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There’s never been a better time to get involved in The Great Plant Hunt and enjoy fun and free educational activities in the classroom, online and outdoors. There are plenty of things to see and do now or you can plan the project into your spring and...
Flashmeeting (video Conferencing) between your school and Horton Kirby Environmental Education Centre Find out how nature is preparing for winter in this wonderful corner of North West Kent, five miles south of Dartford. Equipment needed: webcam, microphone...
Adding a webcam to a birdbox is becoming increasingly popular in schools. Last Sunday the Kestrel chicks hatch at Povey Farm. Now is a great time to watch them being fed and growing. http://www.lea.derbyshire.sch.uk/birdcam/kestrelcam/index.html Very...
BBC's new revision game Questionaut , by Amanita Design , attempts to combine video games with sats questions. The goal of Questionaut is to track down your friend's hat, but your balloon can't reach that high until you answer enough questions...
Eagle class at Ash Cartwright & Kelsey Primary school helped Chris Evans out with a little problem. He wanted to know whether a cup of tea cooled quicked than a cup of coffee. With the help of their teacher, Chris Thomas, Eagle class set up an experiment...
The Kent Eco-Schools Project programme links well to Geography and Science and also PSHE. The Kent Schools Action On Climate Change pack and pledge is available either through the www.kent.gov.uk/ecoschools page or on www.kent.gov.uk/climatechange under...
Many schools in Kent are using Flashmeeting, a free and secure web conferencing application, to connect and share work wih other schools and also to ask questions to experts. FlashMeeting requires no specialist equipment just a basic web camera fitted...
The Kent ICT has teamed up with Science Advisor, Andrew Berry , to run a Science/ICT project entitle 'Save the Gardens of Kent' . As part of the project, schools from around Kent have been taking part in 'Ask an Expert' where they have...
Are you a Year 6 teacher - looking for a Science revision site. Have you visited www.compare4kids.co.uk/learn yet. This is a website that links to other useful websites to help with Science SATs revision to save teachers lots of time searching the web...
Teachers TV is a great resource for finding videos to support teachers CPD and also to find video clips to use in the classroom with the pupils. If you register on the site (its free), you will be able to download the videos and then embedd them in IWB...
Science Comics - Adventures with Selenia www.sciencecomics.uwe.ac.uk An exciting new digital comic called, Selenia, has been created by Emma Weitkamp of the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England to help primary school children...
What better way to get your pupils fired up about science than to take them through a real murder mystery? Crime Scene Investigation follows one school who, with the help of experts, did just this. This four part series begins with Planning the Crime...
Corbis is offering free PDF templates for real working 35mm pinhole cameras. There are six fantastic artistic templates to choose from. Pinhole cameras work wonderfully on a bright sunny day. Let's hope summer is just around the corner after the wet...
Move over Google Earth and Google Sky , Microsoft is releasing a new product called WorldWide Telescope (WWT) It looks absolutely stunning. Watch the brief video at TED , then bookmark the new WorldWide Telescope website for more details. WorldWide Telescope...
National Science and Engineering Week 2008 (7-16 March) National Science and Engineering Week (formerly National Science Week) is an opportunity for people of all ages to take part in science, engineering and technology activities. As part of the celebrations...
Three useful websites to support science have been emailed to me. One is for fun and tests reaction times on tranquilising sheep. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/reaction_version5.swf The other two are more educational. http://www.bbc...
This is your chance to find out how diet, exercise and sleep influence your class's memory and concentration levels. Teachers TV is running a mass online science experiment to investigate children’s readiness to learn as part of National Science and Engineering...
With thanks to beckij on the TES Forum Here are some excellent resources for sci boosters we have been using this term, I can't recommend them highly enough. Hope they help: Science KS2 revision book .. Vocab glossaries Loop cards