Discover resources for teaching primary science to pupils aged 7-9 years
Explore surface tension by making patterns in milk using items from the kitchen cupboard. Includes a video aimed at learners, kit list, instruction and explanation.
Display some exciting solid properties to primary students: including biscuit bashing, dissolving and heavy sugar.
Try making butter at home or in the classroom using items from your kitchen cupboard. Includes video aimed at pupils, kit list, instruction, and explanation.
Get hands on with H2O, changing states of matter and the water cycle. These experiments and investigations involve water in the context of space
Showing the properties of gases to primary students, with examples from: the leaky bottle and the sticky cups
Join Kareena and her superhero friend K-mistry for this short podcast introducing children to solids, liquids and gases.
The ‘solids, liquids and gases’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn about solids, liquids and gases, and understand that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled.
Demonstrate the properties of liquids to primary students, including: suspended ice, heavy sugar and the particle disco.
Spark awareness of the properties and purposes of materials, while teaching terms like ‘permeable’, ‘transparent’ and ‘magnetic’.
Which material makes the warmest jacket? Investigate the insulating properties of various materials with this activity for ages 7–14
Materials chemistry has revolutionised the game of football and given us the balls, gloves, and goalposts we play with.
Why is tempering chocolate so important? Discover the importance of chemistry in everyday eating experiences with this edible experiment.
The ‘properties of materials’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how the properties of materials affects their suitability for different uses.
This resource allows primary school students to explore the difference between a natural material and a synthetic material. The Materials used in different sports for the Olympic Games is then explored.
Join Kareena and her superhero friend K-mistry for this short podcast introducing children to absorbancy and comparing materials on the basis of their properties.
Chemicals and materials which change colour are fun and useful. In this activity you will handle thermochromic materials.
The ‘mixing and dissolving materials’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn that mixtures are made up of more than one substance and that some mixtures can be separated.
The ‘heating and cooling materials’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how the properties of some materials change when they are heated, and that some of these changes are irreversible.
Join Kareena and her superhero friend K-mistry for this short podcast introducing children to magnets.
Challenge your students to answer the question: are we wasting water?
Introduce your students to Teflon and the properties of materials with this short podcast.
Join Kareena and her superhero friend K-mistry for this short podcast introducing children to how the properties of a material can make them suitable for a particular use.
Spark discussion and stimulate thinking about acid rain in a way that encourages pupils to share their ideas.
Get hands on with H2O, changing states of matter and the water cycle. These experiments and investigations involve water in the context of space
Give your pupils the knowledge and the opportunity to classify materials according to rocks, minerals and fossils.
A collection of common sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks. Each rock has images showing particle arrangements, the rock after weathering, hand sized specimens and the rock in use.
The ‘water cycle’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how different liquids evaporate at different rates, and the factors that affect these rates.
The ‘rocks and soils’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn that different types of rocks and soils have different properties.
A series of ‘interviews’ with different rocks. From these ‘interviews’ students learn about different types of rocks, how and where in the rock cycle they are formed as well as their defining features. Clicking on key words reveals further information, images and quiz questions. This resource has been developed by ...
The Mary Rose is a wooden Tudor warship that sank off Portsmouth in 1545. While on the sea bed, most of her hull became covered in silt, which effectively sealed it and the artefacts it contained in anaerobic (air-free) conditions and preserved them from decay.
Use this document when planning schemes of work or when looking for resources that are related to specific national curriculum statements.
A linking document for primary science teachers in England, which maps Royal Society of Chemistry resources to statements from the key stage 2 science sampling framework, which aligns with the national curriculum science programmes of study.
Plan your implementation and delivery of the Northern Irish chemistry curriculum, whether you teach at foundation phase or undergraduate level.
Use this map to get an overview of the English chemistry curriculum, from primary to undergraduate level.
A linking document for primary science teachers in Scotland, which maps Royal Society of Chemistry resources to experiences and outcomes from the Curriculum for Excellence.
A web of suggested ideas for linking science with the topic space. You can learn history and science together with activities for different age groups.
A web of suggested ideas for linking science with the topic the Victorians. You can learn history and science together with activities for different age groups.
A web of suggested ideas for linking science with the topic the stone age. You can learn history and science together with activities for different age groups.
A web of suggested ideas for linking science with the topic the Maya and Aztecs. You can learn history and science together with activities for different age groups.
A web of suggested ideas for linking science with the topic the Romans. You can learn history and science together with activities for different age groups.
A web of suggested ideas for linking science with the topic Ancient Egypt. You can learn history and science together with activities for different age groups.