Science Links

Need some extra information, or help with your school work?  Try some of the links below.

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There are activities and information for all subjects at Learnthings, as well as news and research tools.  Ask your teacher for the school username and password.

Sheffield City Council Science Links

Life and Living processes 

• Virtual heart
  Animated presentation of the heart pumping blood. 

• Virtual heart - School Science
  Another animated heart. 

• The Virtual Body
  Games and interactive activities to help learn about the human body. 

• Wildkids
  Games, puzzles and interactive activities from Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. 

• Pond dipping with young children
  Information about ponds and pondlife. 

• Skeletons and Skulls
  Photographs of the skulls and skeletons of a number of animals. 

• Cells Alive!
  Find out what you can see on the head of a pin! 

• West Midlands Safari Park
  Animal games and puzzles on the Education pages. 

• Amazing feats of aging
  Includes an animation where a young woman ages into an old lady. 

• Naturegrid
  Investigate different habitats including a virtual pond dip. 

• Garden Birds
  Encyclopedia of British garden birds. 

• BBC - Nature
  Blue Planet Challenge - wonderful simulations in 'Play the Games area'. 

• Plants in motion
  This site has a wealth of time-lapse clips of plants in motion e.g. germination, flowers opening, plants growing towards the light. 

• Science View
  Interactives including build a jumbled up skeleton and design a fish. 

• National Geographic
  The Cyber Tiger is an interactive activity where you design an enclosure for a Siberian Tiger.  The National Geographic site has other games to play too. 

• Living Key
  This key allows you to identify plants or animals by answering the questions.  This makes an excellent introduction to using keys. 

• Welltown
  Activities include a game for identifying foods and food groups. 

• Naace
  Primary science activities including - Where to site a nesting box for owls? 

• Life Processes and Living Things (FS, Y1)
  Find out about some of the animals where we live.

Materials and their Properties 

• Kitchen chemistry
  In the virtual kitchen you use cabbage juice as an indicator for which liquids are acids, bases and neutrals. 

• pH Investigations
  Virtual investigations into pH.

Physical Processes 

• Four mile lab
  Earth and moon viewer. 

• The nine (ten) planets
  A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System. 

• Fear of Physics
  Find out all about forces, motion, acceleration and many other topics. 

• Colour mixing
  Make any colour by mixing different colours. 

• Worldtime
  Find out what time it is in Brazil. 

General 

• Eureka
  Home page of the Eureka Museum for children. 

• Exploratorium
  Many interactive activities to explore on this museum site. 

• The Science Explorer
  Science investigations from the Exploratorium. 

• The Why Files
  Science behind the news. 

• Energy Quest
  Games and puzzles on the theme of energy. 

• BBC Science Interactives
  Many interactive games and puzzles linked to the QCA scheme of work. 

• Enchanted Learning
  Colouring sheets and charts for all areas of science. 

• Apples 4 the Teacher
  Interactive games and activities. 

• Science behind Football
  BBC resource exploring science in the context of football - find out how to "Bend it like Beckham". 

• Natural History Museum
  Information and interactive activities about natural history.  Good for dinosaur research. 

• Which is the Odd One Out? (KS1)
  Games for the Foundation Stage.  

• Planet Science
  This free website with information, games and interactive activities, is for everyone who’s learning science at school – sign up for a free e-newsletter, there’s one especially for 7-10 year olds.

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