This resource centres around five posters designed to promote discussion, which link to the topic areas of micro-organisms, keeping healthy, plants, life-cycles, how we see things and PSHE. The notes provide information for teachers including key teaching points and questions. They focus on the variety of micro-...

Purpose: Although teachers will often teach new practical skills directly, having digital support resources can be very useful. Such resources can be used to reinforce teaching by rehearsing techniques or by providing an aide memoire for rarely used skills.

Teaching sequence: The example provided teaches...

One of the series of Royal Institution Christmas lectures focusing on Bayes’ theorem. The topic of the resource is an investigation into stolen chocolate biscuits so would make an interesting end of term diversion.

This is one of a series of resources to support the use of the BBC micro:bit. This resource focusses on pupils designing, programming and using a BBC micro:bit to complete the mission challenge to find out more about the planet Mars.

In this activity pupils will make use of the BBC micro:bit to design and...

This lesson enables students to:

• estimate and measure leaves in a number of ways
• learn different techniques to measure a complex shape
• think about fair tests and be asked to organise and display their data

The lesson is designed to help teachers cover measurement,...

Published in 1947, the aim of this book was to place 'experiments against a background of teaching motives and methods ... [and thus] ...outline a rational way of teaching chemistry'.

This book is a third edition of a...

In this adaptable lesson plan by Barefoot Computing, children create a simple model (out of Lego or similar) and then take photos to create instructions (an algorithm) for other children to recreate their model. By removing one block at a time they are decomposing the problem into manageable steps. Teachers may...

This resource contains a collection of interactive pictures designed to illustrate and practise the vocabulary associated with measure. They are:

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In this activity students develop their understanding of simple food chains or webs and scientific vocabulary through making an Arctic life mobile. They will also be introduced to the work of marine scientist, Dr Ceri Lewis, who has worked in the Arctic investigating the impact of...

In this lesson students simulate the training of Arctic explorers to learn how lifestyles can affect physical and mental health. The lesson is introduced by Ann Daniels, a record-breaking polar explorer as the first woman in history, along with expedition teammate Caroline Hamilton, to reach the North and South...

In this resource students learn about diet and the importance of a balanced diet through the experiences of polar explorers. Using creativity and scientific research skills, students will create a menu suitable for an Arctic expedition. The lesson is introduced by Fran Orio, a specialist polar cook, who can make...

In this lesson students investigate the insulating properties of materials and consider how the adaptations of Arctic organisms help develop these. The context of the lesson is helping to develop new clothing for Tyler Fish, one of the Catlin Arctic Survey explorers.

The entire package of the Frozen Oceans...

In this lesson students learn about the impacts of ice in the Arctic melting by watching a series of demonstrations. The context of the lesson is the work of Dr Helen Findlay who was investigating the effect of environmental change on the Arctic ecosystem.

The entire package of the Frozen Oceans primary...

The glacier experiment sequence from the previous two lessons is repeated here, accompanied by the glacier vulnerability score chart. Two sets of student assessment tasks are given for levels three to seven. One of these allows teachers to print and distribute the questions most suitable to their class or to...