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?