Science
Life and Living processes
- Virtual heart
Animated presentation of the heart pumping blood.
- Virtual heart - School Science
Another animated heart.
- The Virtual Body
Games and interactive activities to help learn about the human body.
- Wildkids
Games, puzzles and interactive activities from Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.
- Pond dipping with young children
Information about ponds and pondlife.
- Skeletons and Skulls
Photographs of the skulls and skeletons of a number of animals.
- Cells Alive!
Find out what you can see on the head of a pin!
- West Midlands Safari Park
Animal games and puzzles on the Education pages.
- Amazing feats of aging
Includes an animation where a young woman ages into an old lady.
- Naturegrid
Investigate different habitats including a virtual pond dip.
- Garden Birds
Encyclopedia of British garden birds.
- BBC - Nature
Blue Planet Challenge - wonderful simulations in 'Play the Games area'.
- Plants in motion
This site has a wealth of time-lapse clips of plants in motion e.g. germination, flowers opening, plants growing towards the light.
- Science View
Interactives including build a jumbled up skeleton and design a fish.
- National Geographic
The Cyber Tiger is an interactive activity where you design an enclosure for a Siberian Tiger. The National Geographic site has other games to play too.
- Living Key
This key allows you to identify plants or animals by answering the questions. This makes an excellent introduction to using keys.
- Welltown
Activities include a game for identifying foods and food groups.
- Naace
Primary science activities including - Where to site a nesting box for owls?
Materials and their Properties
- Kitchen chemistry
In the virtual kitchen you use cabbage juice as an indicator for which liquids are acids, bases and neutrals.
- pH Investigations
Virtual investigations into pH.
Physical Processes
- Four mile lab
Earth and moon viewer.
- The nine (ten) planets
A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System.
- Fear of Physics
Find out all about forces, motion, acceleration and many other topics.
- Colour mixing
Make any colour by mixing different colours.
- Worldtime
Find out what time it is in Brazil.
General
- Eureka
Home page of the Eureka Museum for children.
- Exploratorium
Many interactive activities to explore on this museum site.
- The Science Explorer
Science investigations from the Exploratorium.
- The Why Files
Science behind the news.
- Energy Quest
Games and puzzles on the theme of energy.
- BBC Science Interactives
Many interactive games and puzzles linked to the QCA scheme of work.
- Enchanted Learning
Colouring sheets and charts for all areas of science.
- Apples 4 the Teacher
Interactive games and activities.
- Science behind Football
BBC resource exploring science in the context of football - find out how to "Bend it like Beckham".
- Natural History Museum
Information and interactive activities about natural history. Good for dinosaur research.
- Which is the Odd One Out? (KS1)
Games for the Foundation Stage.
- Planet Science
This free website with information, games and interactive activities, is for everyone who’s learning science at school – sign up for a free e-newsletter, there’s one especially for 7-10 year olds.
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