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WWF Teaching Resources

Teaching resources from the World Wildlife Fund including lesson plans, suggested topics for discussion and project ideas.

7-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

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.

14-18 year olds
Pupils

Food a Fact of Life

Free resources for teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating.

3-16 year olds
Pupils

Beating Bacteria

A site which explains the difficulties drug companies have in producing new antibiotics including an explanation of how bacteria become drug resistant. On-line research into bacteria and antibiotics is an optional activity.

14-16 year olds
Pupils

How your Eyes Work

An interactive guide from Lenstore where you can take a journey through the eye through the pupil all the way through to the optic nerve. There are clickable pop-up labels describing the function of each part of the eye.

11-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

States of Matter

An animation where you can watch how atoms and molecules behave when heated or cooled and compressed as they change between solid, liquid and gas phases.

11-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Organ Donation Teaching Resources

At NHS Blood and Transplant, we have developed free teaching resources aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students to give young people the facts about organ and tissue donation. It includes lesson plans and a teacher guidance pack.

11-16 year olds
Teachers

Science Farm

Science Farm has a range of Science lesson plans and activities to teach Key Stage 1 children about food and farming in line with the Key Stage 1 Science programme of study. There are child friendly videos.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

Magnets

A BBC Bitesize site which explains what magnets are and their uses.

7-9 year olds
Pupils

Seed Germinator

Find out what goes on underground when seeds are sprouting? Try this experiment to investigate the process of plant development. The site has teaching tips and background to the science.

6-11 year olds
Teachers
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