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The Chemical Industry Education Centre (CIEC)
produces The Good Resource Guide for both
primary and secondary schools. A large range of
resources are collected for review from industrial
companies, trade and professional associations.
The resources are reviewed by practising teachers.
Several criteria are used to decide if a resource
should be recommended:
- Does the resource support the curriculum?
- Is there time to use it?
- Will it enhance planned lessons without the
need for extensive modification?
- Does the resource provide sufficient background
information to support teachers and pupils as
it is used?
The Association for Science Education (ASE) has
supported an updated review of the guides and
an online database search facility. Resources
are categorised by topic (General, Living Things,
Materials and Physical Processes). Age range,
keywords, cost and details of how to order the
resources are all clearly shown. The following
are well worth looking at:
GENERAL: Making Sense of Science, The
Most Amazing Pop-up Book, All Sorts of Stuff,
ASE Be Safe! 3rd Edition, SATIS 8-14, Young Investigators
Schemes
LIVING THINGS: Active Environmental
Learning, Human Torso Model, You, Me and Us, Inside
Out Tunic, Animal Focus - Farm Animals, Focus
on Minibeasts, Growing Plants Stage 1 Sc
MATERIALS: Chemistry and Cookery, Oil
for Beginners, Pencils, Poems and Princesses,
Tidy and Sort
PHYSICAL PROCESSES: Earth and Beyond,
Electricity, Henry and the Torch, Henry and the
Bicycle Alarm, Science in Play: Discovering Forces,
www.energychest.net
Find the database within the ‘Reference
Publications’ section of the CIEC site at:
www.uyseg.org/ciec_home.htm
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