Live Lessons for British Science Week 2025
British Science Week runs from 7th to 16th March 2025. The theme for the week is Change and Adapt. You can download the activity packs from the British Science Week site now. For some other ideas on things to do in this week, Explorify has a handy list of resources....
An Introduction to Primary Science Lesson Planning
Lesson planning is something that a lot of new teachers worry about, and struggle with. There is no recipe for the perfect lesson, but successful lessons share many of the same features. These can include: Clear learning objectives: Make the children aware of what...
Teaching Primary Science Outside of the Classroom
Taking science outside of the primary classroom can provide first-hand experiences of the local environment that allow children to observe science taking place in the real world. This embeds their learning of science into meaningful contexts and provides opportunities...
Gruffalo’s Child Shadow Puppets Investigation
There’s lots of ways to use books your class might be reading as inspiration for science explorations and investigations. If you are studying light and shadows, then a good book to tie in would be the Gruffalo’s Child by Julia Donaldson. In the end (sorry,...