Toolkits
Explore our free, curriculum-linked toolkits below
Physical Kits
Digital Kits
About SCoPE
Teachers and Gurdon Institute scientists co-created a suite of innovative teaching ‘toolkits’ to use in biology classrooms across the UK. These toolkits are part of our public engagement programme and their development was funded by Wellcome, therefore they are FREE for teachers to use.
Read more about the toolkits and arrange to borrow or use them by clicking above.
The toolkits have been designed to bring contemporary research into GCSE and A-level classrooms in ways that support the current biology curriculum.
In addition to helping teach the required curriculum, we hope these toolkits will enable students to think critically about science, understand the value and relevance of the topics they are studying, and see research as a pertinent and attractive career choice.
Through the co-creation process, we hope we have fostered the development of a professional network between scientists and teachers, allowing scientists to develop a greater understanding of how their research fits in with and is perceived by the education system and enabling teachers to deepen their knowledge of fundamental biology and current research techniques.
This project was funded by Wellcome. Its process and outcomes are being evaluated by the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education. The project was coordinated by the Gurdon Institute Public Engagement Team.
We are very grateful for the time and contributions of Fran Riga and Mark Winterbottom, all of the teachers, scientists, learning specialists and others who made this project possible. Thank you!
About the Gurdon Institute
Part of the University of Cambridge, we are a world-leading centre for research into the biology of development and how normal growth and maintenance go wrong in diseases such as cancer.
Our research is at the interface between developmental biology and cancer biology. We focus on several related topics:
Cell division, proliferation and genome maintenance;
Function and regulation of the genome and epigenome;
Mechanisms of cell fate determination, multipotency and plasticity;
Cellular processes underlying organ development and function.
We investigate these areas in both normal development and in cancer using several model systems, from yeast to human organoids.
Find out more about our research here