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Science investigations for KS1 and 2

The CREST Star Investigators scheme has three awards, and also offers children the opportunity to become Young Science Ambassadors.

23/3/08 - Loads of planning and resources for science:
Achievements and Targets
Revision Plans for Year 6
Creative Science
Science Challenges
Developing Children's Vocabulary
Science at Home (ppt)
Famous Scientists    
Science Outside the Classroom
Games Materials and their properties    
Singing to Learn Science
Investigation Units    
Speaking, Listening and Learning
Invicta Primary Science Policy (revised)    
Support Posters for Fair Investigation
Kent NGfL primary resources    
The Intel QX3 Digital Microscope (Word Doc)
Mysterious Happenings    
The new Scheme of Work for Primary Science
Preparation for SATs    
The Science Co-ordinator's Pack
Progression of Skills in Scientific Enquiry    
What Constitutes a Good Science Lesson?
Progression of skills, knowledge and understanding across Sc2, Sc3 and Sc4    
Year 6 Revision Boxes
Recommended Books

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8/5/08 - The best and most comprehensive science planning and support materials page that I have found. The planning is QCA plus (more than just the usual investigation ideas) and "oven ready" - needs very little tweaking whatsoever.

27/2/08 - "This site is aimed at Primary School teachers who are interested introducing a multilingual dimension into their lessons."  Identifying languages, comparing languages, languages as codes, how languages work, learning languages and links.

23/11/07 - Targetted at Y7 so ideal for G&T Y5/6.

A very good site for investigations in maths, created by the University of Cambridge.

26/8/07 - Maths investigations for KS2 -to help build pupils' reasoning, logic and problem solving skills. You'll also find some useful articles on teaching mathematics at primary level.

26/8/07 - Maths subject knowledge, quizzes, interactive investigations, resources, weblinks and games.

06/03/2011 - Thanks to @simonhaughton on Twitter.

12/06/2011 - This whole site is worth a long look.