Unit 7A. Cells

The Imperian Cancer Research Fund site explains how conception occurs and what's contained in cells.

http://www.cellsalive.com/ is a brilliant site with lots of info, but a bit technical. Have a look if you want to find out more!

Unit 7B. Reproduction

A really cool picture of the baby inside the mother's uterus (womb).

The Amazing Facts about life before birth has lots of great photos - in particular click on "Your First Nine Months" to follow Emily's development in her Mother's womb.

Puberty animation from the BBC, click on the body parts of the boy and girl to see how they change and This site has links to more information on changes that occur during puberty.

Unit 7C. Environment and feeding relationships

Animated food chains movie from BBC Bitesize.

Biomes Living Worlds from ThinkQuest, lots of info on the seven major land biomes (tundra, desert, rainforest etc) around the world including how animals are adapted for them. 

http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/habitats/ - Site on habitats from Robert Hitcham's Primary School.

http://www.jcwyatt.34sp.com/sciencelhs/y7environment/olp/y7env01.htm - The full topic by Laisterdyke High School.

For fun, why not sing: “There was an old lady who swallowed a fly” - it's all about food chains!  Find the words at http://www.thenamelocator.com/r049.html and the tune at: http://hometown.aol.com/music4kidsmore/oldladykar.mid

Unit 7D. Variation and classification

Classifying Critters - put various animals into their correct groups.

Unit 7E. Acids and alkalis

The pH factor; Virtual chemistry lab about the pH scale

http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/funstuff/xword/acids.htm - Acids, alkalis and salts crossword.

Unit 7F. Simple chemical reactions

Easy crossword called: Acids eat Metals!
Decide: Which metal is most reactive

Match up these: Tests for gases or: Try this crossword.

Read all about: Building implosions and find out all about: Dynamite!
See lots of pictures and videos of explosions and implosions at: Implosionworld.com

Chemical reactions WebQuest, contains a link to a game separating compounds and mixtures, some examples of chemical reactions, a movie, some example experiments and riddles.

Great movies of various (dangerous!) chemical reactions, including nitrogen triiodide detonation and the reaction of sodium and chlorine.  (Requires QuickTime.)

Unit 7G. Particle model of solids, liquids and gases

A movie about particles from the BBC.

Unit 7H. Solutions

Find out about separating mixtures and how to get pure salt and water from sea water and how to extract pure, ‘clean’ salt from rock salt. 

http://www.kids.union.edu/fsnChromatography.htm - Solve a crime using chromatography!

Kitchen sink experiments from BBCi, separate the colours in Smarties.

Unit 7I. Energy resources

Lots of links from Yahooligans about Energy and energy resources.

http://www.powerplant.com/ - News stories and information about different power plants all over the world, renewable and non-renewable.

http://www.srpnet.com/community/kids/tour/ - Virtual power plant tour!  Very good interactive movie, has lots of info about different energy sources and how energy is generated from them, and lots of photos of power plants, machinery and workers.

Unit 7J. Electrical circuits

Check out Frankenstein's Lightning Laboratory

Try some BBC Bitesize qestions about circuits and electricity

Interactive ‘clickable’ diagram about electrical safety.

Pages from How Stuff Works explaining familiar electrical items:
Toaster
Burglar alarm
Doorbell
Dimmer switch
Computer motherboard
Radio controlled toys

Unit 7K. Forces and their effects

Find out all about Gravity and Friction at FearOfPhysics!

Read some revision notes about Forces at KS3 BBC Bitesize.

Check out these great resources from the Science Joy Wagon, including animations and slide shows (has a really good explanation of Newton’s laws).

Unit 7L. The solar system and beyond

Check out these beautiful 3D animations of the solar system, you can also zoom in and out and change to different viewing angles.  There’s also a fun activity to build your own planet (planet ‘10’).

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/moon_phases/ - Animation of moon phases, allows you to see the moon moving around the earth in space AND what it looks like from earth at the same time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/planets/ - BBC’s Planets site, tons of info on all the different planets: history, stats, etc plus jigsaw activities to build the solar system, place all the moons, and identify artificial satellites.

End of the year links: Revision help for Year 7 Science

These are all the topics you should know about at the end of Year 7. Each thing in the table links to a good web page or site for the topic: