Primary science challenges
From designing electric vehicles to investigating garden wildlife, our hands-on tasks will inspire every budding detective, designer, and curious explorer.
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What is an insect? Poster (4-7)
Use this poster to help pupils understand what makes an insect an insect and to identify insects they might find in their school grounds. Also includes a career connection.
Garden plants
Explore garden and wild plants with this poster and quiz pack. Includes plant ID, key questions, feedback, and class discussion prompts.
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Ravi’s garden plants quiz
Use this 10-question quiz to help your pupils learn about plants and to identify familiar garden and wild plants. Contains feedback and questions to promote class discussions.
Name the plants poster
Use this 2-page poster to answer questions including ‘What are garden and wild plants?’ and ‘Is a tree a plant? and to identify familiar plants.
Spring science hunt (ages 4-7)
Twenty days of fun, curriculum-linked spring and Easter-related science, with quiz questions, daily 10-minute science activities and resources for diving deeper.
A guide for parents and carers of 4-11 year olds
This useful guide is a great tool for showcasing the best of Energising Futures and how it can be used at home. Parents and carers can discover what science capital is and how they can bring science alive at home.
Growing into adults (life-cycles) poster
Develop understanding of animal life-cycles with this 2-page poster about how animals grow from babies to adults.
Weather
Use this selection of activities to help consolidate learning on the topic of weather.
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Weather diary activity sheet
Pupils can use simple drawings and weather words to record the weather for a week, with this simple weather diary activity sheet.
What’s the weather like today? presentation
Use this presentation featuring photographs of ten different types of weather, to develop vocabulary about the weather and to introduce pupils to a weather forecaster.
Weather matching cards
Develop the vocabulary of weather as pupils match photos to weather words in this simple card-matching game.
Identifying and grouping animals poster
Classroom poster encouraging pupils' to identify and group a range of animals including fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds!
Seasons poster
Use this 2-page poster about seasons to explore topic areas such as, changes in nature, and the features of each season.
Spring science hunt
Bring science to life in your classroom with twenty days of fun, curriculum-linked spring and Easter-related quiz questions, daily 10-minute activities and resources for diving deeper.
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Interactive science games
All the essential knowledge and need-to-know facts on topics in the science curriculum. Use to introduce a topic or to support students.
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Weather watchers poster
Use this 2-page poster to find out about weather and seasonal changes and how this can be measured.
Meet an ecologist (primary)
Inspire your students to think about their future careers with real-world resources.
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Animal explorer (ages 4-7)
Inspire your students to understand and learn all about different types of animals.
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Be a minibeast habitat explorer challenge
A real-world challenge inspiring pupils to find out what minibeasts are, where they live, and what they need to survive.
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Food chains
Help your pupils develop their understanding of food chains with these three resources.
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Introducing living things and their habitats
Understand all about living things and their habitats. Explore and identify animals and plants, and classify them as living, dead, never been alive and more.
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Animal explorer interactive (4-7)
An innovative, fun and engaging interactive with images, facts and quizzes about the variety of life in our animal kingdom.
Meet an ecologist video (primary)
Watch Jen, an ecologist, talking about her job and using special equipment to observe and identify minibeasts in a variety of microhabitats.
Exploring habitats video
Discover what a habitat is, learn about living things in a rock pool and sort things into those that are alive, dead and have never been alive. Click 'Watch' to play the video
What is a living thing? animation
In this short animation, Ravi, Kate and Bubbles discuss the needs of living things and identify those living in a cliff-top habitat and the sea. Click 'Watch' to play the video
Building career connections: Ecologist (primary)
A guide for teachers with suggestions for how to build awareness of a career in ecology. Includes ideas for role play and vocabulary development.
Be a minibeast habitat explorer delivery guide
A delivery guide for teachers giving background to the challenge and providing suggestions for how to use the resources.
Be a minibeast habitat explorer self-check
A skills and knowledge self-assessment sheet for pupils to use after they have completed the 'Be a minibeast habitat explorer' challenge.
Minibeast survey activity sheet
Pupils can use this sheet to record the number of minibeasts they find and where they found them, whilst suveying their school grounds.