The SEP booklet ‘Go with the Flow’ introduces a range of materials
that have unusual and interesting properties, and provides suggestions for how
they can be used in practical work in school science. The materials are mostly
polymers, such as slime, liquid and solid polymorph, silicone gum and putty.
There is also the magnetic liquid, Ferrofluid. There is an accompanying CD-ROM
that contains a collection of animated sequences that can be used by students
working independently or by a teacher with a data projector, and a set of individual
video clips, animations and worksheets that teachers can incorporate into their
own teaching sequences. (KS3 and KS4)
See below for the practical resources that have been identified and developed
specifically for use with the activities in this booklet.
Further resources can be downloaded from the 'Go
with the Flow' page on the SEP
website, including an electronic version of the booklet. (Access
is for SEP Teacher Associates - this scheme is free
to join for science teachers and technicians in UK secondary schools.) |