This session recaps the different types of human impact on birds and introduces the idea of migration and birds needing a network of places to rest and visit on their long journey. 

Pupils will combine everything they've learned in the previous 'Saving Today's...

In this set of three activities students will design and build their own paper rockets and launch them. They will learn what it takes in order for a rocket to be stable and they will calculate the rocket’s trajectory and velocity. They will learn about the velocity required to leave Earth in a rocket and uncover...

The bestselling 30-Second...

With over 1700 colour photographs, artworks, diagrams and maps to inform and inspire, this title presents 300 science experiments and history projects for home learning and school study.

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

In this activity students make a periscope and investigate the topic of light.

Resources required:

Cardboard, mirrors.

Experiments for children aged 4 - 12 years to lay the foundation for good scientific practice. They will stimulate imagination and investigation, and will strengthen children's interest in the world, and universe, around them.

This book presents a variety of activities, projects, and experiments that help to illustrate and explain all sorts of scientific principles.

A  family finds a penguin mysteriously delivered to their door for every day of  the  year. At first they're cute, but with every passing day,  Penguins pile up.

Feeding, cleaning and housing  Penguins becomes a monumental task -  they're noisy, smelly and they always hog the bathroom!

And who on...

Explore science in a fun new way, with a different activity or experiment for every day of the year. This book will inspire the scientists of the future.

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

This activity enables students to create 3D models that represent temperature data. Via a series of video tutorials students are guided step by step through the process. Tinkercad 3D modelling software is required to do this but is freely available online, as well as access to a 3D printer. Once printed the tactile...

A 3D picture of the solar system

In October 2006, NASA launched two spacecraft that would, for the first time in the history of space exploration, capture space-born, high-definition 3D images of the Sun. In 3D Sun, the leading NASA scientists from the mission unveil these images and take us behind the scenes to tell the story of the Sun and why...

The ASE Materials and Equipment booklet provides lists of equipment and materials compiled from what primary teachers at the time (1966) found met the needs of their own classes as they developed investigations. It reassured teachers that a large collection of equipment...