Science: A STEM Approach – Primary 1 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	Image - Basic needs of all living things
Living Things	4	YouTube song - Living and non-living things
Living Things	4	More infofmation on teaching the concept of living things
Living Things	8	Interactive game - Plants and animals
Living Things	8	Video - Needs vs wants
Living Things	8	More info on Maslow's hierachy of needs
Living Things	12	Video - Animal needs
Living Things	12	Online song - The needs of an animal
Living Things	16	Online song -The needs of a plant
Living Things	16	Online video - How a seed grows
Living Things	20	Interactive activity - Growing plants
Living Things	22	Interactive activity - Happy animals! It's a dog's life
Living Things	22	Video - What do pets need
Living Things	29	Upload digital photographs to create a gardening book
Living Things	29	Instruction to create a worm farm
Living Things	31	Video clip - Film rio showing a macaw and its owner
Energy and forces	40	Online mapping tool
Energy and forces	40	Online video - How animals move
Energy and forces	40	Interactive game- Grouping animals
Energy and forces	40	Video - Sesame Street (Watch these baby animals move)
Energy and forces	44	Video - Force and motion
Energy and forces	48	Video - Changing the surface an object moves on
Energy and forces	48	Instructions on how to construct a cereal box ramp
Energy and forces	52	Video - Snow daze
Energy and forces	56	Animation - Bouncing ball
Energy and forces	63	Design and create product to move heavy box
Energy and forces	63	Example of a marble maze
Energy and forces	65	Video- Showing how to create a cardboard racetrack
Materials	78	Interactive activity - Grouping materials
Materials	84	Image - Which of these things are made of fabric?
Materials	88	Image - The Three Little Pigs
Materials	88	Video - Homes around the world
Materials	88	Information about houses made from different materials
Materials	88	Comparison image of houses made from different material
Materials	92	Interactive activity - Weather wheel
Materials	93	Video - Properties of fabrics: The Cross-Country Run
Materials	99	Video - Parts of a sailboat
Materials	99	Game to test if materials are bendy or waterproof
Earth and the environment	88	YouTube video—Summer season
Earth and the environment	88	YouTube video—Springtime
Earth and the environment	88	YouTube video—Winter
Earth and the environment	92	vimeo—A forest year - Activity TBC
Earth and the environment	92, 93	YouTube video—The seasons of Arnold's apple tree read aloud - Activity TBC
Earth and the environment	92, 93	YouTube video—1 animals seasons - Activity TBC
Earth and the environment	92	YouTube video—Hibernation
Earth and the environment	96	YouTube video—Dreamtime Stories – Tiddalick the frog
Earth and the environment	96	Image—Noongar seasons
Earth and the environment	110	Mind-mapping tool
Earth and the environment	110	Video - Check out the weather song
Earth and the environment	114	Video - Types of weather
Earth and the environment	114	Game -Thing 1 and Thing 2's Weather Transformer
Earth and the environment	118	Video - Sesame Street (Weather)
Earth and the environment	118	Interactive game - Seasons
Earth and the environment	122	Video - Seasons, weather and clothes
Earth and the environment	122	Video - Autumn / Fall
Earth and the environment	122	Video - Summer
Earth and the environment	122	Video - Springtime
Earth and the environment	126	Video - Winter
Earth and the environment	126	Interactive game - Sticks and the seasons
Earth and the environment	126	Video - Hibernation
Earth and the environment	126	Video - What is migration
Earth and the environment	130	Video - Learn about festivals
Earth and the environment	137	Rain-Guage
Earth and the environment	137	Thermometer
Earth and the environment	137	Windmill
Earth and the environment	139	Video - Peppa Pig Pen Pal