Here’s a quick idea for teaching food chains with stackable cups. All you need to do is stick or draw images of animals and plants onto stackable cups, and write the name around the edge. The children can then stack them to show the food chain building up. In...
Living and Non-Living Things In the primary classroom, children should be able to group things into things that are living, dead and never been alive. Something like wood is dead, because it was once living, whilst something like metal has never been alive. There are...
The theory of evolution is one of the fundamental ideas in biology. It reveals how humans, and all living things are related, in a family tree of life, stretching back over 3 billion years. The main process driving evolution was first proposed by Charles Darwin (and...
This is a really nice little model that demonstrates how tendons make our fingers move. Did you know that it’s the muscles in your forearm that move your fingers, via long tendons? Instructions To make the hand you will need: 5 drinking straws string or cotton...
This fun, but gross, practical gives children a model of some of the processes that go on in our bodies when we digest our food. What you need Each group of children will need: 1/3 banana, 1 cream cracker, Paper cup with hole in the bottom, 50ml water, Clear vinegar,...
