Whether you’re a teacher of STEM, information technology, humanities, careers or social studies, we want to help you with all of these challenges and put the ‘wow’ into classrooms. We want to support you with resources that aim to engage all students regardless of their gender, ethnicity or background. There are multiple organisations and global initiatives that are focused on this mission, and our aim is to bring these resources together so that you can access them quickly and easily – For Free
Whether you’re a teacher of STEM, information technology, humanities, careers or social studies, we want to help you with all of these challenges and put the ‘wow’ into classrooms. We want to support you with resources that aim to engage all students regardless of their gender, ethnicity or background. There are multiple organisations and global initiatives that are focused on this mission, and our aim is to bring these resources together so that you can access them quickly and easily – For Free
Suitable for 14-to-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 biology and economics.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Al Benson and Dr Sheetal Kircher, oncologists at Northwestern University. They are supported by the Eisenberg Foundation, a philanthropic organisation that funds vital gastrointestinal cancer research and patient care.
• This resource also contains an interview with Al and Sheetal and offers an insight into careers in oncology.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Al and Sheetal’s research and challenges them to design a social media campaign to raise awareness of and funds for cancer research.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-to-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 Biology and Economics.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Arpan Patel from the University of Rochester in the US. He is studying the causes, effects and solutions of the financial stress faced by cancer patients.
• This resource also contains an interview with Arpan, and offers an insight into careers in healthcare economics. If your students have questions for Arpan, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Arpan’s research and challenges them to Create a brochure to educate patients and their families about the resources that can help alleviate financial toxicity.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this Spanish language article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 health and biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Tina Brinkley, a gerontologist at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She is investigating how diet, exercise and social activity influence brain health as we age.
• This resource also contains an interview with Tina and offers an insight into careers in gerontology.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Tina’s research and challenges them to design a week-long brain boosting schedule containing activities to promote their brain health.
• The accompanying PowerPoint reiterates the key points in the article and encourages students to reflect on their own aspirations.
• In the accompanying podcast, Tina discusses the importance of finding mentors to support you.
• An animation about Tina’s work is available from the Futurum website, along with a downloadable script.
• The article, activity sheet, PowerPoint and animation are also available in Spanish from the Futurum website.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
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Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom or shared with students online.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Associate Professor Elena Suvorova, at the University of South Florida in the US, who is studying how Toxoplasma gondii reproduces at the cellular level to identify weak points that could lead to new anti-parasitic treatments.
• This resource also contains an interview with Elena, providing an insight into careers in cell biology.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Elena’s research, and tasks them to think about how features of Toxoplasma gondii can be targeted by drugs.
This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-to-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Allan Johnson and Associate Professor Leonard White at Duke University. They are combining their expertise in biomedical engineering and neuroscience to image mouse brains in the highest-ever level of detail.
• This resource also contains interviews with Al and Len and offers an insight into careers in neuroscience.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Al and Len’s research and challenges them to create their own ‘NeuroTok’ videos to educate and inspire people about the brain.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-to-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-to-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Natalie Trevaskis, a pharmaceutical scientist at Monash University. She is developing drugs that are delivered through the lymphatic system, making them more effective.
• This resource also contains an interview with Natalie’s team members and offers an insight into careers in pharmaceutical science.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Natalie’s research and challenges them to learn more about the lymphatic system.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-to-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-to-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 social science and data science.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Catherine Patocka, an emergency medicine doctor, and Dr Jessalyn Holodinsky, a data scientist, both from the University of Calgary. They are using data science to improve emergency medicine care.
• This resource also contains an interview with Catherine and Jessalyn and offers an insight into careers in emergency medicine.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Catherine and Jessalyn’s work and challenges them to design their own feedback-based learning health system to improve their local ED.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-to-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-to-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 environmental science, biology, geography and chemistry.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Barbara Zeeb, an environmental scientist at the Royal Military College of Canada. She is investigating how plants can clean up contaminated land.
• This resource also contains an interview with Barbara and offers an insight into careers in environmental science.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Barbara’s research and challenges them to imagine they are an environmental consultant and to design a phytoremediation plan for a contamination scenario.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-to-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom or shared with students online.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Nicole B. Cyrille-Superville of Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute Kenilworth and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in the US, who has dedicated her career to improving our understanding of how all these factors can affect health outcomes for patients with heart failure. Nicole blends clinical practice with research to learn more about the social determinants of health and the treatment, rehabilitation and support options that can make a difference to patients’ lives.
• This resource also contains an interview with Nicole, providing an insight into careers in cardiology.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Nicole’s research, and tasks them to design a health resource.
This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-to-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Cynthia Bearer, a neonatologist at the Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital. She is exploring how environmental factors influence lipid rafts, and how this impacts the neurodevelopment of newborn babies.
• This resource also contains an interview with Cynthia and offers an insight into careers in neonatology.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Cynthia’s research and challenges them to explore how environmental factors influence children’s health.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 Biology and Physics.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Adetola Adesida from the University of Alberta in Canada. He is studying knee osteoarthritis using microgravity and developing solutions using the latest bioengineering techniques.
• This resource also contains interviews with Adetola and his students, and offers an insight into careers in orthopaedics. If your students have questions for Adetola, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Adetola’s research and challenges them to design a health plan for the first crewed mission to Mars.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom or shared with students online.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Biology, Psychology and Chemistry.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Scott A. Irwin, Director of the Patient and Family Support Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer in Los Angeles, USA, who is working to improve care for people with cancer. He combines psychiatry with palliative care to reduce suffering and improve quality of life, not just for patients, but for their families too.
• This resource also contains an interview with Scott, providing an insight into careers in palliative care psychiatry.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Scott’s research, and tasks them to create a palliative care psychiatry awareness campaign.
This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 Biology and Chemistry.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Kelly Munkittrick from the University of Calgary and Dr Maricor Arlos from the University of Waterloo in Canada. They are combining their expertise to monitor organic micropollutants in Canadian aquatic ecosystems and reduce their impacts.
• This resource also contains interviews with Kelly and Maricor, and offers an insight into careers in aquatic toxicology and environmental engineering. If your students have questions for Kelly or Maricor, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Kelly and Maricor’s research and challenges them to conduct an experiment to test the effect of micropollutants in water.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom or shared with students online.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Maria Octavia Rangel, from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in the US, who has been making significant changes to the lives of older adults with heart problems ever since she was studying for her master’s degree. By blending clinical practice, clinical research, and teaching and mentoring the next generation of medical professionals, Octavia uses her passion for improving the lives of older adults to improve treatment, medication and rehabilitation.
• This resource contains an interview with Octavia, providing an insight into careers in geriatric cardiology.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Octavia’s research, and tasks them to design a research trial.
• In the accompanying podcast, Octavia speaks about how to create supportive and reciprocal relationships with your mentors, and the importance of pushing yourself out of your comfort zone.
• The podcast is accompanied by the transcript and a PowerPoint containing questions which help students to break the podcast down and reflect on what they have heard.
This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 Chemistry and Biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Charles Gauthier and his PhD student Oscar Gamboa from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Canada. They are developing new methods for synthesising carbohydrates and exploring their biomedical potential.
• This resource also contains interviews with Charles and Oscar, and offers an insight into careers in carbohydrate chemistry. If your students have questions for Charles or Oscar, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Charles and Oscar’s research and challenges them to write a funding application for a mock carbohydrate chemistry research project.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-to-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Lali Medina-Kauwe, a biomedical scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She has bioengineered a new protein molecule that can cross the blood-brain barrier and deliver drugs to brain tumours.
• This resource also contains an interview with Lali and offers an insight into careers in biomedical science.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Lali’s research and challenges them to build their own model of Lali’s protein using objects they can find around the house or classroom.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom or shared with students online.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Biology and Chemistry.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Barbara Bendlin, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, and Darby Peter, a PhD candidate working in her laboratory, who are investigating how gut bacteria influence brain function and whether changes in the microbiome could increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
• This resource also contains an interview with Darby,and provides an insight into careers in neuroscience.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on the team’s research, and tasks them to explore outreach programmes.
This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-to-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Volney Sheen, a neuroscientist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is using gene editing techniques to silence the expression of the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome.
• This resource also contains an interview with Volney and his team members and offers an insight into careers in neuroscience and neurology.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Volney’s research and challenges them to design a gene therapy for a genetic disorder.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 Biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Netz Arroyo from the Johns Hopskins School of Medicine, USA. He is developing wearable continuous molecular monitors that can help us track our health and manage diseases.
• This resource also contains an interview with Netz, and offers an insight into careers in biomedical engineering. If your students have questions for Netz, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Netz’s research and challenges them to practice their science communication skills by imagining themselves in different scenarios.
• The animation summarises Netz’s research and is accompanied by a script.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Suitable for 14-to-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor David Langlais, a genomicist at McGill University. He is investigating transcription factors and the epigenome impact the immune system.
• This resource also contains an interview with David and his colleague, Dr Mathieu Mancini, and offers an insight into careers in genomics.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on David’s research and challenges them to contact a scientist to learn more about real-world research.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!