I wanted to tweet out a thread for parents suddenly #homeschooling their kids with some of the amazing #science content that I’ve come across. If you have any other suggestions feel free to recommend them! Here we go… #homeschool #Homeschooling2020 #HomeschoolingUK
.@maddiemoate and @gregfoot are doing a daily live show for younger children. Every day at 11 AM, and all the episodes so far are here: letsgolive.show
.@Frans_facts and the amazing team at @Ri_Science (of Christmas Lectures fame!) will be doing ExpeRimental live every Thursday at 2 PM
For all you Scots out there (I’m sure non-Scots are welcome too!), Glasgow Science Centre @gsc1 are doing #GSCAtHome, ten minutes of science at 10 AM every day on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Want to learn physics through the medium of games? Activities using dice, @LEGO_Group or paper are available from @martinarcher @PhysicsatQM qmul.ac.uk/spa/outreach/i…
.@martinarcher and @PhysicsatQM also run secondary/sixth-form physics research projects with all resources at qmul.ac.uk/spa/researchin…
.@PhysicsNews has developed a set of early years activities designed to be easy to do with household items, explained by their resident cat and mouse, Marvin and Milo physics.org/marvinandmilo.…
.@SEPhysics’s workshops for Year 7 upwards are free to access at sepnet.ac.uk/outreach/schoo…
Chat with Jo, an actual real-life planetary scientist!
Or, if you don’t want to chat with Jo (and why not?!) other astronomers are available
Lots of physics/astronomy stuff out there! En anglais ou en français:
And more for the multilingual among us, this time in Polish!
And @ScienceMagician has you covered for (no prizes for guessing) science magic! Sign up for science tricks with accompanying videos and PDFs to print out: subscribepage.com/q4b2d1
Here’s a suggestion for those of you who are awake while I’m asleep!
.@martyjopson is looking at all manner of very small things using his microscopes! #microminute is live at 12:30 on Mon, Wed and Fri. Website coming soon, but for now it’s on his Twitter, rather like this:
The @cosmicshambles team are doing a daily #shamblesstayathomefest which includes science Q&As which are kid-friendly, and will be doing their first children’s show this weekend!
Want a bit of adventure with your science? @huwmjames and the @anturus team have FIFTY HOURS of outdoorsy science experiments at anturus.org/experiment/ with more #homeschooling-specific stuff on the way!
Do you like music and jokes? @jonnyberliner can do both at the same time with a dash of science thrown in!
Another one! @mrbarnestc (where Mr Barnes, a chemistry teacher, tc—can you guess?—teaches chemistry!) A website of resources for GCSE chemistry students: mrbarnestc.com
An online museum which looks worth a visit
I am glad @SincyScience put a comma where he did in this sentence! Check out his YT and Twitter for some things to try at home, and some things to DEFINITELY NOT TRY AT HOME :)
The senses in six weeks, in an online science club for 7–11 year olds. Fancy that? Sign up with @GinnyFBSmith here:
Want to do some #ScienceFromHome? There’s a hashtag for that!
And free resources from @whizzpopbangmag for experiments you can do at home!
Biologist @sallylepage is doing Evolution Live—a livestreaming course all about evolution, every Thursday at 4pm UK time! It starts at the very basics and builds up so it’s great for secondary school kids and adults. Check out her YT channel: youtube.com/channel/UC9AUe…
How did I not think of this?! @OpenUniversity are pros, they’ve been distance-teaching since before it was cool. Great suggestion!
Another great suggestion! In an unprecedented second shout-out in the same thread, the awesome @Ri_Science have you covered again:
