KS2 Science Materials
From Teachers TV, this video shows Year Three class teacher, Clare James, and Jane Turner from the Science Learning Centre on their way to Sarehole Mill in Hall Green. The purpose of their visit is to see if the water mill might be a suitable location for a Key Stage Two science lesson on materials. The mill contains a wealth…
Materials: Lesson and Review
From Teachers TV, this video looks at a Key Stage Two science lesson devised by Year Three class teacher Clare James. The lesson was inspired by visits the children made to a working water mill. Clare brings the outside environment into the school by inviting mill education officer Elfyn Morris into the classroom with his model…
Materials
This video, from Teachers TV, suggests ways to introduce children to the subject of materials, separating mixtures and irreversible or reversible change. Part of the Great Lesson Ideas series, it contains these ideas for lessons: An irreversible change How to create an irreversible change to materials and use the activity to…
Changing State, Micro-Organisms and Other Topics
From Teachers TV, this video is part of the Lesson Starters series. It contains short video clips that can be used to introduce a particular primary school science idea. Water, water, everywhere looks at how water can be purified using evaporation and condensation. The bear helps to introduce how stringed musical instruments…
What Stuff Does
From Teachers TV, and part of the Science Tube series, this video contains five short clips that explore the properties and uses of some of the many materials that surround us. It looks at rock, water and carbon dioxide. The clips are: Rocky road reveals the processes involved at a quarry, from the rock being blasted out of…
How Stuff Changes
From Teachers TV, and part of the Science Tube series, this video contains five short clips that explore the non-reversible changes that lead to the formation of new materials. The video clips cover: Fire! Fire! The Hindu festival of Dessehra includes burning and explosions of fireworks that result in irreversible chemical changes. Changed…
Investigate Chemistry
In 2009 the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Chemistry recognised a need for exemplification of the Chemistry ‘experiences and outcomes’ in a Curriculum for Excellence. Through this project three resource packs were created. The resources have been designed in line with the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence…
Kitchen Chaos
In this ASE SYCD: Science Year resource, a chef has muddled his cooking ingredients. Pupils learn the simple properties of common household chemicals in a fun context by using clues to identify test tubes' contents. Kitchen Chaos is an interactive computer programme that can be used by individual pupils, or small groups. As…
Solids, Liquids and Gases
A range of interactive and print-out practical activities provided by the Association for Science Education to help children understand the properties of solids, liquids and gases and the changes that take place when materials are heated Information is provided through cartoons, downloadable worksheets and ideas for experiments…
Drama: Solids, Liquids and Gases
An ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource which comprises an outline for managing an active session that helps to illustrate and explain the structure of solids, liquids and gases. Groups of pupils decide how they will physically represent the structure of states of materials. Developments are given that test the pupils understanding.…
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Materials
From the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), a database of 31 everyday materials, man made and natural, solid and liquid, transparent and opaque, allows students to explore these and many other properties. Materials on the database may be grouped according to one or more of their properties. Once students…
Solids, Liquids & Gases
Cartoon animations from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) explain simply why materials have different properties and how they change on heating and cooling. Other animations show separating solids from liquids and illustrate dissolving.