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 Spanish. 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 Spanish language teaching resource explains the work of Dr Maria Lugaro of the Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences in Hungary. Maria is a nuclear astrophysicist who is part of an international and interdisciplinary team of scientists working on the RADIOSTAR project, investigating radioactive nuclei and the clues they left behind in meteorites. • This resource also contains an interview with Maria. If you or your students have a question for her, you can submit it online – go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. Maria will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Maria’s research, and tasks them make their own spectrometer. 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 and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Spanish. 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 Spanish language teaching resource explains the work of Dr Sarah Kurnick, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. She is investigating how Postclassic Maya communities at Punta Laguna interacted with their Classic Maya past, by working with the contemporary Maya who live in Punta Laguna today. • This resource also contains an interview with Sarah and offers an insight into careers in archaeology. If your students have questions for Sarah, they can send them to her online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Sarah will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Sarah’s research and challenges them to explore why we topple statues to protest how we commemorate the past. 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 Chinese 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 Rebecca McLean and Professor Simon Graham, vaccinologists at the Pirbright Institute, UK. They are developing a vaccine against Nipah virus in pigs, which will prevent humans from becoming infected. • This resource also contains an interview with Rebecca and Simon and offers an insight into careers in vaccinology. If your students have questions for Rebecca and Simon, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Rebecca and Simon will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Rebecca and Simon’s research and challenges them to consider how they would contain a future outbreak of Nipah virus. • The article and activity sheet are also available in English and Bengali through the weblink below. 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!