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...
British Science Week is here and if you’re looking for some fun science demonstrations to amaze your class then here are good examples to show them. The children could carry these out too, perhaps as part of a circus of experiments around the classroom. These...
Here’s a really interesting activity you can do when studying light or materials (or both). In this activity, pupils investigate how light bends in different materials and how this can make some objects invisible. They will find out what happens when pyrex...
Ask someone to make a paper plane and usually they’ll make a paper dart. These fly well, but there are lots of other ways you can produce a plane from paper. If you strictly want to just use a single piece of paper, then try the ring flyer. If you want to bend...
Here’s a quick idea to help students visualise how the Moon and Earth move relative to the Sun. It can be quite hard for children to understand their motion relative to each other, so a real model that they can move around may help them to grasp the idea. You...
