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Science Websites for Key Stage 2
Curriculum
| Year | Autumn | Spring | Summer |
|---|---|---|---|
5 |
Solids, Liquids and Gases Plants Electricity |
Human Body and Skeleton Light and Sound |
Earth and Space |
6 |
Habitats Forces |
Changing materials and their properties Separating materials |
SATS Revision Microbes Interdependance (start of Accelerated KS3) |
Websites
| List of Websites by Topic | |
|---|---|
General |
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| PlanetArkive Science Website | |
| Planet-Science Tons of fun science stuff for under 11's | |
| Science Made Simple | |
| Natural History Museum | |
| How Stuff Works A great site for finding out the science behind everyday objects. | |
| Matrix Museum Interactive maths and science | |
| Extreme Science | |
| Channel 4 Science Essentials For Key Stage 2 | |
| BBC Education |
|
| BBC Schools | |
| Teaching and Learning Resources | Who wants to be a Science Millionaire |
| Interactive Software | Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab |
Electricity |
|
| BBC Science Clips | |
| Andy Thelwell | The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits |
| Anglia Campus | Electricity safety in the home |
| Hands on Technology | Electricity and Magnetism |
| Power Discovery Zone Lots of games and activities | |
| ExploreLearning | Exploring Circuits |
| BBC Schools Pod's Mission | Electricity |
| Innovations Learning | Which of these materials are conductors? |
| e-gfl | |
| Teaching and Learning Resources | Electric Circuits Battlestar Game |
| Engineering Interact | Silicon Spies Can you foil Dr Volt's plan? |
Earth and Space |
|
| BBC Science Clips | Earth, Sun and Moon |
| Toftwood Infant School | The Solar System Animation |
| British National Space Center | |
| The Children's Museum of Indianapolis | Cosmic Quest |
| Engineering Interact | Astro Adventure |
| BridgendGfL | |
| Enchanted Learning | All About Space Lots of astronomy information |
| Dustbunny | Astronomy for Kids |
| eChalk | |
| NASA Kids | |
| Hands on Technology | Space Experiments to try |
| Harcourt School Publishers | Phases of the Moon animation |
| Fourmilab | Earth and Moon Viewer |
| Teaching and Learning Resources | |
| Planet Science | Solar System Take a virtual tour and build your own planet |
| Scholastic's The Magic School Bus | Space Tour |
Human Body |
|
| BBC Schools Science Clips |
Moving and Growing |
| BBC Schools Pod's Mission | Bones |
| The Children's Museum of Indianapolis | Bones an Exhibit Inside You Six interactive activities and games |
| Human Anatomy Online | Inner Body |
| Scholastic's The Magic School Bus | The Human Body Tour |
| BridgendGfL | Label a Skeleton |
| Toftwood Infant School | The Body |
| ehc | The Virtual Body |
| LGfL |
|
| Scholastic News | How are the sketetons the same Frog and Human |
| Plato Learning | Working Heart Animation |
| Bones and Harry | The Haunted House |
| FOSSweb | Human Body |
| Science Inside Out | Skeleton Territory |
| BBC Nature Walking with Beasts | Skeleton Jigsaw |
| National Health Museum | Living Skeleton |
| Harcourt School Publishers | The Amazing Human Body Great games and activities to play |
Light |
|
| BBC Science Clips |
|
| National Museum of Photography | Magic Factory |
| Amazing Space | Catch the Waves |
| Optical Research Association | Optics for Kids |
| Engineering Interact | Alien Attack Can you wipe out crime in the universe? |
| Teachers Lab | Where is the player? Game |
Sound |
|
| BBC Science Clips |
|
| BGfL | Jack Drum Quiz |
| ThinkQuest | The Ear |
| FOSSweb | Physics of Sound |
| Hands on Technology | Sound Lots of experiments. |
| Crick Primary School | Naming Sounds |
| Engineering Interact | Ocean Odyssey |
| Biosonar | Seeing with Sound |
| Scholastic's The Magic School Bus | Sounds |
| Harcourt School Publishers | Bird Songs (American) |
Solids, Liquids and Gases |
|
| BBC Science Clips |
|
| LGfL | Solids, Liquids, Gases |
| Hands on Technology | Solids, Liquids and Gases |
| Coxhoe School | Who wants to be a Millionaire? solids, liquids and gases |
| Innovations Learning | Science Materials Quiz |
| Echalk | States of Matter |
| Harcourt School Publishers | States of Matter |
| Teaching and Learning Resources | Solids and Liquids Quiz |
| CATIE | Solid, liquid, gas test |
| FOSSweb | |
| BBC Schools Pod's Mission | Solids and Liquids |
| Crick Primary School | Changing State |
Plants |
|
| LGfL | Which plants give us food? |
| BBSRC | The Plant Detective |
| Cool Science | Plant Parts Salad |
| BridgendGfL | Label a Flower |
| NatureGrid | Plant Explorer |
| The Manchester Museum | Simulation Grow a Plant |
| BBC Science Clips |
|
| Spark Island | Seed Cycles |
| FossWeb | New Plants |
| Kids Valley Garden Information on how to grow plans for children | |
| Crick Primary School | Label Plant Parts |
| University of Illinois | The Great Plant Escape Help the detectives unlock the mysteries of plant life. |
| BGfL | Life Cycle of Plants |
| Toftwood Infant School | Label parts of a flowering plant |
| CATIE for Schools | Plant Life |
| Zephyrus |
|
Animal World and Adaption |
|
 GlaxoSmithKlein Active Science |
Humans and Animal Habitats |
| Nature Grid |
Nature Explorer |
| Discovery School | Animal Cams |
| E-gfl |
Animal Magic Activity |
| Teaching and Learning Resources |
|
| echalk |
|
| BBC Education DynaMo | Odd One Out |
| FossWeb |
Animals Two by Two |
| BBC Schools Science Clips | Variation |
| Natural History Museum | Nature Navigator |
| Sir Robert Hitcham's Primary School | Keying Living Things |
| Crick Primary School |
|
| Cool Science | Classifying Critters |
| Scholastic's Magic School Bus |
|
| 3D Insects | |
Materials |
|
| BBC Schools Science Clips |
|
| BGfL | |
| Glass Forever | Games |
| Active Science | Mission Material |
| Science Museum | Challenges of Materials |
| Crick Primary School |
|
| FOSSweb |
|
| Teaching and Learning Resources | Materials and their Properties Crossword |
| Harcourt School Publishers | On the Resource Trail Game |
| Innovations Learning | Materials and their properties |
| e-gfl | Material Matters |
| BGfL Big Books | Building Materials and their Properties |
Forces |
|
| BBC Science Clips |
|
| Rubble | Newton in Action - Friction |
| Planet Science |
|
| Caret Brainteasers and Puzzles |
|
| Magnet Man | Cool Experiments with Magnets |
| Science Year | Mr Zippy's Trainers |
| FOSSweb |
|
| Beaufort Wind Scale | |
| Hands on Technology | Marvelous Machines Experiments to try |
| Engineering Interact | Park World Plot |
Rocks |
|
| BBC Schools Science Clips | Rocks and Soil |
| WebquestUK |
|
| LGfL | Different Types of Rock |
| The Children's Museum of Indianapolis | Geo Mysteries With Rex the Dino Detective |
| BBC Education | Britain's Rocky Past |
| Ivy Hall School Illinois | Rocks |
| FOSSweb |
|
Separating Materials |
|
| Innovations Learning | Separating Materials |
| BBC Schools Digger | Separating Materials |
| FOSSweb | Mixtures and Solutions |
| e4s | Dissolving |
Interdependance |
|
| KidsArk | Pond Dipping |
| NatureGrid |
Pond Explorer |
| Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust | Pond Habitat Games (click on Kid's Zone) |
| Sir Robert Hitcham Primary School | Ponds |
| Innovations Learning |
|
| Northumberland NGfL |
|
| Active Science |
Human and Animal Habitats |
| Teaching and Learning Resources | Habitats Interactive Crossoword |
| BBC Science and Nature | Habitats in Britain explore 6 UK habitats |
| NWLG | Life Processes and Living Things |
| Woodlands Junior School | Water Habitat |
| BBC Schools Science Clips |
|
| PlanetArkive |
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| National Geographic | Freshwater Habitats |
| Habitats | |