UPD8

Very good

Reviewer: Sarfraz Shah

Excellent! My students loved this one.....was relevant & contemporary. They were focussed the whole session. Thank you again UPD8 for a brilliant resource.

The class was BTEC Physiology for Sport & Exercise Science Level 3. Links to o2 transport/bones/joints & also Injuries in Health & Safety........I even used it for AS PE Class.

Reviewer: Hazel Butterworth

Good for top level year 8.

Reviewer: OLUWATOYIN LADITI

My BTec Healthy Body students enjoyed the activity, particularly as it is true - they found this most fascinating! Most were very surprised and resistant to the idea that lowering the oxygen content could have any benefits and we had a healthy debate as to whether the use of this therapy for anything other than broken bones would constitute cheating.
A useful starting point for other research.

Reviewer: Jennifer Mayer

Pupils really enjoyed this activity. It is more suitable for middle to higher level pupils.

Reviewer: sue kennedy

I downloaded this intending to use it with my PRU group but thought it was probably too involved for them. I will revisit it as an activity to do after SATS revision is finished as a fun thing to do

Reviewer: Jennifer Mayer

The kids really enjoyed this, it really engaged them and they learnt without even realising it, which is always a bonus!

Reviewer: Kim Whiddett

Great activity, even for less able.

Reviewer: Steve Rhodes

Tried this activity with my y8 and 9 classes (both low ability) during the last week of term. It was a useful way of revising respiration and the circulatory system.

Reviewer: Sarah Lewins

The Rooney resource adapted perfectly to the year 4 QCA module Moving and Growing. Even at this young age they all knew where the metatarsals were! After completing the unit based on Rooney the children wrote some bullet points to Wayne on how to fix his foot quickly, including nutritional, exercise and rest aspects. A real motivator - some very young and unwilling writers were totally absorbed in the task.

Reviewer: Christina Stiddard

Teamed with a vidoe on bones this was a perfect lesson. The pupils were really engaged with it and were happy to complete it and share their ideas with the rest of the class.

Reviewer: averill jewell

Have used this resource 3 times - as a starter with Y9 lower ability who are doing a project on fitness - tied in nicely with respiration and what oxygen is used for - and how transported.
Also with Y10 Humans as Organisms - tying together several parts of this module as a different (and to the pupils much more acceptable way) of revising
The final use was as part of a display 'What's science got to do with the world cup?' where I used the first 2 pages but not the pupils activity sheet - have seen lots of pupils stopping to look - attracted by the colourful and easy to access format

Reviewer: sarah longshaw

I used this with a football mad year 10 class of special needs pupils to tie together several sections of work in module 1 (Humans as organisms) of the AQA entry level certificate. They discussed it enthusiastically and showed much greater awareness of the relevance of science. An excellent and well-timed resource.

Reviewer: Elizabeth Franklin

A brilliant resource which I used with my Year 8 mixed ability group.It motivated all pupils. They produced some amazing work.

Reviewer: Denise Quinn

What else could I have used the day before the WC started?

A useful exercise, with all sorts of good leaping off points.

It must be good if it motivated me (a football-hating Physics tecaher) to talk about metatrasals!

Reviewer: Stephen Brian

Have to say that all four of my Y9 pupils from Level 4 up to Level 7 enjoyed this activity. The activity was extended by giving them a named skeleton from Google, identifying how each bone could be broken by a different accident. An interested survey showed that in each set there were more broken bones than dental filings, I have more filings than all the pupils in each set, gosh do I feel old sometimes.

Reviewer: Peter WOOD

A really engaging activity for my Year 9 low ability group. Someone had the idea of advising Coleen McLoughlin (Rooney's partner) about how she could help him to recover. When they wrote their report the pupils had to word it so that Wayne could easily read and understand it!

Reviewer: Margaret Wellington

This really motivated my weak Year 9's and we are developing the ideas in a further lesson

Reviewer: Kim Knappett

Excellent activity to introduce pupils to enquiry ideas of considering evidence, anomalous results, repeats etc. Followed up by trying to repeat a version of the experiment ourselves.

Reviewer: Michael Corbett

Excellent resource. Very easy to differentiate. Pupils really enjoyed learning about the ways that bones heal, especially Rooney's bones as this gave them added interest. A very informative section.

Reviewer: Stephen Palmer

We have used this with year 9's after their SAT's where traditionally we start GCSE work. With the new specifications and emphasis on How science works, this was an excellent activity to get pupils thinking about current issues, interpretation of evidence and scientific controversy.

Reviewer: Sue Humphries