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How schools can improve diversity in STEM subjects
Telling your wife you have a crush on someone else can be a tad awkward. That awkwardness multiplies when you explain that your crush is on…
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3 Great trips for your science department
If you’re a veteran of departmental field trips with your pupils you’ll know that no matter how great your lesson plans, how inspiring…
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Lesson plan: KS4 science – drugs testing and clinical trials
The final phase of drugs testing and clinical trials are human trials. These are the last hurdle before groundbreaking new treatments can be…
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Product review: Science Enquiry Games 11-14
We all want to see students actively and enthusiastically learning about science. We’d like the same from teachers, too. But how do you…
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Lesson plan: KS3 physics – gravitational waves
Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves as part of his general theory of relativity in 1916. Long undetected, they…
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Lesson Plan: KS4 Maths – Tricks with Algebra
To many KS4 students, algebra is morass of letters, numbers and symbols which have to be manipulated according to arbitrary and pointless…
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Lesson plan: KS3 chemistry – the periodic table
Inspired by the recent discovery of new elements in the periodic table, this lesson will help your students to learn about how elements have…
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Lesson Plan: KS3 Maths – Algebraic Manipulation
Expanding brackets and collecting like terms to simplify expressions are perhaps not the most exciting of mathematical topics, but fluency…
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Lesson plan: KS3 science – the physics of robotics
We live in an age where robotics is commonplace. Robots build cars for us, carry out medical operations and can even check us into a hotel…
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How to increase the take up of science
There’s been a lot of talk over the past decade about the need for more people holding science, technology, engineering and mathematics…
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Lesson plan: KS3 science – UFOs
Are we alone in the Universe? This age old question has gained momentum recently with scientific heavyweights such as Stephen Hawking…
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Lesson Plan: KS3 Maths – Teach Angles with Clocks
Students often approach the topic of angles by memorising lots of vocabulary (acute, obtuse, right angle, etc.) and ‘facts’ about angles…
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What’s wrong with the QTS professional skills tests?
Before you can train to become a teacher you need to satisfy certain mandatory conditions set by the DfE – one of which is to have GCSE…