21st Century Science

Twenty First Century Science resources

From this section of the website you can download materials for technicians, materials to help with teaching, and for internal training for teachers.

For further help see also the Training and Support pages of this website.

Teaching and learning resources

OUP publications provide the information, ideas and activities for students and teachers in a variety of formats: print, on-line, and in various multi-media formats. See the information on the right.

Teaching ideas about science

Other resources

Here is an assortment of items to help schools or individual teachers starting teaching Twenty First Century Science.

Planning

Here are planning sheets for technicians. Technicians advance planning

Here is supplementary information about experiments.

GCSE Science module summaries and maps from the OUP pack are available here. GCSE Science

GCSE Applied Science module summaries: Applied Science

We are grateful to OUP for permission to provide these module summaries and maps.

iPacks with Schemes of Work, Activities, Teachers' & Technicians' notes, and ICT material on CD-ROMS are available from OUP.

Tracking student attainment

See these spreadsheets to download from the web page

Specifications

The specifications and assessment are provided by the Awarding Body OCR. Here is a Guide to whats on the OCR website

Training from the C21 team and OCR

C21 team training for technicians and teachers
Training from OCR

Internal training by science departments

Here are:

• Short films introducing C21 courses

• Training pack

• CPD units giving generic advice on leading discussions and other matters

• Powerpoint presentations taken from presentations to teachers in summer 2006

• Pilot school experiences

• Teachers' TV video showing the GCSE Science course being taught at Haggerston School, east London

• Teaching ideas about science

• Glossary of terms for Ideas about Science
>>Download the Glossary (61 KB)
This is a teachers’ glossary of ‘Ideas about Science’ terms compiled by the C21 team. It clarifies the way these terms are used in the OCR GCSE Science specification and OUP resources.
Note that ‘Ideas about Science’ is the term used in this course; they fully cover the QCA requirements for teaching ‘How Science Works’.
Students should learn these ideas from experiencing examples in different contexts. This list is not intended for students.

Information for parents and students

Powerpoint and leaflet for student option evenings.

Answers to parents' questions about Twenty First Century Science FAQs

>>Download C21 poster showing the different courses (247 KB)

Pilot OCR exam questions for Science

Help your students' learning of ideas about science with questions from the pilot OCR exams for Science - but do warn students that these are not samples of what the exam papers they may be sitting in 2007 are like
Pilot exam questions for Science

Fun stuff and Ethics poster

C21 mug and more - download the details
C21 Fun stuff order form (65 KB)

Mendeleev's dream for module C4 'Chemical patterns'

We hope that this will soon be available again from Channel 4Learning, but it is not at the moment. Further details here when we have them.

Web-links for all modules

See the OUP website Useful websites