Teaching resources webpages

Oxford Sparks is a portal for engaging with a wealth of exciting science taking place across Oxford University. Along with podcasts and videos, they also have a page of teaching resources for enriching lessons, helpfully labelled with what key stage level they are appropiate for.

So popular and widely used, it probably doesn't need to be linked, but it's here just incase! They have well labelled lessons full of videos, quizzes and practice activities to help you with home learning that children can run through at their own pace.

There are separate resources for teachers, homeschooling and family activities. Resources are organised into topic area and year group and include many opportunities for working scientifically. They provide tips for teachers, highlight common misconceptions and offer further suggestions for use in class.To easily identify resources which can be used at home, look out for the note: *suitable for home teaching* in the name.

Unlimited Access to Over 2,000 Physics Teaching Resources. IoP Sparks bring together hundreds of teaching activities, and so is focused around meeting curriculum needs. Accompanied by tagged appropiate ages, sorted by topics and with videos and explanations for many subjects.

The STFC twitter account is posting weekly roundups of their resouces from their twitter account, @STFC_Matters, under the hashtag #STFCScienceAtHome. They post lots of informative posters and hand outs of different themes to learn about, and then finally a quiz.

The theme for the British Science Week 2021 activity packs and poster competition is ‘Innovating for the future’. The packs have been created in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Mewburn Ellis and 3M. They contain lots of activities and are able to be used at home or in the classroom to reflect the potentially fluid movements around COVID-19 restrictions. If you enjoy and use the activity packs, please tag British Science Week with #bsw21 on Twitter so that they can see your amazing activities in action!

Challenge learners to complete curriculum-linked activities for their place on the superhero team about the importance of glass recycling. There are activity sheets and lesson plans, for both their KS1 and KS2 pupils. Parents can find resources adapted for home learning and suitable for ages 7-11.

Perhaps a bit of a tenuous addition to a list of scientific resources! However the resources as teaching materials provided are useful and informative about animal welfare, and are helpfully split into appropiate key stages. There are videos and activities.