Teaching Resources

National Centre for Biotechnology Education

http://www.ncbe.reading.ac.uk/

The National Centre for Biotechnology Education (NCBE) runs practical courses for teachers, develops practical kits for the classroom (e.g. DNA electrophoresis kits), has booklets of practical activities for the classroom (Website includes free downloads).

Science and Plants for schools

Science and Plants for schools works with teachers to develop new resources and to promote and support exciting teaching of plant science and molecular biology in schools and colleges. SAPS publishes simple protocols for plants and genetics and has developed low-cost kits for practical investigations. Practical workshops are run for teachers all over Britain.

Education@Life

Education@Life and LIFElab is the education resource centre based at Newcastle's Centre for life, which provides hands-on experiments and a range of workshops for all key stages and post-16 learners including "DNA Discovery", "DNA Photocopying", "Transformer" and "DNA Fingerprinting".

CD-ROM courseware

CD-ROM courseware for those who are interested in the benefits and limitations of genetics and genomics. It is an interactive multimedia CD Rom, and is funded by Stanford University and the US Department of Energy, Human Genome Program. More info and a demo is available on the site.

Centre for Bioscience

Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Bioscience. Is a national network of 24 subject centres distributed at universities around the United Kingdom and a Generic Centre, based at the network headquarters in York. The Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) Centre for Bioscience, based at the University of Leeds, is the subject centre for the life, food and agricultural sciences.

Sci-Teach

Sci-Teach is Science Year for Teachers. All sorts of resources have been developed to help enhance science teaching and learning during Science Year via the web and CDRoms.

Association for Science Education

ASE is for teachers, advisers, technicians, industrialists and others contributing to science education. It has a membership of over 24,000. ASE offers support, advice and information to individual teachers, schools and local colleges. ASE promotes, supports and develops science education from primary through to tertiary levels.