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AQA (9) | Edexcel (7) | OCR Gateway (11) | WJEC (2) | Activity Resources (14) | Image (1) | Instructional (5) | Learning Resource (5) | Publications / Correspondence (2) |

AQA (Showing 1 of 9 available)

• Explore Science: GIZMOS
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  A wide selection of clips and interactive activities relating to physics, from the Explore Science website.
  
  

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Edexcel (Showing 1 of 7 available)

• Explore Science: GIZMOS
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  A wide selection of clips and interactive activities relating to physics, from the Explore Science website.
  
  

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OCR Gateway (Showing 1 of 11 available)

• Forces and Motion: Practical Physics
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  OCR Gateway P5b, WJEC P3.6. Very large collection of experiments on forces and motion from the Institute of Physics Practical Physics website. Includes teachers' guidance on issues such as measuremen...
  
  

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WJEC (Showing 1 of 2 available)

• Forces and Motion: Practical Physics
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  OCR Gateway P5b, WJEC P3.6. Very large collection of experiments on forces and motion from the Institute of Physics Practical Physics website. Includes teachers' guidance on issues such as measuremen...
  
  

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Activity Resources (Showing 10 of 14 available)

• How science works (Practical Physics)
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  This part of the website enables teachers to develop science skills and introduce science processes, through experiments and case studies from the history of Physics. It highlights experiments that ca...
  
  
• Practical chemistry: experiments for GCSE
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  Chemistry experiments for GCSE. Procedures with extensive teaching and technical notes on theoretical background, lesson organisation, reagents, safety together with useful hints and tips. This is...
  
  
• The Effect Of Temperature On Bread Dough: an interactive simulation
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  Investigates how different variables affect bread dough. A flash program allows input of temperature, volume and time, and produces visible representation of the affect. Looks at reaction rates and we...
  
  
• Neuroscience for kids: Reflexes
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  Practical investigations of human reflexes with a distance versus time chart for the ruler drop method for reaction times. A webpage from the University of Washington K12 website, by Dr Eric Chudler.
  
  
• Forces and Motion: Practical Physics
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  OCR Gateway P5b, WJEC P3.6. Very large collection of experiments on forces and motion from the Institute of Physics Practical Physics website. Includes teachers' guidance on issues such as measuremen...
  
  
• Practical Physics at Work: The MODEL Project
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  PDF document on "Practical Physics at Work" an interactive DVD-ROM and hard copy worksheet, with video clips of science in the workplace, from research scientists to electricians fitting an office. De...
  
  
• Hollywood Science: testing the science in the films
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  Website with Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf, Scrap Heap Challenge) and Dr Jonathan Hare (Rough Science) put some of Hollywood’s most famous sequences to the test by recreating them. Could Paul Newman rea...
  
  
• Designing and Evaluating Experiments
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  IOP (Institute of Physics) webpage, providing examples of physics experiments that develop experimental design and evaluation skills. Students are encouraged to implement their ideas for improving exp...
  
  
• STFC
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  The education section of the STFC website, containing resources and links for science education
  
  
• Seeing Science: Teaching resources for KS3 and 4
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  A website full of interactive learning resources and teacher materials based on real scientific research that takes place in the STFC labs
  
  

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Image (Showing 1 of 1 available)

• Hunkin's Experiments
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  Hunkin's Experiments is a page of fun and simple experiments to entertain and teach. Presented in the form of "cool" cartoon instructions for experimenting with food, light, sound, clothes, and more. ...
  
  

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Instructional (Showing 5 of 5 available)

• Young Engineers
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  Website of Young Engineers, an organisation which aims to inspire young people to develop an interest in engineering and recognise the importance and excitement of engineering as a future career. The...
  
  
• SciZmic: The Science Discovery Clubs Network
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  Homepage of the Science Discovery Clubs Network from Ecsite-uk. It is designed to help anyone who wishes to run a science club and includes ideas on set up and activities, with suggestions ranging th...
  
  
• STFC
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  The education section of the STFC website, containing resources and links for science education
  
  
• Explore Science: GIZMOS
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  A wide selection of clips and interactive activities relating to physics, from the Explore Science website.
  
  
• Schoolscience teaching resource website
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  The ASE and RCUK website with a wide range of science teaching resources for all school ages
  
  

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Learning Resource (Showing 1 of 5 available)

• Forces and Motion: Practical Physics
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  OCR Gateway P5b, WJEC P3.6. Very large collection of experiments on forces and motion from the Institute of Physics Practical Physics website. Includes teachers' guidance on issues such as measuremen...
  
  

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Publications / Correspondence (Showing 2 of 2 available)

• Valid Analytical Measurement: Introduction to measurement - posters for schools
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  Four A2 colour posters produced by the Valid Analytical Measurement programme at the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. They caver sampling, types of analysis and various aspects of reliability.
  
  
• Introduction to measurement: A set of posters for schools
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  Four A2 colour posters produced by the Valid Analytical Measurement programme at the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. They cover sampling, types of analysis, and various aspects of reliability.
  
  

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