Upper School Science

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Upper School Science Year 5

All about your heart	Science clips BBC	Healthy eating
	Keeping Healthy
Energy Challenge	Through experiment and investigation the children learn that there are many aspects to keeping healthy. They learn about the heart and how heart beat is affected by exercise.	Click on the school then the bell to create a school dinner menu for the week DirectGovKids
The great plant escape glossary	Life Cycles	Science Clips BBC
Flower Parts	Through experiment and investigation the children learn that plants and animals reproduce as part of their life cycle.	Life Cycles - flowers
Life cycles and Food webs
Helium balloons	Gases Around Us	Greenhouse effect
Science Clips BBC	Through experiment and investigation the children learn that gases are material and can be distinguished form solids and liquids by their properties.	Animated resourcesRoll the mouse across the button to see the contents of the animation.
Animated Water cycle from BBC Rivers and coasts	Changing State	Water cycle jigsaw
Changing state	Through experiment and investigation the children consolidate their ideas about changes of state which can be reversed.	Science Clips BBC
Views of the Solar System	Pictures of the 1999 Solar Eclipse	Star Child
Revise wise	Earth, Sun and Moon	Solar System Simulator
Science Clips BBC	Through experiment and investigation the children learn about the shapes and relative sizes of the Earth, Sun and Moon.	Space and Beyond from NASA
	Changing Sounds
Science clips BBC	Through experiment and investigation the children learn that sounds are produced by vibrations and that these vibrations travel from the source through a variety of materials.	ReviseWise
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Channel 4 Science Essentials	Science Explorer CD ROM 1 and 2

Upper School Science Year 6

Food chains	Life Cycles CD ROM
Nature grid	Interdependence and Adaptation	Video clip showing how roots collect water and minerals
Science clips BBC	Through experiment and investigation the children extend their knowledge of the way in which plants and animals in different habitats depend upon each other and are suited to their environment.
Yucky Worm World	Micro-organisms	Germ theory scientists
The Microbe Zoo	Through experiment and investigation the children learn that there are many very small organisms called micro-organisms which may be harmful or beneficial.	Science clips BBC
	More About Dissolving
Channel 4 Learning	Through experiment and investigation the children extent their understanding of what happens when a variety of solids dissolve.	Animated resources Choose number 5 and 10
	Reversible and Irreversible Changes	Channel 4 Learning
Animated resourcesRoll the mouse across the button to see the contents of the animation.	Through experiment and investigation the children consolidate work that they have done before on reversible changes and changes such as burning that cannot be reversed.	Science Clips BBC
	Forces in Action
Channel 4 learning	Through experiment and investigation the children apply their knowledge of a variety of forces to contexts in which objects are stationary because forces on them are balanced.	Science Clips BBC
Sources of light	How We See Things
Channel 4 learning	Through experiment and investigation the children learn that mirrors and shiny surfaces alter the direction in which light travels and that when they see objects, light enters the eye.	Science Clips BBC
Channel 4 learning	Changing Circuits	Circuit Builder
Science Clips BBC	Through experiment and investigation the children consolidate their knowledge of materials which are electrical conductors and extends their understanding of ways in which the brightness of bulbs and speed of motors can be changed.	Electrical circuits
	Enquiry in Environmental and Technological Contexts
	This unit is designed to extend children's investigative work. The children will focus on finding the answer to an environmental question and a technological question.

Channel 4 Science Essentials	All areas
	Revisewise

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