BP Educational Service (BPES)

Popular resources for KS1 & KS2

The BP Educational Service (BPES) offers a wide range of free engaging primary Science, Geography and Design and Technology resources for 4 to 11 year olds.

Teachers can register, which is quick, easy and free, and then access free videos, animations, interactive activities, presentations and activity sheets.

All of these are YSI: Popular resources for 7 to 9 year olds include YSI: Exciting Energy, YSI: Super Science and YSI: Cool Creations. The YSI: Project Kit also offers free posters and stickers for teachers to order.

New for 2012/13 is a set of resources aimed at older and younger pupils:

Stepping into Science brings the topics of electricity, forces and materials to life for pupils aged 4 to 7. A range of flexible multimedia resources support each topic, including:

• fun videos in which a presenter demonstrates a simple fair test
• an entertaining animation introducing the topic
• cross-curricular worksheets
• a picture slideshow to spark discussion
• guidance notes that can be sent home to help parents’ support their child’s scientific interest
• teacher notes with curriculum links.

InvestiGATE has been created for 9 to 11s, who will soon be making the transition to secondary school.

In a series of four short videos, two young presenters explore:

• why science is important and what scientists do
• how to plan a fair test
• obtaining and presenting evidence
• considering and evaluating evidence.

Quick quizzes are supplied to test understanding, plus generic planning and recording sheets so that pupils can put what they’ve learnt into practice when they complete their own experiments.

These resources can be used when the class is undertaking any experiment, or they can be used in conjunction with the range of primary resources supplied by BPES, including our fun photo story topic starters and experiment ideas

You can find all these free resources and more at bpes.bp.com