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Teachers' Pack

 

1001 Inventions Teachers' Pack

Click Here to download the Teachers' Pack

Click Here to download the Supplement for Scotland


  The 1001 Inventions Teacher's Pack has been devised to support teachers and the classroom environment. Includes science activities for 11-16 year olds for the Science National Curriculum.

The 1001 Inventions Teacher's Pack maps relevant historical Islamic scientific and technological discoveries and principles to the national curriculum for secondary schools.

How do I get this pack?

The 1001 Inventions Teacher's Pack is available to download free of charge here.
Click here to download the supplements for Scotland.

What's in the Pack

The Pack contains important teacher’s guides and experiments to do at school and is devised to support teachers and the classroom environment. It contains:

1. Teacher’s guide to the theme and content
2. Practical activities for the classroom
3. Teacher’s guide to the exhibition

(additional items to purchase)

4. The 1001 Inventions Book
5. A set of 10 large 1001 Inventions Posters covering the theme

Why use this Pack

The main aim of this pack is to help science teachers teach the science content of the National Curriculum in a fun and engaging manner while highlighting contributions by Muslim scientific scholars.

By offering easily digestible historical facts and simple experiments to demonstrate key scientific and technological principles this resource offers an exciting opportunity to promote understanding and contributions of the Muslim civilisation in a hands-on and minds-on fashion that is accessible to younger audiences between the ages of 11 and 16.

How to use this Pack

The activities are a result of collaboration between Foundation of Science, Technology and Civilisation, science teachers and consultants. It is structured around the Science National Curriculum requirements at Key Stages 3 and 4 and contains one activity for the Design and Technology curriculum. Each activity is ready to photocopy and is accompanied by teacher notes including the areas of the curriculum which are covered, instructions on how to run the activity and relevant background material.

Sample Activity Sheet from the 1001 Inventions Teacher's Pack