Discover resources for teaching primary science to pupils aged 9-11 years.
Learn how to make fizzing bath bombs using ingredients from your kitchen cupboards. Includes video aimed at learners, kit list, instruction, and explanation.
In this activity, learners create rainbows using homemade red cabbage indicator paper. Includes video aimed at learners, kit list, instruction, and explanation.
Material changes are demonstrated using fun examples: bouncy custard, bath bombs, burning candles, fire extinguishers, lava lamps and many more.
How can we use vinegar and sodium bicarbonate to make a fire extinguisher?
What makes sherbet fizz and what makes popping candy pop? Discover the importance of chemistry in everyday eating experiences with this edible experiment.
The ‘burning’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn that when materials are burned new materials are formed, and that this process in not reversible.
Introduce your students to mixing and separating mixtures, and investigating reversible and irreversible changes with this short podcast.
The ‘irreversible changes- chemical reactions’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how non-reversible changes result in the formation of new materials.
Have a go at paper chromatography at home or in the classroom with items from a kitchen. Includes video aimed at learners, instructions, and explanation.
A video aimed at learners, instructions, and explanation to separate a mixture of water and solids at home or in the classroom with items from a kitchen.
Fun demonstrations of different mixtures, including racing liquids and rainbow colours.
Demonstrate the properties of liquids to primary students, including: suspended ice, heavy sugar and the particle disco.
Inside many black pens is a rainbow of colour trying to get out. Black ink is often made from a blend of other colours. In this activity you can try out paper chromatography to separate this mixture of inks.
In Search of Solutions: As chemical engineers, you are contracted to determine how to identify several different white powders… Linking to topics on chemical reactions and physical/chemical changes.
Cover topics like filtration, distillation and temperature as your pupils purify water from a muddy pond to survive.
In Search of Solutions: sand, sawdust and salt, all mixed up, can your students recover them? Linking to topics on dissolving, evaporating, filtration and density.
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 irreversible changes
Which material makes the warmest jacket? Investigate the insulating properties of various materials with this activity for ages 7–14
Why is tempering chocolate so important? Discover the importance of chemistry in everyday eating experiences with this edible experiment.
Join Kareena and her superhero friend K-mistry for this short podcast introducing children to how scientific theories have changed over time.
A fun way to introduce the elements in the periodic table.
A fun demo to teach about UV light and the action/importance of sunscreen.
This resource highlights the issues and impacts of sustainability for 9-11 year old children. It contains several practical and discussion activities, in teachers’ guidance, children’s sheets and Powerpoint presentations.
Spark discussion and stimulate thinking about acid rain in a way that encourages pupils to share their ideas.
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.
Use this conversation starter to get your pupils thinking about the process of rusting, and discussing different possibilities.
Show this concept cartoon to your class to get them talking and thinking about condensation in new ways.
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.
Use these maps to get an overview of the chemistry curriculum, from foundation phase/primary to undergraduate level. See how and where chemical concepts are introduced, and how the concepts are developed as students progress. Use these maps for curriculum planning, preparing your students for future courses and supporting students moving ...
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.