Science Learning Centre - East of England Promoting more effective teaching of science.

SETPOINT, Hertfordshire Inspiring young people about Science, Engineering, Mathematics & Technology.

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Useful Web Links

• At work with Science

• National Insect Week

• Olympics Science sites new
• Planet Science
• SETPOINT, Hertfordshire
• Skool.co.uk: Science
• Science upd8
• Science Learning Centre - East of England
  Promoting more effective teaching of science and a range of materials to assist in curriculum planning are available for loan to Hertfordshire teachers.
• Teachernet: Biodiversity
  DCSF publication on how schools can engage students with the idea of biodiversity. Contains lots of good weblinks and contact details of supporting organisations.
• The Association for Science Education

General Resources & Revision Sites

• www.activescience-gsk.com
• www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/titanic
• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revision
• www.docbrown.info
• www.eveschemistry.blogspot.com and also Biology and Heads of Science blog
• www.freezeray.com

• www.funnyscience.co.uk Some good resources for 21st C science.

• www.sciencepages.co.uk
• www.scishop.org
• www.schoolscience.co.uk

Information for Teachers & Professional Bodies

• www.ase.org.uk
• www.iop.org
• www.rsc.org
• www.iob.org
• www.teachers.tv
• www.scienceyear.com/sciteach/start.html
• www.setpointherts.org.uk

Resources for Use in the Classroom & in Lesson Planning

• www.beaufortcourt.com
  Free workshops for schools & colleges at Beaufort Court (KS2/KS3/KS4, HE)
  Have you ever touched a wind turbine?
  Do you know how solar panels work?
  What is biomass?
  Do you want to inspire your students?

• Word 2003, 54kb/1 page, 24/01/2011, beaufortcourt_visits.doc

• Colorado.edu: Physics 2000
• Classroom clipart: Science
• Defence Dynamics: Science
  A free teaching resource bank for 14-16 year olds from the Ministry of Defence. Nearly 100 complete lesson plans provide real-life and topical contexts for students to apply their learning. Plus over 1,000 film clips, images and animations are available to access now.
• Education using PowerPoint
• Future morph
  This is site is great for assembly ideas, careers advice, posters and teacher resources.

• Inspiring Seas
  Inspiring Seas programme has teaching resources for cross-curricular teaching of STEM subjects.

• I'm a Scientist: Debate
  Teachers can order a FREE debate kit at. This is a project to get as many teachers as possible using discussions in their classrooms.
  
  These kits have been thoroughly tested and are great How Science Works (HSW) resources for developing debate and discussions skills in science classes. The project is funded by the lovely Wellcome Trust who want to promote discussion of biomedical issues.
• Leaders Award: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
  Do you have some future leaders for science and engineering? 'STEM leaders' offers awards to students to recognise their achievements.
  

• Royal Astronomical Society
  has a database of searchable teaching resources.