Welcome to the last of our resource and activity gifts for Christmas.
A huge thank you to all of our delegates who have participated at one of the Science Learning Centres across the country this year.
Here are the last of our resources for you to share, use or take inspiration from.
Primary
(Please scroll down for Secondary)
In this video, Zoe Crompton provides winter and snow related ideas and activities for primary school children.
Here are the primary CPD courses coming up in the New Year.
Secondary
This video shows Simon Quinnell demonstrating a range of experiments which can be performed at the Christmas dinner table.
Here are the secondary CPD courses coming up next term.
If you like the ideas behind Simon and Zoe’s videos and would like to learn more demonstrations then you should consider attending our practical demonstration courses:
Technicians as Demonstrators: The Practical Demonstrator in the Classroom
or one of our regional demonstration courses.
A big thank you to everyone who has supported the network of Science Learning Centres over the past year. In particular to the major funders of our awards and bursaries.
| The Wellcome Trust | Department for Education | |
| AstraZeneca | AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust | |
| BAE Systems | BP | |
| General Electric Foundation | GlaxoSmithKline | |
| Rolls-Royce | Vodafone | |
| Vodafone Group Foundation |
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year from the Science Learning Centres and the National STEM Centre, we look forward to welcoming you back in 2012.
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What brand tea bags do you use in the secondary video?
Hi Henry,
Simon Quinnell said that the tea bags used have to be cylindrical with no partition in the middle. These are getting harder to source unfortunately. There are some Sainsbury fair-trade ones we are using at the moment which seem for the moment to have the proper design needed.
Hope that helps
John
I tend to buy whatever is on offer. I haven’t yet found any that don’t work!
I like your experiments. Very educative.I am also a science teacher, active learning makes students to invent and explore scientific concept in a practical way
Lipton Black Tea is perfect and cheap, I pay £3.95 in the local Polish food shop for 100 tea bags. They work really well.
Excellent experiments well shown and discussed, thank you. For me, the music detracts seriously from my enjoyment of watching the film. I don’t understand what it adds and I do find it distracting and irritating.
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The National Science Learning Centre and the National STEM Centre will be running a free science demonstration day in York on Saturday 1 December 2012 10:30 -15:00. This is free to all. To book your place and find out more please visit http://www.myscience_openday.eventbrite.co.uk