Current list of Online Workshops for Science
The list is still being revised and the new webpage is imminent. As result activity links are a bit scattered. You will find some of our revised activities on the recent Nottinghamshire workshop resources page: here
I am also putting more pictures into activities as they are being revised to support new arrivals. The order of materials is a bit random at the moment so you will have to delve a bit to find something you want. I am beginning to include 'quicklooks' which will be helpful for inset, deciding whether you want to download the whole thing or explaining activities to colleagues. Remember that activities for one key stage can be easily adapted to another, so don't stick to the key stage you are teaching while you are browsing.
Journey into Inner Space. Looking at atomic structure. A game which tries to make the concept more visual.
Stability, centre of gravity and area of base: pictorial activity to support these concepts. Quicklook and Full Activity
An activity to encourage pupils to look at the characteristics of elements, build up and interrogate the Periodic Table: Quicklook and full activity.
A sorting activity on sound, sorting by pitch and volume: quicklook and the full activity
A boardgame on circulation of the blood where you travel around the body collecting and using oxygen. We have also included a connect four activity on the function of heart and lungs. First used with KS2.
A Burning dominoes revision/consolidation activity for scientific vocabulary at KS 3 and 4.
Changing Dominoes (solids, melting, gas etc) similar to the above for KS3 or 4.
An Energy and Sound dominoes revision/consolidation activity for KS3 or 4.
Fair Tests: This is a revision actvity on AT1 to distinguish the components of fair testing e.g. what changes? what stays the same? It has recently helped a lot of children get a level 5 in KS2 in last year's test. It can easily be adapted to other AT1 work. Quicklook and Full Activity.
A new activity on food trying to avoid going on and on about what isn't good for you. It is rather like the 'eat five fruits a day' campaign. KS2 or 3. This activity now contains all the pictures so it is a hefty 5mb!
An activity on clean and dirty habits called Germ Warfare Quicklook and Full Activity which will also be suitable for food technology, and which is popular from Years 1 to 9!
A game on where animals can be found in your playground Quicklook and Full Activity
A foodchain boardgame on carnivores and herbivores "To the Waterhole".
Foodchains and webs: we've started with Who eat what in the Woodlands! Quicklook and Full Activity
Our tried and tested activity on friction: Quicklook and Full Activity which is an excellent prequel to the practical work of sliding trainers down a board. Bristol EMA have produced a photograph version of this which you might prefer. Take a look at the Bristol site because they are adding new resources rapidly.
A living things connect four (vertebrates, amphibians etc) also to revise and consoldidate terminology for KS3/4
Materials and their qualities: barrier and connect four games on describing materials for younger pupils: one based on items in fairy stories, one where children can construct their own gameboards: http://www.collaborativelearning.org/materialsconnectfour.pdf and another on common household objects.
Solids, Liquids or Gases? Work from Leicester, Cambridgeshire and Hounslow on states of matter and changing states for KS2/3/4. Quicklook here for all the activities.
A consolidate terminology around matter connect four game for KS3/4
An activity on metals which is also a good way to sort students into groups. Meeting Metals.
A board game on acids and alkalis: Neutralisation Rules The winner gets to Ph7. Used with KS2/3. A 'Quicklook' is now online.
This is a way of introducing information on planets involving children (we used it with Year 2 but it works at KS2) in a lot of walking around the room and finding the planet to which they belong.
An information gap activity on sun, moon and earth for KS2.
Is it a plant or an animal? Can you always tell the difference? This game may help you. Designed originally for KS1.
What decays quickly? What decays slowly? What doesn't seem to decay? A connect four activity for KS1 where the children help to construct the game. Quicklook!
Plant Power Bingo designed to brighten up revision of vacuoles etc for KS3/4.
Work from Bristol on reversible change for KS2.
Soils and Rocks Become a rock and experience millenia in minutes . Two activities here: a dramatisation of the processes of extrusion, erosion, transportation etc. and a Talking Rocks activity where children become rocks and learn about their hardness and other qualities.
Become a drop of water and experience the watercycle in role: Quicklook and Full Activity.
A connect four game on the weather matching excesses eg too much or not enough rain to results eg happy tennis players or soggy trainers. This and the extreme weather activity are also posted on the geography page. Quicklook!
This page was last partly updated on 20th February 2009
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