All resources - Sciences

5-14 illustrations and photos
Free illustrations and photographs for 5-14 education.You can download them, print them off or use them online. You can use these images for educational purposes without worrying about cost or copyright.

BBC - Digger and the Gang
Online activities to support English, mathematics and science. The site is divided into activities for three age groups: 5-7, 7-9 and 9-11-year-olds.

BBC - Education Scotland - Bitesize revision
The website produces manageable 'bitesize' pages on key topics, concentrating on material which students find particularly difficult. The material is written by examiners and teachers and reflects key areas of the examination syllabus.

Becoming Human
This site, from the Institute of Human Origins, tells the story of human evolution through an interactive documentary. It also provides a number of resources and links to relevant websites.

Crocodilia for Crocodile Chemistry
This suite of learning resources makes use of simulated chemistry laboratory features where you can model experiments and reactions safely and easily.

Drawing Graphs with Excel
This resource has detailed instructions on how to use Microsoft Excel to create pie charts and line, bar, climate and scatter graphs. It relates to geography but could equally well be used in many other subjects where information can be shown in the form of graphs.

Exam Guide 2008
Produced by the Sunday Herald in Spring 2008 to help pupils with revision. It contains useful information on exam structures and technique with practice questions and worked examples for Standard Grade, Intermediate and Higher subjects.

Global Footprint
The Schools' Global Footprint resource helps pupils to understand the environmental effect individuals and schools have on the planet and how to reduce this impact. Itncludes background information and gives links to learners and teachers sections.

Healthy Kids
Healthy Kids is an interactive website produced by Learning and Teaching Scotland which complements the Healthy Kids CD-ROM. It covers topics in health education for pupils in the middle stages of primary. The website contains downloadable worksheets, clip art and games.

Interactive Body
Try these interactive games from the BBC to learn more about the structure of the human body. See if you can put the bones, organs, muscles and senses in the right place! Each activity takes only 5-10 minutes and would work well on an interactive whiteboard. Activities would be suitable for Access 3 and Intermediate 1 Biology.