Unit 8A. Food and digestion

Read some info on the digestive system and have a go at this quiz on digestion

Unit 8B. Respiration

Information on respiration from Sambal’s Science Web.

Quiz on respiration from BBC Bitesize.

Unit 8C. Microbes and disease

http://www.microbe.org/index.html - Stalking the mysterious microbe!  A great site with lots of info including “microbes in the news” and a careers section.

http://www.microbes.info/ - This is quite a detailed site, but it's definitely worth a look!

http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/eyam/ - Info on Eyam, the famous plague village.

Bread, from How Stuff Works - has lots of activities that you could try at home.

Simple animation of a white blood cell engulfing some bacteria.

The National Centre for Infectious Diseases - useful for finding out what disease-related issues are in the news at the moment.

Unit 8D. Ecological relationships

The 7 characteristics of life (MRS NERG)

Lots of information about food chains and pyramids.

Unit 8E. Atoms and elements

Interactive periodic table from WebElements™ or try RSC’s Visual Elements periodic table. 

http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html - Tom Lehrer’s Elements Song (requires sound). 

periodic-table.pdf - Printable Periodic Table (use right click and Save Target As to save a copy).

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/gallery.html - IBM’s STM image gallery has some beautiful images of real atoms, recorded with a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope. 

http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/index.html - The Particle Adventure - it's a bit advanced but it's very interesting!

Unit 8F. Compounds and mixtures

Simple animations of an element, compound and mixture.

Unit 8G. Rocks and weathering

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/rocks/ - Essential guide to rocks from the BBC, site contains loads and loads of useful information, activities and pictures, including an animation/timeline of Britain’s ‘rocky’ past.

http://www.ukfossils.info/ - all sorts of information about fossils, and http://www.beenthere‑donethat.org.uk/fossils.html has lots of pictures to help you decide which fossil you've got!

Some interesting info about Stonehenge.

Unit 8H. The rock cycle

Essential guide to rocks from the BBC, site contains loads and loads of useful information, activities and pictures, including an animation/timeline of Britain’s ‘rocky’ past.

Cartoon of the rock cycle from dailypress.com

Moorland School Earth Science has some really nice pictures and more information. The BBC Bitesize site has some useful information too.

A nice, simple diagram of the rock cycle and an interactive rock cycle animation.

Unit 8I. Heating and cooling

Short quiz on heat and energy transfer from BBC Bitesize.

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/blynds/tmp.html - all sorts of information about temperature, its history, temperature scales, thermometers etc, and http://www.pa.msu.edu/~sciencet/ask_st/012992.html - explains the nature of absolute zero (the coldest temperature there is!).

Build a better pyramid by insulating it.

How a Thermos flask works, a handy way to revise radiation, convection and conduction. 

Unit 8J. Magnets and electromagnets

Unit 8K. Light

Play this really addictive laser game.

Games about light and colour from the Magic Factory (National Museum of Photography, Film and Television).

Science of shadows, prisms, colour, and lenses. Includes a timeline, a section on pioneers in the optics field, and a museum of microscopy.

Try these interactive activities from the Great Barr Online Laboratory:
 - Reflection
 - Refraction
 - The Prism (and how it splits white light)
 - Coloured Light (and how it changes the appearance of objects)
 - How things look through Red, Blue and Green filters

Watch this PowerPoint presentation on light and colour.

List of links to sites of optical illusions.

How to make a pinhole camera, from Kodak.

Information about LASERS - ever wondered why they're different from ordinary lights?

Unit 8L. Sound and hearing

The HP and Bang & Olufsen advert which ‘shows’ sound waves.

Introduction to what sound is, with a simple animation.

The Soundry, an interactive web site about sound containing info about the physics of sound, how ears work, applications and history. In particular, check out the interactive sound lab.

Try the multiple choice sound quiz.

Misc Y8 Units

The Human Body
You can visit the Flesheaters website again and watch the movies or read the information to help you write up your investigation.

For some excellent revision materials, go to Sam Learning > KS3 SATS > Science > Biology > Humans as Organisms and do the exercises on "Nutrition" and "Breathing".

The lifebytes site has lots of information about smoking, alcohol and drugs. You could also have a look at these links about smoking and these about drugs and alcohol from Yahooligans.

If you fancy something a bit gruesome, try the virtual frog dissection!

Reproduction and Genetics
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.

All about selective breeding, and why selective breeding is important to farmers.

Wendell answers the question: are people taller now than they used to be? and student.city.ac.uk talks about why people are living longer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/genes/ - Gene-related history, health and news from the BBC.

Reactions and Mixtures
Check out this Interactive periodic table from WebElements™ or try RSC’s Visual Elements periodic table and http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html - Tom Lehrer’s Elements Song (requires sound). 

Printable Periodic Table (use right click and Save Target As to save a copy).

Here's the confusing compounds homework sheet, some general information about compounds, and some information about a few every-day compounds:
- water and how much water is there on Earth?
- carbon dioxide and how does dry ice work?
- sodium chloride (salt) and why do we salt the roads in winter?
- glucose and information about glucose in food
- silica (sand)
- calcium carbonate (limestone)

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/gallery.html - IBM’s STM image gallery has some beautiful images of real atoms, recorded with a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope. 

The Particle Adventure - it's a bit advanced but it's very interesting.

Simple animations of an element, compound and mixture.


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