A collection of resources, from the SYCD Primary CD, exploring 'How Science Works' in everyday life and developing scientific vocabulary and understanding. The major resources are: *Reporting science - a unit which provides an opportunity for pupils to develop their writing, speaking and listening skills through...

Interactive resources from the ABPI for students aged 14-16. Topics include: Diabetes, Hormones and Their Effects and Skin Structure and Function.

This activity sheet builds on students' knowledge of acids and indicator colours to plot a graph of a neutralisation and to describe the trend of the data.  The career context is a pharmaceutical company development of antacid tablets, used to neutralise excess acid in the human stomach.

Produced by the Wellcome Trust, the Big Picture magazine was aimed at post-16 students and explored contemporary issues within biology and medicine. Each contains accessible information, that is directly relevant to the curriculum, along with supporting resources such as stimulus materials, activity sheets and...

This Catalyst article investigates biomimetics and discovers how scientists are finding ways of copying ideas from nature to improve products. The article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science Review 2015, Volume 26, Issue...

Catalyst Magazine is a science journal for young people aged 14-19 and their educators. It brings STEM subjects to life with insights into cutting-edge scientific research and industry R&D exploring the practical applications of complex science in the world around us. Catalyst magazine is a digital only...

This issue of Catalyst includes the following articles:

Fireworks: an Explosive Business

This article looks into how fireworks are made, set off and what gives them their particular colour or effect.

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Discovering DNA

This article explores the structure of DNA and how it is copied across generations.

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Life Beyond Earth

This articles looks at the methods used to detect if there is life elsewhere in the universe.

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Radioactivity and Wildlife

Early in 2003, researchers in the Arctic reported that radioactivity was being spread among wildlife species in ways that no one had detected before....

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Climate Modelling

This article considers the scientific likelihood of the sudden onset of an ice age.

In Vitro...