Separating Materials
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on separating materials. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students separate solids using sieves and magnets. They then identify solutions and mixtures before removing materials by filtering and evaporation. Through…
Light and Sight
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on light and vision. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students identify sources of light and revise facts such as light travels in straight lines and opaque objects form shadows. They understand that to see, light…
Further Circuits
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on electricity. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students begin with revision of simple circuits before gaining lots of hands on experience with symbols, diagrams and incomplete circuits. They investigate the effect…
Drugs and Bugs
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on medicines and microbes. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students look at microbes in detail, gaining an understanding of their size and variety. They discover the beneficial and harmful effects of different microbes.…
Water
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on water. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Water exists as solid, liquid and gas in everyday conditions. Students investigate the properties of these different states of matter and how they change from one to the…
Space
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on space. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students find facts about the Sun, Moon and Earth. They develop an understanding of day and night, the four seasons and the Moon’s phases. The Sun and planets making…
Circulation
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on circulation. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students explore the structure of the heart and lungs. The double circulation system is explained and children learn more about blood. Children ask the questions.…
On the Move
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on the human skeleton and movement. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students have fun investigating their own skeletons and muscles. They look closely at bones, joints and muscles. They compare human skeletons with…
Separating Solids and Liquids
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on separating materials. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. The lessons reinforce students' understanding of solids, liquids and states of matter. They find out how solids and liquids can be separated when they…
Circuits and Conductors
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on electricity. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. The lessons reinforce students' understanding of simple circuits and the use of symbols to draw them. They go on to investigate which materials are the best electrical…
Rocks and Soils
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on rocks and soils. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students find out about what is under their feet. Students are always fascinated by rocks and, in this strand, they describe rocks and compare their properties…
Eating
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on food, diet and digestion. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students find out about food groups and a healthy balanced diet. They look at the human digestive system and the diets of herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.…
Attracting and Stretching
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on forces. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students are introduced to the mysteries of magnetic forces, and springs are revealed during this topic. During an investigation into magnets, students find out which materials…
Healthy Humans
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on health and the human body. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students learn that to stay alive, grow and be healthy they need food, water, exercise and rest. They investigate balanced diets and different food groups.…
Electricity
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on electricity. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. In the series of lessons, appliances using mains electricity, batteries or both are identified and the dangers of mains electricity emphasised. Students construct…
Changing Materials
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on materials. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students develop an understanding that materials have different properties and therefore different uses. They discuss natural/man-made materials. Students find that…
Types of Materials
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on materials. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students explore materials commonly found in the classroom, sorting them into plastic and not plastic. They discover objects that float and sink before carrying out…
Life Cycles
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on life cycles. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Stories, videos and lots of hands-on investigations will enable students to understand the life cycles of minibeasts, amphibians and plants. Sessions include the study…
Introduction to Forces
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of six lessons on forces. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students are introduced to simple forces as pushes and pulls which act in a particular direction. They investigate forces associated with vehicles, explore bubbles, experiment…