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.

A budgeting problem involving completing a bank statement, calculating percentages, using a calculator and problem solving in real life contexts.

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!

Designed to challenge more able maths students at Primary 7 (Year 6), could be used in S1 as well. Pupils had to derive a formula to find the area of an ellipse given some background information - then they had to use their formula to calculate the area of some ellipses.

An interactive WhoCan activity designed to test pupils knowledge of nouns and pronouns at KS2/2nd Level. Great way to get pupils to help each other and for the teacher to check of the understanding of pupils.

A set of 18 problem solving sheets (4 problems on a sheet). Mixture of concepts - I've used with Primary 6 & 7 pupils who need to be pushed and challenged. Also a set of 5 easier sheets. The problems are mostly NOT mine - I've collected them from 100's of different sources of the last 9 years - often I adapt them from Third Level (KS3) or GCSE questions so they are suitable for older primary pupils

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 interactive resource to develop understanding of the relationship between fractions, decimals & percentages. Great way for pupils to learn from each other - I also use the activity to test the understanding of specific pupils on particular concepts.

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.

February's Topical Science Update includes: Is Sugar the new tobacco? Climate Change Tim Peake II and our resource of the month Reach Out Reporter

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.

October's Topical Science Update Featuring; Sleep, Alien Invaders, World Space Week, Biology Week and The ASE

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.

September's Topical Science Update focuses of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and how Science and Technology could be used to overcome some of them.

December's Topical Science Update looks at the Science of Christmas. The smell of Christmas dinner, Is Rudolph ill? and How does Santa fly so fast?

June's Topical Science Update focuses on How bats use echolocation, antibiotics and developing engineers in schools

Topical Science Update for March Featuring: The Danger Island Penguins Diabetes Discovery The Big Debate: Should we kill all mosquitoes? British Science Week

Worksheet to develop pupils confidence multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Can be used in class or as homework. Can be used to teach the concept or for consolidation/revision.

May’s Topical Science Update features: Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano Amazing Jumping Spiders And… The Great Science Share for Schools

November's Topical Science Update features Entomophagy, The Great Barrier Reef, Science of Fear and a plug for the brilliant TED-Ed YouTube channel.