Science: A STEM Approach – Primary 6 Online Resources

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Living Things I Energy and forces I Materials I Earth and the environment
 
Unit Page Link description
Living Things 4

Video - Living Things Change

Living Things 4

Adaptations - More information

Living Things 8

Video - Plant Adaptations

Living Things 8

Image - Taproots and Fibrous Roots 

Living Things 8

Behind the News video - Mangrove Warning

Living Things 8

More information on root systems

Living Things 14

Online mind-mapping tool

Living Things 14

Bird Adaptations - Beaks

Living Things 14

Video - Bird Feeding Adaptations

Living Things 14

More information on types of beaks

Living Things 18

Video - Australia's Top Three Desert Monsters

Living Things 18

Image - Frillneck lizard

Living Things 18

Video - Amazing Adaptations of Lizards

Living Things 18

Frillneck lizard's defence mechanisms in action

Living Things 19

Convert URLs into tinyurls

Living Things 19

Convert URLs into QR codes

Living Things 22

Video - Adaptations that camels make to survive in desert

Living Things 26

Image of Banksia fruit

Living Things 26

Video - Features and behaviours of Banksia plants

Living Things 26

Information - Plants and animals - Damage by large fires

Energy and forces 42

Video - Sources of Light 

Energy and forces 42

How We See Things

Energy and forces 42

Image of a labelled light ray diagram

Energy and forces 42

Interactive activity - Light 

Energy and forces 42

Interactive activities 

Energy and forces 42

Full range of light energy in the EM spectrum

Energy and forces 44

Behaviour of light when it contacts different objects

Energy and forces 48

Image - Rainbow

Energy and forces 48

Video - How do prisms create rainbows?

Energy and forces 48

Image - Rainbow formation

Energy and forces 48

More information on rainbows

Energy and forces 50

Image - Light Ray Diagram

Energy and forces 50

Video - How do your eyes see colour

Energy and forces 50

Experiment with creating different colours using RGB bulbs

Energy and forces 51

Disappearing Colour Wheel - How to create Newton disc

Energy and forces 54

Video - Shadow Hands 

Energy and forces 54

Video-  Shadows - The Dr Binocs Show

Energy and forces 54

More information about light and shadows

Energy and forces 58

Image - Coloured Shadows

Energy and forces 58

Interactive activity - QR code page 60

Energy and forces 58

Video-Coloured Shadow - What's Going On

Energy and forces 58

Video-Coloued Shadows: More Experiments to try

Energy and forces 65

Image -Example of wooden blocks used to create scene

Energy and forces 67

Budgeting - Lesson 1-3 of interactive video

Materials 76

Image - Ice cube, glass of water and kettle

Materials 76

Interactive activity - States of Matter

Materials 76

Websites linked to QR codes on page 78

Materials 76

Websites linked to QR codes on page 78

Materials 76

Websites linked to QR codes on page 78

Materials 80

Image -7 layer liquid stack

Materials 80

Website - 7 layer liquid stack 

Materials 82

More information on states of matter flowing

Materials 86

Video - What's Matter

Materials 86

Examples of coloured gases

Materials 86

Info - Misconception about whether gases have mass

Materials 90

Interactive website - Changing State

Materials 90

Video - MythBusters-Walking on 'Water'

Materials 94

Online quiz - Solids, Liquids and Gases

Materials 94

Info on substances that contain matter

Earth and the environment

112

Online mind-mapping tool

Earth and the environment 112

Image of the solar system

Earth and the environment 112

Solar System - The Binocs Show

Earth and the environment 112

Online song - We are the Planets

Earth and the environment 112

Virtual tour of the Solar System

Earth and the environment 116

Image of the Solar System

Earth and the environment 116

Website - Planetary Fact Sheet

Earth and the environment 116

Video - Tro Scale - The Solar System

Earth and the environment 116

Sizes of each planet in our Solar System

Earth and the environment 122

Video - Explore the Solar System - Interactive Tour

Earth and the environment 122

Computer access for each pupil to research

Earth and the environment 122

Video - Solar System

Earth and the environment

122

Rotation and orbital periods of each planet

Earth and the environment 125

Image of terrestrial planets

Earth and the environment

125

Video - Explore the Solar System: The Rocky Planets

Earth and the environment 125

Short documentary about the inner rocky planets

Earth and the environment 126

Video - Human Exploration on Mars

Earth and the environment 128

Image - Jovian Planets

Earth and the environment 128

Image - Gas Giants and Ice Giants

Earth and the environment 128

Explore the Solar System: The Gas Giants

Earth and the environment 128

See the composition of Gases on gas giants and ice giants

Earth and the environment 128

See the moons of all the planets

Earth and the environment 132

Video - First Moon Landing 1969

Earth and the environment 132

Where Our Curiosity Took Us

Earth and the environment 132

Image - Space Exploration Timeline

Earth and the environment 132

More information - Space Probes

Earth and the environment 134

Video about Juno

Earth and the environment 135

Video - The Cassine-Huygen space mission

Earth and the environment 141

Video - Could we Move to Earth 2.0?