All Cross-curriculum articles – Page 2
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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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CPDHow 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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ResourceWater! Water!
A resource pack including a student worksheet, teachers’ notes and four presentations looking at one of the most vital substances on planet Earth - water.
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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,
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ResourceThe squashed tomato challenge
Students design, build and test a method of transporting tomatoes
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ResourceSmall is... challenge
A link to Practical Action’s ‘small is… challenge’ and its related resources, where students are tasked with analysing technology from the last hundred years, and to invent a product that could help achieve a sustainable future.
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ResourcePower for the world
A link to Practical Action’s power for the world activity and its related resources, where students are tasked with looking at renewable energy solutions, and designing and building their own wind turbines.
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ResourcePlastics challenge
Links to Practical Action’s plastics challenge, where students develop products from recycled objects, as a possible way of tackling environmental problems caused by plastic waste.
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ResourceFloating garden challenge
Design and build a model structure with Practical Action’s floating garden challenge
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ResourceBeat the flood challenge
Links to Practical Action’s beat the flood challenge, including the teacher and student materials, beat the flood poster, competition winners and schools’ experiences of the challenge. Video: Beat the flood
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ResourceWood conservation - the Mary Rose
The Mary Rose is a wooden Tudor warship that sank off Portsmouth in 1545. While on the sea bed, most of her hull became covered in silt, which effectively sealed it and the artefacts it contained in anaerobic (air-free) conditions and preserved them from decay.