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Star Science is a structured yet flexible programme covering the UK...
Star Science is a structured yet flexible programme covering the UK...
Sounds
The Young Scientist Investigates topic book on Sounds was first published in 1984 and gives information, illustrated by full colour photographs and drawings, about sounds heard in everyday life, how they are created, and how they vary. It describes sound as vibrations...
The Young Scientist Investigates provides a practical introduction to science for junior schools. The first twelve books on the series are for 8 to 11 year olds, with each book exploring a different field of study. The colourfully illustrated text...
Providing a solution for teaching junior science, "New Star Science 5" books are aimed at the fifth primary school year. This "Pupil's Book" provides practical tasks and activities, with work throughout the topic and...
Teacher's Notes provide background topic information, photocopiable task sheets, a means of gauging pupil progress and guidance for using ICT.
Sounds Amazing
There’s sound and music all around us! This programme has pupils exploring the science of music and sound, creating music and instruments with a range of found objects, and even finding music in unlikely places.
The activities are introduced with a quick objective and a preparation guide. Individuals or...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
'Our modern society has more ways of making sounds than ever before. How can we control sound to get good quality when we want it and cut out the sounds we don't want to hear?'
These practicals and videos use a workplace context to develop students' understanding of the properties of sound, and how science...
Sounds Good: Activity Sheets
Five activity sheets produced by Institute of Physics (IOP) to accompany the MODEL Project's Sounds Good video.
Worksheet one takes an overview of the topic. Worksheets two - five are targeted at specific sections of the video.
Answers to all the worksheet questions are provided in the Word document...