Using Forensic Laboratory Products as an Aid to Teaching Science

One of the challenges constantly facing science educators is making their topic relevant. This applies as much to the relevant bodies governing education as to its students.

Science contains a lot of large, complex ideas. Students can often find it hard to engage and relate with these ideas, especially if they cannot see how this knowledge will benefit them in the real world. Students can be very shrewd when learning new topics, and the question 'when will I ever need to know this?' is one that every teacher will surely have heard.

Call for Practical Science Experiments to be Protected in Curriculum

The Council for Science and Technology expressed in August its intention to write to the education secretary raising concerns over the science curriculum. The Council warns that the current focus on exams is squeezing practical laboratory experiments out of the curriculum. If things continue to progress down this path, the idea of school microscopes being a mainstay of any science lesson could soon become as antiquated as students playing with mercury.