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SCIENCE LINKS ON THE INTERNET
Look for the topic you are studying at the moment and follow the links to the site you want.
If you cannot access the site at all, or the link appears to point to a dead-end, then please e-mail me to let me know.
Key Stage 3 Topics
Chemical Reactions
The Visual Elements is a Periodic Table site that presents the Periodic Table in a new way. Each element has been represented by an artists interpretation and the whole thing is very pretty to look at. There is also lots of information on each element including discovery, use and chemical reactions. You will need Flash Shockwave to view the Table.
The My New School Site is a very easy site to read up on chemistry and and lots of exercises and information to help you with your study of Chemical Reactions. The information comes with pictures, diagrams and exercises to complete. It also has information to help you complete chemistry investigations for GCSE.
The Web elements site is another interactive Periodic Table on the Internet. It has an excellent graph facility that allows you to view how properties like melting point vary across the Table.
The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements is lighter on the science than the other two sites. It contains comic book clippings of how the elements have appeared over the years. Worth a visit.
Earth and Space
The Nine Planets site has vast amounts of information, not only on the planets of the solar system, but on the moons of the planets as well. There are some great images and sound tracks from Holst's Planets.
The official NASA site is everything you would expect it to be. It has lots of information on Earth and Space along with information on space exploration. Together with the Nine Planets site listed above it provides an excellent resource for looking at the Solar System and beyond.
Particles 2
The Visual Elements. A Periodic Table site - see 'Chemical Reactions' for details.
The Web elements site. A Periodic Table site - see 'Chemical Reactions' for details.
Rocks and Minerals
The BBC Essential guide to Rocks links to the BBC TV series of that name and has lots of information on the three main types of rocks and how they were formed. There is also and interactive timeline, that allows you to look back at how the Earth looked in the past and what living things were around at the time. The highlight of the site is a full animation of the development of the earth from the Big Bang to the present day. You will need Flash Shockwave to view this animation.
The Middle School Earth Science Explorer is a site run for schools in the USA and contains some excellent information on the Earth Sciences, so goes beyond what you study in the minerals topic. There are pages on the dinosaurs, the water cycle and the rock cycle.
Science and Health
The BBC Health site has some excellent material about the working of the immune system in our bodies. The site goes through the details of the different types of white blood cells and how they attack invading pathogens. You may not find this site very easy to understand if you are just starting the topic.
The BBC Science in Action Web site is designed to run alongside the Science in Action Programmes on the TV. The site has an excellent section on Microbes with history sections and a game.
Key Stage 4 Modules
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The BBC Essential Guide to Rocks
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Connected to the TV Series of that name, the site contains information on the Rock Cycle and on the theory of Plate Tectonics
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Earth Materials
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Channel 4 Schools
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Channel 4 Schools produce excellent material on the TV, that can be videoed. This site follows those programs and also stands in its own right. There is lots of high quality scientific information with diagrams and interactive games that test your understanding. You may need Flash Shockwave to view some of the games.
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Electricity, Waves and Radiation
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My New School
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The My New School Site is solely aimed at chemistry topics. It focuses on areas of study like Electron Configuration and gives large amounts of easily accessible information together with pictures, diagrams and exercises to complete. For GCSE investigation coursework it also gives guidelines on how to complete chemistry coursework with full examples.
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Metals, Earth Materials, Structures and Bonding, Patterns of Chemical Change
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The Comic Book Periodic Table
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Despite its dodgy title, this site has some great material, most of it is just amusing, but some is quite scientific. What can you tell me about the ductility of Platinum?
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Metals, Structures and Bonding, Patterns of Chemical Change
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The Nine Planets
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Strictly an information site about the Solar System, but very well laid out and full of beautiful images
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Forces
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The Web elements Site
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This is the original interactive Periodic Table on the Internet. It contains a huge amount of information on the elements, their properties and reactions
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Metals, Structures and Bonding, Patterns of Chemical Change
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The Visual elements site
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Another Periodic Table site, laden with information. This table gives artists' interpretations of the elements
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Metals, Structures and Bonding, Patterns of Chemical Change
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The Magnetic Fields Site
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Really for A-Level Physics, but with lots of good stuff for the Key Stage 4 pupil looking to push ahead
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Electricity
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GENERAL SCIENCE SITES
Bad Science
The Bad Science Site is not something designed to make your life difficult, but contains information about a lot of common mis-interpretations of science and experiments - what they show and what they don't show. It sounds strange, but it's actually really useful.
History of Science and Scientists and Inventors
The BBC Scientists and Inventors site contains information and pictures of many of the great scientists you will meet in your study of science.
The Pictures of Famous Physicist site gives you a chance to see what all these famous scientists that you learn about in school actually looked like. You could use the pictures to put in your next Science project.
Home Experiments
The Home Experiments site has lots of experiments that you can do at home with the things you find in an average home. The site also includes the scientific background on the experiments. There are also some home experiments to be found on the St Angela's Science Department Site.
Inventions
The How Stuff Works Site has a title that more or less sums up the content. Check it out for information on how many everyday and not-so-everyday machines work.
The How Things Work Site is pretty similar.
Posters
Science on the Underground was a campaign run on the Tube a while ago. This site contains the posters that were displayed. They contain some quite difficult science.
Quiz Material
The Pub Understanding of Science site has lots of material for producing a science quiz or just for general knowledge.
Science is Fun
The Science if Fun in the Lab of Shakhashiri is a site run out of the USA. Check it out and decide for yourself.
REVISION
SATs and GCSE Revision
The BBC Bitesize Site is a revision campaign run alongside books and videos that can be taped from the TV. Many students find it to be very accessible and useful.
The Samlearning.com site (what does Samlearning stand for? I don't know!) is a very useful site for the revision of GCSEs, A-Levels and Key Stage tests at the end of KS3, 2 and 1.
The S-Cool site does not fit the typical idea of a revision site. It is packed full of useful revision tips, revision sections and self-tests. There are also discussion groups for people to post their questions or simply to get matters off their chests.
The Project GCSE site is a typical revision site with revision sections and exam questions for you to work through. Try it.
The GCSE.com site contains exactly what you would expect it to from its name. It is not the most visually amazing site to look at, but you better get used to that, as GCSE papers are hardly front of the queue for the new exhibition at the National Gallery.
PLACES TO VISIT
The Exploratory is an interactive Science Centre.
The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford has recently be completely refurbished and provides a huge resource of information about the History of science with many items of ancient scientific equipment.
The Science Museum or the National Museum of Science and Industry in London. For those who haven't been recently, there are many new galleries open, including the fantastic 'Wellcome Wing'. The Science Museum also runs the STEM Project on the Internet, of which St.Angela's is a part. Visit our contributions here.
Techniquest is an amazing interactive science centre in Cardiff.
 Click here to return to the Science Department homepage.
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