All resources - Sciences

Promethean Planet
A learning resource database (search by grade, keyword or subject area) with access to an abundance of resources for immediate use. Also provides users the ability to share new and innovative lessons. Registration required.

RECAP - Educational podcasting for teaching and learning
First UK directory to locate quality podcasts from over 400 carefully selected podcast channels for educational use - ideal for teaching and learning activities with children, young people and educational professionals.

Science of light animations
This set of animations explains what happens when light waves travel through different materials. Animations include Photons, Filters, Exploring Lighting, and Opacity, transparency and translucence.

Science of sound animations
Interactive animations showing sound waves travelling through different materials and describing the relationship between pitch and frequency, and loudness and amplitude.

Science Resource Center
An in-depth, curriculum-orientated science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.

Science Resource Center
An in-depth, curriculum-orientated science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.

Screen Online
A British Film Insitute website offering a history of British cinema and television from 1895 to the present. With lesson ideas, starters, plenaries, downloadable resources and teaching tips - aims to support a range of different subject teachers in using films and extracts in class.

Show Me
A collection of interactive science resources for schools from museums around the world. There are links to Hunkin's entertaining science experiments and optical illusions from Exploratorium. Also try the link to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, which has an online exhibit case of specimens.

Spark Island
Offers primary teachers a range of interactive toolkits which make teaching and learning English, maths and science easier and more fun.

Sunflower for Science
An interactive resource covering biology, chemistry and physics. Each programme is either a simulation or a collection of interactive animations on a particular topic.