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Activities age 4-11 include; My body, Healthy eating, X-ray machine, Hair and eye colour,

Look and listen, Magnets, Sorting materials, Pairs, Try it, Parts of a torch, Can you light the bulb?, What is wrong?, Pull or push, Animal sounds, Does it grow?, Is it alive?

Don’t be alarmed, Electrical circuits, Laser maze, Floating and sinking, Magnet puzzle, Safety first, Growth, Animal classes, Seasons, Conductor or insulator?, Keep it quiet, Bungee jump, parachute drop, water slide, minibeast key, unmix it!

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BBC www.bbc.co.uk/schools/4_11/science.shtml
5-9 yrs, DynaMo - Science
Dynamo Lab, match animals to their home, Odd one out, Science Splat (science quiz 3 levels) and Dynamake & Do (instructions on how to make shadow puppets, periscopes, telephones…)

*'Dynamo' is designed for home use but you may find it useful.

5-11 yrs, Digger

5-7 Nash – Into the boat (seasons, weather)  Float and sink or  Animal Park (match parents to children).

7-9 Flick – Stuck on the tracks (forces rollercoaster)  Looping the loop (separating materials)

Up and down (heart and healthy eating)

9-11  Sprat – Setting course (Space related questions)  Spacecraft checks (circuit symbols)
Crash landing (temperature but has wrong info!)

5-11 yrs, Science Clips - Test Science knowledge with Science Clips games and quizzes. Broadly covering the whole of the primary science curriculum, the topic titles relate to QCA.

Year 4 Pod’s Mission - This site covers QCA Science Unit 4a: 'Moving and growing', Unit 4d: 'Solids, liquids & how they can be separated' and Unit 4f: 'Circuits & conductors'

Revisewise

SATs revision and test sections.  See also ReviseWise Challenge.
You can also search the BBC's Primary Schools TV and Radio output for related subjects with detailed programme description and schedule times.

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Science Year http://www.scienceyear.com Look at ‘Out there’, ‘Under 11’s’ and ‘Wired’

http://www.scienceyear.com/planet10/solar_preload.html For an interactive journey through the planets and a chance to build your own world (you will need to download).

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Eco-kids http://ecokids.earthday.ca

General ecological site but check out the following links from the curriculum map; animal adaptations, biodiversity, bug hunt, chain reaction* (food chains = very good), energy and fossil fuels links, forsets, frog habitats, air temperature, precipitation, story of water, whales.

*http://ecokids.earthday.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/assets/flash/chain_reaction.swf 

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The Blobz guide to electric circuits http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/

Sections include; what makes a circuit work, conductors and insulators, switches, changing circuits, circuit symbols.

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Glaxo Smith http://www.activescience-gsk.com/home.cfm?init=1

KS1, 2 and 3 (good for extension)

KS1 Links; Iillustrated materials database, humans and animals, mission materials, humans and animal habitats.

KS2 Links;  Energy challenge, population growth.

Useful KS3 Links; Materials database, balanced diet, the heart.  

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The Grid http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/science/teaching/

Lots of lesson plans, assessments and general advice for teachers.

Go to http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/science/teaching/ks1-2/index.shtml  for your year’s links and a good selection of general resources.

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Welltown http://www.welltown.gov.uk/ 

Work through the different areas completing activities including; accidents, drugs, alcohol,

family and relationships, smoking, personal hygiene,healthy eating, accidents, sun safety,  health conditions, road crossing and personal safety.

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 Brainpop http://www.brainpop.com/science/seeall/

Very American, 5 free pop-ups;  humidity, hurricanes, insects, Mars and rock cycle.

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Naturegrid http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/explorer/

Excellent for exploring pond, wood and grassland habitats.

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Background Knowledge http://www.le.ac.uk/se/centres/sci/selfstudy/

Science topics explained for teachers, useful bank of self-study materials.

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The Great Plant Escape http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case4/c4facts1a.html

Investigate how plants grow with inspector Le Plant.

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The Natural History Museum http://www.nhm.ac.uk/interactive/kids/index.html

Use the link to Quest to explore natural objects using tools.

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BBC Essential guide to rocks http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/rocks/flash/indexfull.html

Timeline of Earth’s rocky past starting with the Big Bang.

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The Science Museum http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/CHALLENGE/INDEX.asp

For activities linked to materials; what are materials?  Selecting materials. 

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Interactive Eye

http://www.yorku.ca/eye/eye1.htm

http://www.macula.org/anatomy/eyeframe.html

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BGFL

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/teacher/other/wboard_env/science.htm

Activities for all Key Stages using flash.  Body parts, animal homes, food stories, life cycle of plants, electricity books, the water cycle, what shape is the moon, young animals,

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Seek Science http://www.seekscience.org/interact/

Fun games which revise key concepts of light, sound, electricity and the Earth and Space.  KS2.

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Magic Factory http://www.nmpft.org.uk/magic-factory/index2.html

Games linked to light and colour (mirror maze – reflection, painting with light, quick as a flash – demonstrates speed of light, mirror mirror – convex, concave mirrors, light angles – use knowledge of refraction to fish.

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The skeleton http://www.bonesandharry.co.uk/main.html

Different activities on the skeleton, X-rays and muscles and joints.

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The eye http://www.bootslearningstore.com/ks2/eyesight.htm

Excellent resource from Boots demonstrating anatomy and function of the eye.

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Electricity Safety http://www.angliacampus.com/tour/pri/science/elecsafe/index.htm

Activities including safety rules and what things use electricity.

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Teaching and Learning http://www.teachingandlearningresources.co.uk/learningscience.shtml

Resources linked to QCA.  Magents crossword, Life cycles presentation (including parts of a flower), What am I? presentation including classification,

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Nature Grid http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/plant/index.html

Plant explorer page.  Label parts of a plant, eating plants, what plants need, I didn’t know I eat that. See also  http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant/bigbook.html for non-fiction stories with working glossaries (early years).

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Louis’ electricity Fun http://cipco.electricuniverse.com/flash/eu/education/louie/index.html

History, science, safety and fun behind electricity (or try www.electricuniverse.com).

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