I'm a primary school teacher, & ex-scientist, with 17 years experience. My passions are Maths and Science throughout the school. I spend a lot of time developing challenging and engaging, real-life resources. I co-founded My Science Club in 2021.
The majority of my resources are free as I just enjoy the fact that other teachers might find them useful in their schools. If you do use them please leave a wee comment or rate them - all feedback is welcome as it helps me improve my own practice.
I'm a primary school teacher, & ex-scientist, with 17 years experience. My passions are Maths and Science throughout the school. I spend a lot of time developing challenging and engaging, real-life resources. I co-founded My Science Club in 2021.
The majority of my resources are free as I just enjoy the fact that other teachers might find them useful in their schools. If you do use them please leave a wee comment or rate them - all feedback is welcome as it helps me improve my own practice.
This resource pack focuses of the force of buoyancy and includes a series of 4 lessons and all the resources needed to teach them.
There are also additional activities that can be incorporated into the programme of study.
Lesson 1 - a recap of forces, testing pupils prior knowledge and filling in any gaps with practical demonstrations and video clips
Lesson 2 -introduction to buoyancy with 2 practical investigations for pupils
Lesson 3 - an investigation into the buoyancy of drinks cans
Lesson 4 - designing and testing a boat
Some of the presentations contain links to videos on YouTube (they are not my property so I couldn't upload them here). If you can't get YouTube in your school consider ripping the videos onto your hard-drive to use, there are several pieces of software, or websites, where this can be done free of charge.
Please feel free to adapt the resources as you see fit, they have all being uploaded in editable formats. If you find the resources useful please comment on TES and share them with other teachers.
Thanks
This lesson was done for a school open day and comprised 6 linked activities which were done by groups of pupils in rotation.
Everything you need is here:
Introduction PPT
Pupils Activity Booklet
Instructions for 6 activities
Resources & extension tasks
Video clips (these are from YouTube and are not my original materiel)
Climate Change Critical Literacy PPT & worksheet
If you don't have access to First News then any newspaper or magazine articles can be used - or you could use articles from the internet.
Two lessons to teach pupils about meteorites, asteroids and comets and the differences between them. It includes information about the Solar System as well as information about specific meteorites.
These lessons were put together when we borrowed a set of meteorites from STFC as part of the Tim Peake Project in 2016 - most of the resource is adaptable for teaching the concept without the set of meteorites.
Introduction to meteorites, asteroids and comets
Meteorite Craters + activity
Meteorite crater recording sheet
Each month Topical Science Updates look at 3 or 4 of the latest and most interesting science stories to engage and inspire primary school pupils to talk about, debate and engage with Topical Science.
The PDF contains web links, ideas and resources to enhance your science teaching.
Topical Science Update for May 2015 - featuring The War Against Waste and Wearable Technology. Weblinks, resources, video clips to use in class to enhance your Topical Science teaching.
April's Topical Science Update is a slightly shortened version, due to the holidays, featuring 2 stories to engage your pupils.
Hungry Spiders and Medical Advancements feature this month
- SPIDER ALERT - this issue features pictures of spiders and links to resources and video clips that are spider rich!
October's Topical Science update includes the latest research into Synesthesia, Meteorites, and Cats - as well as links to the new free resource - Science on the Web
An archive of all the previous Topical Science Updates - highlighting key science stories to engage and inspire pupils in primary schools. Topical science updates include web links, ideas and resources to hael teachers deliver high quality topical science in the classroom.
Topical Science Update for May
Includes: Cassini's incredible mission to Saturn, Nuclear Fission - the arrival of the energy future, Recycling and the Resource of the Month - Veritasium's amazing YouTube channel.
Science on the Web is an interactive, easy-to-navigate guide to the best current science resources on the internet. I am a huge advocate of doing practical work in primary science wherever possible, but sometimes it isn’t possible and when that’s the case the internet provides some outstanding resources to enhance the delivery of primary science.
Science on the Web is split into two main sections; one covers the Experiences and Outcomes for the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence and the other covers the key learning outcomes from the English National Curriculum.
There are other pages covering General Science Sites, YouTube Channels, Citizen Science and Topical Science.