Science: A STEM Approach – Primary 7 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 - Biomes of the World for Children
Living Things	4	Online mind-mapping tool
Living Things	4	Examples of different adaptations
Living Things	5	Interactive game - Build a Biome
Living Things	8	Image of different environments
Living Things	8	Amount of water and sunlight grass receives
Living Things	12	Image - Forms of Fungi
Living Things	12	Video - Fungi Fantastic
Living Things	12	Read more about different types of fungi
Living Things	12	Information on yeast
Living Things	16	Video - Amazon Wildlife-Andes to Amazon
Living Things	16	Rainforest layers
Living Things	16	More Info on tropical rainforests
Living Things	20	Video - Tundra Biome
Living Things	22	Animal adaptations to extremely cold conditions
Living Things	22	More information about plants in the tundra
Living Things	22	Examples of adaptations to extreme cold
Living Things	22	Examples of adaptations to extreme cold
Living Things	22	Blubber experiment
Living Things	23	Biomes
Living Things	23	Fighting for Survival in the Kalhari Desert, Africa
Living Things	29	Watch a Year in 40 Seconds
Living Things	31	Video - Claymation
Living Things	33	Film Shaun the Sheep made using stop motion
Energy and forces	40	Interactive game - Power Up
Energy and forces	40	Video - Fossil Fuels
Energy and forces	40	URLs linked to QR codes page 106
Energy and forces	40	URLs linked to QR codes page 106
Energy and forces	40	More Information on non-renewable energy
Energy and forces	43	Online game - Power Up
Energy and forces	43	Website - Electricity
Energy and forces	43	Renewable Energies - Linked to QR code page 45
Energy and forces	43	Creating Energy - Solar, wind and water asources - QR ,Page 45
Energy and forces	46	Renewable energy website
Energy and forces	46	Video - Solar Energy
Energy and forces	46	Video - Supercritical Steam
Energy and forces	46	Info on connecting solar panels to LED light
Energy and forces	46	More information on a circuit diagram
Energy and forces	46	More information on a circuit diagram
Energy and forces	50	Video - Introduction to Simple Circuits
Energy and forces	50	Video - Simple Circuits for Kids
Energy and forces	53	Video - The Power of Circuits
Energy and forces	53	Video - Electric Circuits on Paper: The Basics
Energy and forces	53	Create Circuits using shop bought science switch
Energy and forces	57	Video - Great Innovators - Thomas Edison
Energy and forces	57	Light bulb diagram
Energy and forces	57	Light bulb diagram with labels
Energy and forces	57	Video - How a bight bulb works
Energy and forces	57	Video about filament in a light bulb - QR code Page 59
Energy and forces	57	Video - Build a Light Bulb
Energy and forces	58	Video - New forms of light bulbs
Energy and forces	64	Design and create intruder alarm - Insight
Energy and forces	64	Party decoration - Light balloons using LEDs and a circuit
Energy and forces	66	Create a sound using DC motor
Energy and forces	66	A different kind of switch
Materials	78	Online video - Phases of Matter
Materials	79	Label a diagram which can be stuck to science book
Materials	81	Dissolving
Materials	81	Interactive activity - Different changes
Materials	81	Video - The Great Picnic Mix Up
Materials	84	A biscuit recipe
Materials	84	Video - Chemical Changes
Materials	89	Video of wax crayons melting
Materials	89	Video - Small Candle Timelapse
Materials	89	Video - How Stuff Changes
Materials	89	Image - Candle Burning diagram
Materials	91	Image - Rusted Car
Materials	91	Video - Rusting-Iron+Water+Oxygen=Rust
Materials	91	Video - Science Concepts and Projects: Speedy Rust
Materials	91	To read about rusting
Materials	99	Video - Ice Castle Closes - Problems with using ice
Materials	99	How to create sugar crystals on a stick
Earth and the environment	108	Video - Natural Disasters: The Destructive Force of Nature
Earth and the environment	108	Video - Severe Weather Crash Course
Earth and the environment	111	Video - What is a Volcano
Earth and the environment	111	Image of the effects of a stratovolcano eruption
Earth and the environment	111	Video - How to Prepare for a Volcanic Eruption
Earth and the environment	111	Map of the world's active volcanoes
Earth and the environment	112	Research Mount Vesuvius - A Day in Pompeii
Earth and the environment	112	Research Mount Vesuvius
Earth and the environment	114	Video - Introduction to Earthquakes
Earth and the environment	114	Video - Deadly Earthquakes hit New Zealand
Earth and the environment	114	Earthquake Tracker
Earth and the environment	114	Earthquakes can cause a number of changes to Earth's surface
Earth and the environment	115	How scientists measure and record seismic waves
Earth and the environment	115	Description of devastation caused by earthquakes
Earth and the environment	117	Image - After Earthquake
Earth and the environment	117	Video - Introduction to Earthquakes
Earth and the environment	117	Video - How Earthquakes Trigger Tsunamis
Earth and the environment	117	How a tsunami forms
Earth and the environment	120	Image - Tropical Cyclone Yasi
Earth and the environment	120	Video - Storms Explained
Earth and the environment	120	Met office guide to Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons
Earth and the environment	122	Before and after image - Drought
Earth and the environment	122	UK Drought of 2012
Earth and the environment	122	Newsround video Children of the Drought
Earth and the environment	122	Video-Science Behind Drought
Earth and the environment	122	Drought can cause flash flooding
Earth and the environment	127	How seismographs are used
Earth and the environment	129	Video - Natural Disasters: The Destructive Force of Nature