Here is a sample of striking images taken from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive which have been used as the basis of a series of classroom display posters. These include Owen's manuscript for &'Anthem for Doomed Youth&'; and the front cover of 'The Hydra&': the magazine created by patients at Craiglockhart Hospital. To see more items related to the Great War Poets (manuscripts, diaries, letters, photographs), visit: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/ All free and available to use for educational purposes.

This resource pack created by Katharine Lindsay contains a PowerPoint presentation and sets of images and films to explore the role of women in the First World War, as well as the feminist movement. To see more like this, visit: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education. All the material presented here is made available under the JISC Model Licence and the HEFCE Licence for the digitization projects running under the JISC Digitisation Programme Phase 2.

Post 16 in a Nutshell is designed to tackle the impact of the end of AimHigher and scaling down of Connexions services, by providing careers advice to students in Years 10 & 11. These downloadable resources are available for schools to use during their SEAL, PHSE or Careers lessons. Each session has a presentation, resources for students and a lesson plan to enable teachers to run the session. With special thanks to staff in the Widening Participation team at Oxford University for the creation and release of these materials.

Chirality can be seen in many objects, from galaxies to flowers, and from foods to medicine. This activity is an ideal way to introduce the concept of chirality and optical isomerism. The video 'Give us a hand' outlines basic information. During the lesson students learn to recognise chiral molecules and then witness a demonstration to see how plane polarised light is rotated in different directions by enantiomers of carvone. Finally, they apply their knowledge by explaining how the observed angle of rotation can be measured using a polarimeter. In an optional extra activity they can watch a video demonstration, and then use a homemade polarimeter to work out the specific rotation of carvone. Learning outcomes: 1) Define the terms chirality, enantiomer, optical isomer, polarised light; 2) Identify examples of chiral molecules; 3) Explain why chiral molecules are described as optically active. See more at http://www.oxfordsparks.net/learning-resources#2162

Find artistic inspiration in science through the poetic writing of Nobel prize winning scientist, Charles Scott Sherrington. Dr Lizzie Burns encourages independent thinking via this excellent series of slides where students can devise questions, create colourful artwork and write poems about the human body. To see more like this, visit: https://history.medsci.ox.ac.uk/art/activities/ © Dr Lizzie Burns, Department for Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. With thanks to the Wellcome Trust.

This course pack brings together resources from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Great War Archive websites produced by the University of Oxford for teachers of Key Stage 2 History. This video item can be used in conjunction with supporting materials and has been shared from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit); © The Imperial War Museum.

Social media has become a huge part of many of our lives. But do we really know where all that information goes? Scientists from the University of Oxford are studying how information and misinformation can spread across social media platforms. Mathematical models can be used to help predict how information might spread. In this activity pupils plot a series of graphs and use them to interpret, predict or describe the spread of information. Learning Outcomes • Students can successfully plot graphs • Students can use graphs to estimate values See more at: http://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/content/keeping-social-media-social

Stimulate debate and discussion with pupils through this investigation on aspects of slavery and the abolition movement by exploring newspaper articles, parliamentary documents and abolition literature. This in depth resource has been created using documents held at The Angus Library and Archive, Regent’s Park College, Oxford University. The resource includes a pack of primary sources for students and teaching notes including contextual information and suggested questions designed to encourage and support classroom discussion in a lesson or series of lessons. They can be adapted for use with KS3 and KS4 pupils of all abilities.

Commemorate the World War One Centenary with your students by exploring some of these fascinating open source images gathered by Ken Khan, Kate Lindsay and Richard Marshall for the Continuations and Beginnings project, University of Oxford. Each slide contains contextual information along with links to the original source of the image. This could be adapted for KS3, 4 and 5 students and serve as an interesting stimulus for class discussion. To see more like this visit: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk.

These resources provide a set of teaching and learning materials for Key Stage 3 on the safe use of social media. They have been prepared as part of the ‘Digital Wildfire’ research project led by the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford (www.digitalwildfire.org). The lesson plan shared here encourages students to discuss the positives and negatives of social media and reflect on how they can stay safe online. This resource pack includes: a social media quiz, a set of prompts and links to inform a whole-class discussion on e-safety, and three alternatives for a ‘Take Care of Your Digital Self’ activity, which asks students to draw upon their own experience/knowledge of social networking to advise others. These resources could be used as part of a short tutor session or a more in-depth exploration during a PSHE/Citizenship/ICT lesson. The second file in this pack contains a set of 18 slides that could be used for an assembly on e-safety. The slides cover the positives and negatives of social media, and advice about online privacy and thinking before you post. Short notes are included plus a space for schools to add information about their own social media policies. Both the lesson and assembly include the use of our short Digital Wildfire animation ‘#TakeCareOfYourDigitalSelf’, which is available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nXaEctiVhs

Get cross-curricular and create a class collage bringing colourful microbes to life. Dr Lizzie Burns offers this excellent slideshow entitled 'Life in little&'. so that you and your students can find artistic inspiration in the microscopic world via the poetic writing of Nobel Prize winning scientist, Charles Scott Sherrington. To see more like this visit: https://history.medsci.ox.ac.uk/art/activities/ © Dr Lizzie Burns, Department for Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. With thanks to the Wellcome Trust.

Stimulate debate and discussion with pupils on the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade choosing from these four lesson starters created using documents held at The Angus Library and Archive, Regent’s Park College, Oxford University. Each resource includes clear images for pupil reference and a separate version for teachers including contextual information and suggested questions designed to encourage and support classroom discussion. opyright: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Examine the science behind DNA damage and repair with this probability calculation activity designed by Dr Martin Christlieb from the Department of Oncology, Oxford University. Ideal for both KS3 and 4 biology students, this task will encourage learners to consider how cells evolve on a microscopic scale and the ways in which lifestyle choice can affect our likelihood of developing cancer. This activity effectively complements the Evolution of Cancer board game, which traces the 10 'hallmarks of cancer&' development.

Explore the science behind DNA damage and repair with this thought-provoking board game designed by Dr Martin Christlieb from the Department of Oncology, Oxford University. In teams, students adopt the role of a person living their life and use dice rolls to represent the damage and possible repair mistakes in their DNA. The game highlights the importance of inheritance and lifestyle in cancer outcomes, as well as illustrating some aspects of ‘how science works’. A good resource for a KS3/4 biology lesson on genetics or a PSHE session on lifestyle choice.

Stimulate debate and discussion with pupils on aspects of World War One through newspaper articles and an advertisement. These 3 lesson starters have been created using documents held at The Angus Library and Archive, Regent’s Park College, Oxford University. Each resource includes a clear image for pupil reference and a separate version for teachers including contextual information and suggested questions designed to encourage and support classroom discussion. Copyright: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Dr Jane Dyson from the School of Geography and the Environment, and Ross Harrison present this extraordinary documentary on life for populations in the Indian Himalayas. You can download the full 15 minute film using the link below or a shortened version in the resources section of the site. You can also use this lesson plan with supporting flashcards to inspire an interesting unit of work exploring both the physical and human geographical elements of this area including migration, extreme landscapes and globalisation. © University of Oxford 2014

Dr Jenni Nuttall provides a brief powerpoint slideshow to introduce late medieval and early Tudor love poetry, intended as a resource for students preparing for AQA’s LITA3 Reading for Meaning (Love through the Ages) exam. The slideshow is designed as an introduction for a lesson using four handouts (items two to five). It introduces various types of medieval writing about love, and various depictions of love in this period. This content is under a Creative Commons licence and free for reuse, remixing and redistribution in education (BY-NC-SA)

In this fast-moving and dramatic activity, student groups become teams of volcanologists. They receive a budget with which to purchase and maintain monitoring instruments and satellite data for an active volcano. To see more like this, visit: https://www.youtube.com/user/OxfordSparks/videos © 2014 University of Oxford

The balance between providing resources for a growing and technologically advanced population and protecting biodiversity is an ever-increasing problem. In this activity, students gain an insight into the work of researchers at The University of Oxford’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS) and model the conflict between development and the needs of people and the environment. They role play a stakeholder meeting between local villagers and developers, mediated by conservation researchers, to see if they can come to an agreement on proposed development ideas. Learning Outcomes: Students learn what conservation is and why it is important Students discuss negative and positive environmental and social impacts of development to make a decision. See more at: https://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/content/conserving-nature

Stimulate debate and discussion with pupils on the conditions for slaves on some ships using these 2 lesson starters created using documents held at The Angus Library and Archive, Regent’s Park College, Oxford University. Each resource includes a clear image for pupil reference and a separate version for teachers including contextual information and suggested questions designed to encourage and support classroom discussion. They can be adapted for use by KS3 and 4 pupils. Copyright: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

This resource pack created by the Free Speech Debate team offers a series of articles, discussions and suggested essay questions to explore the complex relationship between religion and free speech. In particular there is a case study on how this debate is expressed and represented in India, and how blasphemy is viewed in a range of countries across the world. This content is placed under a Creative Commons licence (BY-NC-SA). To see more visit: http://freespeechdebate.com