The Brilliant Book of Science Wordsearches
The Brilliant Book of Science Wordsearches contains 80 science wordsearches, from cells and chemicals to dinosaurs, forces, weather and space. Each puzzle focuses on a different science topic, with words hidden forwards, backwards, vertically and diagonally. Some...
The Great Science Puzzle Book for Kids
I've written a new book. It's a book of science-related puzzles called The Great Science Puzzle book. It comprises eighty puzzles for children who love science. This includes word searches full of planets, minibeasts and materials. Crosswords about bones, forces and...
150 Practical Activities for Primary Science
150 Practical Activity Ideas for Primary Science is packed with simple, engaging ideas to help bring science to life in the primary classroom. Whether you are looking for a quick activity to introduce a topic, an investigation to develop scientific thinking, or a...
The book saved from the cutting room floor
When I handed the first draft of Science Fix to my publisher, it was too long. Considerably too long. In fact, 30,000 words too long! That is a fairly ordinary problem for a first book, and the solution was the obvious one. Something had to go. What went was the...
Taking Primary Science Outside
Taking science outside does something that indoor lessons often can't: it puts children in contact with things that are actually happening. A woodlouse under a log, a puddle evaporating after rain, a dandelion growing through a crack in the tarmac. These are not...
Make interactive Science Games with AI: 6 Prompts To Use
You are planning a lesson on a specific niche topic, perhaps the life cycle of a bean plant or the classification of local pond life, and you cannot find a high-quality interactive game that fits. You spend forty minutes scrolling through resource sites only to find...
Scientists Don’t Look Like That | Destroying Classroom Stereotypes
Ask your class to draw a scientist. Go on, try it. Chances are you’ll get a lot of white men in lab coats, wild hair, bubbling beakers, and the occasional explosion. It’s a well-worn activity, but its results still tell us something important about the messages our...
How to Get Started as a Primary Science Subject Leader
Taking on science subject leadership in a primary school is one of those roles that sounds straightforward until you actually sit down and work out what it involves. The job description tends to be vague. The handover is often minimal. And the expectation that you...
How Primary Science Teachers Are Using Generative AI: Findings
Ask a group of primary teachers whether they have used generative AI in the past year, and the honest answer from most is: yes, occasionally, mostly for planning, and with varying degrees of confidence. That is broadly what I found in this small-scale survey, which...
Ask Better Questions in Science: A Guide for Primary Teachers
Why the Questions You Ask Matter More Than You Think Most primary teachers ask a lot of questions. Research suggests it can be close to 400 a day. But quantity and quality are different things, and in science lessons particularly, the type of question you ask has a...
AI-generated science lessons: 3 things to check
AI tools can produce a lesson plan in about 30 seconds. For a primary teacher working through a planning session on a Tuesday evening, that is an appealing proposition. But the speed at which these tools generate content is also part of the problem: they produce...
Science in Summer Term: How to Protect Curriculum Time Before It Disappears
Summer term has a way of swallowing science. In my experience working with primary schools, it is one of the subjects most likely to lose timetable time between April and July, and often without anyone making a conscious decision to cut it. It just gets squeezed. That...
