Sustainability and Conservation is a relaxed and fun way to engage students in sustainability and conservation subjects. Through hands on activities the learners will learn to apply these themes into their daily lives by exploring nature. Through five workshops they will become ambassadors of conservation…
Three lessons covering, adaptation, survival characteristics and the extinction of the woolly mammoth with comparison to living elephants. Includes presentation slides and student worksheet with answers. Aimed at Level 2 (Biodiversity and interdependence, SCN 2-01a) This resource bundle includes: Lesson 1: Woolly mammoths and the…
This resource contains easy to carry out, practical lessons on plant growth and decomposition. The activities covered in this resource use scientific inquiry skills. Topics covered are: Contained Decomposition, germination with a light maze, plant identification. CfE Experiences & Outcomes: SCN 2-01a, 02b, 13a, 14a…
This resource is a project covering both the lifecycle of plants and where food comes from. The project involves growing baked beans ingredients and includes different recipes for having a baked bean “bake-off”. The resource covers the following topics: Where does food comes from? How…
Use this engaging online book to share the science behind water shortage and drought in the UK and how we can change our behaviour to protect our water supply in our changing climate. Then use your imagination to enter the DRY & Waterwise competition to…
Our City Our Future emerged from ClairCity, an EU research project that sought to include citizens in decision-making processes around clean air and climate change across Europe. Over 3,500 children and young people were involved during the course of the project from 2016-2020, taking part…
Glasgow Science Centre is joined by Dr. James Rae to help us understand just what climate change is, why it’s so serious and how we can go about solving it.
In this Powering the Future video from #GSCAtHome, you can make a model water wheel as you investigate how to change the movement energy in flowing water to something more useful.
Over half of the world’s trees and plants are found in the rainforest, making them incredibly important ecosystems! Can you think of any reasons not mentioned in the video that make these places so important to both humans and other animals? One reason that all…
This is a video and activity booklet to help you explore wind power. Wind power is a type of renewable energy which means it is energy made from resources that nature will replace. In the case of wind power we are creating electricity from the…