Science: Starting with Biology activities to try out as they are or adapt for your own classrooms.

You will find free downloadable activities here which we hope you will be able to fit into your schemes of work. Much more importantly, we hope you will find ways of developing similar activities on other topics. We are a teacher network, and we would be very pleased if you could send any new activities for us to share online or a link to your website if you prefer to post the activity online yourself.

We have provided a brief summary of the activity. Descriptions are hard to write and we welcome corrections and suggestions. The full activity is in insecure pdf, and contains teacher and pupil instructions. You will need in some cases to copy resources on coloured card although we are producing an increasing number of activities in colour which you can print directly in colour and then laminate if you wish .

Animal Life Dominoes

Domino game with open ended matching to explore links between different features of animals. (76KB)

Blood Circulation Games

Simulation game where pupils become blood cells and try to collect enough oxygen to keep their animal alive and a connect four game to consolidate knowledge about organs for circulation.

Darwin's Birthday

Information gap activity with four accounts about evolution and Darwin's life. Pupils work on one account and then jigsaw to find out about the other accounts.

Germ Warfare

Collecting game where you collect germs when you pick dirty activity cards.

Parts of a Flower

Pupils interrogate a text together to help them label a flower and identify its parts.

Plant or Animal Connect Four

What are the characteristics of animals? Of plants? What do they have in common? What is different? There is an English and a French version here.

To the Waterhole Track Game

Herbivores and carnivores compete to get to the waterhole first while learning about how they both manage to survive.

Where can you find me in the Playground?

Connect Four game about all the different habitats of animals in a London playground.

Who Eats What Connect Four

A pairing activity for different woodland animals and what they eat and a connect four game to consolidate this information.

Vertebrate Connect Four

A connect four game to help remember the features of amphibians, fish,mammals etc.

Vertebrate Information Gap

You have half the animals. Your partner has the other half. Find out each others animals. You must only answer yes/no questions. e.g Doesit have legs? And here's a shorter version:

Short Vertebrate Information Gap

Charles Drew

An information gap about the life of the man who developed blood banks. Three different sets of information for groups of three to exchange and complete a question sheet.