Welcome to our home learning. This was developed during the Covid pandemic, to support parents with younger kids. For older pupils, check out our ‘Pupil Resources’ page.
All of our resources are available as editable documents so feel free to make any changes you need to make it work in your home or with your child. Don’t forget to tweet us @chembameditor with any pictures of you having fun with the experiments!
Activities to try
Nature treasure hunt to get kids out in the fresh air
Melting for ages 1-6
Teddy Goes Camping for ages 3-6
Properties of materials. Use packaging you have around the house to explore properties. You can even test them out to see which will protect something fragile (like an egg) best! Download here.
Kitchen detectives for ages 5-9
Cloud Experiment for ages 7-11
Crunchie Bar Batteries (battery recycling) for ages 5-14
Unicorn Cafe learn about densities of liquids. For ages 4-10.
Extracting DNA from Fruit for ages 7-10
Toxicology for A-level (or enthusiastic GCSE students!)
Other resources
This website has lots of fun ideas for home experiments!
Some fun chemistry word searches from Creative Chemistry
The James Dyson Foundation has a plethora of science and engineering challenges
The Nation Geographic Kids page, with prizes and interesting articles of science in the world around us
Primary Science Curriculum (Gov website)
Royal Society of Chemistry Primary Resources
Open University Free Courses (Beginner courses here may be useful for GCSE and A-level pupils)
The Royal Institution have a Science Lives Here page with lots of videos and activities
Maddie Moat and Greg Foot are doing regular YouTube sessions at 11am on weekdays
BBC Bitesize resources have a fantastic mixture of activities separated out in to KS2, KS3 and GCSE
The Primary Science Teaching Trust have a number of free resources available on their website.
MAChemGuy has some great videos of Chemistry Practicals that relate to GCSE Chemistry, as do CLEAPSS
A wide collection of educational science games are available via the U.S. Career institute, with activities ranging from element hangman to learning how the sun makes energy!
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