- National Insect Week
A week of activities nationwide, National Insect Week encourages people of all ages to learn more about insects. National Insect Week returns in 2020
Read more - Mr Climate Change and the Beastly Yeast!
The MeMBrane project aims to improve the tolerance of microbes by modifying the cell membranes. MeMBrane project super-talented scientists Naomi Wilkinson and Sarah Routledge have written and illustrated a children's book about the SuperYeast citizen science project.
Read more - The Great Bug Hunt 2021
The Great Bug Hunt 2021 is on! An exciting competition for primary school children that explores the bug world outdoors! Photo: H. Zell
Read more - ASE Book of the Year Competition
Winners of the 2020 ASE Book Awards annound. See the winners here!
Read more - Do Try This at Home
We want to make it easy for parents and carers to get their children excited about physics. That's why we've created Do Try This at Home, a series of fun science experiments for kids, with short demonstration videos and simple, step-by-step instructions.
Read more - UK Ladybird Survey
A citizen science project following the distribution of ladybird species in the UK
Read more - Collins Covid Resource
The life of every child in the UK in 2020 has been fundamentally affected by the coronavirus pandemic. To help children make sense of the pandemic, Collins have created this free resource. There are nine questions which cover different scientific aspects of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read more - RSPB Wild Challenges
ASE educational experts have gone through the excellent RSPB Wild Challenge resources, to create a series of fact-sheets designed to help fellow teachers put each challenge into a curriculum context.
Read more - The Great Bug Hunt 2020 Winners
Take a look at the winning entries from the 2020 Great Bug Hunt!
Read more - Practical Action home learning resources
Are you looking for activities that will engage your children aged 5-16 years whilst they are learning at home? We’ve pulled together our top learning at home resources that we hope will inspire you and your children during the lockdown period.
Read more - BPS Back to School Guidance
The British Psychological Society has published new guidance to support education professionals to meet the psychological needs of children as they plan for their return to school during the Coronavirus crisis.
Read more - Special Species Competition
Create your own Special Species and enter into our competition! We are currently accepting entries from all age groups (even adults!). Winners are awarded in April, July, September and December.
Read more - NFU educational resources
Teaming up with EatFarmNow, #LockdownLearning brings the world of food and farming and the joy of being out on the farm and in the countryside to the comfort of your own home during the current lockdown.
Read more - IET Home-learning resources and activities
The ever popular Faraday Challenge Day materials are ideal for using at home with your children. All activities are supported by teachers' notes, risk assessments and children's resources such as videos, presentations and guidance sheets.
Read more - The Great Bug Hunt 2020!
The Great Bug Hunt 2020 - The winners have been announced! Visit the Great Bug Hunt 2020 page to find out who the winners are...
Read more - Regreen the desert
Regreen the desert is a great new STEM challenge from Practical Action. Designed for ages 7-14 pupils use their STEM skills to provide a solution for a community in Sudan suffering from drought as a result of climate change.
Read more - CREST Awards
CREST (CREativity in Science and Technology) is a UK-wide Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) award scheme managed by the British Science Association.
Read more - PLAN Primary Science Assessment Resources
PLAN is a set of resources produced to enable teachers to have a clearer understanding of National Curriculum (England) expectations for meeting the standard in science.
Read more - What's in my tray?
What’s in my tray was created on social media to encourage teachers and technicians to use their Gratnells trays as part of their teaching resources.
Read more - Whipsnade News
Zookeepers are celebrating the birth of a giant in April – after welcoming a baby giraffe to the herd at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.
Read more - Farmvention
Farmvention (when farming meets invention) is a national STEM competition run by the NFU aimed at primary and lower secondary school children launched in September 2020. Entries close on 31 May 2021.
Read more - Farming STEMterprise
This resource, produced by the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), provides lessons an resources for primary school pupils (ages 7-10) across the four home nations.
Read more - Stop the Spread
Pupils research infectious diseases then design and build a model of a hand washing device for a school in Kenya
Read more - World Osprey Week
Free resources for schools about satellite tracking of ospreys and more about these birds
Read more - Who's responsible for global goals?
This lesson activity encourages pupils to consider who is reponsible for ensuring we achieve the Global Goals (also known as the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs). Suitable for pupils 9-18 it stimulates discussion and debate, and help pupils recognise the role they themselves have to play.
Read more - Global Goals
Practical Action have produced a range of different materials to support teachers in helping pupils understand the Global Goals and their targets; why they are important in reducing world poverty, and how pupils can take action themselves to help achieve them. Several activities for pupils aged 8-18.
Read more - Sensory ecology and evolution
Teach about adaptation and camouflage through engaging online games. The Sensory Ecology and Evolution Group at University of Exeter is using online games to explore the effectiveness of different animal camoufleage. Suitable for upper primary and secondary age pupils.
Read more - Royal Society primary school science experiments
The Royal Society has joined forces with Professor Brian Cox, the Society’s Professor of Public Engagement, to support primary school teachers across the UK with creative experimental science lessons into their classrooms.
Read more - MicroTrumps
CFA has produced new and engaging resources to support KS2 teaching about microorganisms. Downloadable lesson resources include a lesson plan, PowerPoint presentation and pupil copy-masters.
Read more - Animal habitats
Different living things like to live in places that suit their needs, and that includes humans. Find out about the different habitats and the needs of the animals that live there.
Read more - Animals including humans
Activities designed to encourage children to think about the characteristics of a range of animals, including humans.
Read more - Medicines to treat disease
Infectious diseases have been treated in a variety of ways in the past and, as bacteria mutate, new medicines will be needed in the future. Learn about these treatments, and also what happens to medicines, and drugs, when they are swallowed, injected or inhaled.
Read more - Where do medicines come from?
This resource provides support for a series of lessons on medicines – what they do and how to use them safely. It looks at how medicines are discovered, developed and tested through the eyes of a little girl called Ellie.
Read more - Energy Challenge
Learn about the energy different foods provide, through considering how far someone could run fuelled by that food.
Read more - Body Builder
Learn about the different bones and organs that make up your body. Where are they and what does each do?
Read more - Rockpool Poster
Look out for your FREE A1 Poster which will be sent to all UK primary schools in January 2017! Download versions are available now and supporting resources available from the 'Benny the Blenny' website.
Read more - The Big Schools’ Birdwatch 2021
Gratnells, manufacturers and marketers of Britain’s best known and most widely used range of storage systems for over 40 years, has supported the RSPB’s Big Schools’ Birdwatch initiative, encouraging children to become part of the world’s biggest wildlife survey
Read more - Birdgirl
I have been birding and twitching forever. I am 14 years old and am a birder, twitcher, conservationist, environmentalist and writer
Read more - Grow Your Own
Be one of the first 2,000 teachers to register and receive, your free resource pack including 124 tomato seed packets for pupils to use in lessons and take home, 120 growing pots and teacher guidance
Read more - Why you'll never catch smallpox homepage
This superb new resource is brought to you by the Association for Science Education in partnership with James Films, with support from the Wellcome Trust. It offers a great opportunity for integrating science within cross-curricular learning in the context of smallpox and other communicable diseases.
Read more - Wild 4 Maths
A great new session for upper primary school children to apply maths skills to a real-life context, and understand how maths and science are linked. This session explores how maths is used in conservation work at the Zoo and out in the field.
Read more - Why You'll Never Catch Smallpox
Children revise key learning from across the 'Why You'll Never Catch Smallpox' activities and explore how Jenner’s discovery has changed the world, and its crucial role in their own health.
Read more - Teacher Assessment in Primary Science (TAPS)
The Teacher Assessment in Primary Science (TAPS) project aims to develop support for a valid, reliable and manageable system of science assessment which will have a positive impact on children’s learning
Read more - Operating Theatre Live
Operating Theatre Live is the UK’s ultimate medical experience. Team Operating Theatre Live travel the UK delivering workshops in schools teaching science with a careers focus in a real operating theatre using real anatomy!
Read more - #techjustice in action
A series of three videos presented by Ortis Deley, technology justice is all about ensuring everyone has access to technology that is essential for life.
Read more - 100 Small things
A free colourful A1 Poster for students aged 7-18 with 90 ideas of small things they can do to make a difference to their global community and environment, plus space for them to add 10 ideas of their own. Divided into the 6R’s ( Reduce , Reuse, Recycle , Repair, Refuse, Rethink) it can be used as a great teaching resource as well as a poster.
Read more - Weird Fish Lady
Arrange a visit from the WeirdFish Lady. Scientist, author and undersea explorer Gloria Barnett invites pupils to discover an exciting new world. Drawing on her extensive knowledge and experience, Gloria will introduce children to creatures and habitats that make the sea such a wondrous place.
Read more - Floating garden challenge
A fun hands on investigation suitable for KS 2-5 pupils The problem: as a result of climate change there is more rain in Bangladesh than ever before. Land where farmers used to grow their crops is now flooded on a regular basis.
Read more - Palaeoquest
Dr Helen, professional palaeontologist and child-friendly scientist, brings evolution, rocks and fossils, games, challenges, knowledge and enthusiasm into your classroom to help you, the teachers, inspire a future generation of scientists & creative thinkers.
Read more - History Detectives
Children investigate the historical evidence about Edward Jenner and James Phipps using primary and secondary sources. They use these to find out whether real life events happened the way they do in the supporting film, James.
Read more - The Speckled Monster
Children take part in a simulation of a smallpox outbreak which introduces them to the observations that led Edward Jenner to his world-changing discovery that cowpox gives immunity to the dreaded ‘Speckled Monster’.
Read more - Pumpkins Against Poverty
An exciting set of cross curricular activities for pupils aged 7-11 years to explore the difference that growing pumpkins can make to the lives of people living in flood prone regions of Bangladesh.
Read more - Bioscience resources for primary schools
From building your own cell to discovering DNA in the garden, these BBSRC resources are highly recommended for introducing biology topics at Key Stage 1 and 2 (ages 5-11) and offer useful suggested activities.
Read more - Collins Snap Science
Snap Science is a dynamic, comprehensive programme, packed with inspirational resources, designed to help you deliver outstanding science throughout your school.
Read more - Climate change schools' project resources
The Climate Change Schools Resources were developed by the Climate Change Schools Project, based at the then Science Learning Centre in Durham and led by Krista McKinzey. A large number of teachers and schools in North East England were involved in their development
Read more - Primary Science Resources from ABPI
Online interactive science resources for ages 5 to 11 from ABPI
Read more - Prehistoric puppets and models
Card models to bring ancient creatures to life
Read more - Yummy Yoghurt Makers
A CREST Star activity from Practical Action
Read more - Rutland Ospreys
Rutland Ospresy runs World Osprey Week and posts photos and information all year round including satellite tracking data on migration flyways.
Read more - SGM Education Resources
SGM has resources for all age groups online and in print
Read more - Microbiology Online
Inspirational and authoritative online resources for microbiology across the age range
Read more - Discovering Antarctica (British Antarctic Survey)
The most up-to-date, in-depth, interactive teaching and learning resource on Antarctica
Read more - ESA Kids
Space fun from the European Space Agency. You can play in several languages!
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