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Awarded an OBE for Services to Education, Clive Davies has designed and built these schemes around progression and enquiry. Focus Education resources are of the highest educational quality.

Focus Education

Pzaz is a specialist, primary science provider, with schemes written for the non-specialist primary teacher. Created by a science education expert, Pzaz covers every statement of the National Curriculum for Reception to Year 6.

Reception - Year 6, Science

Pzaz

VotesforSchools provides award-winning PSHE resources to prompt discussion on challenging issues. Young people learn about everything from politics to climate change to ensure they have an informed opinion of the world, and are equipped with all they need to know when they leave school.

Years 1-6, PSHE

Votes For Schools

Created by primary specialists, Teacher of Primary offers a bank of in-depth, highly specialised lessons so that schools and teachers can focus on the particular learning goals of their setting.

EYFS-Year 6, Maths, English & Science

Teacher of Primary

PE Resources Bank firmly believes in the power of Physical Education and transforming young people’s lives. PE Resources Bank aims to provide high quality teaching materials for staff to use and promote a genuine love for learning. 

PE Resources Bank

Master The Curriculum

Striver

KS2 Gems

Guinea Pig Education

Livello is a specialist literary provider, they offer half-termly units built around highly engaging and exciting books that will inspire a love of reading while teaching comprehension, grammar and composition. Start from the books they love, succeed with strategies from Livello.

Years 1-6, English

Livello

Learning Mole uses fun and engaging animations to capture childrenâ€™s imagination and inspire curiosity. Use Learning Moleâ€™s videos as a perfect jumping off point to start great discussions and stimulate learning.

EYFS-Year 6, Maths, English, Topic & PSHE

Learning Mole

Music Playtime has been created by a Key Stage 1 and Early Years Music education specialist. The schemes are built in recognition of the fact that most primary teachers are not music specialists. Access the knowledge and the ideas you need to feel confident teaching music.

Music Playtime

1Decision

Active Music Digital

All Aboard Learning

Flashcards to add to your GCSE and A-Level revision lessons.

Years 10-13, Various

Quizlet

Sir Linkalot is the award-winning future of spelling. Students learn to spell any word they want from 'was' to 'onomatopoeia' by watching short, funny animations. Never fail a spelling test again!

Sir Linkalot

Get The Buzz! is a specialist in Maths Games for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Engaging maths games can help to build an enjoyment for maths and can consolidate learning so that all students are benefitting.

Years 1-6, Maths

Get The Buzz

All students can enjoy and improve their achievement in mathematics. It is no longer acceptable to say that only certain types of people can learn mathematics. Can Do Maths provides resources to support teachers and parents to help children and students believe they 'Can Do Maths'.

CanDo Maths

PlanBee is the hive of ready-to-use primary resources for KS1 and KS2, with time-saving resources for busy teachers!

KS1 & KS2

PlanBee

Max Maths is a specialist primary school maths provider that uses the Singapore Mastery Approach to follow the Cambridge Primary maths curriculum framework.

Max Maths

Everyone can do maths: Everyone can! White Rose is used in most UK Primary schools and is the most trusted primary maths provider in the UK. Everything White Rose offers is created by maths experts and directed at teachers using a mastery approach to teaching maths.

White Rose

Year 1 Science scheme of work from Focus Education. This scheme has been designed to help you create your own bespoke curriculum but take advantage of the numerous resources that have been produced to support you.The curriculum is built on sequencing knowledge and skills (to include substantive and disciplinary knowledge) and building on prior learning so that each subject creates a narrative. Focus Education have used an enquiry-approach methodology, where possible, so that questions are predominant in most of the units produced.

Science - Year 1 - Focus Education

ICESat-2's instrument, ATLAS, is designed to measure heights on Earth. ATLAS has three main tasks: transmitting a pattern of six laser beams, collecting the laser photons that return to the satellite after reflecting off Earth, and recording the travel time of those photons. First up – transmitting the laser. In this video, optical engineer Tyler Evans illustrates how the laser is transmitted from the ATLAS instrument to the ground.

NASA | Laser Focus

To see how the Transmitter works, go here Opto-Mechanical Engineer Tyler Evans explains how the photons that bounce back from Earth are received and filtered by the ATLAS telescope.  ATLAS is the primary instrument on board the ICESat-2 spacecraft, which will measure the height of Earth's features.

NASA | Laser Focus: The Receiver

One of the best ways to raise happy and healthy teenagers is by setting a positive example ourselves. Wai Lana’s wealth of experience in yoga and meditation has given her deep wisdom and inspiration, which she shares with others in this Wai Lana Insights series.

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Focus on the Positive

Year 6 Science scheme of work from Focus Education. This scheme has been designed to help you create your own bespoke curriculum but take advantage of the numerous resources that have been produced to support you.The curriculum is built on sequencing knowledge and skills (to include substantive and disciplinary knowledge) and building on prior learning so that each subject creates a narrative. Focus Education have used an enquiry-approach methodology, where possible, so that questions are predominant in most of the units produced.

Science - Year 6 - Focus Education

Learn how to graph a parabola in standard form when the vertex is not at the origin. We will learn how to graph parabola's with horizontal and vertical openings. In addition to graphing you will also learn how to identify the important characteristics of a parabola in conic sections such as the focus, directrix, and vertex which are all based on the vertex (h,k).

Identify the focus and directrix of a parabola

Loosen your shoulders while strengthening your arms. A squatting pose and leg lifts loosen your hips while strengthening your legs.

FOCUS: ARMS AND LEGS

Year 3 Science scheme of work from Focus Education. This scheme has been designed to help you create your own bespoke curriculum but take advantage of the numerous resources that have been produced to support you.The curriculum is built on sequencing knowledge and skills (to include substantive and disciplinary knowledge) and building on prior learning so that each subject creates a narrative. Focus Education have used an enquiry-approach methodology, where possible, so that questions are predominant in most of the units produced.

Science - Year 3 - Focus Education

Year 2 Science scheme of work from Focus Education. This scheme has been designed to help you create your own bespoke curriculum but take advantage of the numerous resources that have been produced to support you.The curriculum is built on sequencing knowledge and skills (to include substantive and disciplinary knowledge) and building on prior learning so that each subject creates a narrative. Focus Education have used an enquiry-approach methodology, where possible, so that questions are predominant in most of the units produced.

Science - Year 2 - Focus Education

Year 5 Science scheme of work from Focus Education. This scheme has been designed to help you create your own bespoke curriculum but take advantage of the numerous resources that have been produced to support you.The curriculum is built on sequencing knowledge and skills (to include substantive and disciplinary knowledge) and building on prior learning so that each subject creates a narrative. Focus Education have used an enquiry-approach methodology, where possible, so that questions are predominant in most of the units produced.

Science - Year 5 - Focus Education

Learn all about parabolas in conic sections. We will discover the basic definitions such as the vertex, focus, directrix, and axis of symmetry. We will also take a look a basic processes such as graphing, writing the equation and identifying a parabolas parts when given an equation in standard and general form.

New definition of a parabola with focus and directrix

Increase audience interest and focus, and retain their attention for longer with a simple psychological trick which is easy to achieve but can greatly improve the effectiveness of each slide.

Add A Psychological Effect To PowerPoint For Increased Focus

Year 4 Science scheme of work from Focus Education. This scheme has been designed to help you create your own bespoke curriculum but take advantage of the numerous resources that have been produced to support you.The curriculum is built on sequencing knowledge and skills (to include substantive and disciplinary knowledge) and building on prior learning so that each subject creates a narrative. Focus Education have used an enquiry-approach methodology, where possible, so that questions are predominant in most of the units produced.

Science - Year 4 - Focus Education

This video explains how you can use focus stacking to increase depth of field by combining multiple separately-focused exposures together.  In the video I explain the principle of focus stacking, what gear you will need, how to take the pictures, and how to combine them using Adobe Photoshop.  I know when I wanted to try focus stacking, there were a lot of well-made, but also long-winded videos available, so I explained the technique in a quick, simple, yet effective time frame.

How to Focus Stack in 2 Minutes

Learn how to graph a horizontal parabola. A parabola is the shape of the graph of a quadratic equation. A parabola is said to be horizontal if it opens to the left or opens to the right. A horizontal parabola results from a quadratic equation in which the y part of the equation is squared. To sketch the graph of a parabola, we first identify the vertex, the focus and the directrix. To do this, we first write the equation in the form (y - k)^2 = 4p(x - h), where (h, k) is the vertex and p is the distance between the vertex and the focus. After expressing the equation in the form (y - k)^2 = 4p(x - h), the vertex is given by (h, k), the focus is given by (h + p, k) and the directrix is given by the line x = h - p. After obtaining the vertex, the focus and the directrix, we can then sketch the parabola.

Graphing a sideways parabola using the focus and directrix

About 1 million miles away from the nearest eye surgeon, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be able to perfect its own vision while in orbit. Though the Webb telescope will focus on stars and galaxies approximately 13.5 billion light-years away, its sight goes through a similar process as you would if you underwent laser vision correction surgery to be able to focus on an object 10 feet across the room. In orbit at Earth’s second Lagrange point (L2), far from the help of a terrestrial doctor, Webb will use its near-infrared camera (NIRCam) instrument to help align its primary mirror segments about 40 days after launch, once they have unfolded from their unaligned stowed position and cooled to their operating temperatures.Laser vision correction surgery reshapes the cornea of the eye to remove imperfections that cause vision problems like nearsightedness. The cornea is the surface of the eye; it helps focus rays of light on the retina at the back of the eye, and though it appears to be uniform and smooth, it can be misshapen and pockmarked with dents, dimples, and other imperfections that can affect a person’s sight. The relative positioning of Webb’s primary mirror segments after launch will be the equivalent of these corneal imperfections, and engineers on Earth will need to make corrections to the mirrors’ positions to bring them into alignment, ensuring they will produce sharp, focused images. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center:Eric Villard (InuTec, LLC): WriterMichael McClare (KBRwyle): ProducerMichael P. Menzel (AIMM): ProducerMichael P. Menzel (AIMM): Video Editor 

James Webb Space Telescope Laser-Focused Sight

What is the focus and directrix of a horizontal parabola conics

Learn to graph a horizontal parabola & identify the focus & directrix

Learn how to write the equation of a parabola given the focus and the directrix. A parabola is the shape of the graph of a quadratic equation. A parabola can open up or down (if x is squared) or open left or right (if y is squared). Recall that the focus and the vertex of a parabola are on the same line of symmetry. When given the focus and the directrix of a parabola, recall that the vertex of a parabola is halfway between the focus and the directrix and the focus is inside the parabola. This enables us to identify the direction which the required parabola opens. We also need to identify the value of p, which is the distance between the vertex and the focus. p is negative when the parabola opens down or left and is positive when the parabola opens right or up. Once we identify the direction and the value of p, we can use the equation of parabola given by (y - k)^2 = 4p(x - h) for parabolas that opens up or down and (x - h)^2 = 4p(y - k) for parabolas that opens left or right.

Fiinding the standard form of a parabola given focus and directrix

Learn how to write the equation of hyperbolas given the characteristics of the hyperbolas. The standard form of the equation of a hyperbola is of the form: (x - h)^2 / a^2 - (y - k)^2 / b^2 = 1 for horizontal hyperbola or (y - k)^2 / a^2 - (x - h)^2 / b^2 = 1 for vertical hyperbola. The center of the hyperbola is given by (h, k). It is halfway between the two vertices and halfway between the two foci. 'a' is the distance from the center to the vertices and 'b' is the distance from the center to the covertices. 'c' is the distance from the center to the foci. The relationship between a, b and c is a^2 + b^2 = c^2. Using these characteristics of the hyperbola, we can then plug them into the standard equation to obtain the equation of the given hyperbola. Note that a hyperbola is vertical when it is facing up and down and is horizontal when it is facing right and left. When a hyperbola is vertical, the vertices and the foci are in the y-axis but they are in the x-axis when the hyperbola is horizontal.

Given the vertices and focus find the standard form of the hyperbola

Focus Science National Curriculum Coverage

Colors like white, pink and brown aren’t just for clouds, flowers and cows! They also describe special sounds that can actually help you focus and sleep!

Colored Noise, and How It Can Help You Focus

Seven digits is the "magic number" for neuroscientists. It's just about the maximum your short-term memory can retain. Can you remember a seven-digit number? Find out with Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, head of the NSF-funded CELEST Science of Learning Center at Boston University​.Shinn-Cunningham and other leaders from the Science of Learning Centers provided a Capitol Hill briefing June 24, 2015 on their work studying how the brain learns and develops. Rep. Chaka Fattah hosted the briefing.The other Science of Learning Centers are:The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC)  The Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) center The Science of Learning Center, Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2)The Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC)

How well can you focus your brain?

While most efforts to understand the brain focus on new technologies to magnify small anatomical features, engineers at the MIT-based Center for Brains, Minds and Machines have found a way to make brains physically bigger.The technique, which the researchers call expansion microscopy, uses an expandable polymer and water to swell brain tissue to about four and a half times its usual size, so that nanoscale structures once blurry appear sharp with an ordinary confocal microscope.Expansion microscopy enables researchers to resolve details down to about 70 nanometers, while 300 nanometers was the previous limit with a conventional microscope.Development of the novel process, which is detailed in the Jan. 15 issue of Science, was partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), including support via an NSF early faculty career development award and an NSF graduate research fellowship.The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines is an NSF science and technology center funded in 2013 as part of NSF's continuing support for the advancement of fundamental brain research."This clever technique, which bypasses the limitations of traditional techniques for brain imaging, has the potential to be a powerful new tool to help researchers map and understand the brain," said Pramod Khargonekar, NSF assistant director for the Engineering Directorate, which supports an array of neuroengineering projects. "It just goes to show that significant steps forward in science can emerge from unexpected and wonderful ideas."The new method is another advance in brain imaging that brings researchers closer to illuminating the entire brain and nervous system, one of today's greatest engineering challenges.The engineers who developed the technique, Fei Chen, Paul Tillberg and Edward Boyden at MIT, assert it offers the ability to image large, intact, 3-D brain structures with nanoscale precision for the first time."Expansion microscopy may provide a key tool for comprehensive, precise, circuit-wide, brain mapping," Boyden said. The team has demonstrated the process on mouse, fruit fly and zebrafish brains and is working with another team to apply it to human tissue.Boyden adds that the process may be useful beyond the brain to other parts of the body. Many types of biological processes involve nanoscale interactions across large systems, such as cancer metastasis and immunological responses.To learn more about NSF-supported brain research and the BRAIN Initiative, visit NSF's Understanding the Brain webpage. The NSF-funded findings, from Ed Boyden, Fei Chen and Paul Tillberg at MIT, are in the January 15 issue of Science.Credits at end of video

Expansion microscopy brings the brain in 3-D into focus

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to get distracted while studying - even when you know you really don't have time for Facebook, Snapchat, Cookie Clicker, or whatever else is calling you? This week we're going to help you get a better handle on your focus and concentration and how to improve those skills.

Focus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills

Mapping the flight path of Indian flying foxes in Myanmar will help scientists learn more about where these megabats travel, and where they encounter humans and domestic animals. For the first time, scientists are tracking them with light-weight GPS trackers. The trackers will provide a window into the bats' movements that could help humans. If scientists know where bats are interacting with humans and domestic animals, they can help prevent the spread of zoonotic diseases-and maybe even help predict the next pandemic.

Field in Focus: Flying Foxes

Bats are important pollinators, but they can also carry infectious diseases. Wildlife veterinarians with Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Global Health Program are trying to help humans and bats live together more safely. Linno Cave in Myanmar is home to more than 500,000 bats. Their guano is harvested and used as fertilizer. That is important for agriculture, but it also presents risks. Wildlife veterinarians have been collecting samples from bats in the cave to test for viruses. They've discovered new  coronaviruses from their testing, but it's not clear if they present any risks to human health.

Field in Focus: Linno Cave

Animal health and human health are connected. Seventy-five percent of emerging infectious diseases begin in wildlife species and jump to humans. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute veterinarians with the Global Health Program are studying infectious disease in different species to help prevent and predict pandemics.

Field in Focus: Predicting Pandemics

Write the equation of a Parabola in standard form given the focus and directrix

Learn how to write the equation of an ellipse from its properties. The equation of an ellipse comprises of three major properties of the ellipse: the major radius (a), the minor radius (b) and the center (h, k). The ellipse is vertical if the major radius in vertical and the ellipse is horizontal if the major radius is horizontal. When given the two foci of the ellipse, the center of the ellipse is halfway between the two foci. When given the vertices of an ellipse, the major radius of an ellipse is the distance between the center of the ellipse and its vertices. Using the pythagoras identity for the relationship between the focal length (distance between the center and the foci) and the radius, we can obtain the minor radius. After obtaining the center, the major and the minor radius, they are plugged into the equation of an ellipse to obtain the desired equation.

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