GCSEhttp://www.longman.co.uk/foundationscience/worksheets.html

Biology http://www.s-cool.co.uk/topic_index.asp?subject_id=17

Humans as organisms

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html A comprehensive interactive overview of human organ systems. Good for pupils own

research or projects based work.

http://www.medtropolis.com/vbody.asp

A number of simple narrated animations of organ systems.

http://www.new-media.co.uk/scienceyear/heart.asp

A really useful interactive shockwave animation that shows blood flow through the

heart along with EC trace.

http://www.klbschool.org.uk/interactive/science/interindex.htm

A variety of useful interactive tasks for revision. Beware- some pupils may struggle

with some of the word exercises.

http://www.exploratum.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/index.html

A step by step guide to an eye dissection including photo's, hints and interesting

facts.

http://www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?%0AWCI=Topic&WCU=3964

The Guardians learning resource, includes text, pictures animations and on-line tests

covering all areas of Sc. 2.2. Differentiated for foundation or higher levels.

http://www.schoolsnet.com/

A great resource incorporating lesson plans, class and home worksheets, on-line

tests, project tasks and pupil reference material that cover nutrition, breathing,

respiration, immunity and the nervous system.

http://www.quia.com/dir/bio/gcseuk.html

A number of interactive games designed specifically to aid GCSE learning of areas

including circulation, breathing and digestion.

http://www.teenagehealthfreak.org/homepage/index.asp

A nice site providing links to information and answers to FAQ's regarding health

issues

http://scienceview.berkeley.edu/showcase/pages/bones.html

A nice interactive task to learn the bones of the skeleton.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcse%0Abitesize/biology/

BBC Bitesize revision site. Great deal of information and on-line tests. Excellent to

recommend to pupils for their own revision.

http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/GCSE/Biology/index.html

On-line revision notes and worksheets useful for revision.

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/topic_index.asp?subject_id=17&d=0

Excellent revision site that includes loads of information, and on-line tests and exam

style questions.

http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/pip/search/default.asp

A massive selection of useful links with a search engine to narrow down what you

want

http://sln2.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html

An on-line exploration of the heart and the circulatory system including sound

animation and video files

http://www.educationusingpowerpoint.org.uk/

A selection of downloadable powerpoint presentations + loads of useful games etc.

in resources section.

Green plants as organisms

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/index.html

A fun site with lots of colour and pictures. Pupils read through info' in order to solve

"mysteries". Could be good to revise KS3 or to suit lower ability groups.

http://www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?%0AWCI=Topic&WCU=3964

The Guardians learning resource, includes text, pictures animations and on-line tests

covering all areas of Sc. 2.3. Differentiated for foundation or higher levels

http://www.schoolsnet.com/

A great resource incorporating lesson plans, class and home worksheets, on-line

tests, project tasks and pupil reference material that cover photosynthesis,

transpiration and transport.

http://www.quia.com/dir/bio/photosynthesis.html

A number of interactive games designed to aid learning of photosynthesis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcse%0Abitesize/biology/

BBC Bitesize revision site. Great deal of information and on-line tests. Excellent to

recommend to pupils for their own revision.

http://www.alienexplorer.com/ecology/Ecology.html

Information resource useful for pupil based projects.

http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/GCSE/Biology/index.html

On-line revision notes and worksheets useful for revision.

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/topic_index.asp?subject_id=17&d=0

Excellent revision site that includes loads of information, and on-line tests and exam

style questions.

http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/pip/search/default.asp

A massive selection of useful links with a search engine to narrow down what you

want.

http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/praintro.htm

Ideas for practical activities including worksheets.

http://www.educationusingpowerpoint.org.uk/

A selection of downloadable powerpoint presentations + loads of useful games etc.

in resources section.

Variation, inheritance and evolution

http://www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?%0AWCI=Topic&WCU=3964

The Guardians learning resource, includes text, pictures animations and on-line tests

covering all areas of Sc. 2.4. Differentiated for foundation or higher levels.

http://www.quia.com/dir/bio/genetics.html

A number of interactive games designed to aid learning of genetics.

http://www.quia.com/dir/bio/evolution.html

A number of interactive games designed to aid learning of evolution.

http://www.quia.com/dir/bio/

A number of interactive games designed to aid learning of inheritence

BBC Bitesize revision site. Great deal of information and on-line tests. Excellent to

recommend to pupils for their own revision.

http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/GCSE/Biology/index.html

On-line revision notes and worksheets useful for revision.

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/topic_index.asp?subject_id=17&d=0

Excellent revision site that includes loads of information, and on-line tests and exam

style questions.

http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/pip/search/default.asp

A massive selection of useful links with a search engine to narrow down what you

want.

environment

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/interactive/woodlice/index.html

A fantastic site designed by the National History Museum. Allows pupils to get

involved in a national survey of the woodlouse population.

http://www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?%0AWCI=Topic&WCU=3964

The Guardians learning resource, includes text, pictures animations and on-line tests

covering all areas of Sc. 2.5. Differentiated for foundation or higher levels.

http://www.schoolsnet.com/

A great resource incorporating lesson plans, class and home worksheets, on-line

tests, project tasks and pupil reference material that cover adaptation, nutrient

cycles, energy transfer and predation.

http://www.quia.com/dir/bio/ecology.html

A number of interactive games designed to aid the learning of ecology.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcse%0Abitesize/biology/

BBC Bitesize revision site. Great deal of information and on-line tests. Excellent to

recommend to pupils for their own revision.

http://davem2.cotf.edu/ete/modules/carbon/efcarbon.html

A nice description of the carbon cycle complete with flow diagrams.

http://www.alienexplorer.com/ecology/Ecology.html

Information resource useful for pupil based projects.

http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/GCSE/Biology/index.html

On-line revision notes and worksheets useful for revision.

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/topic_index.asp?subject_id=17&d=0

Excellent revision site that includes loads of information, and on-line tests and exam

style questions.

http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/pip/search/default.asp

A massive selection of useful links with a search engine to narrow down what you

want.

http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/praintro.htm

Ideas for practical activities including worksheets.

http://www.kineticcity.com/

A brilliant game to save the universe!  Carry out lots of interactive biology-related

activities to beat the baddies.

http://www.cix.co.uk/~argus/Dreambio/plant%20water%20relations/xerophytes.htm

Water adaptations by plants

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/curriculum/weeklywebadventures/animal_adapt/

t_home.html

Animal adaptations

http://www.llamaweb.com/Camel/Info.html

Camel adaptation

www.marisamontes.com/all_about_camels.htm

http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/core/4th/4thSciber/BIOMES/ADAPT/

adapt.htm

Adaptation site – good for a class project?

http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/default.asp?target=bear_sub1.htm

Picture of a polar bear attacking a submarine!

http://www.vc.cc.tx.us/departments/bio/Animations/iworx/reflex_arc.html

Knee jerk response animation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/biology/humansasorganisms/

4nervoussystemrev4.shtml

Reflex action animation, with step through

Ithaca City School District – Biology Zone

http://207.10.97.102/midscizone/life/default.htm (Life Science)

http://207.10.97.102/midscizone/cool_links.htm (Biology links)

Yahooligans

http://www.yahooligans.com/science_and_nature/Living_Things/ (Living Things,

including Biology)

About.com

http://biology.about.com/mbody.htm

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

http://www.tvdsb.on.ca/westmin/science/sbi3a1/Cells/Osmosis.htm

Animation of Osmosis and clear explanations. Really good for A level and GCSE

(higher).

http://www.constipationadvice.co.uk/constipation/digestive_system_constipated.html

An excellent site with a great animation of digestion – you can compare normal to

constipated digestion!

http://www.biologylessons.sdsu.edu/ta/about/E.html

Contains lots of information for Biological molecules. Includes information on

common misconceptions too.

http://www.teaching-resource.co.uk/resources/biology.htm

Loads of useful links – you could spend hours here

http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/curric/stage6/biol/patsnat.html

Absolutely loads of information useful for Biological Molecules and more

http://www.ualr.edu/~botany/images.html

Being updated at the moment, but there are a variety of resources and images for

use in any botany lesson.

http://www.biologyinmotion.com

Original, entertaining, interactive biology learning activities – lots of animations with

emphasis on fun

http://www.biology4all.com

Discussion lists, image gallery, web links. Huge amount of information here!

http://www.biota.org

Digital Biology. A variety of interesting projects and web links.

http://www.longman.co.uk/tt_secsci/resources/blank_diag/main_1.htm

Useful diagrams on the heart, breathing and digestion

http://www.purchon.com/biology/revision.htm

Great biology GCSE revision page – covers all the main concepts.

http://insideout.rigb.org/ri/anatomy/index.html

Lots of anatomy information, with teacher resources

http://www.sk.lung.ca/content.cfm/kids

Excellent resources for breathing system, along with the effects of cigarettes and

pollution.

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/webwise/spinneret

Loads of information on aspects of biology

http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp

The virtual body – brain, skeleton, heart and digestion covered in interactive form

http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk

Science and plants for schools – lots on plants of all types – searchable with lots of

downloads

http://www.cornwallis.kent.sch.uk/intranet/elearn/science/body/organs/1organs1.htm

Lots of organ and cell diagrams – good for OHTs

http://www.getbodysmart.com/index.htm

Online anatomy and physiology examination – some phenomenal animations

http://www.sciencezone.org.uk/work.htm

Lots of useful information, flash activities, etc

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/topic_index.asp?subject_id=17&d=0

GCSE Biology Revision Topics

http://www.psionica.co.uk/biology/ks4biology/Some very good revision topics, but not complete

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/topic_quicklearn.asp?loc=ql&topic_id=15&quicklearn_id=1&subject_id=17&ebt=241&ebn=&ebs=&ebl=&elc=4

Photosynthesis

Chemistry

Patterns of behaviour

Chemical reactions

Good explanation of how to compile chemical equations

Explanation on how to balance chemical equations

Explanation of how to name binary Compounds of Metals with Fixed Charges

Quiz about chemical reactions

Simple quiz to help with balancing equations

Lots of interactive activities, many in Chemistry. The interactivity consists

mainly of one word answer questions and cloze-type activities, which are marked by

the site

Reactions involving enzymes

Explanation of the brewing of beer and industrial bottling etc.

Description of how breathalysers work and the chemical reactions involved

Changing materials

The periodic table

Periodic table that students can configure and links to information about each

element

Interactive information about elements

Information on individual elements and general information about the Periodic

table

Useful products from organic sources

This resource covers most of the earth science components

Description of how distillation is carried out in an oil refinery

Useful products from metal ores and rocks

Explanation of battery basics and the chemical reactions

Interactive design of electrolysis of water

Quantitative

Good explanation of how to compile chemical equations

Explanation on how to balance chemical equations

Explanation of how to name binary Compounds of Metals with Fixed Charges

Simple quiz to help with balancing equations Classifying materials

Atomic structure

Concept of atoms, history of discoveries, properties etc.

Quiz about elements

American website dedicated to explaining how thousands of everyday

phenomena occur.

Lots of interactive activities, many in Chemistry. The interactivity consists

mainly of one word answer questions and cloze-type activities, which are marked by

the site

Bonding

Concept of atoms, history of discoveries, properties etc.

Description of how diamonds are formed and their properties

Quiz about chemical bonding

You have to put items into order of their pH

Quiz on diatomic molecules

Lots of interactive activities, many in Chemistry. The interactivity consists

mainly of one word answer questions and cloze-type activities, which are marked by

the site

Doc Brown’s Chemistry Clinic

http://www.wpbschoolhouse.btinternet.co.uk/ (home page)

http://www.wpbschoolhouse.btinternet.co.uk/

page12/page12.htm - KS3 index

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/activities/p_number5.html

A great idea on how to demo plate tectonics to KS3 (or KS4 for that matter!)

http://www.wpbschoolhouse.btinternet.co.uk/page03/page03.htm

Loads and loads of interactive activities, like crosswords and gapfills.  The site is a bit

difficult to navigate (hence links above) but it’s worth persevering!

Yahooligans

http://www.yahooligans.com/science_and_nature/physical_sciences/Chemistry/

Yahooligans is the kids version of the Yahoo search engine and it has excellent

collections of kid-friendly links on lots of topics, including science ones.

About.com

http://chemistry.about.com/mbody.htm

A huge range of science-related information, pitched at all different levels.  This is

probably more useful for teachers than pupils, but it’s great reference material.

Creative Chemistry

http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/

Fun activities, worksheets, practical guides and interactive quizzes.  Aimed at GCSE

and AS level, but can still a valuable resource for KS3.

Physics

Electricity and Magnetism

Shockwave program about circuits

Lessons on electricity.

Information and games about electricity and electricity generation

Explanation of topics and some flash animation

All the equations and definitions you need for revision.

Good revision pictures of field lines with some good true/false questions.

Good revision followed by discussion of domains, with interactive image.

A fun, well drawn page where you guess what each family member is doing

wrong. A lot of fun and a good intro to safety.

Good presentation as intro to electrostatics.

How charge is lost to the air. Nice animation and good description. Not very

long.

The history of the van de Graaf generator, very interesting with some nice

photos. I recommend this as the size of some of the ones they built are amazing!

Have a go at placing positive and negative charges in front of a proton gun to

see the effect they have on the proton's path.

How lightning occurs. Good descriptions and diagrams, well worth a visit.

Maybe a directed research task

Forces and Motion

Concept posters and links

A great page to carry out a "falling mass" experiment, and even take the

results and write it up as an investigation!

Match the correct definition with the word, lots of definitions!

A quick interactive test, fun and good for revision or a end of unit test.

Pupils read each page and base their decision on how high the speed limit

should be using all the info. Good fun!

Good interactive demo of motion in 2D. Well worth it as a good explanation of

vectors.

Set up the mass and speed of two blocks set to collide and see how the

variables affect the crash, (with elastic or inelastic option). Short and sweet. Not very

exciting graphics though.

Very good interactive presentation on scalars and vectors.

A presentation on acceleration.

Guess where the ball will land. Very short, but potential for explanation and

consolidation of knowledge.

All the info and definitions you need for revision.

The science behind flight with a fun page too. Lots of info here, would be

good as a research task.

Interactive images on speed and SI units with explanations as to what they

mean

How to calculate speed and then distance or time from speed, using

interactive images and brief text.

Lots of interactive graphs and questions

Text explaining acceleration and how to calculate it, with interactive image at

the end to test knowledge with some questions

Nice page looking at graphs and talks you though the motion of a cyclist

Maybe a bit dull, but talks you through these type of graphs and you get to

interact with some pictures.

Lots of questions and graphs based on the 3 rules of motion graphs

Interactive images and questions on forces, good introduction to forces

Good introduction to Newton's Laws with nice clips (cartoons) of how the law

applies to everyday objects

Introduction to stretching and rules for springs with interactive questions.

Interactive pictures and very good questions on Hooke's Law.

Looking at elastic bands and how they stretch, with some nice graphs and

questions

Interactive Experiment - find out the density of various hunks of material, then

put them in a liquid of varying density to see if they will float or not.

A short activity to investigate the factors affecting projectile motion. Use with

all ages since you can take this as far as you want.

This activity lets you study the projectile motion in a "golf" like setting. Give

yourself a bit more of a challenge by selecting the "air" option.

Animation of the classic monkey / hunter experiment.

Balancing a see-saw, a great activity to really get the pupils used to balancing

moments

Nice introduction to force and pressure with corny but interactive cartoon

clips.

An animation of the pressure increasing with depth experiment.

Nice pictures and explanation of hydraulics and uses

Short demo of pressure changing with volume, a quick filler - nothing more.

Earth and Space

A collection of lesson plans based around the Space topic. Includes:

o Planets and celestial bodies

o More celestial bodies - asteroids and such

o Gravity in space

o Star Evolution

A useful, but brief, table of planetary data for the solar system .

Nine key questions about the solar system planets - would be a good topic

test or revision aid.

A short cloze activity on solar system - useful but not essential .

A brief activity to calculate weight on solar system planets (and more). Quite

handy.

Another brief activity to calculate age on solar system planets. Short but

sweet.

A collection of video clips - solar system tour would be good to spike interest .

Part of the NASA archive with information on solar system planets with rings.

Well worth a look for research projects.

A genuinely well presented resource with information on asteroids .

A brilliant resource! A collection of live interactive images - the Earth and

Moon viewer. Well worth a look.

A shockwave pairs game based on nothing other than space related symbols.

A handy time filler.

A shockwave phrases game. A time filler .

Zoom in from the outskirts of the universe to the cells in a leaf. Increasing

zoom in powers of ten. Good animation and images.

NASA's Solar System Simulator - choose where and what and images

appear. An impressive collection.

A brilliant collection of teaching resources from NASA. Fully downloadable

worksheets and research guides. The Solar System Lithograph Set is well worth a

look.

A "stellar" crossword - a useful timefiller. - Beware of pop-ups .

A gravity simulator for the solar system. Runs quickly with very little

instructions on use. Some may find this interesting

Earth Resources and Energy Transfer

A brilliant nuclear power station simulation, pupils will need to read

instructions before attempting task and I believe with may be more useful for KS5

students.

A very well constructed set of revision notes on conduction and convection.

Unfortunately this is all plain text with no diagrams.

Interactive picture on sources of heat energy

An interesting and well made activity on conduction

Two demonstration experiments on liquids and gases

Demonstration experiments based around insulators

Convection work with diagrams of convection currents and atom movements

A set of notes and activities on radiation – application of thermal imaging

camera

Insulation work – an attempt to pull the threads together

A very good java applet showing a motor, with all magnetic and lorentz forces

showing at all times on armature. Good demonstration piece.

A long page filled with information on energy types, and how they work.

Potentially too much text for some, but includes some good, basic diagrams

Fear Of Physics

http://www.fearofphysics.com/

Physics explained.  Finally.  Has simple explanations, animations and activities

allowing you to play with variables.  Brilliant!

Yahooligans

http://www.yahooligans.com/science_and_nature/physical_sciences/Physics/ Links

to a wide variety of physics sites, broken down by topic. Really useful!

About.com

http://physics.about.com/mbody.htm

http://amasci.com/emotor/statelec.html

Static electricity page

http://www.article19.com/shockwave/oz.htm

Shockwave powered circuit builder – excellent!

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu

http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe

Atlas of the universe

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space

http://www.telescope.org/index.php

From the Bradford telescopes in Tenerife and Australia

http://www.furryelephant.com

http://howthingswork.virginia.edu

Explaining the physics of everyday life

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

Comprehensive Physics website – links to everything via mindmap type drawings

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/lifecycles/stars.html

http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/MousePotato.html

Some great experiments in physics

http://www.gdbdp.com/multiflyer

http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html

http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~weidman/ph2200/pages/simapp.html

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl

http://physics.nad.ru/Physics/English/index.htm

http://www.physics.org/physics_life/Web/physics_life/life.asp

Interactive site to study how physics acts in everyday life

http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/renewables/ed_pack

Excellent resource on renewable energy for KS3 and KS4

http://www.rerf.or.jp/eigo/titles/radtoc.htm

The effects of radiation

http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet/miscon3.htm

Particle models for KS3

http://www.sciencejoywagon.com

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/index.html

http://www.physicsclassroom.com

http://servant.geol.cf.ac.uk/solar/eng/homepage.htm

Views of the solar system

http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/index.html

Astronomy for Kids

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu

The cosmic classroom – shed loads of resources