4.1 Minibeasts
An interactive programme that children can use independently to work through a series of activities, helping them to identify habitats, identify and name some of the organisms that live there, sort minibeasts into their correct groups and identify the food sources of some of these animals.

4.2 Good to Eat
A database of foods that children can use to analyse the nutritional value of what they eat. Pupils compare two meals of a Manchester United football player and alter them to try and improve the healthy balance.

4.3 Growing Pains
A drama script for older primary pupils, which explores what plants need in order to grow. The humorous context appeals to primary children and makes the teaching points well.

4.4 I Scream for Ice Cream!
The Science Across the World project provides a forum for students aged 10 to 17 years to exchange facts and opinions with students in other countries. Eating and Drinking Around the World is a new topic suited to younger pupils. It focuses on the nutritional aspects of food and looks at links between diet and health, as well as the social values of different diets.

4.5 Slugs
Teachers' notes and activities to provide children with opportunities to collect, observe and find out about slugs, and to consider alternatives to chemical pest control. Would fit any topic or theme on small invertebrates (minibeasts).

4.6 I Have…Who Has?
A quick and fun revision game which helps children to recognise the scientific words that they should know, and use correctly in context, by the age of eleven.

4.7 Look Around You
A series of short activities designed to help children develop their observation skills in the outside classroom.

4.8 Life is Loopy
A quick game, involving the whole class, that reinforces pupils' knowledge across many aspects of life and living processes, giving them the opportunity to use scientific vocabulary correctly.

4.9 'Cool and Fun'
Poems written by primary children, selected from the ASE publication Science is Like a Tub of Ice Cream - Cool and Fun, to celebrate pupils' individual reactions to science and science phenomena. Can be used to stimulate pupils' own poetry writing as part of a literacy lesson.