All Cross-curriculum articles – Page 2
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ResourceSustainability contexts for primary science
Find out how to teach science curriculum topics through engaging sustainability contexts. Our topic webs include suggestions for classroom activities that develop numeracy, literacy and scientific skills.
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Topic webElectricity production and use | 9–11 years
Connect your curriculum teaching on electricity to engaging sustainability contexts. This topic web suggests classroom activities linked to sustainable sources of electricity and monitoring our electricity usage.
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ResourceTransition metals and anticancer drugs | 16–18 years
Worksheet to check your students’ knowledge on shapes of complexes, their understanding of anticancer drugs and provide them with some history behind cisplatin
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IdeasChemists’ role in the fight against disease
Use these tips and resources to link UN sustainable development goal 3 and biology topics on health and disease to your lessons on anticancer drugs
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OpinionWhy I love the Curriculum for Wales 2022
Learn why one teacher is fully embracing the journey to realise the new curriculum in Wales
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OpinionPam rydw i’n caru’r Cwricwlwm i Gymru 2022
Dysgwch pam mae un athrawes yn croesawu’r daith i wireddu’r cwricwlwm newydd yng Nghymru
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ResourceCemeg yn y Cwricwlwm i Gymru – cynllunio cefnogaeth
Canllawiau, gan gynnwys templed sgiliau ac enghraifft gwaith, i gefnogi athrawon gyda threfnu’r cwricwlwm a chynnydd ym Maes Dysgu ac Arbenigedd Gwyddoniaeth a Thechnoleg y Cwricwlwm i Gymru, cam cynnydd 4.
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Opinion‘Science education has failed’
Covid has shown people aren’t prepared for societal challenges of the future: it’s time to put science and environment literacy at the heart of science education
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Interview‘You don’t need to choose between the arts and science’
Meet Katherine Curran, a chemist applying her polymer know-how to the conservation of plastic museum objects
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ResourceChemistry in Curriculum for Wales – planning support
Guidance, including a skills template and worked example, to support teachers with curriculum planning and progression within the Science and Technology Area of Learning and Expertise from Curriculum for Wales, progression step 4.
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CPD articleHow to teach the carbon cycle at 11–14
Ensure your students have a firm understanding of the chemistry behind climate change
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ResourceColour by pH
Introduce learners to the pH scale and the Universal Indicator chart by using these colour by number worksheets.
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FeatureCan UV light help tackle the coronavirus?
Engage students with some highly topical cross-curricular science
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ResourceHow is UV light used as a disinfectant?
Boost students’ literacy skills with some engaging cross-curricular science
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ResourceSmart materials: lesson tips
Try these activities to help design your lessons on smart materials. Explore the topic using this simple demonstration of polymers and salt.
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ResourceAnecdotes: In the Limelight
The background and chemistry of burning calcium with hydrogen and oxygen to make ‘limelight’.
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ResourceThe life of water
Get hands on with H2O, changing states of matter and the water cycle. These experiments and investigations involve water in the context of space
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ResourceOlympic composites: sports equipment and composite materials
A composite is a mix of two or more materials which often have very different properties. Find out about composites used in sport equipment material.
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ResourceOlympic composites (primary level)
Find out what composites are made up of and why they are so important sporting equipment for the Olympics.
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ResourceWind power challenge
A link to Practical Action’s wind power challenge and its related resources, where students are tasked with designing and testing a wind power machine that is cable of lifting weighted objects,