A short article based on an extract from Topics in Safety, Topic 17 (Electricity), which is freely available to Association for Science Education (
ASE Health and Safety Group
New learning resources from the Marine Stewardship Council to help science teachers embed ocean sustainability into the curriculum.
Kate Jones
What does effective ‘Environmental’ or ‘Sustainability Education’ look like? How does this link to best practice STEM education?
Margaret Fleming
Using a Predict-Observe-Explain cycle in fostering college students' scientific explanation on concepts of velocity and acceleration in a small-gro
Ozden Sengul
Learn how to set up a hydrogen fuel cell by extending an activity most schools already do – the electrolysis of ‘water’.
Peter Borrows
Ping-Wai Kwok
Well, of course you know that a battery is made of cells in series, but I have just discovered a great way to show this to a class.
Randal Henly
Practical approaches to teaching about energy and developing understanding.
Richard Boohan
Would a change in terminology help avoid confusion or do we need to review the use o f'energy' in science teaching?
Richard Needham
Entropy is more usually studied in physics and chemistry but can also be considered in biology to explain limitations of energy changes in life-pro
Ulrich Kattmann