Educational Resources: Interactive Science Clips from BBC Schools

Educational resources on the internet are available in abundance but it is not often that you come across something that’s really good and free. This is a terrific series of science clips from BBC Schools for children age 5 to 11…

Age 5-6:

• Ourselves
• Growing plants
• Sorting and using materials
• Light and dark
• Pushes and pulls
• Sound and hearing

Ages 6-7:

• Health and growth
• Plants and animals in the local environment
• Variation
• Grouping and changing materials
• Forces and movement
• Using electricity

Ages 7-8:

• Teeth and eating
• Helping plants grow well
• Rocks and soils
• Characteristics of materials
• Magnets and springs
• Light and shadows

Ages 8-9:

• Moving and growing
• Habitats
• Keeping warm
• Solids and liquids
• Circuits and conductors
• Friction

Ages 9-10:

• Life cycles
• Keeping healthy
• Gases around us
• Changing state
• Changing sounds
• Earth, Sun and Moon

Ages 10-11:

• Interdependence and adaptation
• Micro-organisms
• Reversible and irreversible changes
• Forces in action
• How we see things
• Changing circuits

More from BBC Schools.

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• Resources for Science
• Science Kids – Fun Science and Technology for Kids
• Britannica Pathways – Science
• NYSci – Science Friday
• Science Apps: Exploring Space and a Science Lab
• Robotics with Lego Mindstorms EV3
• Science Apps from Touchpress
• TweedleWink Homeschool Resources