Nanstallon CP School - Science Links
Science Links
Key: C1, C2, C3 = Class 1, Class 2, Class 3.
Rating: * = good site, ** = very good site, *** = excellent site.
| BBC Schools' Pages (especially Science Clips) | C1,2,3. Plenty of useful material linked to the curriculum. For example: learn about Floating and Sinking, Moving and Growing, Solids and Liquids and Circuits, Pushes and Pulls and Teeth and Eating. There are interactive games, quizzes and fact sheets. Worth a good look round. *** |
| Kids' Health | C2,3. Informative and fun American site about the body, health, feelings etc. Has a Game Closet section with movies, games and quizzes. ** |
| Try Science | C2,3. Full of interactive experiments like guiding your submarine using sonar waves, stopping people getting sunburnt on the beach or getting your robot to pick up toxic waste. Great fun. ** |
| Enchanted Learning - Biomes/habitats | C1,2,3. Explore different habitats such as rainforest, desert, ocean and pond. Lots of printout activities, diagrams and links, e.g. frog life cycle printable booklet. *** |
| Enchanted Learning - Plants | C1,2,3. An illustrated dictionary of plant terms plus lots of plant printouts, for example a printable book on sprouting beans and label the flower diagram. ** |
| Our Planet Earth from Space | C3. See current photos of the Earth taken from satellites. Amazing! **
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Digitalbrain's KS1 Science pages
Digitalbrain's KS2 Science pages
| C1. Lots of material related to the curriculum including: light and sound, electricity, forces and motion, plants and animals in the local environment and plants. (Unfortunately, many of the links don't work.) *
C2,3. Here you'll find: healthy lifestyles, rocks and crystals, water, Earth, Sun and Moon, light and much more. (Many broken links as above, though.) * |
| The Flour and Grain Education Programme | C2,3. Find out all about wheat, flour, bread and healthy eating here. ** |
| GSK's Active Science | C1,2,3. Lovely website with interactive learning materials. Explore different materials, take the energy challenge, find out about humans and animals and more. ** |
| All about electricity | C2,3. Scroll down the page to get some good printable topic sheets about electricity. * |
| Nature Explorer | C1,2,3. Beautiful site full of information, pictures and diagrams. Explore plants, ponds, grasslands and woodlands. ***
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| Interactive ear | C1. Watch this Flash movie to learn how we hear sounds. * |
| The Nine Planets | C3. Everything you ever wanted to know about our solar system. *
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