Nottinghamshire hands on support - secondary - Science
General
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Animated Science | Covering many aspects of the science curriculum including radioactivity, volcanic structures, oil and hydrocarbons and tectonic plate movement. |
| Association for Science Education | The site holds details of publications and meetings and a series of articles on safety in science lessons. |
| Auriga astronomy | Covering various astronomical areas of the curriculum, this site includes useful downloadable audio files as well as teaching aids. |
| BBC Science | This site leads to an extensive range of links for primary level and secondary level science. |
| Biotopics | Interactive resource material designed to support the study of Biology at secondary level (KS 3 and 4), GCSE and AS/A level. |
| Chemical elements.com | Created by a student as a science project several years ago. The project won several prizes and its creator has continued to maintain the site. |
| Creative Chemistry | Online activities including worksheets, teaching notes and over two hundred pages of question sheets and practical guides for GCSE and A level chemistry |
| Curriculum IT support for Science | The Becta site has found some of the best sites on the internet and built worthwhile science activities around them. Subjects range from pollution and overpopulation to solar energy and electromagnetic waves. |
| Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic | Provides young students revision help and tips. The website covers KS3 Science featuring science revision quizzes, KS4-GCSE-IGCSE Chemistry and GCE-AS-A2 Chemistry. |
| Eureka alert | This US site is one of the best on the web for science news. |
| Fashion victim | A game where you have to think about the properties of different materials to help you win different games. |
| Fourmilab | Swiss site with satellite images of the Earth. |
| Futerra Biodiversity Education | DEFRA (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs) site to get young people - more actively involved in Biodiversity. |
| GCSE Physics | Site with sections devoted to radioactivity, forces and motion, energy, electricity and earth and the universe. |
| Gondar Design Science Web | This website offers help with biology, physics and chemistry. |
| How stuff works | Full of useful information on topics as diverse as how does a catapult work through to how do a zebra's stripes act as camouflage? |
| Hubblesite | NASA's orbiting Hubble Space Telescope views |
| Insecta Inspecta World | Covering everything from bees to butterflies. |
| Met Office | All the weather information from around the UK including historical data. |
| NASA | Includes a wide range of information about current and past space missions. You'll also find plenty of video and audio clips, including images of the first footsteps on the moon. |
| National Curriculum for Science | Science section of the National Curriculum website sets out what is required of pupils at all four key stages. |
| National Museum of Science and Technology | These pages lead you onto the official sites of the Science Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, and the National Railway Museum. |
| Physics online | Dedicated to the needs of physics teachers this site is full of interactive resources. Teachers can sign up for a 20-day free trial. |
| Planet Science | The site includes suggestions for classroom experiments, links to other scientific web resources and interactive games and quizzes. |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain | This online science research resource includes Inside Out - a programme for schools. Inside Out covers subjects such as energy, anatomy, space and elements. |
| The human body | Human Body cyber-hunt. |
| The Solar System | Solar system cyber-hunt via a mixture of serious astronomical web sites. |
| The Why Files | Topical questions and answers with a scientific theme. |
| Using ICT in Science | Roger Frost Article outlining ways forward and useful resources. |
Revision:
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| BBC Bitesize: GCSE: Biology | GCSE Biology revision help from the BBC |
| BBC Bitesize: Standard Grade: Biology | Standard Grade Biology revision help from the BBC |
| BBC Bitesize: GCSE: Chemistry | GCSE Chemistry revision help from the BBC |
| BBC Bitesize: Standard Grade: Chemistry | Standard Grade Chemistry revision help from the BBC |
| BBC Bitesize: GCSE: Physics | GCSE Physics revision help from the BBC |
| BBC Bitesize: Standard Grade: Physics | Standard Grade Physics revision help from the BBC |
| BBC Bitesize: KS3: Science | KS3 Science revision help from the BBC |
| Brainpop - Health, Science and Technology | BrainPOP is an educational program, providing content spanning 7 main subjects including: Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Health, Arts and Music, and Technology. |
| Chemistry tutor | Web pages to help you get through your chemistry homework |
| Cool Science for curious kids | The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology...on screen, off screen, and in between. |
| Dorling Kindersley quizzes | Improve your GCSE results with these tests from award-winning publishers Dorling Kindersley |
| Interactive heart | Explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its development and structure. Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body systems. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's health. Look back at the history of heart science. |
| Inventor's hall of fame | The National Inventors Hall of Fame™ honours the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible. |
| Teeth | Detailed website all about teeth |
| The Nine Planets | The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information. |
| Windows to the Universe | Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public. |
| Zephyrus Science | ZEPHYRUS provides information, puzzle and printable worksheet sections, together with a homework help site with a rapid turn-a-round for answers. |
A Level:
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| BBC Education: AS Guru - Biology | Produced in consultation with the chief examiner of AS Level Biology and specialist teachers, AS Guru Biology online focuses specifically on those parts of the core curriculum that have proven the most difficult for students to deal with. |
| BBC Bitesize: Higher Grade: Biology | Higher Grade Biology revision help from the BBC |
| BBC Bitesize: Higher Grade Chemistry | Higher Grade Chemistry revision help from the BBC |
| BBC Bitesize: Higher Grade: Physics | Higher Grade Physics revision help from the BBC |
| BBC Science: Human Body and Mind | Website featuring various aspects of the human body and mind produced by the BBC |
| BioInteractive: Virtual Medical Labs | BioInteractive is a website and a collection of biology-focused teaching materials created by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. |
| British Nutrition Foundation | This site provides healthy eating information, resources for schools, news items, recipes and details of the work we undertake around the UK/EU. |
| Cell Biology | Activities, problems sets and tutorials |
| Chemical Elements | An online interactive periodic table. |
| Chemistry lab simulation | Chemistry lab simulations for the classroom, the laboratory and the internet |
| Chemistry tutor | Web pages to help you get through your chemistry homework |
| ExploreLearning Gizmos | ExploreLearning offers a catalogue of modular, interactive simulations in math and science for teachers and students |
| Four Thousand Years of Women in Science | Exploring the roles of women in science over the last 4000 years |
| General Chemistry Online | In-depth website all about chemistry |
| Genetic Science Learning Center |
This website delivers interactive and print-based resources, free of charge, to Internet users worldwide. The website has two main components: - Information and activities: These address standards for science education. - Teacher Resources and Lesson Plans: These include PDF-based Print-and-Go™ classroom activities and teacher guides for all materials. |
| How the Sun shines | This website reviews from an historical perspective the development of our understanding of how the sun (the nearest star) shines |
| Human Anatomy Online | Exploration of Human Anatomy. Each topic has animations, 100’s of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links. Study the anatomy of the human body. It’s fun, interactive, and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses. |
| Meiosis | Explanation of Meiosis |
| Online Biology Book | An On-Line Biology Book Table of Contents. Click on the underlined items to go to those chapters. |
| S-Cool Biology | The UK's leading revision website dedicated to providing high quality A-level and GCSE revision material totally free |
| S-Cool Chemistry | The UK's leading revision website dedicated to providing high quality A-level and GCSE revision material totally free |
| S-Cool Physics | The UK's leading revision website dedicated to providing high quality A-level and GCSE revision material totally free |
| Scientific American | Official website for Scientific American, which is the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S. |
| Sheffield College Biology links |
Weblinks provides students, staff, and users of the Sheffield College's site with links to relevant web-sites. Weblinks contains 6083 links and is: - searchable organised under a number of broad curriculum headings, each subdivided further. |
| Sheffield College Chemistry links |
Weblinks provides students, staff, and users of the Sheffield College's site with links to relevant web-sites. Weblinks contains 6083 links and is: - searchable organised under a number of broad curriculum headings, each subdivided further. |
| Sheffield College general Science links |
Weblinks provides students, staff, and users of the Sheffield College's site with links to relevant web-sites. Weblinks contains 6083 links and is: - searchable organised under a number of broad curriculum headings, each subdivided further. |
| Sheffield College Physics links |
Weblinks provides students, staff, and users of the Sheffield College's site with links to relevant web-sites. Weblinks contains 6083 links and is: - searchable organised under a number of broad curriculum headings, each subdivided further. |
| Soda constructor | A combination digital erector set, physics lab and interactive puzzle. |
| The heart: an online exploration | Explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its development and structure. Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body systems. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's health. Look back at the history of heart science. |
| The particle adventure | Award winning interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators and particle detectors |
| Web elements | WebElements™ online periodic table |
| Why files | Topical questions and answers with a scientific theme. |
| Windows to the Universe | Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public. |
| World Health Organisation | Official website for the World Health Organisation |
| Yeast | This section of the Virtual Library describes the yeast model organisms: Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding, bakers', and sometimes brewers'), Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission), and Candida albicans. |