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Crime Scene Investigation

What better way to get your pupils fired up about science than to take them through a real murder mystery? Crime Scene Investigation follows one school who, with the help of experts, did just this. This four part series begins with Planning the Crime , its dramatisation, and the pupils arriving at school...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-03-2008
Pinhole Camera templates

Corbis is offering free PDF templates for real working 35mm pinhole cameras. There are six fantastic artistic templates to choose from. Pinhole cameras work wonderfully on a bright sunny day. Let's hope summer is just around the corner after the wet week we have just had. The templates can be downloaded...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-30-2008
Questionaut Revision Game

BBC's new revision game Questionaut , by Amanita Design , attempts to combine video games with sats questions. The goal of Questionaut is to track down your friend's hat, but your balloon can't reach that high until you answer enough questions correctly. On each of 8 levels, you must solve...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-12-2008
The WorldWide Telescope

Move over Google Earth and Google Sky , Microsoft is releasing a new product called WorldWide Telescope (WWT) It looks absolutely stunning. Watch the brief video at TED , then bookmark the new WorldWide Telescope website for more details. WorldWide Telescope will be available for FREE download in later...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-11-2008
Ask a Science Expert a question

National Science and Engineering Week 2008 (7-16 March) National Science and Engineering Week (formerly National Science Week) is an opportunity for people of all ages to take part in science, engineering and technology activities. As part of the celebrations a team of scientists will be answering questions...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-07-2008
Science websites

Three useful websites to support science have been emailed to me. One is for fun and tests reaction times on tranquilising sheep. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/reaction_version5.swf The other two are more educational. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/index_interactivebody...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 02-14-2008
Ready to Learn? The Experiment

This is your chance to find out how diet, exercise and sleep influence your class's memory and concentration levels. Teachers TV is running a mass online science experiment to investigate children’s readiness to learn as part of National Science and Engineering Week (10-14 March 2008), The Ready to Learn...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 02-07-2008
Science Revision

With thanks to beckij on the TES Forum Here are some excellent resources for sci boosters we have been using this term, I can't recommend them highly enough. Hope they help: Science KS2 revision book .. Vocab glossaries Loop cards

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 02-05-2008
Time Lapse Photography

Time lapse photography is where you can speed time up. You can see things such as a flower opening that we are unable to view in real time. Haworth village have created a page full of amazing examples. http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/nature/time-lapse/thumbs.asp The website also has a lovely nature...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-06-2007
How big is YOUR footprint?

We’re hearing a lot of talk about our eco-footprint these days but how do we know how big ours is? zerofootprints.com enables children to calculate their carbon footprint. By simply answering 25 fun interactive questions, pupils will easily discover how much water, carbon, land and trees they use in...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-29-2007

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