Produced by NASA, this resource contains five activities, teaching tips, fun facts and short narratives in which the sun and each planet introduce themselves. They can be used to help students improve their reading as well as learn about the solar system.

Aimed at primary level, this pack contains twenty activities which explore the links between science and music. Linked to the topic of sound, the activities investigate: how vibrations travel through different materials, making instrument on which the notes may be changed, creating animal noises using voices and...

This introductory book in the Algebra / Shape and Space series from Spectrum Maths was primarily for those students working at National Curriculum levels one to three. It contains forty activities. Each activity is presented as a possible starting point for a lesson or series of lessons. Twenty focus on algebra and...

This book in the Data Handling series from Spectrum Maths was primarily aimed at children working between National Curriculum levels one to three. Activities support children in learning about block graphs, Carroll diagrams, pictograms, frequency tables and mapping diagrams. Each activity contains instructions for...

This is the first book in the series of investigations from Spectrum Maths. It was intended to be suitable for those students working at National Curriculum levels one to three. The forty student investigations in this book are non-sequential and focus mainly on the mathematical topics of addition, subtraction,...

Aimed at Key Stage One, this resource looks at activity levels and how, through practice, the body may perform better. Linked to Pe and the topic of animals including humans, it also aims to develop enquiry skills. Meet the character Fizzy and her dog Dizzy, who want to learn more about the human body and set...

The activities in this pack have been designed for use with children who have difficulty following instructions given purely in text and may have difficulties remembering a series of verbal instructions.

The activities cover a mixture of topics including: magnets, forces, light, states of matter and sound....

In the second activity of the Superpillars Assemble, pupils are introduced to butterfly and moth habitats and their life cycle with a narrated PowerPoint presentation. They then complete an activity to construct the life cycle of a butterfly and describe which part of the plant a butterfly caterpillar might eat,...

These supplementary activities enable pupils to explore butterflies and moths further by learning about the achievements of a naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian, whose careful observations and drawings showed that caterpillars turn into butterflies and moths, and look at butterflies in art, creating a...

In this activity, aimed at primary level children learn about micro-organisms and hygiene by looking at swine flu and its symptoms. Using data on the number of cases of spine flu in the UK children discuss how viruses are spread, consider how they can be contained and learn how scientists use current data to revise...

This curriculum linked resource, for primary children and their teachers, is based on the exciting real-life launch of the Euclid space telescope. Through simple models and practical activities, the children are introduced to the work of space scientists seeking to discover more about our universe.

The...

Aimed at early years and lower primary this resource supports the learning of basic programming. It contains a set of flashcards based on characters and scenes from The Gingerbread Man. These cards are 15x15cm and so are ideal for using with a Beebot programmable robot (as this is the distance that the Beebot robot...

This is one of a series of resources from the IET designed around the theme of the future of flight with the purpose of developing pupils knowledge and skills in engineering and design technology. This activity involves pupils producing a timeline for the history of crewed flight. Rather than the conventional...

These activities, from the Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) publication ‘Thinking for Ourselves’, provide a variety of contexts in which students are encouraged to think for themselves.

Activity 1: In the bag – More or less requires students to record how many more or...

This maths game is designed to help children practice mental multiplication. Each game-board contains a 4 by 4 grid of numbers with a list of red numbers at the side. The numbers in the grid are products and the red numbers are factors. Children take it in turns to find two red numbers which, when multiplied, will...