Kites
Kites, an ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource, explores the variety of kite designs around the world, together with the scientific principles that keep kites aloft. It provides a fun way of exploring some types of forces. There is a strong multi-cultural element through looking at kites around the world. There are also strong…
Datalogging in the Environment
All you need to know about datalogging - and more! This ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource includes a step by step guide to the setting-up process, with pictures and diagrams. Worksheets for KS1 and KS2 pupils help teachers to make the best use of datalogging in supporting their science teaching.
Passport
This Association for Science Education (ASE) resource from the SYCD: Science Year Primary collection provides a template for a successful bridging topic between primary and secondary schools. Passport can also be used as a stand alone activity in Year Six to help students focus on their investigative skills and provides a good record…
Parents in Primary Science
An ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource giving sensible and useful help on how best to involve parents in their children's science education at home and in school. This resource includes really different and exciting activities that could be done in school, or at home, with advice on their organisation. • Why involve…
Assembly on Sound
In this ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource, a Year 3 teacher shares her experience of organising and planning a class assembly on sound. This assembly was presented to the whole school in celebration of the class's ideas and findings during a half-term's topic on sound. The planning and text are detailed here as a…
4/5- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Teacher guidance
I Scream for Ice Cream!
An ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource posing the questions: How much ice cream do we eat? Why is food important? These two questions introduce a new programme from Science Across the World. An extract from the online topic Eating and Drinking Around the World. This topic focuses on the nutritional aspects of food and looks…
Gravity and Light Traffic Lights
A quick revision activity, from the ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary CD-ROM, for the whole class on gravity and space. This resource enables the teacher to assess the effectiveness of the teaching and level of knowledge and understanding in the class in an interesting and exciting context. Apart from printing out one set of questions…
Building Bridges: Towards Continuity and Progression
This IPSE publication from the Association for Science Education (ASE) describes attempts within the Education Support Grant (ESG) project to establish liaison between and within schools. Most attempts were concerned with the primary-secondary interface. In addition to commenting on these, this publication also reports developments…
What Makes a Scientist?
In this ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource, prominent engineers talk about what excites and inspires them in their work. The resource consists of: • Colour photographs of prominent male and female engineers, which can be printed out in colour or black and white. • A short paragraph on what influenced their…
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…
Ideas and Evidence
This ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource is designed to help children learn about the processes involved in the production of scientific knowledge. The production of scientific knowledge is explored from the collection and analysis of data, through the interpretation of evidence, to the development of new scientific ideas and…
Experience the Moon
In this ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource, Holidays on the Moon! Universal Tours Limited wants sales executives to develop extra-terrestrial trips for tourists.
SATIS 8-14: Green Box Book 10
Box 1, the green box of ASE’s SATIS 8-14 project, contain ten booklets with resources suggesting activities for teaching science and technology in years three and four of Key Stage Two. Book 10 included six units all related to renewable sources of energy. Contents Unit 1: Solar heat Unit 2: Water power Unit 3: Wind power Unit…
Life Is Loopy
An ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary game for revising knowledge of life and living processes. The resource consists of twenty-one question and answer cards, and guidance on how to use them with your class. The cards need to be printed out with answers and questions printed on different coloured paper. These could be laminated…
Drama: Growing Pains
A drama, in best pantomime tradition, that takes a humorous look at a serious subject - what plants need to grow. This resource is part of the ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary collection. The complete script of the play Growing Pains. The play is an extract from a CD that combines drama tips, science activities and set instructions…
Solids, Liquids and Gases Traffic Lights
An ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary game providing a quick and easy way of assessing whole class knowledge - no writing required. The resource comprises guidance on how to manage the game and ten questions, or statements (with answers). You may wish to print out the questions for ease of use. Each pupil will need three small pieces…
Using Technology
This ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource presents case studies from two Scottish schools, one small and one large, showing how a variety of technologies has been used with children at all stages of primary schooling. Simple guidance on how to support your pupils in using the computer to research a topic and present their findings.…
SATIS 8-14: Teacher Book
The SATIS 8-14 Teacher Book was published by the Association for Science Education in Box 1 of the resources from the project. It was called ‘Science Investigations at Key Stage 2’. The book included guidance about the project as a whole. It also featured practical advice on the teaching of investigative science. Contents What…
Speed Pairs
A quick game, from the ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary CD-ROM, for up to four pupils to reinforce their knowledge of some aspects of Physical Processes. The resource comprises of cards and instructions for playing the game. Pupils compete to collect the starts and ends of statements or questions. Areas covered are electricity, forces…
UNESCO Resource Kit - Science and Technology Education
This folder of guidance and resources was published for UNESCO by the Association for Science Education. The resources consisted of 26 modules each with Student’s Notes and Teacher’s Notes. UNESCO Project 2000+ was a collaborative partnership between eleven major international agencies and inter-governmental organisations…
The Poetry of Science
An ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary activity that offers pupils the opportunity to increase their scientific vocabulary as well as developing their literacy and ICT skills. The resource gives rules for writing a five line poem naming, describing and making a statement or observation on a scientific idea.
Eating and Drinking
This topic, from the Association for Science Education and aimed at students aged 8-12, focuses on nutrition and the links between diet and health. Students reflect the cultural significance of diet. The topic allows classes in schools across the world to exchange information about food and health. After exchanging their findings…
Slugs
An ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary structured and complete unit on slugs, which stands alone, or would fit into any topic or theme involving small invertebrates - 'minibeasts'. You can pick and choose which bits best suit your circumstances.
I Have ... Who Has?
An ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary game for revising pupils' scientific vocabulary and knowledge.
SATIS 8-14: Green Box Book 1
Box 1, the green box of ASE’s SATIS 8-14 project, contained ten booklets with resources suggesting activities for teaching science and technology in years three and four of Key Stage Two. Book 1 included six activities. Contents Unit 1: Save our sharks! Unit 2: Colour blindness Unit 3: Make a better traffic cone Unit…
Cameras and Microscopes
An ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource which gives examples showing how digital cameras and microscopes can be used to support science teaching. The resource includes help on how to use the equipment, examples of pictures and examples of elapsed time photography using the microscope. • The introduction tells you how…
SATIS 8-14: Green Box Book 8
Box 1, the green box of ASE’s SATIS 8-14 project, contained ten booklets with resources suggesting activities for teaching science and technology in years three and four of Key Stage Two. Book 8 included six units. Contents Unit 1: Herbs Unit 2: The puppet show Unit 3: Crispness in a bag Unit 4: What kind of animal…
The Whole Curriculum in Primary Schools
Published in 1993 by the Association for Science Education, this report was a response to concerns about primary curriculum overload and the place of science as a core subject within the curriculum. A task group including practising teachers, a primary head teacher, a science adviser, lecturers and researchers in primary education…
Cool and Fun!
An ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource, originally published by ASE as part of the ASE/Pfizer poetry competition. This is a celebration in poetry of pupils' reactions to science.
- 4/5
- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Activity sheet
Food Glorious Food
This topic, from the Association for Science Education, explores the cultural aspects of food. The topic allows classes in schools across the world to exchange information about the foods found locally, and the connections between diet and health. After exchanging their findings and views with students in other countries, students…
Look Around You
Short activities designed for the ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary CD-ROM to help children develop their observation skills in the environment. The resource includes ideas for making up an investigation kit of easily obtainable 'bits' for each child, and simple ideas of how to use them to find out more about the world around…
SATIS 8-14: Green Box Book 6
Box 1, the green box of ASE’s SATIS 8-14 project, contained ten booklets with resources suggesting activities for teaching science and technology in years three and four of Key Stage Two. Book 6 included five units. Contents Unit 1: Moon watch Unit 2: Beekeeping business Unit 3: Classroom tuned percussion Unit 4: Children…