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Activities and Challenge Ant Colony Exposed - Animal Habitats- credit Youtube
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Early Childhood
NEW Magic Flower see the amazing vid and challenge your students to create these flowers by changing a variable ie size, type of paper, shapes etc Makes an ideal Mothers Day Message gift. Plant Activity 1 , 2 , 3 from BBC Science challenge 4 Butterfly Origami - beautiful and simple to make from Tammy Yee, once you try this even pp- yr1 can make them. Virtual Butterfly Garden created by yr 6 teacher Greg Nussbaum - check out his website. Mathemorphosis yr 1 Mathepillar yr 2 Garden Detective biology interactive for juniors. ARKive Education activities 5 - 7 yrs UK based with worksheets, notes and activity packs. Make a butterfly mask using chromatography - from SBE |
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Bugs Alive
A guide to keeping and identifying 90 of Australia's favourite invertebrates. A rare award winning book presented by the Museum of Melbourne. Every Australian primary science teacher should have one! (Highly Recommended) Minibeast Pets can be purchased from Minibeast Wildlife All animals for sale are juveniles bred in captivity. Silkworm Science Questions - answered at http://www.suekayton.com/Silkworms/science.htm |
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Johnno makes a mini worm farm
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Middle Childhood
Make a mini worm farm - this video has had more than 40 000 hits on youtube and is quite a popular activity. Add some maths by allowing your students to make black paper hood using their own net design, combine it with the best website Adventures of Vermi the Worm. Make Your Own Yoghurt doc Yoghurt is made using bacteria which are good for us. Autumn leaf paper link to SBE Autumn brings an array of wonderful colours. This activity will help you keep them all year. Make a Leaf Marker (doc) Autumn leaf activity ARKive Education 7 - 11 yrs biology lesson packages Extract DNA from a banana (doc) Bird Beaks Adaptation Inquiry (page) Yr 5 |
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Tumbleweeds
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All ages
Breeding King Worms- doc these beautiful larvae are available from pet shops and are great for children to handle. Make a Tumbleweed SBE doc (or fly away wind wheel) couple this with youtube of Tumbleweed read Dr Karl's seed dispersal page. See vid>> Diving Octopus doc- add beach sand, shells and green raffia riibbon attached to blu tack to create a beautiful Octopus's Garden in a bottle. Lots of science created by Ruben Meerman. NEW Explore Vertebrates using Pasta (word doc 2.2MB) - A hands on animal classification activity for middle school or try a human skeleton with juniors. Take a Skeleton Tutorial Virtual Body go to build a skeleton |
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Web Activities
Early Childhood Plants - Growing Plants Interactive Animals - Lady Bird Life Cycle game Creek Rescue Dynamo's Science Challenge Matching Animal Game Web sites Spiders of Australia ARKive Images of Live on Earth. A significant site. |
Web Activities
Middle Childhood Plants Bottle Biology Learn how to explore science and the environment with soda bottles and other recyclable materials. Create Decompostion Columns through to Bottle Gardens: NEW How Plants Produce Food - Five star website, Teachers' Domain has a simple video explaining how plants produce food energy Pollinate a Plant Interactive investigates plant reproduction through a series of whiteboard activities Animals - Draw That Habitat Exploring the Cell, Through Gaming (upper primary) National Geographic Frog Game Bugasauras Explorus archived Australian pond life website pond life posters 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 ARKive Games some of the best biology interactives Virus Lander interactive game - how viruses invade our bodies Humans and Animal Habitat Game Dinosphere 5 dinosaur games Thingdom Adopt a Thing, care for a Thing, make baby Things! Beautiful. Food Webs the Gould League investigates Arctic, Australian, African and Marine food webs Food Chain Checker Board Game Students play a game that models dynamics of a simple food chain, then they improve the model by making their own rules that better account for the ways that food chains work. From www.windows2universe.org Food Chain Game In every ecosystem there is a food chain. In the food chain, species can be consumers (who eat other species), or producers (who are eaten by other species) or both. In this game, there is a simple food chain of foxes, rabbits and plants. Adaptations In this activity, your challenge is to build a fish whose adaptations make it well-suited to its ocean habitat. From Berkeley Education. Insect Generator: Create your own insect,"add information about your insect". Fill in the fields about your insect's name, diet, habitat, and adaptations. Ant Trail Simulator Real-Time 3D Simulation Software This is a real-time 3D simulation that demonstrates how ants use pheromones to communicate. The student is presented with an interactive 3D environment where 2 competing ant colonies are searching for food. MICROORGANISMS healthy and harmful. England is in the grip of a super-flu outbreak! Work out which microorganism is responsible, and find a way to stop the snot. Five star game. Plant and animal habitats The aliens are in danger! Help the Sarah Jane Adventures team choose the right environment for them in this game of plant and animal habitats. FISH TALKING Run Noisy, Run Deep. The ocean is often thought of as quiet and idyllic, but its residents are actually a noisy bunch. Here are samples of some of the sounds that fish make. NEW - Brain Pop Movie - Food Chains Explained Food Chains Become food Webs Build Your Own Food Web |
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PP- Yr 1
Go into the desert at night with a bilby and see how it lives in this primary science game. Listen to a description of its habitat. Help bilbies to gather food such as seeds, bulbs and spiders. Don't get eaten by cats and foxes! Find enough food before the night ends. Then find your bilby a burrow to shelter in. |
PP - Yr1
Aphid Eater Activity Save a rose by helping a ladybug gobble all the aphids that are attacking the flower and its leaves. Feed the ladybug larvae so they can grow into new ladybugs and keep the hungry aphid population under control. |
Living things have basic needs, including food and water (ACSSU002)
Living things live in different places where their needs are met (ACSSU211)
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Living things have basic needs, including food and water (ACSSU002)
Living things live in different places where their needs are met (ACSSU211)
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recognising common features of animals such as head, legs and wings
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Year 1/2 Plants
Year 1/2 Plants
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Yr 1 recognising common features of animals such as head, legs and wings
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Have fun building your own bug
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Insect generator is a challenge from Greg Nussbaum, a leading teacher who makes science learning fun.
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(ACSSU030) Explore different characteristics of life stages in animals such as egg, caterpillar and butterfly
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Yr 2 (ACSSU072) Describe the stages of life cycles of different living things such as insects, birds, frogs and flowering plants
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Year 2 (ACSSU030) Match the mother with her baby
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Yr 2 Ever wondered how mushrooms reproduce? Take a look at this interactive
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Yr 2 All about a Frog's Life Cycle
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Challenge
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Year 1/2 Help the ranger sort his animal photos into groups based on physical features.
Your task is to identify a mammal by asking questions about the features of mammals, such as 'Has it got a backbone?' Sort all the photos into Yes or No columns. The photo in the 'Yes' column at the end will be the mammal.
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Yr 3 Recognising the range of different living things
Year 3 (ACSSU044) Recognising the range of different living things.
Children learn how to identify insects in this easy to use interactive from fossweb. |
Year 3 (ACSSU044) Recognise processes of living things such as needing nutrients, growing, moving, sensitivity and reproducing
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Yr 3 Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things(ACSSU044)
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Year 4 - From Arkive.org comes a "Grow Up" the life cycle game
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Animal Search
Year 3/4 Help the ranger sort his animal photos into groups based on physical features.
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Year 4,5,6 Splash - Fair Test to Grow Tomatoes
From Arkive.org try one of the most creative interactives ever made for Biological Science - Sir Chumley Handlebar Moustache is very informative.
Go to Arkive.org to find out more about the Black Footed Ferret
The growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their environment (ACSSU094)
Keep an Ecosystem Alive
Feed the Dingo - an Australian theme from pbskids.org
Now that your kids are experts on life in the desert, they can try keeping a whole desert ecosystem alive! This game allows players to see how the different species of plants and animals in a desert depend on one another, and to experiment with how changing the amount of one resource affects the whole ecosystem. Their goal is to put together a balanced ecosystem, in which each animal has enough food to survive over a period of 12 days. The longer their ecosystem lasts, the more points they will earn for their sticker collections. Check out more resources from pbskids at http://pbskids.org/plumlanding/educators/allresources.html
Feed the Dingo - an Australian theme from pbskids.org
Now that your kids are experts on life in the desert, they can try keeping a whole desert ecosystem alive! This game allows players to see how the different species of plants and animals in a desert depend on one another, and to experiment with how changing the amount of one resource affects the whole ecosystem. Their goal is to put together a balanced ecosystem, in which each animal has enough food to survive over a period of 12 days. The longer their ecosystem lasts, the more points they will earn for their sticker collections. Check out more resources from pbskids at http://pbskids.org/plumlanding/educators/allresources.html
Year 4 (ACSSU073) Investigate the roles of living things in a habitat, for instance producers, consumers or decomposers
The Gould League have created an investigation for Arctic, Australian, African and Marine food webs. 
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Year 7 (ACSSU111) Classification
The identification of biological organisms can be greatly simplified using tools such as dichotomous keys. From EEK!-Environmental Education for Kids, WI Dept. of Natural Resources (.http://dnr.wi.gov/eek/) try this Aquatic Critter Key Game. You'll need to print theAquatic Critter Picture (word document). Thanks to UW-Extension for the aquatic critter information and sketches. Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things (ACSSU044)
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