TES – A Hedgehog’s Year

Sign up for a free TES account and get your hands on some lovely resources. This one ‘A Hedgehog’s Year: Cyclical Sequencer ‘ – A TESiboard activity for pupils to sequence the stages of a year in the life of a hedgehog. Click each picture and read or listen to the explanation. Drag the pictures into the cyclical diagram, placing them in the right order. Takes you through a year of hedgehog life … brilliant for life cycles work in science ‘Life processes and living things’.

These updates come to me via a TES tweet to my Twitter account. Twitter is a great place for information and keeping up-to-date.

Teachers TV video collection – Primary Science – Lesson Starters – Living Things

Again from TES (Chapeau!! to them) a link to all of the Teachers TV science starters on ‘Life Processes and Living Things’

Google Body Browser

Google Body Browser is a really powerful new creation from Google … works in Chrome … just a superb idea. Rather like Google earth for the human body !!

New lesson2go – Science Ages 6-7 Exploring Sounds

Science Ages 6-7 Exploring Sounds

In this activity, children explore sounds using web based resources and datalogging equipment.

This is the last l2g before the Christmas break. We wish you every happiness for the season! Don\’t forget to log in next term for lots more exciting lessons.

Please login first, then access the activities via the lessons2go tab. To see this lesson select ‘Latest items’.

New Science Resources

Danny Nicholson , Educator, Science teacher, ICT Consultant, PGCE lecturer, Author and Web2.0 / SMART Masters/ Interactive Whiteboard Trainer. Also general tech geek has posted these excellent science resource sites on Twitter.

Crickweb Science for KS2

UK Safari – check out the copyright bit … important !

The Solar System – BBC

Mandy Barrow has just ‘Tweeted’ this site from the BBC – The Solar System – looks great for research and has some excellent videos. Now wouldn’t it be really good if they released them under a ‘creative commons’ license so that we could all reuse them. (Remember that BBC2 did it with the ‘Virtual Revolution’)

The Great Plant Hunt

Danny Nicholson points out (on Twitter) a great site for teaching the science of plants. Its called The Great Plant Hunt.

This is what they say for themselves:

To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, commissioned and funded by the Wellcome Trust, has created The Great Plant Hunt. This exciting project will encourage children to explore the natural world around them and join other schools in the biggest ever school science project. Forming part of the Darwin 200 initiative, The Great Plant Hunt invites primary school children to follow in the footsteps of Darwin by going on nature walks in and around their school grounds. They’ll find out more about plants and in the process learn key scientific skills.

Big (or Little) Schools’ Birdwatch Jan 18 – Feb 1 2010

Sensing Physical data, observation, real time involvement in nature …. exciting stuff :

This is what the RSPB site has to say about the venture:

Get involved in our next Big Schools’ Birdwatch, 18 January–1 February 2010, and you’ll not only be taking part in the world’s biggest birdwatch, but also helping us monitor UK bird numbers.

This simple bird survey is for all ages and abilities. You can do your watch either within your own school grounds, or by visiting a local park.

But best of all, it only takes an hour to complete, and is rich in curriculum links.

New for 2010 – Little Schools’ Birdwatch!

In partnership with Cbeebies show 3rd & Bird, we are pleased to introduce Little Schools’ Birdwatch.

This activity is designed specially for Early Years settings, and with our pack of resources and information in-hand, you’ll have all you need to plan a fun and fantastic birdwatch!

Register online now

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HighlightsKids

HighlightsKids  has more content than you can shake a stick at … the science stories are particularly good ….

Join in … you know you want to …

The World Science Festival has some superb stuff to offer but it was this little clip that took my attention … thanks to ‘lisibo’ for the tweet on this.

Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale