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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...
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...
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
Time lapse photography is where you can speed time up. You can see things such as a flower opening that we are unable to view in real time. Haworth village have created a page full of amazing examples. http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/nature/time-lapse...
We’re hearing a lot of talk about our eco-footprint these days but how do we know how big ours is? zerofootprints.com enables children to calculate their carbon footprint. By simply answering 25 fun interactive questions, pupils will easily discover how...
Google Moon is an extension of Google Maps and Google Earth that, courtesy of NASA imagery, enables you to surf the Moon's surface and check out the exact spots that the Apollo astronauts made their landings. The Google team have a great sense of humour...
Wow! Did you see the total eclipse last night? Thanks to the clear sky it was possible to admire the red moon. This was caused by the Moon gliding through the heart of Earth’s shadow. It was a beautiful shade of sunset red. You can see photographs of...
Here are two very handy tools for when you need to create a graph quickly: Ambleside Primary’s Graph (Don't forget to see the other great tools on the Ambleside website - just click on on the Exit button to go to their site) NCES’s Create-A-Graph Mandy
http://www.arkiveeducation.org/ K . Brooker at York Road Juniors recommends this site as a rich source of information about different species. It's linked to Arkive, a source of copyright-free images dedicated to the preservation of endangered species...
Also on the animals theme, there's great fun to be had at www.switchzoo.com Build your own animal by switching head, legs and tail. There are key facts about the animals, with good quality images of each 'starter' animal in its natural habitat. You can...
http://jam.bbc.co.uk The BBC Digital Curriculum has been launched. It's totally free, and safe, with no external links other than into the main BBC site - and you don't see these within the activities. It covers Years 1 to 11. Creating a log on - it assumes...