The Frozen Oceans (Primary) education programme is based on journeys undertaken by explorers and scientists taking part in the Catlin Arctic Surveys between 2009 and 2011. The activity ideas and accompanying resources are designed to introduce students to what life is like in the High Arctic and the...

This series of activities, aimed at primary level, explores different aspects of fruits and seeds and looks at how and why they are dispersed. Children identify the main characteristics of fruits and seeds by making careful observations, drawing them and labelling their important features. They then group them...

These videos and supporting activities have been reviewed by teachers and piloted in schools, and are designed to increase awareness and understanding of genetic disorders and to explain how differences in our genes help to make everyone unique. By encouraging acceptance and tolerance of difference, these resources...

This poster-style handout provides information about genes for children, explaining how genes are instructions for building proteins, how genetic disorders can happen and how many genes we have in our cells. The sheet was produced by Genetic Disorders UK, which provides schools with a host of free resources for...

There are three questions on this worksheet about genes, what they control and how we inherit them. A choice of answers is presented for children to shade in the correct one and there are pictures to support reading.

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This booklet, aimed at upper primary level, contains seventeen activities linked to health and diet, incorporating many cross curricular links. The activities look at various aspects of healthy eating and lifestyle including: the nutritional value and benefits of different types of food, what makes a balanced diet...

This report summarises the activities undertaken in Froglife’s Grass Roots, Green Shoots Project which ran from July 2006-December 2007. The project involved environmental education sessions with a strong social inclusion element. It aimed to help young people improve their local environment, and develop their self...

This report summarises and evaluates the Green Pathways scheme which ran from 2008 to 2011. Undertaken by the wildlife charity Froglife, it was designed to offer vulnerable and disadvantaged young people between the ages of ten to seventeen the opportunity to participate in innovative conservation projects and...

Aimed at primary level, this resource links to the topics of plants and living things and their habitats.The activities are designed to build on earlier knowledge and develop ideas and skills within grouping and classification. They start with activities which help...

This activity encourages children to consider how bones grow as we grow. Working in groups, children measure the height, distance around the skull, length of a foot and length of a lower arm for each person in order to investigate whether taller people have longer bones...

This Nuffield Primary Science book is for use in the Living Things in their Environment topic. It consists of 11 colourful, and highly illustrated, double-page spreads aimed at students aged 7-9. The book ends with a glossary and index.

The Hamilton Trust has produced a range of resources that aid teachers in delivery of the primary science curriculum. Each of the resources in this collection is a self-contained topic of six lessons. They contain detailed lesson plans, teacher guidance, practical investigations and worksheets. The resources are...

The Hamilton Trust has produced support materials which encourage a practical approach to primary science. These resources for Year Five contain teacher guidance and student worksheets. Each resource has six lessons, with full lesson plans, that cover the topics of:

• Living things and their habitats...

The Hamilton Trust has produced support materials which encourage a practical approach to primary science. These resources for Year Four contain teacher guidance and student worksheets. Each resource has six lessons, with full...