How Electricity Works
An animated guide to the science of electricity. It covers how it works, how it is measured, how it reaches our homes and green options.
Chinese New Year Jigsaws
Check out our Chinese New Year Jigsaws designed especially for school topics on the festival. There are four fun jigsaw puzzles to choose from and you can play with either 9, 16 or 25 pieces.
How We Make Stuff
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has developed this website to explore how we can learn from living systems and rethink the way we design, make and use our stuff.
Spanish Songs for Kids
Free Spanish songs for children with support materials which include colour-in worksheets with lyrics and cover topics such as numbers and colours, feelings, parts of the body, clothing, the four seasons and much more!
Technology: Things We Wear
This site focuses on our need for clothing and how this need is met. It looks at different fabrics and the tools needed to make the clothes.
Domesday Book
The BBC have compiled information on how and why our earliest public record, the Domesday Book, was written.
Edexcel
Edexcel is one of the leading examining and awarding bodies in the UK. They provide a wide range of qualifications including GCSEs, GCE AS and A levels; GNVQs, BTEC First, HND and HNCs, NVQS and Key Skills. Find syllabus information on the site.
Discovering DNA - A Recipe for Life
A teacher resource detailing a workshop through which children can discover a basic understanding of the role of DNA within cells of the human body and an appreciation of how their unique DNA makes them different to other people.
Making the Modern World
Stories of science and invention from the 18th century to today which help to explain the development and spread of modern industrial society and its effect on our lives. Useful for General Studies courses.
Canal and River Trust Explorers
Explorers is the Trust's education programme aimed at children aged 5-11. We inspire children's learning by connecting them to our canals and rivers. There are lots of lovely downloadable resources.
