hickman and Dr. Simon Waddington describe gene therapy and some of the recent developments in the technique.
What is gene therapy?
In his first video, Dr Mat Hickman talks about the basics of gene therapy...
What’s in that cell card game
|
These cards help students to compare and contrast the four major types of cells (plant, animal, fungal, bacterial). You could use them as simple revision cards or print out two sets and play a top trumps or happy... |
What’s in that cell?
|
Use our downloadable cards to check knowledge of the organelles in different types of cell. These cards help students to compare and contrast the four major types of cells (plant, animal, fungal, bacterial... |
What’s that component?
|
These downloadable cards showing individual components of the immune system are useful for revision. Great for playing a twenty questions type game. |