woodchurch science

this link takes you to the bbc’s archive of videos for use in schools. includes science, geography, re and citizenship. you need a username and password to access, which i have. come and see me or email me and i’ll give them to you.

aqa have changed their link. this is the one you need for the most to date past papers and mark schemes.

researchers have found a way of cultivating cells in a doll shape, which can survive for a few days. read more on michael davies’ blog here

you should see a little animation here. it’s what’s going on inside the alveoli in your lungs. oxygen and carbon dioxide are being exchanged across the thin walls of the alveoli.

surely no denizen of woodchurchscience could disagree with the notion of celebrating the life and works of charles darwin with a public holiday – unless perhaps you think some other scientist would be more deserving.
if darwin is your man then tell gordon brown by signing this petition on the number 10 website.

charles darwin was a truly remarkable scientist. his work on evolution deserves to be honoured in some way. making his birthday (12th february) a bank holiday would be a simple way of doing this.

if you want to se some lovely photographs of a real human heart then head over to michael davies’ blog where he’s posted some great photos.

here’s a good game to test your knowledge of how science works words. usual rules apply.

at last some medical proof that chocolate is good for you: but with some caveats attached. a report from the journal of the american medical association states that dark chocolate (not white) lowers high blood pressure. read more here

more than a quarter of sharks and rays in the north-east atlantic face extinction from overfishing, conservationists warned today. a “red list” report from the international union for conservation of nature (IUCN) found that 26% of all sharks, rays and related species in the regional waters are threatened with extinction. seven per cent are classed as critically endangered, while a fifth are regarded as “near-threatened”.
read more here.

if you are revising for year 11 exams in january (or even for the mocks!) this link contains the specimen exam papers for b2, c2 and p2 exams. there are no past papers available yet.