All Science articles – Page 7
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Inventions
Who invented the teabag? When was the paperclip invented? Which invention might you find in a kitchen and a church? This series of activities gets students in teams to find out the answers to these questions while learning all sorts of fascinating facts! A follow-up activity focuses on past tenses ...
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Computers: Integrated Skills CLIL Lesson
In this lesson plan, a reading text introduces students to the components of a computer and includes a computer diagram to label, and a listening exercise narrates the history of computing. Useful phrases for when talking about computers, effective reading and writing tips, vocabulary builder exercises and three project ideas ...
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Cause and effect: Geography
Keith Kelly looks at examples of the language of cause and effect from the area of geography, covering verb phrases, noun phrases and connectors, such as adverbs and conjunctions.
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ArticleAmazing world of food: Lesson 4: Our sense of taste
In the fourth lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to understand the role of taste buds, identify four basic tastes and relate them to different parts of our tongue, and carry out a tasting experiment. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are included.
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The Earth: Air and water
A lesson plan to teach pupils about the Earth’s atmosphere and hydrosphere.
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What's in space?
An activity sheet for children to count the numbers of stars, planets, astronauts and rockets, and then colour the picture.
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The Sun, the Moon and the Earth
A worksheet with a labelling and true/false exercise which teaches the relative positions of the Sun, the Moon and planet Earth and the orbits they travel.
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The solar system: The Sun and the planets
In this lessson plan, pupils learn the names of the planets, their distinguishing characteristics and their order from the Sun.
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The solar system: The moon
In this lesson plan, pupils learn about the moon, including its phases and lunar eclipses.
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The solar system: The Earth
A lesson plan that teaches about the movement of the Earth in space, as well as the seasons and day and night.
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The solar system
In this lesson plan, pupils learn about the eight planets and other bodies of the solar system through information gap, true/false and card game activities.
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The Earth: Rotation and revolution
A lesson plan to explore the Earth’s movements and explain why we have day, night and different seasons.
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Space crossword
Pupils fill in the crossword to discover five things you might find in space.
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Comparing the planets
In this lesson plan, pupils learn about the planets while practising vocabulary words such as ‘galaxy’ and ‘satellite’ and using commas and decimal points to write numbers as English speakers do. The worksheet also reinforces comparative adjective such as ‘longer’ and ‘hotter’.
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Blast off!
Find out what’s shooting through space and then colour the picture in this fun Science Museum activity sheet.
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Food and diet: A healthy diet
In this lesson plan, pupils learn about a balanced diet, while practising ‘should’ and expressions of frequency.
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A healthy diet
In this lesson plan, pupils learn about a healthy diet and the origin of different foods while practicing the present tense, expressions of frequency, food vocabulary, time and days of the week.
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ArticleWhere food comes from
In this lesson plan, pupils complete a chart deciding which food we get from animals and which we get from plants. A matching and sentence-completion activity consolidates food vocabulary and the key phrase ‘come(s) from’.