Resources by Planet Science

Texas USA: Can Malaria be Defeated by Building Tall Towers?

This resource from Planet Science aims to give students an insight into the problems caused by the disease malaria and to come up with creative solutions to combat the disease. Malaria is a major worldwide life threatening parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes, particularly in hot countries - it kills an...

The Answer's in the Solution.. Or Is It?

This activity, provided by Planet Science, encourages students to develop their problem solving skills to determine the composition of a mystery powder. They will revise some of the food tests, improve their observation skills, analytical techniques and then use the process of deduction. This resource is aimed at...

The Little Book of Experiments

This resource from Planet Science and the Astra Zeneca Science Teaching Trust features new ideas and fun activities for teachers to do in their classrooms and/or parents to do at home. Teachers can select activities according to the age and level of student or by curriculum area. Parents can select by topic or...

The Making of the People

This resource, from Planet Science, provides teachers with information which can be used to plan lessons involving debates on two questions:

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The Minotaur: How Much Would You Have to be Paid to Forget Your Principles.

This resource, from Planet Science, provides teachers with some introductory material related to ethics, for students to consider whether payment would allow them to eat disgusting foods or lie for others.

The main focus of the activity is a debate centred around the ethics of scientists, that is, the need...

The Placebo Effect

This investigation, provided by Planet Science, covers three lessons. The aim of the lessons is to introduce students to the concept of the placebo effect - that something which cannot have any effect does in fact have the same or similar effect as the drug or experiment being tested. This is usually due to the...

The Very Beginning

This resource from Planet Science provides teachers with information which can be used to set up debates on controversial science issues such as:

*Hunting: Can it be an effective form of pest control? Students consider the banning of fox hunting with dogs, the traditions and an impartial look at both sides...

Theseus: Science Can Explain a Lot – What Is a Monster?

This resource from Planet Science can be used to demonstrate that the media can frighten people about science research through biased reporting and/or unclear explanation of the science, leading to misunderstanding and the inability of people to make rational decisions. Science becomes a ‘monster’.

Teachers...

This House Believes in Using the Three Little Pigs to Grow a Heart for the Tin Man

This resource, from Planet Science, discusses xenotransplantation and whether it is a life saver or just plain wrong? The resource provides a number of web links so that teachers and students can research the ethics of organ transplants and the arguments for and against...

This House Believes No Invention Has Been Better Than Sliced Bread

The focus of this debate, from Planet Science, is to consider inventions past and present. The resource provides a number of web links so that teachers and students can research the arguments for and against whether the invention of sliced bread (or another invention...