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SAPS Newsletter

Our Newsletter is packed with ideas, news, grants and free resources for teachers and technicians.

Join the free SAPS Associates community to get the newsletter every half-term. You'll be the first to hear to hear about exclusive opportunities - like our Science Summer School - as well as plenty of topical ideas for your teaching and a round-up of the latest research. 

 

Newsletters 2020-21

February 2021 - Distance learning resources, Globetrotting moss, Teaching Biology: Inspiring Students with Plant Science and SAPS event news 

December 2020 - SAPS Online Plant Science Summer School recorded lectures, ASE Annual Conference 2021 online, SAPS Christmas Quiz and A Surprise Discovery

October 2020 - Selective breeding and genetic engineering resource for 14-16 year olds, The story a leaf can tell and Teaching Biology: Inspiring Students with Plant Science (MOOC)

Newsletters 2019-20

July 2020 - SAPS Associate Survey, How plants tell the time, Improving Food Production with Agricultural Technology and Plant Biotechnology (MOOC), SAPS Online Plant Science Summer School and #BlackBotanistsWeek

June 2020 - SAPS Online Plant Science Summer School, Making and using a straw potometer, Teaching Biology: Inspiring Students with Plant Science (MOOC), Distance learning and Hay fever made worse by urban planners' preference for male trees

April 2020 - Distance learning resources, Teaching Biology: Inspiring Students with Plant Science (MOOC), SAPS Plant Science Summer School, A Boost for Wild Flowers and RSB competitions 

March 2020 - Learning beyond the classroom and outside the school lab, Improving Food Production with Agricultural Technology and Biotechnology (online course), Teaching Biology: Inspiring Students with Plant Science (online course) and news on how plants can detect insect attacks by 'sniffing'

February 2020 - Plant health biology context resources, Massive Open Online Course (free CPD), SAPS Plant Science Summer School and the effect of rain on the spread of plant disease

December 2019 - Bubbling pondweed, ASE 2020, Sweet rain in exchange for pollination and RSB Biology Challenge

September 2019 - Real life contexts, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), ASE 2020 and seagrass tackling climate change 

 

Newsletters 2018-19

July 2019 - Online CPD, SAPS Associate Survey, Plants mining rock for phosphorus and SAPS Plant Science Summer School

May 2019 - Online CPD, SAPS Plant Science Summer School, The challenge of plant blindness, International fascination of plants day and Intermediate Biology Olympiad

April 2019 - Context for Osmosis, SAPS Plant Science Summer School and Synthetic plant hormones

February 2019 - SAPS posters, SAPS Associate Awards and leaves as sophisticated environmental sensors

December 2018 - SAPS at The ASE Annual Conference, Ash dieback, The sound of algae and social media

October 2018 - Ancient maize, a new type of photosynthesis and thin layer chromatography

 

Newsletters 2017-18

July 2018 - Teaching Tools in Plant Biology and farming with robots

May 2018 - Animations and GDPR update

March 2018 - Summer School applications and plant defences

October 2017 - Pondweed and algal growth medium update

December 2017 - New resource update

 

Newsletters 2016-2017

May 2017 - Plant disease resources for your classroom - plus the story behind supermarket lettuce

March 2017 - Brian Cox talks plants - plus free post-16 resources and CPD opportunities

January 2017 - Measuring forests: saving forests - plus 2 more free biology posters

November 2016 - In  Darwin's footsteps, plus the virus that lures bees in

September 2016 - a new post-16 resource and weird ideas

 

Newsletters 2015-2016

April 2016 - Inspiring STEM careers

March 2016 - Pondweed politics and the smell of feet

January 2016 - Free posters and KS3 resources

November 2015 - From Matt Damon to Ash Dieback

September 2015 - From DNA to the planet in 90 secs - new video, free resources and more

 

Newsletters 2014 - 2015 

June 2015 - Using a potometer, and surprising news on nitrogen fixation

April 2015 - Events and extension - plus how the 'werewolf' plant lures moths in

March 2015 - Microscopy practicals for A-level and 14-16 - plus how 'satellite dish' leaves lure bats close

January 2015 - Conference round-up and new resources

November 2015 - Animations for plant biology

October 2014 - Investigating adaptation video 

 

Newsletters 2013 - 2014

June 2014 - New video resources and curriculum changes

March 2014 - Animations and more

January 2014 - Focus on transpiration: animations and practicals

November 2013 - Can a Venus Fly Trap count? More free resources and inspiration

September 2013 - Five minute practicals and inspiration for your classes

 

Newsletters 2012 - 2013

June 2013 - Focus on water, plus a post-16 mycorrhizae special

April 2013 - Get out of the lab! Outdoor science special

March 2013 - Tropism and top tips from teachers and technicians

January 2013 - Focus on photosynthesis

November 2012 - Ash dieback & plant pathologies

October 2012 - Biology Week Special

September 2012 - Resource round-up

 

Newsletters 2011 - 2012

June 2012

February 2012

January 2012

December 2011

November, NQT Special 2011

November 2011

September 2011

August 2011, Scotland Special

 

Newsletter 2010 - 2011

July 2011

May 2011

January 2011

December 2010

September 2010

 

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