Classroom resources
Designed to be used alongside the Centre of the Cell website and to complement the National Curriculum, each resource has a recommended key stage but may also be used as revision or extension activities with other key stages.
Each section also contains information on how Centre of the Cell content ties into the National Curriculum at each Key Stage. This relates specifically to the content in the Centre itself, rather than the content here on the website, and is designed to help you decide whether or not a visit to us will be useful to your students.
The full curriculum map for KS 2 - 4 is available in PDF format here:
Curriculum Links KS2-4. WARNING: Large file!
Pre-visit activities are available at www.centreofthecell.org/activities.
Curriculum links: Key Stage 2
The areas of the curriculum that can be covered on a visit to Centre of the Cell.
Designed for the job
Encourage students to consider the many different structures and functions of the cells in their bodies.
Disease Detection and Diagnosis
These activities teach pupils to think about how doctors and other staff diagnose illnesses and how new diagnostic tests are developed. Pupils also consider when screening programmes for diseases are appropriate.
Risk Factors of Disease
These activities introduce the idea that there are certain factors, called risk factors, which can increase a person’s likelihood of developing a disease. Pupils learn how scientists use research to determine what the risk factors are for various diseases.
Double Blind Trials
These activities demonstrate how double blind trials are run, explaining what a placebo is and how the placebo effect works, how bias is removed as far as possible and how participants and trial medicines are randomised.
New Vaccines
These activities introduce the concept of vaccination and why it only protects the population if most people are vaccinated. They show how early vaccination was tested and discuss the role of informed consent in Clinical Research. Pupils learn about the process of developing a new vaccine.
Curriculum links: Key Stage 3
The areas of the curriculum that can be covered on a visit to Centre of the Cell.
Choosing the sex of babies: Ethical debate
Get students thinking about the moral and ethical implications of sex selection.
Clinical Research
In these activities, pupils learn about how new medicines are developed – from the initial idea, through the science that turns them into treatments, to the clinical research that tests whether they are safe and effective.
Double Blind Trials
These activities demonstrate how double blind trials are run, explaining what a placebo is and how the placebo effect works, how bias is removed as far as possible and how participants and trial medicines are randomised.
New Vaccines
These activities introduce the concept of vaccination and why it only protects the population if most people are vaccinated. They show how early vaccination was tested and discuss the role of informed consent in Clinical Research. Pupils learn about the process of developing a new vaccine.
Risk Factors of Disease
These activities introduce the idea that there are certain factors, called risk factors, which can increase a person’s likelihood of developing a disease. Pupils learn how scientists use research to determine what the risk factors are for various diseases.
Curriculum links: Key Stage 4
The areas of the curriculum that can be covered on a visit to Centre of the Cell.
Clinical Research
In these activities, pupils learn about how new medicines are developed – from the initial idea, through the science that turns them into treatments, to the clinical research that tests whether they are safe and effective.
New Vaccines
These activities introduce the concept of vaccination and why it only protects the population if most people are vaccinated. They show how early vaccination was tested and discuss the role of informed consent in Clinical Research. Pupils learn about the process of developing a new vaccine.
