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Science Museum Home learning resources, experiments, virtual tour

Natural History Museum Home learning resources, virtual tour. Lots about dinosaurs!

British Science Association Practical investigations you can do around the home

BBC Learning Enormous bank of videos, lessons and information across all subjects. New content being added every day.

Dorling-Kinderley Books Facts, videos, quizzes across a range of topics. Includes a section on the human body.

NASA Science Everything you ever wanted to know about space including facts, quizzes and games. Answers that favourite children’s question, “Why is the sky blue?”

Crickweb Games and activities across a range of subjects. Nice clear and simple sorting and labelling activities including parts of the body

STEM Activities across science, maths, computing and technology. Check appropriate for the age group

Scientific Vocabulary

Word	Meaning	Example
science	study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
fair test	a controlled investigation used to answer a question in a scientific way.
invertebrates	animals who don't have a bony skeleton	insects, spiders, crabs
vertebrates	animals with backbones / skeletons	amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles.
ominivores	are animals who eat a mixture of plants and meat	foxes, hedgehogs, badgers
carnivores	are animals who eat mainly meat and hunt their prey.	cats, otters, tawny owl
herbivores	are animals whose diet mostly consists of plants.	Rabbits, deer, horses, sheep

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