Lower School Science- A

Homepage Lower School Science Year 3
Going to the dentist	Science clips	Taking care of teeth
How cavities and filling work	Teeth and Eating	Colgate
Healthy eating Balanced plate	Through experiment and investigation the children learn about how teeth are related to diet and the importance of dental care.	Teeth Identification and structure
	Science clips BBC
My first garden	Helping Plants Grow Well	Plant Explorer
Kids Valley Garden	Through experiment and investigation the children learn about what plants need to grow well and why it is important that they do.	Photosynthesis
	Characteristics and Materials	Materials and their properties
Glass Forever	Through experiment and investigation the children extend their knowledge of the range of materials we use and their properties.	Science Clips BBC
Rocks	Rocks and Soil
Volcanoes	Through experiment and investigation the children come to recognise that underneath all surfaces is rock.	Britain's rocky past
	Science clips BBC
		Science Clips BBC
	Magnets and Springs
	Through experiment and investigation the children learn about attraction and repulsion between magnets, compression and stretching of springs and stretching of elastic bands
Find out about sundials		Science Explorer II CD ROM
	Light and Shadows
Science clips BBC	Through experiment and investigation the children learn about the formation of shadows and the apparent movement of the Sun.
	All areas Science Explorer CD ROM 1 and 2
Channel 4 Science Essentials

Lower School Science Year 4
How skeletons are the same	Skeletons and skulls	Animal skeletons X rays of animals
	Moving and Growing	Science Clips BBC
Pod's Mission	Through experiment and investigation the children learn about how the skeleton is related to movement and supporting humans and what happens to the skeleton and muscles as they move.	e-skeleton project
Explore different habitats - Hitchams school	Odd one out from Dynamo BBC	Cleethorpes Discovery Centre
Science Clips BBC	Habitats	Woodlice
Pond, Grassland and Woodland HabitatsNature Explorers	Through experiment and investigation the children begin to understand the concept of a habitat.	Sorting and identification
	Keeping Warm	Keeping warm in space
Science Clips BBC	Through experiment and investigation the children build on their ideas about temperature and learn about thermal insulators.	Science Explorer II CD ROM
	Solids, Liquids and how they can be separated.	Animated resources Roll the mouse across the button to see the contents of the animation.
Science Clips BBC	Through experiment and investigation the children learn about the differences between solids and liquids.	Pod's Mission

	Friction
Science Clips BBC	Through experiment and investigation the children learn about friction as a force which exists between objects, the forces of air resistance and water resistance which oppose the motion of objects moving through air and water.
	Pod's Mission
	Circuits and Conductors	Primary Zone
	Through experiment and investigation the children build on their previous practical experience of making circuits.	Science clips BBC
	All areasScience Explorer CD ROM 1 and 2
		Channel 4 Science Essentials

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