By Sam Holyman Are you concentrating at the end of term? At school we are getting ready for the new academic year, sorting labs, stock taking and making sure everything is labelled. And concentration has become the hot topic of debate! We use the term concentration all the time, and in everyday life this gets […]
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So, its that time of year again, exam groups are going on study leave, the GCSEs and AS exams have started and we have a little breather for us to get on top of planning for next year. One of my favourite practicals is burning magnesium ribbon. I use it with Year 7 as an […]
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The University of York Science Education Group (UYSEG) is at the beginning of a new project to develop a course for teaching science at 11-14. The Best Evidence Science Teaching project began by asking science teachers what for them were the key issues about teaching science 11-14. We will be using the best research evidence available to address those issues. I’ll be discussing this […]
Read more I’m excited to be talking at researchED Maths and Science, along with many other speakers. I decided to use this opportunity to reflect on the research-informed approach we have implemented for the Activate project. At the start of the Activate project, I sat down with a proposal for a scheme of work (much of the […]
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