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Credits and acknowledgements

 KS4 lessons

All the lessons were devised by a small team of teachers and consultants

Emma Taylor The Marlborough School, Woodstock
Zoe Spavold Carterton Community College
Graham Hickford Wallingford School, Wallingford/ John Mason School, Abingdon
Lynne Pebworth County Science Advisor, Oxfordshire
Ian Galloway Deputy Director, Science Learning Centre, South East region


Acknowledgements

KS3

  • NASA and ESA for video clips and images;
  • QCA Enterprises for permission to use the SAT questions (answers only available on the CD-ROM);
  • Concept Cartoons for permission to use the Concept Cartoon*;
  • Tony Sherborne of the Centre for Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University for help with Outbreak;
  • C4 TV for permission to use the cartoon. The History of Vaccinations*, in the Anthrax section;
  • Also thanks to Nanoworldfor permission to use micrographs of everyday images in the Bright Light section;
  • British Cement Association for permission to use images of concrete structures, TRL for permission to use image of collapsed bridge, BRE for permission to use image of Ronan point and WEEKS Laboratories who allowed filming of concrete testing in their premises, all in Watching Cement Set;
  • Medical Research Council for permission to use magnified images in the Keeping Food Safe section;
  • Cadbury Schweppes for archive film used in Champion Chocolate, and;
  • HPA Collingdale for permission to film sequences of the Spread of Epidemic clip in their laboratories in the Anthrax section

*available on the CD-ROM|

KS4

  • NASA, especially for infrared images used in Red Hot;
  • ESA especially for pictures for Space rockets and Nanotechnology;
  • AOES Medialab and NASA, ESA and the Hubble heritage team (STSc1/Aura) ESA/Hubble collaboration for images and graphics for Space rockets;
  • Peter Hingley, Librarian at the Royal Astronomical Society and Helen Walker for the pages from Herschel's notebooks and permission to use these;
  • Ian Ross at Key Med for the endoscope pictures used in Nanotechnology;
  • Spanner Films for permission to use the section from 'Baked Alaska'.