I'm a primary school teacher, & ex-scientist, with 14 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 14 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.
Maths problem solving booklets covering a wide range of mathematical problems designed to improve problem solving strategies as well as numeracy and mathematical ability.
Designed to be printed as A5 booklets.
Disclaimer: These are free because the problems are from a wide variety of sources, most of which I have forgotten. I am a maths problem magpie and collect maths problems wherever I find them. All I have done is bundled these ones up to make it convienent.
If you find a problem that is yours and you don’t want it used please comment and I’ll remove it - cheers.
Maths challenge cards covering a wide range of mathematical problems designed to improve problem solving strategies as well as numeracy and mathematical ability.
Designed to be printed, laminated and reused.
Disclaimer: These are free because the problems are from a wide variety of sources, most of which I have forgotten. I am a maths problem magpie and collect maths problems wherever I find them. All I have done is bundled these ones up to make it convienent.
If you find a problem that is yours and you don’t want it used please comment and I’ll remove it - cheers.
A set of resources for teaching energy aimed at upper primary or early secondary.
Lesson 1 covers: What is Energy? Why is it important? Different forms of Energy
Lesson 2 covers: Energy conservation and transformation/transfer of energy
There is an activity where pupils match energy examples to the form of energy and a worksheet for pupils to make their own transformation/transfer pathways.
You might find the following documents useful to support your understanding of how energy works:
https://www.stem.org.uk/elibrary/resource/29858/strengthening-teaching-and-learning-of-energy-secondary-national-strategy
http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_217157_en.doc
http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/nationalstrategy/ks3/science/files/TeachingAboutEnergy(RobinMillar).pdf
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/Australia/PageProofs/SQ8_AC_VIC/c10_TransferringAndTransformingEnergy_WEB.pdf
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
Challenging, real-life examples of calculating circumferences and perimeters of circles using Pi. Pupils also practise using a calculator to accurately calculate answers.
I used this as homework with my Primary 7 (Year 6) class. They had to prepare, or help preparing, a meal at home and note down they made it and what the nutritional values of the food were. Their family then wrote comments about the food.
Some of the work I have got in from that has been amazing - scrapbooks, powerpoints and presentations about how to make the meal step by step.
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.
