These resources were created in a collaborative project between the University of Bristol, and science teachers and educators in Bristol. They provoke thinking and discussion in science lessons to consolidate and extend core curriculum knowledge and understanding. The topics link to the KS3 National Curriculum. The Thinking science resources come in the form of questions designed to provoke thinking and discussion on topics including physics, biology, chemistry, information technology, and working scientifically. They can be used by teachers in the classroom, assemblies, plenaries, tutor groups, and for homelearning to engage and enrich curriculum knowledge and understanding. Each topic comes with with questions and activity ideas to support curriculum needs, with teacher guidance to support delivery using the internationally recognised philosophy for children and communities (P4C) methodology. Reviewed by the Association for Science Education: “Every now and again a resource appears that just makes you stop and wish that you could find more of them; this is one of those resources.” ASSOCIATION FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION, SCHOOL SCIENCE REVIEW Our resources can be found at: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/thinking-science/resources/

The Thinking science resources come in the form of questions designed to provoke thinking and discussion on topics including physics, biology, chemistry, information technology, and working scientifically. They can be used to consolidate and extend core curriculum knowledge and understanding, as well as to engage and enrich students’ critical thinking skills. The resources link to the KS3 National Curriculum. Our latest resources explore topics such as the self online; artificial intelligence; the grid; and robots. The activities and question sections are designed around these themes, guiding students’ and teachers’ on fruitful discussions on how these technologies impact our knowledge and understanding of the world, human behaviour, and how we understand intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play games, recognise faces, translate languages and much more. AI makes important decisions previously made by humans, for example, whether to approve someone for a bank loan, or whether someone has a medical condition. AI learns from huge amounts of information that humans provide through their online behaviour. This information is used in big data systems. We already interact with AI and big data systems every day, for example, recommender systems make personalised suggestions of videos on YouTube and decide which items to present on social media. Soon people will start interacting with AI controlled robots that have access to lots of data about them. We rarely stop to consider these systems but they are radically changing the world and how we behave and think.