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Topic in a Box

The University of Warwick's Widening Participation Team are launching Topic in a Box - an initiative designed for GCSE students. Topic in a Box is an in-school activity that can either be a digital or physical box and provides a fun and interactive lesson linked closely to the GCSE curriculum. This is designed by staff or students at the University of Warwick. More boxes will be uploaded over the coming months.

Physics: Forces - Gravity

An interactive lesson in a box which aims to investigate the link between mass and weight using a space spin. This lesson is delivered at Cardinal Newman Catholic School as part of their GCSE Forces Topic and they are delighted to share their work.

Forces - Gravity Lesson Plan and Resources List

Forces - Gravity PowerPoint

Biology: Heart and Blood Vessels

Warwick University's BioSoc have created a Topic in a Box designed to teach GCSE students about the heart and blood vessels.
Resources for this lesson are below.

Heart and Blood Vessels Lesson Plan

Heart and Blood Vessels PowerPoint

Heart and Blood Vessels Resource List

Warwick BioSoc have offered to deliver this lesson plan themselves if your school would like them to visit. Schools must be within the Coventry and Warwickshire area, and be listed as widening participation. Please email SEMFacultyWP at warwick dot ac dot uk to get in touch with them.

Biology: Enzyme Engineering

The iGEM Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology, education and competition, and the development of an open, collaborative, and cooperative community. The PyRe Team at Warwick's School of Life Sciences won a gold award in 2022. They have created a Topic in a Box about Enzyme Engineering.

Enzyme Engineering Lesson Plan

Enzyme Engineering Resource List

The PyRe Team have offered to deliver this box in schools. Schools must be within the Coventry and Warwickshire area, and be listed as widening participation. Please email SEMFacultyWP at warwick dot ac dot uk to get in touch with them.

Topic in a Box
Available Boxes

Biology

Heart and Blood Vessels

Enzyme Engineering

Physics

Forces - Gravity