General Science

• Ancient Tree Hunt
  Where are Britain's oldest, and fattest trees? Use the links on this site to send in details. How do you measure how fat a tree is?: You count how many hugs it takes to reach round it of course!
  http://www.ancient-tree-hunt.org.uk/
  

BBC Science Covers a whole range of science subjects, including birds and beasts, climate change, cloning, robots, space, genetics. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/

• Big Bang Experiment
  Scientists in Switzerland have powered up a huge experiment, which could help solve the mystery of how the world began. Read all about it here!
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews[7600000]
  
• Colour Wheel
  Primary colours are red, yellow and blue. Here is a simple explanation of what primary colours are and how they combine to make orange green and violet.
  http://www.kidzone.ws/science/colorwheel.htm
  
• Electricity
  Find out all about how electricity works - circuits, conductors and insulators.
  http://www.woodlands-junior[electricity.htm]
  
• Flick's adventures
  Click on 'Welcome to adventures - Science' to follow Flick and his friends as they find out about friction and forces. For Yrs 3 and 4
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/7_9entry/7_9.shtml
  
• Food Chains
  How living things get the food they need to help them grow and survive.
  http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/foodchains.html
  
• Math Science and Sound
  Lots of information and activites here covering the science of sound.
  http://www.philtulga.com/ScienceSound.html
  
• Metals
  Encarta article about all types of different metals. Click on Metals to go through to info on aluminium, copper, gold, iron, lead, mercury, nickel, silver, tin, zinc and many others
  http://encarta.msn.com/[metals]
  
• National Blood Service
  Find out all about blood from the National Blood Service and Nick Arnold's book "Blood, Bones and Body Bits." Games, quizzes, jokes and riddles."
  http://www.blood.co.uk
  
• Periodic Table of the Elements
  Clear descriptions of all the elements. Click on the individual names for details of history, properties, uses and associated compounds. Contains American spelling.
  http://periodic.lanl.gov
  
• Plant Life Investigation
  Unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life with Detective Leplant. Fun quiz
  http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/gpe.html
  
• Pythagoras
  Find out about Pythagoras, his Theorum and his life.
  http://www.mathsnet.net/dynamic/pythagoras/
  
• Science Clips
  A brilliant interactive site that will help you in all your science topics. Suitable for 5 - 11 year olds.
  http://www.bbc.co.uk[scienceclips]index_flash.shtml
  
• Science News
  Interactive science site covering subjects from agriculture to weather. There are also games and puzzle zones.
  http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/
  
• Science Pages
  Science revision pages for Key Stage 3, GCSE, AS and A level. Microbes and disease, rocks and weathering, acids and alkalis, solar system, food and digestion, enzymes, GCSE chemistry, metals, AS and A level biology.
  http://www.sciencepages.co.uk
  
• Scinet
  Lots of information about the body, plants, reactions, elements, electricity, light and biographies of scientists.
  http://www.nelsonthornes.com/secondary/science/scinet/scinet/index.htm
  
• Seasons
  Information about seasons around the world and equinoxes.
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/[solsticescience].shtml
  
• Sound Waves
  A simple and clear explanation of the theory of sound waves.
  http://school-for-champions.com/science/sound.htm
  
• Thinktank
  Lots of experiments to try at home on this website by Birmingham Science Museum. Click on 'Try this at home' and find out about electricity, photography, flight and seeing
  http://www.thinktank.ac/education/try.htm
  
• Water Cycle
  Clear guide to the cyclical movement of water from the sea to rivers and back again.
  http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html
  
• What is Materials Science?
  Find out more about materials - what are they, and what do they do.
  http://www.strangematterexhibit.com/whatis.html
  

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