Science: A STEM approach – Year 1 online resources

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Biological sciences I Chemical sciences I Earth and space sciences I Physical sciences

Unit	Lesson	Page	Original link	New link (with description)	Replacement activity (where required)
Biological sciences	1	4	https://tinyurl.com/zynznqa	Turaco games—Monkey Isle	Recall what living things are by playing the Monkey Isle game <https://tinyurl.com/y22eqbdy>. Discuss any things students are unsure about. How do you know something is living? Ensure students have a correct understanding that a living thing is a plant or an animal.
Biological sciences	1	4		Timer
Biological sciences	1	4		Mind map
Biological sciences	2	4		ProProfs quizzes—External features of animals
Biological sciences	3	13	ssec.si.edu/habitats	YouTube video—Exploring the coral reef	1. View the coral reef habitat video at <https://tinyurl.com/zezao3g>. Pause the video at 0.35 and ask students to suggest what animals they might see in this video. Which animals belong in the ocean? How do you know? Continue to play the video and see if students' suggestions appear.
Biological sciences	3	13		Digital Y-chart
Biological sciences	3	13		YouTube video—Fish
Biological sciences	3	13	https://tinyurl.com/lmqc3b	pixabay image—Fish	4. Display a photograph of a fish to the class, such as the one at <https://tinyurl.com/syrobo3>. Together, label the body parts of the fish on the whiteboard, as shown in the diagram on page 16.
Biological sciences	4	19		YouTube video—Relax \| Forest, birds & urban ASMR sounds
Biological sciences	4	19	https://tinyurl.com/mc226e5	Image—Emu feet
Biological sciences	4	19	https://tinyurl.com/n8bvaof	Image—Kangaroo feet
Biological sciences	4	19		Image—Lizard feet
Biological sciences	4	19		Image—Wombat
Biological sciences	4	19	https://tinyurl.com/n23x4vw	enhancetv video—Kangaroos	6. Students explore the kangaroo in greater detail and, as a class, watch the video at <https://tinyurl.com/wtjs2go> after subscribing for free. Stop the video at 3 minutes (it goes into reproduction after that). Discuss how the kangaroo moves and what body parts it uses, how it eats, what body part it breathes through and how it protects itself. Collect a selection of non-fiction books from the library for students to look at in small groups to research further if needed.
Biological sciences	4	19	www.storyjumper.com	Simple digital book creator
Biological sciences	5	31	https://tinyurl.com/z87pe2h	YouTube video—A bug's life Beautiful butterfly	2. Show students a clip from the movie A bug's life at <https://tinyurl.com/y28gxfg8>. As a class list the bugs that featured, and any other animals they think would be found in a garden.
Biological sciences	6	35		YouTube video (QR code page 37)—Parts of a plant \| The Dr. Binocs show
Biological sciences	7	39		sciencing.com—The difference between desert plants & rainforest plants
Biological sciences	PROJECT	49	https://tinyurl.com/klfxhca	Amazon—Cock-a-doodle-moo: A mixed up menagerie	1. Go to <https://tinyurl.com/u5hwvmd> and click on 'Look inside' to read some sample pages from the book Cock-A-Doodle Moooo! By Keith DuQuette. Ideally read the whole book if you have access to it.
Biological sciences	PROJECT	49, 50, 51	www.buildyourwildself.com	Switch Zoo	Demonstrate to the class how to go to the website <https://switchzoo.com/newzoo/zoo.htm> and then demonstrate how to navigate the website and create animals.
Biological sciences	PROJECT	49	https://tinyurl.com/yde9q3ux	gamesxl—Animal games
Chemical sciences	1	58		YouTube video—Space hoppers
Chemical sciences	1	58		YouTube video—Kids teaching kids – Teach your child to make a ponytail
Chemical sciences	2	63		kidspot—How to make easy no-cook play dough
Chemical sciences	5	76		Study ladder—Changes to materials quiz - Replacement TBC
Chemical sciences	5	76	https://soundbible.com	Zapsplat—Sound effects website	Explore other actions by listening to some audio files at <https://www.zapsplat.com> using the search terms 'plastic packet', glass breaking', 'tearing paper' and 'chop wood'. Play to students and ask them to guess what action is making the sound. Be careful not to show the website on the whiteboard as this will give away the answer.
Chemical sciences	6	79		lifeloveandsugar image—Cheesecake
Chemical sciences	6	79		Taste—No-bake cheesecake recipe
Earth and space sciences	1	96	https://tinyurl.com/nxa9ttr	pinterest—Day and night bottles	Day and night bottles (visit <https://tinyurl.com/t3e94ut> for examples)
Earth and space sciences	1	96		Image—Landscape in day
Earth and space sciences	2	99		Image of day sky with a visible moon
Earth and space sciences	2	99		Image—Day sky with moon and sun visible
Earth and space sciences	2	99	https://moonphases.willyweather.com.au	Moonrise timetable
Earth and space sciences	3	103	https://tinyurl.com/n5k2ufw	Image—Sky and clouds	1. Review the previous lessons by viewing and discussing different art depicting day and night such as <https://tinyurl.com/s3nnysc> and <https://tinyurl.com/y9qkq56v>. As a class, construct a day sky scene on poster paper. Ask students questions such as What other things might you see in the sky, like the clouds? What if it was raining? What if there was a storm? What if it was hot and sunny?
Earth and space sciences	3	103	https://tinyurl.com/n5k2ufw	Image—The Starry Night
Earth and space sciences	3	103		YouTube video—A visit to the National Weather Service
Earth and space sciences	4	106, 111	https://tinyurl.com/kdxa9kn	Image—A landscape in all seasons
Earth and space sciences	4	106		YouTube video—Seasons
Earth and space sciences	4	106		YouTube video—A year on planet Earth (4 seasons)
Earth and space sciences	5	111		YouTube video—Natural, constructed and managed features
Earth and space sciences	6	114		Image—New York streetscape 'before’ and ‘after’
Earth and space sciences	6	114	https://tinyurl.com/kgufsms	YouTube video—Animation: a city, going backwards through time.	4. As a class, explore the impact of development by watching the animation of a city going backwards in time at <https://tinyurl.com/ssrv9r8>. Ask students to name what type of features they can see and whether they are natural, managed or constructed. How are the features different? Are there more natural, managed or constructed features in the past or in the present? 5. In pairs, students complete the table on page 116, and decide which natural features changed, how they changed and which constructed features were added. Students may add other features that they can observe in their local surroundings as well.
Earth and space sciences	6	114		YouTube video—The Lorax – trailer
Earth and space sciences	PROJECT	121	www.toondoo.com	Sketchpad	2. As a class, view your chosen online drawing tool together. Some suggestions include Sketchpad at <https://sketch.io/sketchpad/>, Kids Doodle at <https://tinyurl.com/qv8xn6w> or Pixelart at <https://www.pixilart.com/draw>. Allow students one or two lessons to play around with the chosen online tool and familiarise themselves with how it works and what the icon buttons mean. 3. Students discuss in their group what kind of character they want and what they might look light. Students sketch a rough plan of the character and what their scene will look like; i.e. if they choose a queen as their character then the background may include a castle, river and bridges that they need to cross.
				Kids Doodle
				Pixilart
Physical sciences	2	135		YouTube video—Amazing tron dance performed by Wrecking Orchestra
Physical sciences	2	135		YouTube video—What is light energy?
Physical sciences	2	135		Creately T-chart
Physical sciences	2	135	https://tinyurl.com/pmbjcfz	Quizizz—Light sources game	6. As a class, select individual students to answer the questions in the online quiz. Students need to identify what is a light source and whether it is natural or man-made.
Physical sciences	3	138		Mind map
Physical sciences	3	138		YouTube video—Disappearing color wheel
Physical sciences	4	143		Digital audio files of sound effects
Physical sciences	4	143		YouTube video—What is sound?
Physical sciences	4	143		YouTube video of experiment—How to see sound
Physical sciences	5	147	https://tinyurl.com/q9o4wl6	YouTube video—Magic School Bus clip ‘Sound is vibration‘
Physical sciences	6	151	https://tinyurl.com/c6aw55r	BBC bitesize—How are sounds made?	2. Read through the BBC Bitesize information about sound at <https://tinyurl.com/uc8fsmb>, and complete the 'fill in the gaps' activity after each piece of information is read. Complete the reading for 'How are sounds made?', 'How are sounds detected?', 'What is pitch?' and 'What is the volume of sound?'. N.B. The videos will not play in Australia, only the readable information will display. Ask students what words describe sound. Write ideas on the board to assist students to complete their investigation. Reinforce the word pitch to describe high and low sounds, and volume to describe loud and soft sounds.
Physical sciences	6	151		YouTube video—The magic school bus: In the haunted house	5. As a class, watch the short Magic School Bus video clip about sound as vibration at <https://tinyurl.com/r8p67to>. Ask students if we can really see sound and what the clip actually means. How do music instruments make sound then? Clarify any questions or problems the students may have.