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This resource provides an introduction to engineering for primary children. It can be used for a whole school assembly with follow-on inquiry work, or with one class, and would be suitable for working with a STEM Ambassador. The resource aims to break down preconceptions about engineering, looks at what engineering is and what different engineers do.

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This collection of activities about classification is ideal to do at home with your little explorers. Enjoy a good afternoon of science each week!

Wrigglers

Explorify from home is a special series of science activities for parents and carers of primary school children who are now learning at home. We define activities by age and curriculum topics in Explorify, but these collections are also suitable to do all together as a family of mixed aged children. Or if your little scientist just wants to explore further, pick something from the other age sections for inspiration! Teachers can find out about our full (free!) classroom resource at the bottom of this page.
Parents, read on!
This collection is all about classification. Grouping living things helps us understand more about them.

For children aged 5-7

First, watch this video: Minibeasts fascinate young children - there are so many different minibeasts that you can find. Play the video above which shows worms moving around in a compost heap. (You can click the arrows on the right end of the play bar right to make it full screen.) Talk about what is happening, how many different worms can be seen, what they are doing. We couldn't do without worms: they help maintain soil health and are essential inhabitants of our compost heap.

Hands-on activity: You could explore any worms in your garden or create a wormery using this advice from the Royal Horticultural Society. If you don't have a garden, look for different minibeasts when out for a walk and tally what you find: they could be any insects, spiders (spiders are not insects!) or worms. Worms often leave casts of soil on the surface of grass to show they have been active.

Age 7-9

First, take a close-up look: Some creatures live alone, others live in communities and work together to survive. Open up this Zoom In Zoom Out activity, ' Swirly structure'. Look at the first picture for clues and wonder what it might be; any idea is fine if children can say why, as there isn't always just one right answer in science. Use the magnifying glass icon to zoom out and reveal more clues; talk about what you see.

Hands-on activity: Did you realise you were looking at a wasp nest? Wasps chew up wood to make a pulp that they form into this structure. What other homes for insects do your children know about? What can you spot around your home or outside? Can your children make their own spiders' web using some sort of thread?

Age 9-11

First, watch this video: Many insects are pollinators - we rely on them to pollinate plants for our food. The insects that pollinate the plants are attracted because the plant supplies them with food - the plant lures insects to it with sweet nectar just so that the insect will carry pollen from one plant to another. This video, called 'Alien shapes', shows a plant known as the 'corpse flower' that flowers rarely but has some incredible methods to lure insects to it. It smells like rotting flesh which attracts beetles and flies and looks like something out of this world. Take a look!

Look around: Next time you're out walking, look out for different insects pollinating flowers: butterflies, moths, beetles, bees, hoverflies, ladybirds and try to watch what they do.
Please note that adults should supervise practical activities, make sure that children use appropriate materials and tools, and wash hands after handling any food items. Take it further:
- Visit STEM Learning, to explore their support for parents and carers with home learning.

- Watch the BBC Bitesize Daily programmes on classification, that will be available from 6th May 2020. Links to watch them will be added under your child's age above then. Previous programmes including versions for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland can be found on the iPlayer.

- Browse our other collections - there's are more added each week!
That's all for this week!
We hope your little scientists have enjoyed exploring classifications this week. We'd love to know how you got on. You can follow us on Twitter or Facebookor email us if you have any feedback on this collection.

Are you a primary school teacher who has yet to sign up to Explorify?

If you are a teacher who hasn't discovered Explorify before, you can sign up and explore the whole website with over 400 free activities. (It's free, as it's funded by charitable foundation Wellcome Trust. Our mission is to help you enhance your science teaching and get your pupils thinking like scientists!) We provide background science, to help you field questions from your pupils and ideas to take our curriculum-linked activities further. Something to get your teeth into for when you're back in the classroom!
Image credits:
'Wrigglers': CAFNR via Flickr licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0; Video: © Chris Kolaczan via Shutterstock

'Swirly Structure': Wellcome; Joren de Groof via Flickr licenced under CC BY 2.0;

'Alien shapes': Video credit: © Eden Project All Rights Reserved;

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, 10:00am - 11:00am

ONLINE - via Zoom

Public event

The Royal Academy of Engineering is launching a new webinar series covering a range of topics relating to engineering education and careers. Each webinar will highlight the important work of the Academy and its partners, and create a forum for discussion and future collaboration. Each talk will be followed by a Q&A session with the speaker.

Engineering has never mattered more in today's world. So too with creativity. Yet schools are organised by timetables in which engineering and creativity are invisible. Drawing on research undertaken with the Royal Academy of Engineering and with the OECD, Professor Bill Lucas will share insights from his role as the co-chair of the new PISA 2021 Test of Creative Thinking and argue that schools need to rethink their approach to engineering and creative thinking.

More information can be found in his speaker biography below.

Tickets

The webinar is free of charge, however, registration is required. For more information, please contact: Guy Paul, Education Policy Assistant.

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STEM Education Policy webinar series - Royal Academy of Engineering

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'Using PLAN to support assessment' Webinar

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Access Google Drive with a Google account (for personal use) or Google Workspace account (for business use).

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Home schooling is a surprising new reality for lots of working parents. I have two young children - aged 8 (year 4) and 11 (year 6) - and now home school is suddenly part of our family week!

To supplement the work sent from school, reading, play and film watching and all that stuff, I am going to be doing weekly Home School themed activities and resources. I wanted to create weekly activities that my kids can do with a good deal of independence.

It may prove useful to parents in a similar position as we are, so I'll aim to add a weekly blog explainer and share any handy resources (many of which are plucked from my others kindly sharing their stuff too).

Below you can find the Home Learning resources to freely download:
WEEK 1 - Art Week:
Nex t up....History Week
DAY PROJECTS:
I am also looking to share one-off projects that you may want to use for a given day/week. See here:

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Home schooling is a surprising new reality for lots of working parents. I have two young children - aged 8 (year 4) and 11 (year 6) - and now home school is suddenly part of our family week!

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Thanks for signing up to the Awesomely Amazing Science Club from Whizz Pop Bang - we can't wait to help you bring your club to life!

No more scrabbling around to find science activies at the last minute, we've done the planning for you :) All that's left for you to do is to get together the easy-to-find materials using our handy kit list. Then you're all set for some serious science fun!

Simply download the plans in six-week terms below...

Autumn Term 1 kicks off with a fun mix of hands-on activities to try, from aerofoils to peashooters!

Contents of download: 1 kit list for autumn term 1, 6 planning sheet pdfs, including instructions, templates and explanations. Total zipped size: 15.9 MB

Autumn Term 2 focuses on wintry activities, along with a fun reindeer optical illusion for Christmas!

Contents of download: 1 kit list for autumn term 2, 6 planning sheet pdfs, including instructions, templates and explanations, plus a short video of a reindeer optical illusion to make. Total zipped size: 22.2 MB

Spring Term 1 focuses on STEM challenges to get kids thinking scientificially and developing their engineering skills. There are three challenges, each split across two weeks.

Contents of download: 1 kit list for spring term 1, 3 planning sheet pdfs, including instructions for the challenges, 1 printable paper template. Total zipped size: 9.1 MB

Spring Term 2 has a plastic/recycling theme, along with a couple of egg-tastic experiments that are perfect for Easter! Some of the activities link to the science week theme of 'our diverse planet'.

Contents of download: 1 kit list for spring term 2, 6 planning sheet pdfs, 2 instruction pages, 1 printable paper template with instructions. Total zipped size: 26.7 MB

Summer Term 1 is all about water! This term, with no physical clubs happening, we're releasing an activity each week, rather than overwhelming people with all six week's worth of experiments at once. Each activity can easily be done at home and requires only household equipment.

Make sure you check out our Whizz Pop Bang subscriptions for schools. Get whole-school access to our ever-expanding library of over 200 top-quality downloadable teaching resources, as well as a magazine delivered to your school library each month from just £190 per year.

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We want to make it as easy as possible for teachers, parents, carers and students alike to teach and learn from home. We've rounded up all the helpful home learning resources from our partners Twinkl, EdTech Impact, Roald Dahl and Spiral PE, and much more, to point you in the right direction.

EdTech Impact is an independent review platform for EdTech - designed to help you find the best products for remote learning. Find, compare and review 1400+ education technology solutions.

To ensure teachers and parents can find the right remote learning resource for their set up, they have been categorised as follows:

Subject area

Age group

Available to parents

Downloadable to mobile

Downloadable offline

Requires parental supervision

Tutorial available for parents

Impact on teaching and learning

Pricing plan

Please share this link with colleagues, parents and networks to support their planning!

Ages: 0-19+ years
Subjects: Art & Design, Business & Economics, Computing, Design Technology, Digital & Media, English, Geography, History, Languages (MFL), Languages (EAL), Mathematics, Music, PE, PSHE, RE and Science.
Product Categories: Adaptive Learning Platforms, Behaviour and Reward Systems, Careers Guidance Platforms, Collaboration Tools, CPD and Training Platforms, Curriculum Tools, Equipment and Hardware, Finance and HR Software, Formative Assessment Tools, Health and Wellbeing Tools, IT Support Services, Learning Platforms, Management Information Systems, Parent Engagement Platforms, Productivity Tools, Remote Connectivity and Management, Safeguarding Software, School Website and App Design, Special Education Technology, Tracking and Monitoring Systems, Tutoring Platforms.

Quick links:

→ EdTech Impact home page

→ EdTech products by categories

→ EdTech products by subject

→ Search by "schools like mine"

Whether you're an experienced teacher, school leader, first-time parent, or somewhere in between looking to support home learning, Twinkl has a range of resources and packs easily accessible at the touch of a button 24/7. Providing everything you, your child or class needs to thrive at home. Visit Twinkl.co.uk to fnd out more .
Ages: 0-16 years
Subjects: Art & design, computing, design technology, English, geography, history, languages, maths, music, PE and science.
Other areas covered include: Health & wellbeing
Quick links:
→ Coronavirus landing page
→ Home Learning Hub
→ Parents Hub
→ Wellbeing Hub
Bring the magical world of Roald Dahl into your home with their terrific selection of resources. You'll find lesson plans around each story, as well as crafts, puzzles and activities to keep chiddlers of all ages entertained.
Ages: 5-11 years
Subjects: Art & design, design technology, drama, literacy & English, geography, maths, music, PSHE and science.
Quick links:
→ ' Things To Do Indoors' hub
→ Pre-school lesson plans

Get a unique insight into what is expected of children with regards to physical education, by year group, with these activities you can work through at home.

The best from the rest

There are lots of helpful resources accessible to you. Below are some of our favourites.

Quick links:
→ Department for Education's Coronavirus (COVID 19): list of online education resources for home education
→ BBC Education and Twinkl Videos
→ Oak National Academy
→ Stay at Home and Create with Stabilo
→ UK Gov Hungry Little Minds
→ LEGO Lesson Plans
→ Oxford Owl from Home
→ STEM Learning Activities
→ BBC Bitesize
→ Science Fun at Home from Science Sparks and The Primary Science Teaching Trust
→ Science at Work from The Primary Science Teaching Trust

If you'd like to know more about how we are handling these circumstances, please take a look at our customer update.

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Are you home schooling or in need of educational resources for your pupils or children?

Help your children to stay curious with our fantastic range of downloadable resources. Perfect to use as additional teaching resources, these digital activity packs help take children beyond the book, engaging with their imagination and creativity as they colour, draw, play, and write.

Don't forget the DKfindout! website, the safe online place for your child to see, learn, and explore almost everything, and for teachers to download free resources to plan their homeschooling lessons, as well DK Learning - books, lesson plans, and fun activities at your fingertips.

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Science at Work

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PSTT is creating two page activity sheets about past scientists or people who worked in science related jobs. The activity sheets include information, links to find out more, and spaces for children to write and draw, and to record questions they would like to ask the scientist.

About Series 1 of Science at Work: a set of six activity sheets to accompany videos in which past scientists (played by an actor) and present scientists talk about their work and answer questions submitted by children. There is a two page activity sheet for each scientist with information about them and what they do, plus lots of links to related topics and activities. Children are encouraged to think of questions they would like to ask the scientist and although there is no longer an opportunity for them to send them in, the children are quite likely to hear the scientist answer the same or a similar question when they watch the video. NB: if you are unable to access Facebook, you can view the videos here.

PSTT has been pleased to work collaboratively with Spectrum Drama on a number of Science at Work activities. It should be noted that PSTT does not have any input into Spectrum Drama's content, programme or any of their offerings to schools, nor does PSTT have any financial agreement with, nor commercial interest in Spectrum Drama. Whilst we hope you enjoy your school's experience, PSTT accepts no liability for, and is unable to comment on, arrangements made between any school and Spectrum Drama.

7. MEET Mary Seacole

A chance to 'meet' the nurse behind the lines during the Crimean War

6. MEET TWO ENGINEERS

A chance to meet a civil engineer and a structural engineer

6. MEET TWO ENGINEERS PROJECT SHEET

Find out more about Jyoti and Alisa's projects

5. MEET ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL

Meet the 'greatest engineer that has ever lived'

4. MEET TWO SPACE SCIENTISTS

Meet a climate scientist and a space physicist

3. MEET GENE CERNAN

'Meet' the last man ever to walk on the moon

Safety Notice and Disclaimer

PSTT advises teachers to refer to either the CLEAPSS website or SSERC website for up to date health and safety information when planning practical activities for children.

PSTT is not liable for the actions or activities of any reader or anyone else who uses the information in these resource pages or the associated classroom materials. PSTT assumes no liability with regard to injuries or damage to property that may occur as a result of using the information contained in these resources. PSTT recommends that a full risk assessment is carried out before undertaking in the classroom any of the practical investigations contained in the resources. Please note that PSTT has created the Science at Work videos for children from aged 4 to 11 to watch with a parent, carer or teacher. PSTT recommends to any adult concerned that children might be sensitive to the content of the video, that they watch it in advance of showing it to the children.

All materials are ©Primary Science Teaching Trust (PSTT) and are freely available to download and share for educational purposes. Whilst educators are free to adapt the resources to suit their own needs, acknowledgement of copyright on all original materials must be included. Rights to images included in the resource have been purchased for PSTT use only - as such, these images may only be used as part of this resource and may not copied into or used in other materials.

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Groups of 6 lessons for each year group linked to National Curriculum themes!

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Each lesson is presented as a editable PowerPoint document featuring guidance for teachers/ home educators, explanations of key concepts, suggested activities for pupils and examples of possible learning outcomes. There is also an overview document for each topic, to show how the lessons are sequenced.

These resources were created by members of the ASE in response to the school closures during the coronavirus pandemic. Please note, while at the time every effort was made to ensure the links were relevant to the learning, the ASE can make no guarantees about the on-going accuracy of the content or its continued availability.
The writing team comprised: Lucy Wood (co-ordinator), David Church, Carla Wallington, Naomi Hiscock, Nicola Beverley, Kulvinder Johal, Jenny Watson and Lizzie Wood (illustrator).
To give a more detailed view of how the resources have been used, and how they can be adapted for lessons in schools, Lucy and Carla wrote an article for Primary Science in Jan/Feb 2021 (Issue 166). You can see the article here: https://www.ase.org.uk/resources/primary-science/issue-166/ase-primary-science-lessons-home-and-school-learning-response

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University of Manchester Activity collection

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Trees for Learning - Learning Resource for Teachers

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The Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre is proud to be an Edinburgh Satellite, working with local Primary schools to get them hands-on with real-life science and learn about some of the science we do here at the University of Edinburgh's Easter Bush Campus.

The Great Science Share is a national campaign to engage young people in sharing their science questions and investigations with new audiences. The project itself is very well established and provides many online resources for teachers, such as BBC Terrific and Explorify, to support their young learners to design and carry out their own experiments.

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The next Great Science Share will run on 16th June 2020.

Have a look at the www.greatscienceshare.org website with brand new downloadable guidance for your school - a powerpoint for your staff meeting, a film and a guidance booklet are all waiting for you.

Join us on Twitter @GreatSciShare and hashtagging any questions or ideas using #GreatSciShare.

Any questions about the Great Science Share contact:

The Great Science Share- Edinburgh Satellite

In 2018 the Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre became the Great Science Share's Edinburgh Satellite.

This year, following on the success of our pilot with Burnbrae Primary School, we worked with several schools from the Beeslack/Penicuik Primary schools to bring it to more Midlothian pupils. For 2020 we will provide toolkits for P5-P7 (free of charge) that can be used to form the basis of many different open-ended experimental questions:

Kit includes: agar plates, swabs, marker pens, tape, storage box, teaching guide, slideshow and pupil experiment recording sheet

Kit includes: wormary, various stimuli materials, teaching guide, slideshow and pupil experiment recording sheet

To follow the progress of Midlothian's learners follow us on Twitter @EBSOCLab using the hashtags listed above.

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The resources linked to in this directory have been curated by representatives of the Association For Science Education's primary committee as having particular relevance for educators focusing on the 3-11 age groups. The intention is for this to be a living, breathing set of community resources so if you are a primary-age educator and have suggesstions for additions please share them either by email ( info@ase.org.uk) or through Twitter via either direct message to @TheASE or the #ASEChat hashtag.

Also, please note that these are all resources hosted by external organisations, and while the ASE's primary education team have highlighted all as having educational value we have no control over the content and make no guarantees over its accuracy. As always, utmost care and attention should be taken when recommending any science-based activities for pupils to carry out in a home environment...

Science Fun At Home
Primary Science Teaching Trust
The Primary Science Teaching Trust is working withScience Sparks to create activities for children to have some fun with science at home. A new Science Fun at Home will be available every Wednesday.

Technology for Fun
Youtube channel and book series
Caroline Alliston, a mechanical design engineer and the author of the popularTechnology for Fun series of booksand teacher resources provides children (and their carers) with fun educational projects to do at home.

STEM Learning - Primary
STEM Learning
STEM Learning offers wide-ranging primary science resource packages for all age groups and has added extra resources forsupporting home learning.

Great Science Share for Schools
Website
The Great Science Share For Schools - a brilliant annual campaign to inspire primary and secondary children toshare their scientific questions with new audiences - is still going ahead in 2020. Check the website for updates on virtual sharing!

British Science Week packs
British Science Association
The British Science Association provides a series of three age-group specific general science packs featuring ideas and activities based on the theme "Our Diverse Planet".

Science Sparks

An excellent blog dedicated to helping even very young children enjoy science at home with super a list of simple science activities - many of which have been featured in the ASE Primary Science journal.

Kitchen Science - Guest Post by Dr Jo Science Solutions
The World Is Their Classroom (blog)
A series of fun and thought-provoking ideas for a guest blog post put together by qualified teacher and research scientist (and ASE member!) Jo Montgomery (who also a thoroughlyuseful blog of her own).

HowToStem
Blog
Great blog from primary school teacher Emily Hunt, with recommendations and activities on all things STEM.

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The Royal Society have a number of resources, activities and videos that could be used to support teachers and parents while children are currently learning from home. These resources are free to download or view and no sign-up is required. Many of the links are to lectures and videos that students may want to take their time to explore - providing additional learning on current issues around science, mathematics and computing.

We have also included links to resources by STEM learning, the Association for Science Education and the Primary Science Teaching Trust.

Jump to: Secondary, More general resources, YouTube playlists, Policy topics, Public lectures and events or Primary.

Brian Cox School experiments - Real World Video (sewage plant): looking at the process of filtration used in a sewage plant.

Brian Cox School experiments - Filtration: looking at the use of filtration in the detection of drug use in professional sports.

Brian Cox School experiments - Heart rate (athletes): looking at performance monitoring of professional athletes by the English Institute of Sport.

Brian Cox School experiments - Heart rate (health care): looking at how University College London use heart rate changes with low oxygen levels to help save lives.

Brian Cox School experiments - melting (chocolate factory): looking at the importance of melting point on chocolate texture at Thorntons.

Brian Cox School experiments - melting (jet engines): looking at the use of alloys to ensure engines can withstand the high temperatures in a jet engine at Rolls-Royce.

Brian Cox School experiments - plants (urban farm): looking at the use of waste fish water to help grow plants in an aquaponics system.

Brian Cox School experiments - plants (soil health): looking at how 'goo' can help plants grow bigger in soil, helping to get better crops.

Brian Cox School experiments - shadows (x-rays): looking at the use of x-ray absorption in casting shadows to make an x-ray image.

Brian Cox School experiments - shadows (eclipse): looking at the shadows that occur in our solar system.

Brian Cox School experiments - sound (composer): looking at how composers use sound to convey emotion in films.

Brian Cox School experiments - sound (levitation): looking at how to use sound to levitate objects.

You and the planet lecture - How can we tackle climate change?: find out what options we have for reversing climate change, and which at the moment have the best chance of success.

You and the planet lecture - How does our energy use affect the planet?: find out how the energy we use affects the natural world and discover promising pathways to a clean, safe and sustainable energy future.

You and the planet lecture - How can your diet make a difference?: find out if experts think we can feed the world sustainably and equitably while protecting nature.

You and the planet lecture - Biodiversity - how can I nurture nature?: find out what biodiversity is and why it's so vital to have variety in species.

See also

Objectivity videos: exploring the history of the Royal Society through books and artefacts found in our library and archives.

Science stories: short videos about the science behind some of the exhibits featured in the 2019 Summer Science Exhibition

Discovering science: short animations introducing topics such as climate change, neural interfaces, machine learning and genetic modification.

You and AI lectures: recordings of public lectures exploring the history of artificial intelligence (AI), its current applications and its impact on the future of work. Includes Q+As with mathematician Professor Marcus Du Sautoy OBE FRS and physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE FRS.

All Royal Society policy topics: explore the Royal Society policy topics, including climate change, AI and data science, and access full scientific reports and briefings.

See also

Pre-recorded Royal Society public events: catch up a variety of talks and lectures that have taken place at the Royal Society over the past 5+ years. These includes lectures from prize winning scientists and engaging public talks. Go to the catch-up tab, and feel free to browse by subject or scientific area. Below are some recent highlights.

Ripples form the dark side of the universe - prize lecture by Sir James Hough OBE FRS: find out about progress in the field of gravitational wave detection, from the first days of the aluminium bar detectors to the present day with the latest laser interferometer detectors.

The elements of chemistry - prize lecture by Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE FREng FRS: find out about the chemical elements that have played an important role in Professor Poliakoff's career and have led him to champion greener more sustainable ways of making chemicals.

Love, smell and memory: exploring the brain circuits for learned and innate behaviour - prize lecture by Dr Gregory Jefferis: find out how the genome encodes behaviour through the development of the nervous system, and what is different about brain circuits for learned and unlearned behaviour?

Life versus mathematics: lecture by Fields Medal winner Caucher Birkar FRS: hear Professor Birkar FRS speak about his life and his journey to becoming one of the world's leading mathematicians, as well as the role of maths in people's lives.

Brian Cox school experiments: six primary science activities with supporting worksheets and videos covering questions like 'how do you change the size of a shadow?' and 'at what temperature does chocolate melt?'.

Do plants need soil to grow?

What affects your heart rate?

At what temperature does chocolate melt?

How can we clean our dirty water?

What factors affect the pitch and volume of sound?

What factors affect the size of a shadow?

Young People's Book Prize 2019 activity sheets: six activity sheets for young people linked to the 2019 shortlisted books. Each activity sheet provides a mini-experiment, maths challenge and information for the adults in charge.

Problem solving resources: teachers from the Royal Society Schools Network trialled and identified a few simple activities that can be used at primary level to help students develop problem solving skills, valuable for a wide variety of subjects.

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Home learning teaching resources and activities for 5-11 years old (Key Stage 1 and 2) including lesson plans, handouts and videos. Engage your child and keep them busy and learning while their school is closed.

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As the clocks 'go forward' on 29th March and we 'lose' an hour of sleep, have you thought about why we change clocks' times twice a year?

PSTT Regional Mentor, Kulvinder Johal, has been looking at the history of the switch to British Summer Time and suggests how you can engage children in exploring sundials.

Did you know it was an American scientists and polymath, Benjamin Franklin, who is often credited with the idea of waking up earlier when it was lighter in the mornings so we could save on candle usage (although others had already proposed this and it had been common in ancient times)? So, on Sunday 29 th March we (in the UK and similarly in many, though not all other countries of the world) change from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) to British Summer Time (BST). The clocks 'moving forward' idea came to the UK after Coldplay singer Chris Martin's great-great-grandfather, a builder called William Willett, thought it was a good idea too.

Mr Willet was a keen golfer and he was not happy about his golf games being cut short due to the sun going down. In 1907, he published a leaflet entitled 'The Waste of Daylight', encouraging people to get out of bed earlier. The idea was only introduced to the UK in 1917, a year after he passed away.

Did you know?

The solar day is the time it takes for a planet to rotate on its axis so that the Sun appears in the same position in the sky. On Earth, a solar day is 24 hours long. On Mars, a solar day lasts 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35 seconds.

Making a sun dial

It's really simple to use the Sun's position to tell the time and an easy activity for children to complete. The materials suggested below could be substituted for others; encourage children to be creative in their choices.

Construction:

Use the pencil to poke a hole through the very centre of the paper plate. Write the number 12 on the edge of the plate with a crayon. Using a ruler as a guide, draw a straight line from the number 12 to the hole in the centre of the plate.

At noon, take the plate and the straw outside. Put the plate on the ground and poke the straw through the hole. Slant the straw toward the line you drew. Now carefully turn the plate so that the shadow of the straw falls along the line to the number 12.

Fasten the plate to the ground with some pushpins. Have your child predict where he/she thinks that the shadow of the straw will be pointing in one hour. You could also mark this onto the plate to compare the prediction to the actual position.

One hour later, at one o'clock, check the position of the shadow along the edge of the plate and write the number 1 on that spot. Continue each hour, first predicting the position and then checking and marking the actual position and time on the edge of the plate.

At the end of the day, you and your child will have a sun clock. On the next sunny afternoon, you will be able to tell time by watching where the shadow of the straw falls on your clock. You could, of course, extend the clock to show time in the morning too.

Taking it further:

Discuss why the Sun appears to move through the sky; conceptually this is difficult for many children. Find out why the Sun rises higher in the sky during the summer and has a lower height in winter. What effect does this have on shadows?

You may want to find out what causes the seasons. Can you discover how long a day is on the International Space Station?
https://wowscience.co.uk/resource/nasa-space-place/ Health & Safety considerations: An adult should assist with the use of scissors and pins, depending on the age of the child.
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As the clocks 'go forward' on 29th March and we 'lose' an hour of sleep, have you thought about why we change clocks' times twice a year? PSTT Regional Mentor, Kulvinder Johal, has been looking at the history of the switch to British Summer Time and suggests how you can engage children in exploring sundials.

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Primary Science Resource Packs and ideas for Primary Aged children.Science kits designed to link to different topics of the primary science curriculum. Covering many topics these kits are educational and fun.Ideas for keeping children happy and engaged are available on the site too.

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Audio Elevenses - free audio books for children with David Walliams

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Elevenses with The World of David Walliams - The World of David Walliams

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Inspire through STEM

Whether learning at home or in the classroom, there has never been a more important time for students to learn about STEM. Teachers and parents, check out our amazing range of projects here.

Inspire primary school students with short, hands-on activities that challenge them to explore the world around them.

Perfect for 5-7 year olds who are starting their STEM journey.

Most suitable for upper primary students who are looking for a challenge.

Develop your students' communication, problem solving and teamwork skills by addressing a real-world challenge over the course of a day.

A one-day STEM project perfect for encouraging your 10-14 year-old students to explore student-led work.

Empower your students to run their own investigation from start to finish - let them run the project they want to do!

An introduction to STEM project work for 11+ year olds working in teams.

Challenge your 14+ year-old students to run their own STEM projects in teams or individually.

Awaken your 16+ year-old students' potential with a long-term, open-ended project, ideal for enhancing their UCAS applications.

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Operating just outside of Manchester, CreativeHUT offer a wide variety of resources, training and services with a focus on reaching as many Nurseries, Primary and Secondary schools. Embracing and engaging with a close network of talented educationalists, we focus on providing a unique experience for our customers and ensure teachers and parents feel supported every step of the way.

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The Maths Factor : Homepage - make Carol Vorderman your child’s online maths tutor

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Unlock your child’s maths confidence with Carol Vorderman’s maths site for 4-11 year olds. Kids can watch her maths videos, play games practise and even make their own medals with the 30 Day Challenge!

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Whether you want to visit the zoo, have us come to your school or you want to sign up for our virtual zoo visits - or all three - we're sure we've got an offer that will suit your needs. Our team are always happy to help with any enquiries you may have too.
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Welcome to the ASE's special coronavirus resources portal - a collection of resources and links designed to assist our members, the science education community at large and the general public over the coming weeks and months. We see this as a living, growing resource, so do please return and share with your friends and colleagues...

As a professional community dedicated to supporting excellence in science teaching and learning, we are determined to do whatever we can to support people over the coming weeks and months. On this page, you will find both a collection of materials created specifically by us that we hope may be of assistance during the current health crisis and a directory of links (with both Primary and 11-19 versions) to assets and resources created by others that we feel support our goal of promoting excellence in science education. The resources in both of these directories are being reviewed by the educators in our Primary and 11-19 committees on an ongoing basis.

In addition, if you have either produced or discovered a resource that you feel would add to this collection, please don't hesitate to let us know either by email us via info@ase.org.uk or by tweeting the resource to us @TheASE or by using the #ASEchat hashtag.

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Skip to content Access over 300 hours of projects and resources from only£4.50/month -view details

Reading Rocks Reviews is a 5 lesson English project in which students write, video and share their own vlog-style book reviews with the help of some well known authors including Michael Rosen.

You'll not only be engaging your pupils with digital literacy but also immersing them in the text of your chosen book, exploring storylines, comprehension and opinions.

Quality planning and videos with support from well known authors

Develop analysis, writing and sentence level skills

All the supporting resources you need to deliver engaging lessons

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Reading Rocks Reviews Lesson 1 video

Reading Rocks Reviews Playlist - what could your class make?

This project includes:

5 hours of differentiated lesson plans

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Project KS1 Overview and KS2 Overview

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Click to watch an example of what your pupils could make!

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I've scoured the 300+ posts on Share it! Science to find over 40 hands-on science, STEM or STEAM activities that do not require special materials and can be completed with things you most likely already have at home. In a few cases I have made suggestions of possible substitutions for materials as well. With a little flexibility and creativity we can work together to give your family a fun experience at home (as well as sneaking in some learning...but don't tell the kids!)

Whether you are stuck close to home due to school closures, or just stumped on what to do with your kids over a vacation you are sure to find something here that will keep you busy! So, raid the recycling bin, check out the craft drawer and start learning and having fun.

This post may contain affiliate links, meaning I receive a small commission from purchases made from these links at no additional cost to you. Please see disclosures for more information.

Making, Building and Experimenting Activities

Kids love things that move! You canbuild a zany Rube Goldberg machine out of recyclables or just about anything else you have in the house. What task will your machine accomplish? Feeding the dog? Cooling you off on a hot day? Squeezing toothpaste out of a tube? The possibilities are endless with this one!

Encourage the kids to be spies and CSI's with this (ink-free) fingerprinting and (heat-free) invisible ink activity! Explore loops, whorls and arches and other unique patterns in your fingerprints and create and distribute some secret messages. You probably have everything you need right in the kitchen!

Have a flashlight, white paper, water, an old cd? Just a few of the things you can use to make a real rainbow indoors! Learn how to make 5 different rainbows from just a few common household items.

Save your toilet paper rolls and try this challenge! How much weight can a toilet paper tube hold? How about an egg?

Science in the kitchen! This outlines a decomposition experiment with apples, but you could substitute any food you've got on hand.

Build a marble roller coaster! This is so much fun for kids and adults alike. You might not have the tubes I've used in this post on hand, but you can use just about any recycled container to create a little roller coaster.

This leaf pigment experiment can be pretty magical, and it can be done with markers if you don't have access to fresh leaves- you'll find the directions for the marker experiment at the bottom of this post.

Do you have flowers outside? Learn how to build a butterfly feeder and see who comes to visit! If you don't have the exact type of jar or sponge at home, experiment to see how you can create a feeder that will deliver a slow feed of nectar!

Love bird watching? Here are some ideas for easy-to-make bird feeders.

Challenge the kids to build a solar oven and make some nachos or s'mores! This is wonderful for open-ended design and engineering.

Investigate reflections with mirrors and drawings. You can also challenge the kids to code some secret messages that only a mirror will help them read!

Did you know that your kids can participate in professional science projects in a hands-on way, or online? Here are some starting points for getting kids involved in citizen science projects.

Do your kids know where the trash goes? Build a landfill model and learn what happens in it over time. Great conversation starter for Earth Day!

ARRRGH! Do your kiddos love pirates? Try these pirate optical illusion activities.

Nature, Wildlife and Outdoor Activities

Go on an indooranimal adaptations scavenger hunt! Free printable included at the end of the post.

Go on a math-themed scavenger hunt for the Golden ratio in the flower garden or the park.

Did you know you cangrow a houseplant from kitchen scraps? Try growing a grapefruit plant or an avocado plant!

Learn the parts of a flower through dissection! Ideas included for adapting for all age levels.

Got dirt, mud, sand or snow? Learn some animal tracks and go on a scavenger hunt.

Dream up and design a themed garden! Fun themes for kids are:taco or pizza garden, rainbow garden, and alphabet garden.

Build your own indoor worm composting bin and start composting your food scraps.

Challenge the kids to design and engineer a plant seed from craft materials and see how well it sinks, flies or floats!

Build a creature and learn about animal adaptations with this easy activity.

Did you know bees communicate through dance? Challenge the kids to code directions in a dance just like a bee!

Kids love building? Here are some nature sculpture engineering challenges. Get outside and build!

For bug-loving kids, here are ideas for designing an insect investigation, includes a free printable science journal.

Observe birds at the feeder and keep a tally with this free bird counting printable.

Go on a nature walk and hunt for cool lichen, see what types of fungus you can find, or find an empty bird's nest.

STEAM: Activities that include Art

You'll find several STEAM activities in this post outlining afamily STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) event at my school. These are all fun for the whole family.

Grab a container from the recycling bin and build a zoetrope, then have the kids make some simple animation. This is always a hit with older kids. **Depending on the size of your container you may need to adapt the measurements. (We have faith in you!)

Hone the kid's observation skills and practice sketching in this "magnify without a magnifier" art project. All you need is a writing implement, an interesting object to draw and some paper.

Find some fractal patterns outdoors or online and create a beautiful fractal sun catcher. If you don't have tracing paper try substituting with parchment paper or very carefully with tissue paper.

Activities that Make Use of Technology

Kids on the computer? They can be citizen scientists and participate in projects likePenguin Watch!

Wildlife cameras are a great way to experience animals that you might not otherwise have the opportunity to see. Learn more about the Decorah Eagle wildlife cam here.

These are some videos I have used to teach science. They are all entertaining enough to watch for fun (and learn something too!)

Who doesn't like some fun music? Here are some of my favorite kid's science songs.

Did you know you can listen to an astronaut read you a picture book? Check out Story Time from Space.

Kids can learn coding for free through a variety of programs online (and off-screen as well!).

Looking for more science activities with household items?

Here is a list of companies offering free subscriptions during school closings!

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Looking for inspiration for the Great Science Share this summer?

All of our activities use basic household equipment and are ideal for both home and school. Download a free science pack for each year group by clicking below.

You'll also find loads of inspiration in our Awesomely Amazing Science Club packs, which are also free to download here:

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All of our activities use basic household equipment and are ideal for both home and school. Download a free science pack for each year group by clicking below. You'll also find loads of inspiration in our Awesomely Amazing Science Club packs, which are also free to download here: Whizz Pop Bang is a monthly printed magazine packed with topical information, facts and science activities that your pupils will really love!

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Ideas and activities to inspire young minds at home

While we normally love the great outdoors, we've pulled together some inspired indoor activity ideas (if we do say so ourselves) to keep kids entertained while schools are closed due to the pandemic. Keep your kids learning new skills and having fun (and avoid hearing 'I'm bored' every 30 seconds) all in #TheGreatIndoors.

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Ideas and activities to inspire young minds at home While we normally love the great outdoors, we've pulled together some inspired indoor activity ideas (if we do say so ourselves) to keep kids entertained while schools are closed due to the pandemic.

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Wild Challenge Family Activities - The RSPB

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Wild Challenge is your chance to answer that call. Help wildlife, explore nature, and work towards awards by making your way through a heap of wild family activities. What will your wild challenge be?

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Have you got a science project that you want to take further? Or maybe you've got an idea that uses STEM to make the world a better place and you want to share it?

Youth STEM Matters provides a platform for youth to share their research, innovations and ideas in science, technology, engineering and maths with the world!

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Youth STEM Matters | Youth Scientific Journal - Youth STEM 2030

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Here at Science Sparks we know that not everyone has baking soda, batteries, motors and lots of craft supplies to hand all the time, so I've gathered together a collection of science experiments using just paper ( and maybe scissors and a paperclip or two ).

Paper Science Experiments

Paper Spinners

My children can play with paper spinners for hours. You can make them giant, tiny, medium sized, add different weights to them, so many different variations to try.

Newspaper STEM Challenges

Our newspaper STEM challenges use tape as well as paper, but are great fun as a team task. We built our shelter and kept adding to it for days afterwards!

How Strong is Paper?

Fold separate pieces of paper into a square column, triangle column and circle column to investigate which shape is the strongest. Balance books on top of each to find out which can hold the most weight without collapsing.

Paper Aeroplane Challenge

Frugal Fun for Boys and girls has some brilliant instructions for how to fold awesome paper planes.

Add coins to a paper aeroplane to investigate how extra weight affects flight like Kids Activities Blog.

Rainy Day Mum has a fantastic STEAM paper aeroplane activity.

Red Ted Art has some amazing circle paper planes. Try making these in different sizes to see how the size affects how they fly.

Hello Wonderful also has some fantastic paper plane toys that would be great for an investigation.

Can you fit through an index card?

This super simple step through an index card activity needs just a small rectangle of card or paper and some scissors.

Kids cut the card in a special way and then can step through it!

More Paper Experiments for Kids

These paper experiments need a few more supplies, but are great fun so if you happen to have the right materials hanging around we would definitely recommend giving them a go.

Scratch Art Paper needs paper and wax crayons. The idea is that you colour the paper with coloured crayons, crayon over the top with black crayon and then scratch off the black to reveal the colour underneath!

If you have a balloon you can cut a piece of paper into small pieces and try to make them jump up to the balloon with static electricity.

Another fun idea is to turn a sheet of paper into a treasure map using tea or coffee.

Can you think of any more science experiments using just paper?

If crafts are more your thing, Red Ted Art has lots of brilliant crafts using toilet rolls. Our favourite is Paddington!

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News for schools changes day to day at the moment but for those who already know they need home learning resources to give to their KS1 and KS2 children, we've pulled together the most useful and appropriate for parents to use at home.
These are all totally free maths resources taken from the Third Space Maths Hub.

The reason we have chosen these home learning resources is that we believe that parents will find them easy to manage - more practice and retrieval work than teaching - and they are appropriate for children at this stage of the year. We will be updating this post as the school closures and partial openings continue into the summer so keep checking back and make sure you've registered for a your free Maths Hub account so you can receive our emails. Free Maths Hub access is available to all teachers and school staff.

Please note, you will need to use Google Chrome, Edge or Safari to access the Maths Hub.

There is lots more support for parents moving to online teaching and online learning from our Home Learning hub here.

Which Maths Home Learning Resources Are Available?

Code Crackers

For easy to use quick retrieval practice, our Code Crackers worksheets are a great way for pupils to recap knowledge on a range of topics. Provided answers mean they should be easy for parents to use.

Fluent in Five

To encourage your pupils to keep practising arithmetic at home, our Fluent in Five scheme gives pupils four questions a day to answer and is available for all year groups, with answers included. Download in either ppt or assessment format.

Rapid Reasoning

Alongside Fluent in Five, Rapid Reasoning provides daily problem solving tasks. These may work particularly well for home learning as a modelled answer is provided each week, giving pupils and parents a little more guidance on how to tackle the problems.

Times Tables Grid Printable Pack

If you're looking to support regular times tables practice, we have a times table grid resource pack with instructions for some fun games and activities which pupils and parents can do together.

Home Learning Resources Specifically For Year 6 Pupils

Worked Example

For some tricker problem solving challenges for your Year 6 pupils, this resource contains a series of SATs style arithmetic and reasoning questions which have been answered incorrectly.

This resource encourages pupils to find and explain errors, not just focus on finding the correct answer. Detailed mark schemes with explanations of misconceptions are provided, making them ideal for encouraging mathematical discussion between pupils and parents, or alternatively, making it possible for pupils to mark themselves.

SATs Practice Papers

To help your Year 6 pupils prepare and build their confidence ahead of SATs, this set contains two complete SATs practice packs, each with two reasoning papers and one arithmetic paper. Detailed mark schemes are also included.

SATs in Minutes Video Organisers

To provide pupils with examples of SATs problem solving methods which they can work through independently, these organisers each contain links to 20 worked examples videos of SATs questions from reasoning papers from 2016.
We hope you'll find these resources useful. Please do keep an eye on the Third Space Maths Hub as more resources will be added in the coming weeks.

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Free Home Learning Resources And Maths Packs For KS1 & KS2

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Hello everyone!

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for all of your messages, emails, and comments. It means the world to me to know how many people from all over the world are benefitting from this resource list.

ChatterPack is run on a voluntary basis in my *spare* (!) time to help share information and resources to those who need it. Have fun, explore the world from the safety of your home, and please stay safe.

Huge love to you all.

Claire Ryan

P.s. You can find my book, ADHD and Me - a guide for children and young people, at the end of this list - please do share the link with others who might be interested, and/or get in touch if you have any questions :)

Alternative lists of free resources including support, advice, and information for families. Please do share the links for these with others/family/friends

School closures: Resources, information, and activities for families to support Home Learning

Support, advice, and resources for families of children with: speech, language, and communication needs &special educational needs and disabilities

Notices

Virtual tours, and live webcams

Future Learn - Explore the architecture and history of Rome, walking around a 3D digital model of the ancient city, with this free online course.
Museums and galleries
Animals Explore the oceans (underwater cameras) Birds
Online learning

Learn 10 useful things to say in...

Geography, nature, and history

Project Noah- Global site where you can view and share wildlife

Music

*Check the location/time zones of live-streamed concerts to calculate the UK start time. Time Zone calculator

Arts and culture

Parlia - The encyclopedia of opinion -mapping the worldsthinking

Teaching history - 100 objects from museums across the UK with resources, information and teaching ideas to inspire your students' interest in history

Literature online

Learn a new skill or develop a current one!

Miscellaneous & entertainment

Life Story Hub - Inspiring creative communication with the young and old using the arts

Musicals, shows, and movies

Staying Put: A guide to planning for, arranging and funding care in your own home in old age including how new technology can help improve your lifestyle (£2.99)

Anxiety/Mental health/loneliness

Prayer resources

*Check the location/time zones of live-streamed masses to calculate the UK start time. Time Zone calculator

Alternative lists of free resources, support, advice, and information for families - please do share the links for these with others/family/friends

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Key Stage 2

Farming STEMterprise projects take children through each stage of setting up a farm shop business: considering seasonality when deciding which crop to grow, growing their own ingredients, considering nutrition when designing their recipes, using market research to test their ideas out with potential consumers, working within a budget when buying additional ingredients, learning knife skills when making their products, calculating expected profit, designing responsible packaging and much more.

Practical Science and Design & Technology lessons, closely tailored to each year group's programme of study, are incorporated throughout the projects and opportunities for applying Maths skills to engaging, real life problems are embedded at each stage. The projects have been designed to be easy to use and enable you to deliver key content from the national curriculum whilst embedding important messages about financial literacy and food provenance.

Farming STEMterprise has received Green Tick accreditation from the Association for Science Education and the Year 5 project is accredited for the CREST Discovery Award.

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This year's Great Science Share for Schools is all about sustainability. It falls on 16th June and we've got a great variety of activities to help you make the most of it!

16th June, 2020 marks the 5th anniversary of the Great Science Share for Schools - a national campaign to inspire children to ask scientific questions and communicate their investigations with new audiences. It's all about celebrating the scientific and creative process of working scientifically, which we at Explorify are passionate about supporting.

To help you make the most of the Great Science Share for Schools we've put together a selection of activities that are guaranteed to get your children asking questions and sharing ideas about global sustainability for you to do in the week leading up to the big day! Together, you'll learn all about sustainability, and engage in fun activities focused on discussion, questioning and reasoning. By the end of the week, you will have so much learning to share.

Do as many or as few of the activities in the lead up to the Great Science Share for Schools as you can fit in - even if you manage just a few you'll get a great introduction to this year's theme!

Seeds of life: A great start to this sustainability-centred week! Use this Odd One Out to encourage your children to think about where their food comes from.

Rich pickings: Using this What's Going On? video you can spark a discussion about where different food grows and how growing food is an important part of creating a sustainable future.

What if we did not plant trees? Engage your children with this challenging question about the vital role trees play in the world.

Make a plant self-watering device: Let children link what they have already discussed in the first 3 activities to use recycled materials to make a device that will water a plant all by itself. They could even use one of the seeds they discussed in the first Odd One Out!

Take your turn: Use this Odd One Out to introduce your class to the idea of renewable sources of energy. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy and other sustainable sources.

Power up: Continue the discussion of renewable energy with this Zoom In Zoom Out of the solar panels on the European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars rover.

What if all transport was electric? Have a discussion with your class about what impact electric transport will have on the world.

How could you measure the benefits of walking? An opportunity to plan a fun investigation together with your class about why walking is good for you.

How would you travel around the globe without flying? A Big Question that will challenge your children to link their learning about sustainability and think about other ways of travelling. Does their plan consider the environmental impact of global travel? The previous activities will have really got their brains buzzing!

So, now all you have to do is think of an audience to share your learning with...

Using these activities for the Great Science Share for Schools is a fantastic introduction to the benefits of Explorify. Come September you will have a great resource up your sleeve! Changing year groups? Not to worry, Explorify is designed to support science teaching and learning throughout Key Stage 1 and 2.

Still got questions about the Great Science Share for Schools? Register for the event on Eventbrite to find out more. Explore the handy resources on the Great Science Share for Schools website, or read the ABC of running a great event.

@GreatSciShare #GreatSciShare #AskAQuestion

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Trees for Learning - Learning Resource for Teachers

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Teaching Resources

Looking for engaging resources that will inspire your pupils?

Our FREE STEM, science, design and technology resources focus on global issues including climate change, energy, food security and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Popular in primary and secondary schools, they include teacher guides, pupil worksheets, PowerPoints, posters, images, videos, games and careers materials all set within a global context.

Check out our popular STEM challenges. Perfect for ages 7-14. they encourage pupils to come up with their own ingenious solutions to a global problem. Designed to fit the UK curriculum, and accredited for CREST Awards they are popular for off timetable days, STEM clubs and transition.

We are in the process of migrating materials from our old website to this one. If you are looking for a particular resource and cannot find it we apologise that it is not here yet and suggest you search for it on the website, and don't forget to put Practical Action at the start of your search.

If you'd like any further information about Practical Action or its Education work, please e-mail schools@practicalaction.org.uk, telephone 01926 634400

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Teaching Resources Our FREE STEM, science, design and technology resources focus on global issues including climate change, energy, food security and the Sustainable Development Goals. Popular in primary and secondary schools, they include teacher guides, pupil worksheets, PowerPoints, posters, images, videos, games and careers materials all set within a global context.

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What colours and textures do you see?

No right or wrong answer!

Which is the odd one out and why?

What do you think is happening?

What do you notice?

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Have you ever felt a bone?

Could you walk if your bones were bendy?

What if my bones were bendy?

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science4families offers primary teachers and families activity ideas for how to learn science together, in engaging, fun and inspirational way.

Exploring ways to work together this provides you with tried and tested experiences to enhance parent/carer engagement and build science capital in your community.

The activities are grouped into three categories:

Taking Root
where families join in with an activity

Growing Tall
where families are involved in the preparation or delivery

Reaching High
where families are involved in designing, planning and delivery

Watch how teachers and families created a Space Academy Festival at Bradshaw Hall Primary School

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science4families offers primary teachers and families activity ideas for how to learn science together, in engaging, fun and inspirational way. Exploring ways to work together this provides you with tried and tested experiences to enhance parent/carer engagement and build science capital in your community.