Concrete Without Quarries
This practical activity, from the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute, allows students to explore how nature creates calcium carbonate, a compound needed to manufacture cement, at ambient temperatures and using abundant, readily available raw materials. The cement used in concrete is manufactured from calcium carbonate, which is extracted from…
Selenia in Escaping From Dinosaurs
Learn about the properties of solids, liquids and gases in this colourful comic aimed at students in Key Stage Two. Written to promote enquiry skills, it contains a linked investigation which focuses on planning and evaluating evidence when investigating how to create the best geyser. This comic which has been produced by the…
Selenia: Visiting Dinosaurs
Learn about the properties of materials in this colourful comic aimed at students in Key Stage Two. Written to promote enquiry skills in a context, it focuses on making careful observations when carrying out an investigation testing the hardness of materials. This comic which has been produced by the University of the West of…
Selenia and the Smelly Lunchtime
Learn about the properties of gases in this colourful comic aimed at Key Stage Two. Written to promote scientific enquiry, it contains a linked investigation which focuses on how to plan and carry out an investigation when considering which materials are good at stopping leaks. This comic, produced by the University of the West…
Selenia: Chase Through Wing City
Learn about the properties of materials and changing state in this colourful comic aimed at students in Key Stage Two. Written to promote enquiry skills, it contains a linked investigation which focuses on planning and recording when finding out how to make the best glue. This comic, produced by the University of the West of…
Selenia and the Crazy Football Game
Learn about the cooling down of liquids and thermal insulators in this colourful comic aimed at students in Key Stage Two. Written to promote enquiry skills in a context, it focuses on making predictions before carrying out an investigation on how quickly a hot liquid cools down. This comic, produced by the University of the…
The Chemedian: Starting Secondary School
This resource contains a colourful comic, aimed at Key Stage Two, where children learn about the properties of materials and then design an investigation on dissolving. It promotes enquiry skills in a context, looking at how to create a fair test by changing one variable to see how it affects the rate that salt dissolves in water.…
Materials
The Young Scientist Investigates topic book on Materials was first published in 1984 and gives information, illustrated by full colour photographs and drawings, about the origin and properties of materials used in everyday life. It is intended for children aged 8-11 to read and then to answer questions, make some models and investigate…
Everyday Chemicals
The Young Scientist Investigates topic book on Everyday Chemicals was published in 1984 and gives information, illustrated by full colour photographs and drawings, about how chemicals used in everyday life are obtained. The word ‘chemical’ is used throughout to refer to elements and compounds of different kinds, without…
Water
The Young Scientist Investigates topic book on Water was published in 1982 and gives information, illustrated by full colour photographs and drawings, about the importance of water, where it is found, the forms it can take and some of its properties. The book is intended for children aged 8-11 to read and then to answer question…
Robert Smyth Academy
The chemistry of UV reactive beads provides activities from Key Stage Two to Post-16, using photochromic beads. The beads can be used to investigate the effect of temperature on the rates of reaction, where the beads are returned to their normal colour. At Post-16 level, the activation energy/enthalpy can be calculated using the…
Magic Gas
Simon Quinnell, from the National Science Learning Centre, demonstrates the properties of gases in this surprising Christmas table experiment. He drops an effervescent digestion tablet into a wine glass containing some water to generate carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide is heavier than air, and can be poured over a candle flame.…
Jumping Candle Flame
Simon Quinnell, from the National Science Learning Centre, shows how to carry out some ‘magic’ at the Christmas dinner table using a candle and a match. After letting the candle burn for a minute, Simon blows the flame out so that the smoke continues to rise above it. Then when a match is placed near the wick, the…
Jelly Liquidiser
In this Christmas table experiment, Simon Quinnell, from the National Science Learning Centre, demonstrates why pineapple should not be added to jelly. When he adds pineapple to a bowl of jelly, the jelly liquefies due to the action of an enzyme in the fruit which breaks down the gelatin. This is an example of a defence…
Biology and Chemistry for Middle Schools
Biology and Chemistry for Middle Schools is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association…
Structure and Function (Book 11) and Our Environment (Book 12)
Books 11 and 12 in the Introducing Science series provide a range of practical activities for students to investigate structure and function and the environment we live in The activities are intended to stimulate further investigation and discussion and are accompanied by useful illustrations. The resources also encourage children…
Change (Book 5) and Heat (Book 6)
Books 5 and 6 in the Introducing Science series provide a range of practical activities for students to investigate change and heat. The activities are intended to stimulate further investigation and discussion and are accompanied by useful illustrations. The resources also encourage children to do further research using library…
Solids, Liquids and Gases (Book 1) and Living, Dead or Never Alive (Book 2)
The first two books in the Introducing Science series provide a range of practical activities for students to investigate solid, liquids and gases, living things, rocks and minerals. The resources also encourage children to do further research using library books. [bSolids, Liquids and Gases (Book 1)[/b] The book introduces children…
Case Studies on Education-Industry Partnerships
From CIEC Promoting Science, this information booklet is useful for those wishing to develop successful partnerships between schools and local science-based industries. It is a collection of papers that describe how different groups have encountered and handled major issues and problems while developing their education-industry programmes.…
Industrial Encounters: Good Practice for School Links
From CIEC Promoting Science, this guide aims to help schools and science-based companies make the best use of their opportunities to liaise together. It concentrates upon using link activities to enrich aspects of the school science curriculum but there are many principles in the guide, with a more general application. There…
On Site: a Guide to Visiting the Chemical Industry
From CIEC Promoting Science, this guide provides practical information and advice about organising a visit to a local science-based industry. Visits can be engaging, stimulating and profitable for the students, teachers and companies involved. The guide looks at industrial links at both primary and secondary school levels and…
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…
Kitchen Science
From the Science Museum, this resource contains a booklet of fun science activities using everyday ingredients, with notes for teachers. The booklet contains step-by-step instructions for science activities and experiments that are safe and easy to do in the classroom or at home. The individual activities allow exploration of…
Theme 12: Change
This is one of twelve student books from Science in Process and covers areas of biology, physics and chemistry related to the theme of change. The resource aims to allow students to develop their scientific enquiry skills using this broad theme as a basis for a variety of student-led activities. The skills include observing, recording,…
Theme 11: Movement
This is one of twelve student books from Science in Process and covers areas of biology, physics and chemistry related to the theme of movement. The resource aims to allow students to develop their scientific enquiry skills using this broad theme as a basis for a variety of student-led activities. The skills include observing, recording,…
Theme 10: Structure and Forces
This is one of twelve student books from Science in Process and covers areas of biology, physics and chemistry related to the theme of structure and forces. The resource aims to allow students to develop their scientific enquiry skills using this broad theme as a basis for a variety of student-led activities. The skills include observing,…
Theme 9: Liquids
This is one of twelve student books from Science in Process and covers areas of biology, physics and chemistry related to the theme of liquids. The resource aims to allow students to develop their scientific enquiry skills using this broad theme as a basis for a variety of student-led activities. The skills include observing, recording,…
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