The Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC) commissioned a collection of resources for primary students and their teachers which cover a range of biology topics.

Resources in this collection:
*How the mushroom gots its spots
*Build your own cell
*Easy PEAsy seed...

A range of resources, produced by Farming & Countryside Education (FACE), which link curriculum topics to farming and outdoor learning and give a context for investigations. All activities link directly to curriculum objectives and provide detailed teachers' notes and worksheets.

Cereal Killer ...

This report summarises the discussions from a seminar held at the Nuffield Foundation on 18th September 2012. It was held in response to the publication in July 2012 of a report written by a working group of primary science specialists entitled ...

This special issue of the Association of Science Education's Primary Science publication celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Children Challenging Industry programme, has articles written by the Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC) team highlighting the importance of working across the boundaries...

A Powerpoint overview of the Primary Science Quality Mark and its effect on reflective practice.  From the May 2016 Research Conference.

Authors: Stuart Naylor and Kate Fisher

This report presents the findings of an online survey during July 2011 for The Wellcome Trust. The survey asked primary school teachers for their views on the status of primary science, the opportunities available to their students and themselves as professionals, and how these things may have changed since the...

Teachers TV was originally a television channel which aimed to provide professional development support for teachers, school leaders, support staff and governors. Many of the programmes were filmed inside real classrooms, with teachers sharing good practice and ideas for lessons. The videos in this collection are a...

The Wellcome Trust commissioned this research in May 2004. The Graduate School of Education at Queen’s University Belfast and the Science Department of St Mary’s
University College Belfast carried out the work. The Wellcome Trust was seeking to
establish an overview of the current status of primary...

Produced by Becta, this teacher guidance booklet looks at the use of ICT in primary school science. It describes a range of ICT-based activities for Key Stages One and Two. These include:
* Plant growth
* Plants and animals in their environment
* Moving and growing
* Light
* Sound...

These resources have been produced by the Association for Science Education (ASE) and the Centre for Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University. Based on topical events they help to make science accessible, relevant and engaging to primary school children. The range of resources utilise a variety of teaching...

This collection includes engineering and science resources aimed at primary school children.

This collection of resources supports the learning of non-fiction explanatory writing, speaking and listening and vocabulary, whilst learning about the structure and function of plants. Provided by Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), resources are:

Plants and literacy: ...

This set of reports and case studies commissioned by the Wellcome Trust explore the nature of science delivery across the UK capturing baseline metrics prior to the full implementation of it's UK wide Primary Science Campaign in autumn 2017 and reports on the progress of the campaign...