Mrs Boulton’s class are looking at newspaper articles in lots of different papers. Are your chosen articles also available online? Use these websites to find out.
Helping students to find quality information
Category Archives: Y10
GM Foods
GM Foods from the Food Standards Agency
Genetically Modified Foods and Crops from Greenpeace
Food under the microscope from the BBC
Questions and answers on GM foods from the BBC
Your views on radiation
Mrs Timms has asked her Y10s to research the uses, dangers and current news about radioactivity. Here are some links to get you started.
Radiation – this website from Broadoak Community School in Weston-Super-Mare outlines the uses, sources, types and dangers of radiation.
Radioactivity and its uses – this revision bite from BBC bitesize is useful for basic information. You can also find more information from BBC bitesize in Radioactivity and Radioactive substances.
Doc Brown’s chemistry clinic has some useful information on radiation including the uses of radioactive isotopes
To find recent news articles about radiation and radioactivity, try Google news, the BBC or the Guardian website. Here are a couple of articles to get you started:
Sending information
Mrs Timm’s Y10 classes are revising digital and analogue signals.
Here are some links to help you.
Digital and analogue signals – this presentation from Elliott School and this revision bite from BBC Bitesize – Sending information – explain the use of optical fibres and the differences between digital and analogue signals.
How fibre optics work from ‘How stuff works’ explains what fibre optics are and the advantages of using this technology.
The University of Southampton has some useful diagrams to illustrate how digital signals and analogue signals differ. The article Key facts about communicating using light – why are optical fibres so useful also explains why digital signals are better than analogue signals.
These Wikipedia entries are useful for finding out more about optical fibres, analogue signals and digital signals.
Useful products from oil
Mrs Timms’ class are revising their chemistry learning on products obtained from oil. Here are some websites to help with your revision
Useful products from oil – two revision bites from BBC Bitesize on ‘oil and oil products’ and ‘alkanes, alkenes and polymers’.
Oil Products – and extensive webpage from Doc Brown’s Chemistry Clinic covering origins of oil, separation of crude oil, alkanes, alkenes, cracking and uses of plastics. Think you know it all, try these quizzes (Foundation level and Higher level) or these word-fill exercises (Oil products 1, Oil products 2 and Oil products 3). There’s another webpage from Doc Brown’s Chemistry Clinic on Extra Organic Chemistry that has information about alkanes and alkenes, polymers, and fats, oils and margarine. Scroll down the page or use CTRL+F to find what you’re interested in.
Oil products – scroll down this London Grid for Learning webpage until you find ‘lesson 2 – oil products’. Click on the hyperlink to access an interactive lesson covering oil and its distillation and combustion, alkanes and alkenes, cracking of oil fractions and making plastics. You can also find more information in these exam topics: Useful products from oil and How can so many useful products be made from crude oil
Crude oil and its products – this presentation from Science Interactive revises the formation and processing of crude oil, cracking hydrocarbons, alkanes and alkenes. There are also some slides on global warming and fossil fuels that aren’t as relevant for this lesson. But if you scroll to the end of the presentation, there are some useful exam questions to focus your revision. You can click on the ‘full’ icon to see the presentation full screen. Just press Escape to return to the normal screen.
Useful products from oil – this webpage from Digitalbrain explains how products from oil are created. Unfortunately many of the links at the bottom of the page don’t work anymore though.
Adaptation, Evolution and Extinction
Ms Timms’ Y10 class are looking at how animals and plants adapt and evolve. There are lots of books that will help you with your research task, though they are scattered in the science section of the non fiction books. Look out for books with these Dewey numbers (you can find this on the spine of each book).
- 551 or 552 for information about rocks
- 560 for information about fossils
- 568 for information about dinosaurs
- 575 for information about evolution
- 580-589 for information about plants
- 590-599 for information about animals
Here are some websites that may help you too:
Adaptation and competition – this revision bite from the BBC has information about adaptation, changing environments, competition and extinction. Click on the links or the page numbers.
Adaptation: plants and animals – this webpage from Trinity College in Australia has loads of links to webpages on the adaptations of many plants and animals.
Endangered Animals – Extinction is Forever – this website from Utah’s Education Network has links to websites about animals that are now extinct. This ThinkQuest website, Put Extinction on Paws, does the same.
Evolution – this revision bite from the BBC has information about evolution and extinction.
Plant adaptations – this webpage from the Missouri Botanical Gardens in America has information about how plants adapt to different environments.
If you’re really interested in this topic you might want to read this article from the Independent newspaper. It outlines how the extinction of plants and animals is a threat to mankind and looks at patterns of extinction throughout history.
World War 2
The library has lots of books on World War 2. You need to look for books with a Dewey number of 940.5. You can find the Dewey numbers on the spines of each book. There are also signs at the top of the shelves to help you.
Here are some websites that should help you too, especially if you are looking for true accounts of what it was like during the war.
Children of World War 2 – although this website from the BBC looks like it’s for younger children, the information is very good and well worth a look. You will find information on how things were at home, rationing and evacuees.
The Home Front – another site aimed at younger children, but full of useful information on women and children’s experiences of the war, rationing, music, propaganda and radio broadcasts.
Home Sweet Home Front – this website has lots of links on the left hand side to information on many aspects of the war including air-raid shelters, Christmas during the war, blackouts and land girls.
World War Two: The Home Front – this short article from History on the net outlines evacuation, rationing, women and the Home Guard.
WW2 People’s War – another website from the BBC, which contains an archive of stories and images of real people’s memories of the war. Use the links at the top of the page to search by categories.
Hillsborough disaster
Football fans crushed at Hillsborough from the BBC website explains what happened and includes a link to video footage.
Hillsborough: 10 years on – this special report from the BBC website has links to images and accounts of what happened as well as information about what changed following the disaster.
Hillsborough football disaster has been created by the families and survivors of the disaster. It contains survivors and footballer’s accounts of what happened and a chronology of the main events and decisions. You can also find out about this groups campaign for justice
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