In this activity children will decide which materials are suitable for making a boat. They will investigate materials and design a boat.
Vicki Hall
In this activity children will discuss the importance of cows in the food chain and learn the life cycle of a cow.
Vicki Hall
In this activity children will use knowledge about pushes and pulls to suggest how the capsule was moved up and down the mine shaft.
In this activity children learn about the different forces acting on an object and how those forces will affect the movement of that object.
Petra Mitchard
In this activity children will use knowledge about insects and familiar animals to identify different sorts of food eaten by them.
Tessa Edwards
In this activity children will learn about the formation of coal and that there are different types of coal.
Petra Mitchard
In this activity children will investigate different types of sound and determine which could be used as the new sound for modern quiet cars.
Vicki Hall
In this activity children consider rock types, find out how to generate electricity and research historic and current use of water and wind energy.
Petra Mitchard
In this activity children consider how trees impact our lives and whether there is scientific evidence to suggest that trees make us happy.
Miranda Moon
In this activity children will use their knowledge of the movement of the Sun to predict how to navigate using the Sun.
Vicki Hall
In this activity children will investigate how sounds are made and will attempt to make sounds of their own.
In this activity children learn the importance of exercise in keeping us healthy and understand that exercise keeps our bodies and minds healthy too.
Miranda Moon
In this activity children consider facts about micro-organisms and use their knowledge to complete a quiz and research the work of scientists.
Tessa Edwards
In this activity children will use knowledge about evaporation to understand what has happened to the water on Mars.
In this activity children learn about different sorts of movement and how to describe these and relate movement to pushes and pulls.
Vicki Hall
In this activity children learn about the lifecycle of a ladybird and take part in a research study, the UK Ladybird Survey, a citizen science project
Lois Kelly
In this activity children consider what plants require to thrive and investigate the effect of changing any factors required for plant growth
Petra Mitchard
In this activity children will investigate how a conductive fabric can change the brightness of a bulb.
Primary Upd8 Team