This kids news activity, ‘IBM Produces World’s Smallest Movie – Made Of Atoms’ is about a stop-motion film created on an atomic level.
This graphic organiser, ‘Identifying Action and Reaction’ supports the teaching of reading and writing across the curriculum by prompting students to identify a sequence of actions as they read and write.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Innovators and Visionaries’, features two informational texts about pioneer inventors and innovative architects. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about cause and effect, comparison/contrast, hypotheticals, and pros and cons.
This history article, ‘John Tyndall’ features the Irish physicist who explained why the sky is blue, the greenhouse effect, invented the fire-fighter’s respirator and proved light could be bent, which paved the way for fibre optics. It provides factual information about the life of John Tyndall and his achievements, along with a glossary of unfamiliar …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Kite Experiment’ helps students to arrange information from experiments in an efficient matter, that will be easily remembered.
This oral language photo activity ‘Cave’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This hands-on activity, ‘Levers 1’ asks students to investigate the concept of a lever and how the movement of a load is impacted by the efforts location to the fulcrum.
This hands-on activity, ‘Levers 2’ introduces the concepts of fulcrum, load and effort through the use a wheel-barrow.
This hands-on activity, ‘Levers 3’ asks students to make chopsticks and investigate the types of levers involved when students use them to eat.
This hands-on activity, ‘Levers 4’ asks students to explore various types of items and identify which class of lever they belong to.
This hands-on activity, ‘Levers 5’ asks students to explore various types of items and identify which class of lever they belong to.
This hands-on activity, ‘Levers 6’ asks students to make moveable ears and identify the fulcrum, load, effort and class of the lever.
This kids news activity, ‘Lonesome George May Not Have Been The Last Of His Kind’ investigates the discovery of a species of giant tortoise previously thought to be extinct.
This hands-on activity, ‘Magnetic Energy’ asks students to investigate magnetic energy through exploring the properties and use of magnets.
This hands-on activity, ‘Mass’ asks students to investigate the concept of mass through looking at touch, shape and texture.
This kids news activity, ‘Meteorite Lands In Russia’ reports on a destructive sonic boom event over a Russian town, caused by a meteorite explosion.
This hands-on activity, ‘Storing and Releasing Energy 1’ asks students to build a pendulum and investigate how you can store and release energy when you choose.
This hands-on activity, ‘Storing and Releasing Energy 2’ asks students to investigate the transfer of potential energy to kinetic energy through the use of a yoyo.
This hands-on activity, ‘Storing and Releasing Energy 3’ asks students to investigate the transfer of potential energy to kinetic energy through the use of a slinky.
This hands-on activity, ‘Storing and Releasing Energy Project’ asks to explore kinetic energy through building and conducting an experiment using a pendulum.
This kids news activity, ‘New Space Mission Will Study Asteroid In 2018’ reports on a NASA and Canadian Space Agency project aimed at studying a piece of an asteroid.
This hands-on activity, ‘Newton Project’ asks students to write a short report on Newton, or any other famous scientist who studied motion.
This hands-on activity, ‘Newton’s 1st Law of Motion 1’ asks students to investigate the concept of the first law of motion through experimenting with seat belts.
This hands-on activity, ‘Newton’s 1st Law of Motion 2’ investigates the relationship between mass and inertia by allowing students to pull a tablecloth from underneath a set of heavy objects.
This hands-on activity, ‘Newton’s 1st Law of Motion 3’ asks students design and make a model which shows Newton’s first law of motion at work.
This hands-on activity, ‘Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion 1’ asks students to investigate the concept of Newton’s second law of motion and the effect of using force to move a heavy and light ball.
This hands-on activity, ‘Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion 2’ asks students to line up according to height and jump on stomp rockets to reveal the direct relationship between mass and distance.
This hands-on activity, ‘Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion 3’ asks students to design and make a model which shows how Newton’s second law operates when two objects collide.
This hands-on activity, ‘Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion 1’ introduces the concept of Newton’s third law of motion and asks students to form pairs and practice Chinese get-ups by pushing on each other with equal force.
This hands-on activity, ‘Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion 2’ asks students to investigate the concept of Newton’s third law of motion through launching a balloon rocket.
This hands-on activity, ‘Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion 3’ asks students to demonstrate Newton’s third law of motion by conducting an experiment in designing and making a slingshot.
This kids news activity, ‘Nomadic Gnome Puts Gravity To The Test’ is about a scientific experiment centred on physical location, gravity and the measurement of weight.
This graphic organiser, ‘Outlining Medical Advances’ helps students to combine facts about medical advancements with their own personal opinions.
This graphic organiser, ‘Outlining Opinions’ asks students to combine facts about a topic with their own personal opinions.
This kids news activity, ‘Playing Video Games Can Make You A Better Searcher’ reports on research suggesting a link between gaming and the development of visual search skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Procedures’ supports the teaching of writing and science experiments by giving students a template for recording the steps in a procedure.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Proposal for Your Invention’, features instructions for students to create an original essay about an unusual and ambitious project. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Suggested topics include transporting ice to irrigate deserts, cloning cells, and colonising Mars.
This hands-on activity, ‘Pulleys 1’ asks students to build a pulley and investigate how they can provide an advantage when lifting heavy loads.
This hands-on activity, ‘Pulleys 2’ asks students to set up a single and double pulley and investigate how they compare to each other when lifting a load.
This hands-on activity, ‘Pulleys 3’ asks students to investigate and measure how far you need to pull the rope on a single and double pulley to lift the bucket.
This hands-on activity, ‘Ramps’ asks students to build a ramp and investigate how its height impacts upon the rolling distance of an object.
This hands-on activity, ‘Revolving Crane Project’ asks students to build Leonardo da Vinci’s revolving crane.
This history poster ‘Robert Boyle’ features important factual background information about this famous Irish scientist who pioneered scientific experimentation and became known as the “father of chemistry”. This is a great resource for broadening students’ knowledge of significant figures from Irish history and could be used as a prompt for further discussion or study of …More
This hands-on activity, ‘Robot Arm Project’ asks students to build Leonardo da Vinci’s robot arm and explore its relation to movement and physics.
This life science worksheet, ‘Roots and Shoots’ provides students with an experiment to observe the way seeds grow. It supports an understanding of plants.
This graphic organiser, ‘Science Experiment’ helps students understand the process of procedural writing through the use of a science experiment graphical scaffold. This resource gives students the opportunity to recognise the structure of an experiment and sequence ideas using the appropriate language of instruction. It is a great foundation to more complex procedural writing.
This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Discover Cause Of Irish Potato Famine’ reports on the discovery of the plant disease that caused a disaster in Ireland in the 1800s.
This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Discover Corn Plants Make A Noise’ is about research into the role of sound and vibration in the life cycle of plants.
This kids news activity, ‘Scientists Find Hidden Mural By Leonardo Da Vinci’ is about the technology used to discover a lost painting by Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci.
This hands-on activity, ‘Screws 1’ asks students to investigate how a screw is really a ‘rolled up’ ramp.
This life science worksheet, ‘Seeds and Water’ provides students with an experiment to determine how much water seeds need. It supports an understanding of plants.
This hands-on activity, ‘Solar Energy’ asks students to capture energy from the sun and investigate how different materials and colours can absorb and reflect light.
This graphic organiser, ‘Solution Finder’ helps students clarify their opinions and form solutions to problems.
This hands-on activity, ‘Space’ asks students to investigate the concept that mass takes up space.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Steps to Becoming an Inventor’, features a procedural text about the process of inventing something. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, reasoning, making an inference, figurative language, questioning, and detail. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This hands-on activity, ‘Storing and Releasing Energy 1’ asks students to investigate and observe kinetic energy.
This hands-on activity, ‘Storing and Releasing Energy 2’ asks students to investigate and observe the relationship between mass and energy.
This kids news activity, ‘Texters Studied In New Research’ reports on research into texting and ethical thinking.
This hands-on activity, ‘The Gravity-Friction Challenge’ asks students to tackle the two challenges of making a tennis ball return to its original height when dropped and discovering how to move a piece of plasticine across the room.
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