This hands-on activity, ‘Volume 1’ asks students to investigate the concept of volume filling up space.
This hands-on activity, ‘Volume 2’ asks students to investigate how different sized containers affect volume.
This hands-on activity, ‘Water Energy’ asks students to investigate how energy from flowing water can be used to move a boat.
This hands-on activity, ‘Wedges’ asks students to investigate how a wedge can be used to force something apart.
This life science worksheet, ‘What Helps Beans to Grow?’ provides students with an experiment to observe the conditions needed for bean seeds to grow. It supports an understanding of plants.
This hands-on activity, ‘Wheels 1’ asks students to build a cart and investigate how wheels help us move load.
This hands-on activity, ‘Wheels 2’ asks students to build a drive belt and investigate how spools can move load.
This hands-on activity, ‘Wheels 3’ asks students to build gears using bottle tops and investigate how they can move load.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Where Did the Dinosaurs Go?’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This story, ‘Which Plant Will Grow Tallest?’ tells how a girl found and carried out an experiment for a school project. It includes instructions for the experiment. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This hands-on activity, ‘Wind Energy’ asks students to build a windmill and investigate how wind energy can be captured to create power.
This hands-on activity, ‘Wind Energy Extension’ asks students to record and compare the strength of wind over time.
This graphic organiser, ‘Writing Instructions’ supports the teaching of writing and science experiments by giving students a template for recording the steps in a procedure.
This kids news activity, ‘Zebra Dung May Be New Fuel Source’ is about research into alternative sources of eco-friendly bio-fuels.
This ‘Asking Questions’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to organise their thoughts and questions about a topic at various stages of learning. This open-ended graphic organiser could be used to support students in formulating questions about a wide range of areas of scientific study, for example before, during and after an experiment or …More
This hands-on learning activity supports teachers in directing students through the process of planting seeds and observing and recording their changes as they grow into bee-friendly plants. The activity begins with some question prompts for teachers to engage students’ existing knowledge about bees and encourage them to consider their habitat and needs. Teachers are then …More
This ‘Claim, Evidence, Reasoning’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to organise their ideas about a claim or assertion that has been put forward. The graphic organiser invites students to make a note of the claim, then provide three separate pieces of evidence to support the claim, before finally giving them an opportunity to …More
This worksheet, ‘Crash Test Eggs’ is a fabulous experiment based learning activity. Students are required to design a construction that successfully protects a raw egg at the point of impact with the ground. It provides a great link to how cars are designed to give the driver and passengers the most protection on impact and …More
This ‘Doing Research’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to record and track their research. This graphic organiser is an ideal framework for students to note their sources of information, any new vocabulary they learnt in the course of their research, the new information they learnt and any further research they would like to …More
In this learning activity, ‘Fully Stretched’, students analyse the results of an experiment testing the relative strengths of two brands of rubber band. They then carry out their own rubber band comparison and graph the results. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This ‘K-W-L Chart’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to explore what they know, what they want to know and what they have learnt about a given topic. The open-ended nature of this graphic organiser makes it suitable for supporting students in a wide range of scientific investigations and areas of study, as well …More
This hands-on STEM activity provides students with a visual demonstration of the role of bees in the pollination process to further solidify their understanding of the importance of bees in pollination and food production. The activity begins with some question prompts for teachers to engage students’ existing knowledge about pollination and how bees contribute to …More
This ‘Observation and Inference’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to think critically and analytically about their observations. Students are prompted to record observations, then follow these up with inferences that they have made based on those observations. Finally, students are asked to explain why they have made those inferences. The ability to not …More
This ‘Observation Log’ graphic organiser is the perfect template for students carrying out any observation-based experiments or projects. The graphic organiser contains four clipboard-style spaces for students to record the date and their observation notes and can be photocopied to provide as many days’ worth of notes as is required.
This ‘Planning an Experiment’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to methodically plan an experiment from start to finish. The timeline format of this graphic organiser prompts students to consider the elements and actions required at each step of an experiment, supporting them in developing key investigation and experiment planning skills that are essential …More
This ‘Problems and Solutions’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to identify a range of possible solutions to a given problem, then establish the best solution from these options. The graphic organiser allows students to organise their ideas about solutions to a problem in a clear format, providing them with the opportunity to brainstorm …More
This ‘Scientific Conclusions’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to use the RERUN method to write a scientific conclusion. The letters of the acronym RERUN stand for ‘recall’, ‘explain’, ‘results’, ‘uncertainty’ and ‘new’, and students are provided with a short summary of each of these terms to support them in structuring their responses.
This ‘STEM Vocabulary’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to record new vocabulary that they come across in the course of their STEM learning experiences in a simple and familiar table format. Students can note any new vocabulary that they learn, then research to find a definition that they can record next to the …More
This ‘The Engineering Design Process’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to plan an experiment using the well-known engineering design process parameters. The engineering design process is a series of steps that engineers typically follow to come up with a solution to a problem, emphasising creative problem-solving, teamwork, resilience and design efficiency. Each text …More
This ‘The Scientific Method’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to use and understand this essential process of scientific enquiry and process. The graphic organiser prompts students to identify a problem by asking a question, then formulate a hypothesis based on this question. Students are then given the opportunity to plan an experiment, recording …More
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