Monday, July 31, 2006

Materials - States of Matter

Text and images explaining how all materials can be grouped into three categories - solid, liquid and gas.

Materials - States of Matter

Solid

Solids can be picked up and handled, they keep their shape unless you cut, slice or break bits off to make into new and different shapes. Solids can be picked up and handled, they keep their shape unless you cut, slice or break bits off to make into new and different shapes


Human Body - Balanced Diet

Text and images detailing the different food groupa and what constitutes a balanced diet

Human Body - Balanced Diet

Friday, July 28, 2006

Human Body - Life Cycle

Text and images detailing the lifecycle of humans.

Human Body - Life Cycle

Human Body - Teeth - Printable Activity

Printable diagram of the human mouth for students to label and annotate.

Human Body - Teeth - Printable Activity


Human Body - Teeth - Labelled Diagram

A printable diagram detailing the type and position of the teeth in the human mouth, in pdf format

Human Body - Teeth - Labelled Diagram


Human Body - Teeth

Text, images and diagrams detailing the different types of teeth and their functions.

Human Body - Teeth


Thursday, July 27, 2006

Human Body - Circulation - Animation

Animation showing the cycle from heart to lungs to heart to body and the way in which blood flows through veins and arteries.

Human Body - Circulation - Animation



Human Body - Beating Heart - Animation

An animation which demonstrates the pumping action of the heart.

Human Body - Beating Heart - Animation

Human Body - Blood and Circulation

Text and diagrams to explain the way in which the heart pumps the blood through arteries and weins in the human body.

Human Body - Blood and Circulation


Tuesday, July 25, 2006

ICT 4B Modelling Effects on Screen

A clear and concise guide to explain how to use an on screen turtle to model the effect of a floor turtle. Students draw simple geometric shapes.

ICT 4E Modelling Effects on Screen

Session 1

Students should open a browser and navigate online to the Turtle Logo Applet

The object of this is to move the ‘turtle’ round the screen to raw simple geometric shapes. The simple LOGO commands are listed at the top of the page. To draw a square, for example, the commands would be....

Monday, July 24, 2006

Green Plants Science KS2

Text and images designed for use on an interactive whiteboard or to be printed out for the use of Key Syage 2 teachers

Green Plants Science KS2

Flowers, leaves, stem, roots and photostnthesis are covered


Flowers
Flowers are used in the process of reproduction. They are usually brightly coloured and have a smell, both of which attract insects. Flowers produce pollen - the plants male sex cells. The pollen joins with the eggs - the plants female sex cells.....

Human Body - Lungs

Text and diagrams to eaplain the function of the lungs in the human body

Human Body - Lungs


Our lungs enable us to take in oxygen from the atmosphere and to dispose of the carbon dioxide, which our cells produce as a waste product.

To breath in your diaphragm (a large muscle below the lungs) contracts, your ribs are raised upwards and air is sucked into you r lungs. When you breath out your diaphragm and ribs relax and the air is forced out again......

Human Body - Joints - Printable Activity

A printable activity - students are required to label the parts of the knee joint and complete a piece of text by filling in the gaps.

Human Body - Joints - Printable Activity

Human Body - Joints and Muscles - Online Activity

An interactive online activity which clearly demonstrates the roles of muscles, tendons, cartilage and ligaments play in the articulation of the knee joint.

Human Body - Joints and Muscles - Online Activity

Human Body - Movement

Text and diagrams that explain the way that musckes contract and relax and produce movement in the joints of the human body.

Human Body - Movement

Movement

We can move our bodies into different positions because we have joints.

A joint is a place where two or more bones meet.

Muscles always work in pairs.

To move a joint one of the muscles in the pair contracts (gets shorter) and the other relaxes (gets longer).

Human Body - Skeleton - Printable Activity

A blank diagram of the bones in the human body for students to label and annotate

Human Body - Skeleton - Printable Activity

Human Body - Skeleton - Online Activity

An interactive online game by the BBC in which you identify organs, muscle groups, bones and parts of the nervous system and drag them into the appropriate place in the human form. Both genders are included and placej jigsaw style, the human form. Click on the image below to play the game

Human Body - Skeleton - Online Activity

Human Body - The Skeleton

Diagram and text naming the bones of the human skeleton and their functions

Human Body - The Skeleton

The Skeleton does three main jobs:

Protection - The skeleton protects your body parts from being damaged by impact:
  • SKULL - protects the brain
  • RIBS - protect the heart and lungs
  • SPINE - protects the spinal chord.....

Human Body - Major Organs - Printable Activity

A black and white diagram of the human organs for students to label and annotate, pdf format

Human Body - Major Organs - Printable Activity

Human Body - Organs - Online Activity

An interactive online game by the BBC in which you identify organs, muscle groups, bones and parts of the nervous system and drag them into the appropriate place in the human form. Both genders are included and placej jigsaw style, the human form. Click on the image below to play the game

Human Body - Organs - Online Activity

Human Body - Major Organs

Text and diagrams detailing the position and function of the major organs in the human body

Human Body - Major Organs

Major Organs

All organs are made up of specialised cells.

Each organ in the human body does a specific job or jobs.

These are the major organs......

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Life Processes and Living Things

Animals and plants are all alive - they are living organisms. They all look different but there is a number of things that they all do. They all have the same life processes.

Life Processes and Living Things

To remember the life processes just remember MRS NERG she'll help you.....
  • Movement - all living things move.
  • Respiration - all living things breathe.
  • Sensitivity - al living things have feelings and respond to their environment
  • Nutrition - all living things need food.
  • Excretion - all living things get rid of waste and toxins.
  • Reproduction - all living things produce copies of themselves.
  • Growth - all living things grow....