
A level STEM resources

Your A Level practical work supports the topics that you learn in the classroom. If you are planning on studying science after A Level, then universities also value students that have the practical skills to succeed in higher education. We have brought the laboratory expertise of Birmingham researchers to some of the most common A Level Science experiments to help you understand why practical skills are important, as well as how to do well in the lab.
Chemistry
Acid-based titration
How do you perfect the acid-base titration?
Electrochemical Cells
How do you measure the EMF of an electrochemical cell?
Rates of Reaction
Why do we calculate the rates of reactions?
Salicylic acid
Can you make aspirin in the laboratory?
Biology
Antimicrobial agents
How can we test antimicrobial agents?
Electrophoresis
Can you use electrophoresis or chromatography to analyse DNA
Enzyme reaction rates
What can affect enzyme controlled reactions?
Cell membranes
How can you test membrane permeability?
Mitosis and meiosis
How can we use microscopes to observe mitosis?
Species diversity
How do you measure the diversity of species?
Physics
Electrical properties
How do you work out the resistivity of a wire?
Electromotive force
Why is it useful to know the EMF of a circuit?
Gravity
How can we measure gravity?
Interference effects
What does interference have to do with gravitational waves?
Young's modulus
What does the Young's Modulus tell us about a material?
Capacitors
What do we need to know about capacitors?
Ionising radiation
How do we observe the effects of the inverse square law?
Harmonic motion
Why is simple harmonic motion so important?