Science Simulations

IBoard - 70 free activities. If your school registers you can have 30 more, with others very cheaply.

Duck Builder- designing a duck to be aerodynamic, but not too much!

BBC Science Clips- mostly simulation games, with quizzes, linking to the QCA Science Scheme of Work

Big Al Game- simulating trying to survive as a baby dinosaur: great for studying habitats and food chains/ webs

BBC Space has an interactive space map among other things.

Roller Coaster teaches friction, gravity and other forces while you control a roller coaster. 

Wasted - simulating recycling (or not), from the Science Museum

Copse and Robbers- which animal killed a woodpigeon?

Yenka Electricity simulating making electrical circuits. Cost £200; will negotiate if your school has fewer than 250 children

Big Day Out 

Forces: Cornwall (A Day at the Beach); Poole (Dinghy Sailing); Wiltshire (Canal Lock); Bristol (Balloon Flight); South Gloucestershire (Bridge Building)

Animals and Plants: Devon (Wildlife Photos); Dorset (Fossil Hunter); Somerset (Growing Apples); Gloucestershire (Design a Duck)

Other websites

Ictopus Lessons 2 Go: Science

BBC Space

Virtual Quarry great for studying rocks.

Sebastian Swan Find out about Sebastian Swan and his friends. Read the big books online, then email him and read your letters on the notice board. A good way to encourage young readers & writers. A superb literacy/science/ict resource.

Data Handling

See the Handling Data and Research part of this site, especially the data files on Weather, World Weather, Mountains, Rivers, Planets, Animals, Rocks and Materials