1.1 Reporting Science
A four-part unit guiding pupils through planning, investigating and reporting on two topics: 'Eating Peppermints Makes You Bald' and 'Eating Spring Onions Improves Athletic Performance'. It provides an opportunity for pupils to develop their writing, speaking and listening skills through role-play as journalists.

1.2 Ideas and Evidence
This resource is designed to help children learn about the processes involved in the production of scientific knowledge, from the collection and analysis of data, through the interpretation of evidence, to the development of new scientific ideas and models. The materials will help children to understand how scientific knowledge changes; why scientists may disagree about the interpretation of evidence, and that science is an activity that involves creativity and imagination.

1.3 Try Science
Website containing articles on dramatic new evidence of dinosaur anatomy and the structure of the heart, giving pupils an opportunity to experience 'real' scientific reporting in an interesting context. This site requires a high level of reading skills.

1.4 What Makes a Scientist?
Photographs and profiles of scientists showing the great variety of their work. Prominent engineers talk about what excites and inspires them and there is a brief description of their areas of research.

1.5 The Poetry of Science
A format for a short activity to help pupils describe a scientific idea in a creative way to achieve a poetic form.