African Drumming Workshops - Maths & Music

Using maths to identify patterns is not easy to understand for children and adults alike.  I have discovered the perfect way to teach pattern recognition.  I work with the well-known and internationally recognised team of Ghanaian drummers (www.one-drum.org) who run national school workshops to teach...

Jones the CSI

A basic colouring sheet for young people to introduce them to the world of Crime Scene Investigation.

Topical Science Updates

Topical Science Updates are monthly newsletters for schools focusing on some of the big, quirky and interesting science stories in the news. Each month 3 or 4 stories are featured to help teachers embed topical science in their everyday teaching.Each story has links to articles, video clips and resources...

FETCH-DECODE-EXECUTE Board Game

This game teaches students how instructions and data move from RAM to the CPU and internally between the various registers and the ALU in order to run a simple program (which takes 2 numbers, adds them and stroes the result in memory).A-Level students have fed back that it really helped them in the exam becuase they...

Case Study for Information Security

There does seem to be a shortage of good case studies (fictional or real) that are deailed enough to be useful but not overly-complex for level-3 students. I ended up creating my own case study based on a company I used to work for and similar companies I have worked with. I hope you find it useful.

Medicine Makers

A hands-on practical activity that illustrates drug-target interactions and  looks at the actions of some common painkillers.Created by the Biochemical Society and the British Pharmacological Society. Download the resource booklet here.

Episode 539: Deep Inelastic Scattering

In this learning episode, from the Institute of Physics, students use an analogue experiment to illustrate electron scattering by quarks. In the model, magnets are concealed in a box. Their poles represent ‘charges’ which are probed using a freely-suspended magnet. This helps to demonstrate that each of the scattered...

Physics - Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM)

From the Integrating Mathematical Problem Solving project by MEI, this series of activities explores how mechanical oscillations are important in many areas of everyday life. Sometimes they are useful, for example the motion of the suspension on a car, sometimes they are fun, for example a fairground 'pirate ship' and...

I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!

I'm a Scientist is a free event where school students get to meet and interact with scientists online.Your students challenge the scientists over fast-paced online text-based live CHATs. They ASK the scientists anything they want, and VOTE for their favourite scientist to win a prize...