The Brilliant Book of Science Wordsearches

The Brilliant Book of Science Wordsearches contains 80 science wordsearches, from cells and chemicals to dinosaurs, forces, weather and space. Each puzzle focuses on a different science topic, with words hidden forwards, backwards, vertically and diagonally. Some...

The Great Science Puzzle Book for Kids

I’ve written a new book. It’s a book of science-related puzzles called The Great Science Puzzle book. It comprises eighty puzzles for children who love science. This includes word searches full of planets, minibeasts and materials. Crosswords about bones, forces and...

150 Practical Activities for Primary Science

150 Practical Activity Ideas for Primary Science is packed with simple, engaging ideas to help bring science to life in the primary classroom. Whether you are looking for a quick activity to introduce a topic, an investigation to develop scientific thinking, or a...

The book saved from the cutting room floor

When I handed the first draft of Science Fix to my publisher, it was too long. Considerably too long. In fact, 30,000 words too long! That is a fairly ordinary problem for a first book, and the solution was the obvious one. Something had to go. What went was the...

Taking Primary Science Outside

Taking science outside does something that indoor lessons often can’t: it puts children in contact with things that are actually happening. A woodlouse under a log, a puddle evaporating after rain, a dandelion growing through a crack in the tarmac. These are not...

Make interactive Science Games with AI: 6 Prompts To Use

You are planning a lesson on a specific niche topic, perhaps the life cycle of a bean plant or the classification of local pond life, and you cannot find a high-quality interactive game that fits. You spend forty minutes scrolling through resource sites only to find...