Teaching Ideas for Science
Classroom teaching ideas and lesson planning advice to support busy primary school teachers in Key Stages One and Two and the Foundation Stage. Discover a fantastic range of primary resources to excite and inspire pupils on different topics and themes for science.
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Sunflower Garden
Demonstrate grasp of maths, literacy and science skills and concepts by planting and growing sunflowers in the school grounds
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Sunshine Tests
Conduct and present results from a series of fair tests in science to explore the power of the sun during the summer
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SATs Survival
Ease worries and anxieties as pupils prepare to take part in compulsory testing towards the end of a key stage
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Topic Launches
Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom
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Topic Tree
Demonstrate prior understanding of a new classroom topic and identify questions for further research
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Learning Zones
Create different learning zones around the classroom to support development across a range of curriculum areas
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School Energy
Create posters to display around the school illustrating instructions to follow when conserving energy usage
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Autumn Watch
Observe and record how the natural landscape around the school is changing during the autumn season
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Home Science
Develop practical and investigative skills in science using different features and parts of a family home
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Total Eclipse
Use a total eclipse of the Sun to develop understanding about light and shadow and the Earth’s position in space
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Current Events
Develop skills in all curriculum areas by harnessing interest in events currently happening around the world
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Kitchen Science
Develop scientific skills and understanding by exploring and testing the properties of materials found in a family kitchen
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Shape Locations
Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.
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Shape Symmetry
Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties
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Shape Matching
Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their matching individual properties including the number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry
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Buses, Trains, Planes
Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys