- Energy Town
The Wonderverse is Equinor’s schools-based, curriculum-linked education programme designed to spark wonder for science and the future of energy. Through an exciting city simulation game and in-school education materials we showcase how modern cities use energy resources and the ways the energy transition can be managed.
Read more - Online physics courses for non-specialists
This series of modules aims to support non-specialist, early career and trainee teachers with physics teaching to Key Stage 4. It will be delivered by experienced trainers from Physics Partners working in partnership with the ASE. Each module is a 3-hour Saturday session and will focus on one topic.
Read more - Millgate
MHE & ASE Publications is a new publishing venture born from the merger of Millgate House Education and The Association for Science Education.
Read more - Minecraft Element Quest
ASE has teamed up with Minecraft to develop a learning activity for students aged 11-13 years. Students explore key locations in the Periodic Odyssey to collect gaseous and metallic elements whilst researching their uses and properties.
Read more - Mary Anning: A fossil hunter's story
To help primary educators of children aged 9-11 embed key moments in history and science within their curriculum, we have used the incredible real-life story of early 19th century fossil collector and palaeontologist Mary Anning to produce a series of high-quality teaching resources and professional learning strategies that all educators can now access free of charge.
Read more - ASE Conferences and Events
ASE events and conferences offer teacher-led professional development opportunities and are held at UK-wide venues.
Read more - GCSE Physics Formula and Symbols
We commissioned the Association for Science Education (ASE) to create these useful resources to help your students learn and recall what they need to know, plus bonus additional support materials.
Read more - ASE Book of the Year Competition
The award is designed to celebrate science writing that educates and inspires science learners and educators of all ages. We are seeking books that go that extra mile and support our vision of ‘science for all’.
Read more - RSPB Wild Challenges
ASE educational experts have gone through the excellent RSPB Wild Challenge resources, to create a series of fact-sheets designed to help fellow teachers put each challenge into a curriculum context.
Read more - OF.E and ASE Energy Resources Project
Exploring energy resources provides students with an insight into their future, as the world’s energy mix is likely to look very different in the coming decades as we tackle the challenges of climate change a growing world population, and the need to connect over a billion people who currently don’t have access to electricity.
Read more - Primary Science Leaders' Survival Guide
The Primary Science Committee of the Association for Science Education has launched the Primary Science Survival Guide. It has been developed by the ASE Primary Committee with generous contributions from a variety of experts and is free to primary ASE members.
Read more - Birdgirl
I have been birding and twitching forever. I am 20 years old and am a birder, twitcher, conservationist, environmentalist and writer
Read more - ASE Green Tick Evaluation
As a professional association, we support our members by creating useful expert evaluations of some of the latest resources, publications and products on the market.
Read more - ASE Guide to Secondary Science Education
Essential reading for everyone concerned with the practice of secondary science education. This completely new edition of the highly regarded ASE Guide to Secondary Science Education covers a wide range of topics in its 26 concise chapters.
Read more - It's not fair - or is it?
It’s not fair – or is it? is a really practical guide to support teachers in their teaching of science enquiry skills. It's Not Fair tells you exactly what you need to know for teaching the 2014 primary science curriculum.
Read more - Why you'll never catch smallpox homepage
This superb new resource is brought to you by the Association for Science Education in partnership with James Films, with support from the Wellcome Trust. It offers a great opportunity for integrating science within cross-curricular learning in the context of smallpox and other communicable diseases.
Read more - Why You'll Never Catch Smallpox
Children revise key learning from across the 'Why You'll Never Catch Smallpox' activities and explore how Jenner’s discovery has changed the world, and its crucial role in their own health.
Read more - Measles alert!
A dramatic multimedia simulation of a modern measles outbreak, using real data from the 2013 Swansea epidemic. Children take on roles in an Outbreak Control Team and use their maths and science skills to analyse and fight the outbreak.
Read more - Dr Edwina Jenner
A discussion-based activity comparing the ethics and scientific processes of Dr Jenner’s work with those of modern clinical trials.
Read more - The Great Vaccine Debate
A two-part history and science activity that develops children’s ability to understand and use sources to answer history and science questions relating to vaccination.
Read more - Making Movies
Children learn about some of the main creative and technical roles that go into making a film, and use the JAMES film to explore some key creative techniques such as music and basic camera angles.
Read more - Strength of Character
An English-focused activity about the importance of characters in storytelling. Children discuss some key concepts and terminology relating to characters, and use them to explore the characters of James and Dr Jenner in the JAMES film, to discuss other characters they have met in film and literature, and to enhance their own creative writing.
Read more - Picturing Dr Jenner
Children explore some of the most famous paintings depicting Dr Jenner’s revolutionary experiment on James Phipps. Using the concept of artistic licence, they discuss why the paintings of the same event are so different. They use the paintings and their learning as inspiration to create their own pieces of art depicting the experiment.
Read more - History Detectives
Children investigate the historical evidence about Edward Jenner and James Phipps using primary and secondary sources. They use these to find out whether real life events happened the way they do in the supporting film, James.
Read more - The Speckled Monster
Children take part in a simulation of a smallpox outbreak which introduces them to the observations that led Edward Jenner to his world-changing discovery that cowpox gives immunity to the dreaded ‘Speckled Monster’.
Read more - Why you'll never catch smallpox acknowlegements
Why You'll Never Catch Smallpox Acknowledgements
Read more - ASE Bookslaes
AS Publications offer unique titles for secondary and primary science education
Read more - SATIS Revisited
Science and Technology in Society - Fifteen teaching units
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