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February 2006 - Posts

Secondary Maths and Science - DfES Research from NFER

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research to conduct research into deployment of teachers and support staff in mathematics and science departments in one in four maintained secondary schools in England during the academic year 2004–2005.

Click here for report

 

Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 1:58 PM by AlanDay

National Science Week 10 - 19 March 2006
The British Association for the Advancement of Science is organising Science Week, and has put together an easy to enter competition to 'capture the colour of science'. Budding photographers are asked to snap the science they see and enter a competition called 'illuminate'.

www.the-ba.net/illuminate

The weeks other activities can be found at www.the-ba.net/nsw

Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 12:05 AM by AlanDay

Express to Venus
Teach your class about the first European spacecraft to visit Venus with new resources from the British National Space Centre (BNSC).

The Venus Express satellite will study one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system, with smouldering heat, acid clouds and runaway greenhouse effect. (Mind you I've been in pubs that fit that description!). Your class will find out about the planet, build space instruments and launch their own rocket.

The lessons are tailored for KS3 and 4 of the science curriculum and are free to download from their website at:

www.bnsc.gov.uk/learningzone

Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:54 PM by AlanDay

Fieldwork Knowledge Library
This contains suggestions on how to carry out fieldwork organised into key stages and disciplines (biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics)

www.fieldworklib.org

Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:52 PM by AlanDay

The Naked Scientist
Sounding firmly in the brainiac mould of programming is the naked scientist, broadcast live on local radio stations across the east of england. This show covers topics raging from how many organs you can donate and remain in the realm of the living, to do UFO's exist? It has involved schools in a fingerprinting race.

If you miss the shows, don't worry, they can be downloaded as podcasts. If you're not sure what podcasts are ... look out for future articles, or visit this website.

www.nakedscientists.com

Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:41 PM by AlanDay