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Internet Science Links for pupils and teachers

General Science Sites; Search Machine for Lessons; Interactive Science activities; simple simulation gifs; General Science site

Earth & Space; Space; Structure of Earth; The Solar System; Solids, Liquids, Gases; Water; Making Materials Change; Sun, Moon and Stars; Introducing Materials.

Energy & Forces; Energy Sources; Burning; Air Resistance; Electrical Circuits; Light and Sound; Electricity; Forces; Energy; Introducing Energy

Living Things and the Processes of Life; Our Environment; The Human Body; Living on Earth; Identifying Living Things; Plants and Animals; Looking after Living Things; Introducing Living Things

 

General Science Sites

 

General search machine for Educational Materials and Lessons

Interactive Science activities using macromedia simulations

Simple Simulations as gif files

General Primary Science site with lessons and a few interactive activities
 

 

Earth & Space Materials

General Links

 

Excellent BBC Site on materials

Natural History Picture Gallery – includes rocks, crystals, animals palnts, insects

National Science Museum about use of materials

NASA children’s site with lots of excellent links and pictures

BBC site on rocks
P.7 Unit 1

Space

 NASA Space site for children

Comprehensive picture guide to the Solar system

 
P7 Unit 2

Structure of the Earth

 NASA site on the Earth

BBC Animation of formation of earth and plates

Comprehensive  List of Volcanoes  in different parts of the world, linking to pictures and information

Another comprehensive site on Volcanoes with a children’s section
P.6 Unit 1

The Solar System

 NASA site on Solar system for children

NASA pictures of planets

Students for Exploration and Development of Space Comprehensive image base for pictures on all aspects of space and space exploration.

Leicester University’s site on Space. Comprehensive (adult) resource – more complicated and more text than seds (above). General teacher reference on Space or for very able older pupils.
P.5 Unit 1

Solids, liquids and gases

Technical explanation on matter solid- liquid -gas

 
P.4 Unit 1

Water

Dissolving activity BBC Site
P.3 Unit 1

Making materials change

 

 BBC site revise make your own ice lolly
P.2 Unit 1

Sun, Moon and Stars

 Nice views of Earth and the Moon 

Nice site about the changes in the seasons although more useful for teachers and not really useful for Primary 2 pupils (few pictures
P.1

Introducing materials

Materials in clothes infant site 

Materials matching worksheet  

Energy and Forces

 

General Links

 Excellent BBC  website on Physical processes, animations; clear to the point summary of key Stage 2 science

Good site on Conserving Energy The activities are fine (could be better) factual  information and activities for pupils.
P.7 Unit 3

Energy Sources

 NASA science on radio and light waves

Planet Energy - A good site about renewable energy UK

A good site about nuclear energy UK

American information site on energy
P.6 Unit 2

Burning

 BBC site check out how materials change
P.6 Unit 3

Air Resistance

 Small animations on air resistance

 
P.6 Unit 4

Electrical Circuits

History of electricity

BBC site simple information about magnetism and electricity

Excellent links to electricity resources and activities

Background information on electricity

Information about Lightning from Franklin Institute 

 

P.5 Unit 2

Light and sound

 NASA science on radio and light waves

Interesting site with interactive activities on light etc for pupils (although can be difficult)

Practical experiments on light, lenses, mirrors etc. more for teachers

 
P.4  Unit 2

Electricity

BBC site simple information about magnetism and electricity

Excellent links to electricity resources and activities

Background information on electricity

Information about Lightning from Franklin Institute 

 
P.3 Unit 2 Forces

P.2 Unit 2 Energy

P.1 Unit 2 Introducing energy

BBC Activity on wind power

BBC Activity on balancing ..see-saw
 

 

Living Things and the Processes of Life

General Links

 

Excellent BBC site, summary of Living Things animations tests

Huge site with enormous choice ( perhaps too big) by the Franklin Institute, access to lots of different habitats, eco-systems

Young People's Trust on the Environment. Fact sheets on environmental issues

 
P.7 Unit 6

Our Environment

Young People's Trust on the Environment. Fact sheets on environmental issues

 links for children about a seasonal changes and other green issues British and child friendly 4seasons web site.

Franklin Institute, access to lots of different habitats, eco-systems

BBC site about plants and their environments

 
P.6 Unit 5

The Human Body

 BBC site interactive on Human Body

Good Australian site on the Human Body

www4.tpgi.com.au/users/amcgann/body    

 
P.5 Unit 3

Living on Earth

Franklin Institute’s site about classification of plants, animals with a host of links of various quality about life processes. Some links broken. I would tend to save some of these pages, if suitable, as it is not child friendly

BBC site about nature and environments

 
P.4 Unit 3

Identifying living things

Pupils to explore different characteristics of living things Critters Web Site

Young People's Trust on the Environment. Provides good fact sheets on living things

For children good professional site about worms University of Illinois

 
P.3 Unit 3

Plants and animals

an art and craft activity followed by a simplified diagram of the life cycle of a butterfly.

BBC Activity :how plants use water
P.2 Unit 3ooking after living things

P.1 Unit 3

Introducing living things

 information for teachers about the seasons and what to look for in the school grounds