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Pod 2: Waste
In this Nuffield Foundation resource students investigate whether recycling alone can mitigate the wastefulness of current industrial processes. They categorize waste into two main categories - natural materials which can be recycled through natural systems, and...
Pod 3: Cars
In this Nuffield Foundation resource, students explore our relationship with cars and other forms of transport. They start by investigating some of the health and social problems associated with increasing car ownership. They move on to consider how innovative technologies could support more healthy and...
Pod 3: Game On
In this Nuffield Foundation activity students use the learning skills they have acquired in earlier pods to invent a new game of their own. They need to design and test equipment as well as establish effective rules and a fair scoring system. Groups then present and explain their new game at a sports fair where it...
Pod 4: Climate Change
In this Nuffield Foundation resource students begin by reviewing their understanding of the carbon cycle. They investigate the link between human activity and increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and speculate on whether this is causing global...
Pod 5: Pupil Project
In this summative challenge from Nuffield Foundation groups of students use the knowledge, skills and understanding from earlier pods to explore a sustainability question of their choice. They need to research, analyze and present ideas in preparation for an exposition. Students assess each others ideas and plans...
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Pod's Mission is a wide-ranging, one-stop resource for Year 4 Science, covering key areas across the science curriculum. In comical, animated sequences, two friendly robots, help Annie to find out more about the world.
Pod visits numerous locations using the BBC's vast film archive.
Children will be...
A collection of poems about air - breathing, hurricanes, thunder and lightning, migration and the first hot air balloon flight.
Shape poems, funny and thoughtful poems, traditional and new poems, each very different from the next, and full of surprises, but all sharing a link - the elements.
Shape poems, funny and thoughtful poems, traditional and new poems, each very different from the next, and full of surprises, but all sharing a link - the elements.