Feb 13, 2025 British Science Week 2025 Live Lessons British Science Week runs from 7th to 16th March 2025. The theme for the week is Change and Adapt. You can download the activity packs from the British Science Week site now. If you've not already got something planned for the week, there are quite a few Live Lessons and Webinars being offered by various organisations which you might like to sign up to. Here's just a few to explore: BBC Space Live Lesson with Tim Peake In this special KS2...
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Jan 24, 2025 Safer Internet Day 2025 Teaching Resources Safer Internet Day is the UK’s biggest celebration of online safety. Each year Safer Internet Day covers online issue or themes that speak to the things young people are seeing and experiencing online. In 2025, the date is Tuesday 11th February. The 2025 Safer Internet Day theme is: ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online.' It will look at how young people can be aware of internet scams and how to protect...
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November 25th 2024 Black Friday Deal - Free Pack and Discounts I just wanted to send a quick message to my subscribers to let you know that I'm doing a special Black Friday promotion on my Science Presentation Packs. Deal 1: Free Year 3 PowerPoint Pack I'm giving away the year 3 pack for free. That's one presentation for each of the 5 modules in year 3 - Rocks, Plants, Light, Skeletons/Muscles and Forces/Magnets. Find out more...
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October 16th 2024 October STEM Roundup Welcome to the October edition of our STEM / Edtech Roundup. In this edition there's information about more video experiments with Brian Cox, free WWF resources, Irish Science week and more. Brian Cox School Experiments Following on from the first series of the Brian Cox schools experiments, the Royal Society has produced a further set of videos and resources based around new and emerging technologies, featuring Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock. Aimed at...
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September 13th 2024 September STEM Roundup Happy new academic year! Welcome to the September edition of our STEM / Edtech Roundup. In this edition you'll find information about how to get a grant for British Science Week, STEM Ambassador Webinars, Linnean Society Grants and Harvest Festival Webinars. Science Fix Book: Preorder Now. Science Fix, my new book about Primary Science is going to be published in the next few weeks. It's the distilled knowledge of my 18 years of initial teacher...
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June 17th 2024 June STEM Roundup Welcome to the June edition of our STEM / Edtech Roundup. In this edition you'll find information about the BBC Micro:bit Playground survey, Big news for Flip users, and the theme for British Science Week 2025. BBC Micro:bit Playground Survey The BBC micro:bit playground survey is part of the BBC micro:bit – the next gen campaign. They have teamed up with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to launch an exciting investigation to help children aged 7-11...
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May 15th 2024 May STEM Roundup Welcome to the May edition of our STEM / Edtech Roundup. In this edition you'll find information about Barefoot's new AI lessons, Ofcom's research into childrens online media use, a new online CPD course for Science, AI Webinars and my new Science book. Barefoot Computing: New AI lessons Barefoot Computing's newest resource has been designed to introduce pupils aged between 9-11 to the world of Artificial Intelligence and to explore how it is used all around us....
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April 15th 2024 April STEM Roundup Welcome to the April edition of our STEM / Edtech Roundup. In this edition you'll find information about: BioArtAttack Competition, Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition, Starpack Schools Competition, Edina Trust Grants and SmallPeice Trust STEM events. Get a free primary science powerpoint, plus a discount code for the rest of the site. BioArtAttack 2D - Biology Art Competition BioArtAttack 2D is a children's art competition from the Royal Society of...
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