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Earth Science for Primary Teachers: an INSET Handbook. A science, earth science teacher guidance resource
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Earth Science for Primary Teachers: an INSET Handbook

Published in 1993 by the National Curriculum Council, this book provides activities designed to review and improve the understanding and teaching of Earth science within the curriculum. It is designed to be used by individual teachers, science co-ordinators, professional development course providers and in initial teacher training,…

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  • Publication year: 1990 - 1999
  • Teacher guidance
Rocks and Soil. A science textbook resource
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Rocks and Soil

The Young Scientist Investigates topic book on Rocks and Soil was first published in 1982 and gives information, illustrated by full colour photographs and drawings, about the structure of the Earth, how it changes over time, different kinds of rock and soil. It is intended for children aged 8-11 to read and then to answer questions,…

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  • Publication year: 1980 - 1989
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Water. A science textbook resource
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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…

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  • Publication year: 1980 - 1989
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Starting from Rocks. A science, earth science teacher guidance resource
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Starting from Rocks

Starting from Rocks was one of four books published by the Schools Council Environmental Studies Project to illustrate a recommended approach for working with students in the 5 to 13 age range. The approach had, as one of its aims, the development by children of a variety of methods of examining and representing the features they…

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  • Publication year: 1970 - 1979
  • Teacher guidance
Geology in the School Curriculum. A science, earth science teacher guidance resource
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Geology in the School Curriculum

Geology in the School Curriculum was a report of the Schools Council Geology Curriculum Review Group, published in 1977. The report aimed to fulfil two roles. Firstly, its discursive sections were intended to support the recommendations put by the Geology Curriculum Review Group to the Schools Council. Secondly, it was hoped that…

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  • Publication year: 1970 - 1979
  • Teacher guidance
Physics and the Earth Sciences for Middle Schools. A science teacher guidance resource
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Physics and the Earth Sciences for Middle Schools

Physics and the Earth Sciences 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…

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  • Publication year: 1970 - 1979
  • Teacher guidance
Rock Stars: Unbelievable!. A science, earth science activity sheet resource
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Rock Stars: Unbelievable!

This practical activity from the Royal Society looks at the work of palaeontologists and how they use fossil evidence to work out how dinosaurs lived and moved. Using a tape measure and a stop watch in the playground, students time how long it takes them to walk or run a set distance and calculate their average speed. They then…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Activity sheet
Solids, Liquids and Gases (Book 1) and Living, Dead or Never Alive (Book 2). A science activity sheet resource
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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…

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  • Publication year: 1980 - 1989
  • Activity sheet
Phases of the Moon. A science, physics activity sheet resource
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Phases of the Moon

This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, challenges students to explain the phases of the Moon by linking the movement of the Moon around the Earth with our perspective from Earth of light and shadow on the Moon. The two files are identical, apart from the curriculum links stated in the teachers' notes. The…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Activity sheet
The Spinning Earth. A science, physics activity sheet resource
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The Spinning Earth

In this activity, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, students are introduced to the rotating Earth and the concept of longitude. They will carry out simple arithmetic that relates the 24 hour clock with the Earth’s rotation. The questions in the activity require an understanding of angle: one hour being equal to 15 degrees…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Activity sheet
Human Sundial. A science, earth science activity sheet resource
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Human Sundial

In this activity, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, students look at their shadow at different times of the day and measure differences in its size and direction. The activity needs to take place in the playground on a sunny day. A compass or an online map can be used to help work out which way is North on the playground before…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Activity sheet
Making Shadows. A science, physics activity sheet resource
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Making Shadows

This activity, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, looks at how shadows are formed and what affects their size, direction and shape. Students place an object at the centre of a sheet of paper, and use a torch to produce shadows of different length and direction. This activity can be used as an introduction to shadows made by…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Activity sheet
Fruit Solar System. A science, physics activity sheet resource
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Fruit Solar System

This activity, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, helps students grasp the various sizes of planets in our Solar System using mostly fruit, with some other items. The class discussion before the activity encourages students to take an educated guess as to which planet each item represents. Equipment per team (multiply as necessary…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Moon Zoo. A science, physics activity sheet resource
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Moon Zoo

This activity, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, uses the Citizen Science project ‘Moon Zoo’ to help astronomers identify boulders on the surface of the Moon. There are two activities currently available on the Moon Zoo website: Crater Survey and Boulder Wars. Crater Survey requires much more time on each image…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Activity sheet
Daytime Moon Viewing. A science, physics activity sheet resource
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Daytime Moon Viewing

This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, uses daytime viewing of the Moon to reinforce ideas learned in the classroom about light, shadow and the Moon itself. Advice is given on the best times to view the Moon, and the compulsory and optional equipment needed. By viewing the Moon during the day, students will be…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Activity sheet
Primary School Activity Booklet. A science, earth science activity sheet resource
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Primary School Activity Booklet

This booklet, produced by Dr. Lucie Green, from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, and funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), contains four simple activities to enrich the teaching of Solar system science and beyond. The activities are: Keeping Safe in the Sun – learning about UV and sun cream;…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
  • Activity sheet
Short Astronomy Related Activities. A science, physics activity sheet resource
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Short Astronomy Related Activities

Alkaseltzer rockets Instructions on how to make a rocket using an effervescent tablet and ideas of how to discuss the activity with reference to Newton’s Third Law. CD Spectrometer Students can make a simple spectrometer using a CD and a cereal box. There is an explanation in terms of the distinct spectral produced by…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
  • Activity sheet
What Stuff Does. A science video resource
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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…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
  • Video
Ginn Science Assessment Booklet: Written Questions Level (Year) Five. A science assessment resource
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Ginn Science Assessment Booklet: Written Questions Level (Year) Five

The Ginn Science Assessment Booklet of written questions for level five (students aged 9 to 10 years) was published in 1989. This was before the term ‘level’ acquired special meaning in the National Curriculum Assessment. Here 'level’ can be equated with ‘Year’. The questions are grouped in 10 sets,…

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  • Publication year: 1980 - 1989
  • Assessment
Earth and Weather. A science, earth science textbook resource
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Earth and Weather

The Ginn Science level five students’ book Earth and Weather was written for students in Year Five (Primary Six) aged 9 to 10 years, and published in 1990. It relates to the content strand Earth and space. With the help of full colour illustrations it provides information about the Earth's orbit around the sun, the seasons,…

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  • Publication year: 1990 - 1999
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Ginn Science Homework Sheets Year Five. A science teacher guidance resource
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Ginn Science Homework Sheets Year Five

Ginn Science Homework Sheets are photocopy masters for setting science homework at Year Five (students aged 9 to 10 years). The tasks are practical activities that can be carried out at home with the support of parents or carers. Published in 1998, the links to the National Curriculum are to the 1995 revision. The homework sheets…

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  • Publication year: 1990 - 1999
  • Teacher guidance
SPACE Project Research Report: Rocks, Soil and Weather. A science teacher guidance resource
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SPACE Project Research Report: Rocks, Soil and Weather

The Science Processes and Concepts Exploration (SPACE) project research report on Rocks, Soil and Weather was conducted at two centres, the University of Liverpool and King’s College, London, and published in 1993 by Liverpool University Press. Each centre took responsibility for research in particular concepts and for producing…

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  • Publication year: 1990 - 1999
  • Teacher guidance
Evolution Is Still Happening. A science video resource
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Evolution Is Still Happening

In this Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) animation, the robots wonder whether there has been any evolution in the 150 years since the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. They travel to the deep ocean to find black smokers and see the very strange forms of life that exist there. They then learn about…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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The Splitting Earth. A science video resource
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The Splitting Earth

This episode, from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), follows the Robots as they find out about the causes of earthquakes. They look inside the Earth, and to see how tectonic plates move, and learn about the links between earthquakes and volcanoes. They also visit two sites where NERC scientists are researching their…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Climate Change. A science video resource
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Climate Change

In this episode from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), students find out about the causes of climate change and how researchers use massive computers to help them understand its effects. The Robots find out about one gas that has a stronger greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide. And finally, the computer suggests a…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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The Final Frontier. A science video resource
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The Final Frontier

In this Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) animation, the Robots visit some extreme environments to find out what research NERC scientists are doing there. They travel through ice more than two miles thick to find a lake unexplored by humans; up into space to see a telescope used to find water on other planets, and finally…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Earth. A science, earth science teacher guidance resource
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Earth

The Learning Through Science teachers’ guides and pupils’ assignment cards for the unit Earth give suggestions for activities children could undertake. The cards are divided into groups according to their subject: fieldwork, rock testing, soils, crystals, riches of the Earth, and past environments. On the cards the grouping…

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  • Publication year: 1980 - 1989
  • Teacher guidance
Out of Doors. A science, earth science teacher guidance resource
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Out of Doors

The Learning Through Science teachers’ guides and pupils’ assignment cards for the unit Out of Doors give suggestions for activities children could undertake. The cards are divided into groups according to their subject: looking at the soil, watching the weather, and shapes, measures and counts. On the cards the grouping…

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  • Publication year: 1980 - 1989
  • Teacher guidance
Using the Environment 3: Tackling Problems Part 2. A science, earth science teacher guidance resource
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Using the Environment 3: Tackling Problems Part 2

The activities described in the Science 5/13 units Using the environment 3: tackling problems are designed for children aged 9-13, when they are becoming more capable of thinking logically and begin to speculate about the causes of phenomena and how their ideas could be tested. The work described takes children and teachers beyond…

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  • Publication year: 1970 - 1979
  • Teacher guidance
Change, Stages One and Two and Background. A science teacher guidance resource
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Change, Stages One and Two and Background

This Science 5/13 unit for teachers on Change stages one and two describes a range of activities that build children’s ideas about change and how it occurs. Rather than being a topic to pursue as a whole, it contains ideas that can be woven into other topics. However, one theme 'Changes in the kitchen' has been given…

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  • Publication year: 1970 - 1979
  • Teacher guidance
Moonsaics. A science teacher guidance resource
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Moonsaics

This collection of five Moonsaics have been created by the National Schools' Observatory, they consist of five different images of the Moon, separated into multiple picture panels per image, much like a "giant jigsaw puzzle". Students are challenged to assemble the completed images, offering them the opportunity to…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
  • Teacher guidance
Using the Environment 2: Investigations Part 2. A science teacher guidance resource
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Using the Environment 2: Investigations Part 2

The Science 5/13 unit Using the environment 2: investigations part 2 follows on from part one focusing on what and how children can investigate in the outside environment. The first three chapters are concerned with helping children to become more aware of the things that change: the weather, living things and the landscape. Two…

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  • Publication year: 1970 - 1979
  • Teacher guidance

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