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FREE Poster for SAPS Associates - Gene Technologies
Get our new free poster on gene technologies, the third in the Plant Powered poster series.
Download the accompanying article, aimed at post-16 biology students.
Please pass this offer on to friends and colleague at other schools for them to get their poster too.
Download the first two posters in the series, Photosynthesis and Epigenetics.
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New SAPS resources - biology, physics and chemistry for 11-14 students
How can pupils be encouraged to see the connections between the sciences? How can they lay the foundation for a synoptic understanding of key scientific concepts? In this innovative suite of resources, we cover key topics in biology, physics and chemistry, through the themes of plant evolution and adaptation.
SAPS' new collection of resources is designed to support science teaching for 11-14 year olds. The resources involve a mixture of independent investigations, engaging and hands-on practicals, and activities to identify misconceptions and strengthen understanding.
Download the resources
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SAPS at the ASE Annual Conference 2016
We demonstrated all the resources above, plus much more, at our drop-ins and talks at the ASE Annual Conference in Birmingham. We'll be launching more resources for A-level practicals over the course of the year, along with materials for the new GCSEs. Watch this space.
Download the resources
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An alternative Valentine - roses transformed into electronic circuits
In among the red roses that will shortly be filling the shops, you're unlikely to see the latest invention from Swedish bioscientists. Using the basic trick of dipping a plant stem into the liquid to be taken up, they've transformed the vascular system of plants to a conductive 'wire', successfully creating organic electrochemical transistors with logic gate functionality in the stem of the plant.
Read the Science article (open access)
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The 'first flower' blooms in space
It's a week for firsts in Space - with Tim Peake making the first British-mission walk in space, and now the 'first flower to bloom in space'. The ISS team has successfully grown a zinnia through to flowering - not for its beauty, but to develop their ability to trigger flowering in day-length sensitive plants. Next step, planned for 2017, is successfully growing tomatoes. (Readers of this newsletter might quibble with the newspaper's description of zinnia as the first space bloom - Arabidopsis was grown from seed to seed by Soviet astronauts in 1982.)
Read more
And if your school isn't already taking part in the Rocket Science investigation, growing seeds that are currently with Tim Peake on the ISS, then sign up now.
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British Biology Olympiad - registration deadline now extended
The Biology Olympiad is an opportunity for keen young biologists to be challenged and stimulated - and 4 students will find themselves representing the UK in the world Olympiad in Vietnam.
There is (just!) still time to register your students for the British rounds.
The British Biology Olympiad (BBO) is open to all your 16 - 19 year old biology students. The BBO competition takes place online in your school with staff supervision at a time of your choosing between 20th – 28th January 2016.
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