I'm a primary school teacher, & ex-scientist, with 17 years experience. My passions are Maths and Science throughout the school. I spend a lot of time developing challenging and engaging, real-life resources. I co-founded My Science Club in 2021.
The majority of my resources are free as I just enjoy the fact that other teachers might find them useful in their schools. If you do use them please leave a wee comment or rate them - all feedback is welcome as it helps me improve my own practice.
I'm a primary school teacher, & ex-scientist, with 17 years experience. My passions are Maths and Science throughout the school. I spend a lot of time developing challenging and engaging, real-life resources. I co-founded My Science Club in 2021.
The majority of my resources are free as I just enjoy the fact that other teachers might find them useful in their schools. If you do use them please leave a wee comment or rate them - all feedback is welcome as it helps me improve my own practice.
Each month Topical Science Updates look at 3 or 4 of the latest and most interesting science stories to engage and inspire primary school pupils to talk about, debate and engage with Topical Science.
The PDF contains web links, ideas and resources to enhance your science teaching.
Two lessons to teach pupils about meteorites, asteroids and comets and the differences between them. It includes information about the Solar System as well as information about specific meteorites.
These lessons were put together when we borrowed a set of meteorites from STFC as part of the Tim Peake Project in 2016 - most of the resource is adaptable for teaching the concept without the set of meteorites.
Introduction to meteorites, asteroids and comets
Meteorite Craters + activity
Meteorite crater recording sheet
A set of resources for teaching energy aimed at upper primary or early secondary.
Lesson 1 covers: What is Energy? Why is it important? Different forms of Energy
Lesson 2 covers: Energy conservation and transformation/transfer of energy
There is an activity where pupils match energy examples to the form of energy and a worksheet for pupils to make their own transformation/transfer pathways.
You might find the following documents useful to support your understanding of how energy works:
https://www.stem.org.uk/elibrary/resource/29858/strengthening-teaching-and-learning-of-energy-secondary-national-strategy
http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_217157_en.doc
http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/nationalstrategy/ks3/science/files/TeachingAboutEnergy(RobinMillar).pdf
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/Australia/PageProofs/SQ8_AC_VIC/c10_TransferringAndTransformingEnergy_WEB.pdf
October's Topical Science update includes the latest research into Synesthesia, Meteorites, and Cats - as well as links to the new free resource - Science on the Web
This resource pack focuses of the force of buoyancy and includes a series of 4 lessons and all the resources needed to teach them.
There are also additional activities that can be incorporated into the programme of study.
Lesson 1 - a recap of forces, testing pupils prior knowledge and filling in any gaps with practical demonstrations and video clips
Lesson 2 -introduction to buoyancy with 2 practical investigations for pupils
Lesson 3 - an investigation into the buoyancy of drinks cans
Lesson 4 - designing and testing a boat
Some of the presentations contain links to videos on YouTube (they are not my property so I couldn't upload them here). If you can't get YouTube in your school consider ripping the videos onto your hard-drive to use, there are several pieces of software, or websites, where this can be done free of charge.
Please feel free to adapt the resources as you see fit, they have all being uploaded in editable formats. If you find the resources useful please comment on TES and share them with other teachers.
Thanks
Topical Science Update for May
Includes: Cassini's incredible mission to Saturn, Nuclear Fission - the arrival of the energy future, Recycling and the Resource of the Month - Veritasium's amazing YouTube channel.
December's Topical Science Update, featuring;
Animal Communication
Space Debris
Volcanoes
Primary Science education Conference from the Primary Science Teaching Trust
December’s Topical Science Update is a Christmas special featuring…Mars!
Take an in depth look at the Red Planet and our attempts to study it.
Includes a special Social Media resource guide.