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Explore a range of free remotely-delivered lessons for children aged 7-11.

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Remote lessons for key stage 2

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Examine different forms of camouflage and why it is important for predators and prey. Includes some activities to try.

Adaptations and interdependence: camouflage

Explore how animals are suited to their environments, what happens over time, and natural selection and evolution.

Animals: adaptations and evolution

Explore the circulatory system, including the components of blood, the heart and circulation.

Animals including humans: circulatory system

Explore the digestive system starting in the mouth and working through all the digestive organs. 

Animals including humans: digestion

Discussion of the different food groups that make up a healthy balanced diet.

Animals including humans: food groups

Explore the animal kingdom with  producers, predators and prey. After this discover how they fit into a food chain.

Animals including humans: producers, predators and prey

Explore different types of skeletons and how they work.

Animals including humans: skeletons

Explore the first stage of the digestive system in the mouth by becoming an expert on teeth.

Animals including humans: teeth

An overview of the main aspects of classification and identification including methods to safely capture animals.

Biology from home: animal classification and life cycles

An introduction to adaptation and behaviour in plants and animals, with a range of experiments to try at home.​

Biology from home: behaviour and adaptation

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Introduction to food webs, trophic levels, energy flow and the carbon and nitrogen cycles.

Biology from home: circle of life

Introduction to the hormone and nervous systems.

Biology from home: communication and control

Explore the process of digestion and how food travels through the body.

Biology from home: digestion

An overview of germination, leaf structure, xylem and phloem, sexual reproduction and seed dispersal.

Biology from home: plant biology

An introduction to a sequence of 8 home biology lessons. Contains an introduction to photosynthesis with activities to try.

Biology from home: photosynthesis

An introduction to the heart, lungs, the circulatory and breathing systems.

Biology from home: your heart, lungs and blood

Explore static electricity, conductors, insulators and ways to save electricity.

Electricity: conductors and insulators

Explore the sources of electricity through investigations, activities and some online games.

Electricity: sources of electricity

Investigate birds' beaks and activities which show the real-life relevance of evolution and desirable traits.

Evolution: 'The Battle of the Beaks'

Examine the importance of soil for all living things and investigate the composition of soil.

Exploring soils

Explore the factors which control whether items float or sink with some fun activities.

Forces: floating and sinking

Explore how fossils are formed using everyday materials through practical investigations and activities.

Fossil creation

See if you can prove whether gravity exists by completing the activities.

Gravity: does it exist?

Explore the role that light plays in how we see. 

Light and how we see things

An overview of the classification of living things, including the work of Carl Linnaeus.​

Living things and their habitats: classification (the five kingdoms)

An introduction to classification and grouping living things.

Living things and their habitats: classification and grouping

Discover how magnets work and which objects in your house are magnetic.

Marvellous magnets

Explore chemical reactions and irreversible changes.

Materials: reversible and irreversible reactions

Explore solutions, dissolving, mixtures and separation​.

Materials: separation

Explore the parts and functions of plants and how different plants vary.

Plants: parts and functions

Explore the reproductive structures of a flower and see how pollination takes place.

Plant reproduction

Explore how seeds of plants and flowers are formed and the different ways they disperse.

Plants: seed formation and dispersal

Explore what rocks and soils are and where they can be found.

Rocks and soils

Explore our senses and investigate which parts of our body are involved and discover how we see and hear things.

Senses: sight and sound

A short video and activities covering sound in the primary science national curriculum.

Sound: how is it made?

Explore how scientific ideas, looking at the solar system.

Space: how ideas change

Explore the three states of matter, how to change between them and the water cycle.

States of matter

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Protecting our Planet Day took place 30 November 2023!

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What happened during POP23?

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POP23 Timetable

Discover how going into space is protecting our planet with a live-link up from the European Space Agency’s Centre for Earth Observation in Italy.

POP23 presenters will be live at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, exploring our incredible ecosystems through interactive spaces and places.

Live session introduction from experts on the RRS Sir David Attenborough,  one of the most advanced polar research vessels in the world.

Exclusive live session with Planet Earth III producers featuring stories from the current series on the adaptive ability to nature.

Going live with those closer to home with the Living Earth/Living Wales project and the recent research by Boaty McBoatface around the UK coastline.

Beam in live to the Rainforest Biome at the Eden Project in Cornwall for an interactive, live streamed primary school session.

Meet the Co-Founder of the first UK team to win the £1m Earthshot Prize, the world’s most prestigious environmental prize, launched by the Prince of Wales and Sir David Attenborough. 

Meet hidden heroes already working on innovations and research in the UK.  Learn about their journeys from studying STEM subjects to protecting our planet.

Hear an awesome STEM backstory with Meganne Christian - from studying science to becoming a scientist out in Antarctica to being selected to join the ESA astronaut class of 2022.

Join in the STEM CLUBS HOUR finale from Dynamic Earth  with a huge range of inspirational climate change resources from ESERO-UK and our supporters. 

A new TWILIGHT FOR TEACHERS session by the Natural History Museum, introducing the new initiative, the National Education Nature Park.

Hear from ESA and the international humanitarian community how satellite data plays a huge role in the rapid response to major disaster situations and helps save lives.

Protecting our Planet day is full of exciting activities and expert discussions. POP23 highlights included:

What were the highlights of POP23?

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Young people and educators got involved in a day full of sessions. 

POP sessions

Schools participated in STEM Clubs Hour with schools nationwide and ran climate change activities after school.

STEM Clubs Hour

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Learn about the partners of POP - ESERO-UK and STEM Learning - plus contributors and supporters.