Science Archives - Making English Fun

Free STEM Lessons: Making a Milk Rainbow

ByMaking English Fun! January 16, 2021January 16, 2021

Making a milk rainbow or milk firework simply requires a few drops of food coloring placed in milk and a drop of soap added to initiate the chemical reaction between them

The List of Animals You can type into Google That will show you AR and 3D versions on your Phone!

ByMaking English Fun! March 27, 2020March 14, 2021

A friend of mine just showed me this and its really cool and might help keep the children entertained at home during this time! I use AR in my lessons sometimes ( and VR) so i know how excited my students get when they see it.

Free Resource – Go noodle Learn English / Maths and More while dancing and Exercising !

ByMaking English Fun! March 21, 2020October 1, 2020

Go Noodle is an interactive video service with loads of subjects both curriculum and soft skills. The videos are superb! and really a break from the video lessons and on screen quizzes we seem to have been stuck with! my students love it!

FREE ENGLISH SUBJECT SUBSCRIPTIONS AND RESOURCES FROM EDUCATIONAL COMPANIES FOR SCHOOL CLOSURES BECAUSE OF COVID-19 (CORoNA VIRUS)

ByMaking English Fun! March 15, 2020November 7, 2020

The other lists is getting HUGE so i thought it might be time to start to catagorise them, the link on Amazing teaching resources has everything from Maths to Music the one below, and much easier for me to maintain! is the English Resources one. There are still absolutely loads of companies offering help at this difficult time.

FREE Educational Companies subscriptions and resources for the coronavirus (covid-19) School closures

ByMaking English Fun! March 13, 2020March 14, 2021

There have been more and more educational companies offering to either give free resources, or a months free subscriptions. So I will highlight the ones I am aware of here, with a BRIEF DESCRIPTION of what they do, (there are so many) it has to be brief as there are quite a few, and i expect a few more to appear in the coming weeks as more and more countries start to have to close kindergartens, schools and universities.

Home Schooling during the Novel Corona Virus.

ByMaking English Fun! February 15, 2020March 14, 2021

Well i am a teacher based in Hong Kong so we find ourselves under a defacto quarantine arrangement. I actually wrote this a couple of weeks ago and decided not to post it in the hope it would have all blown over. However students are now out of school until the 16th of March, and teachers are being asked to come up with online learning activities to try to bridge the gap.

Classroom Activities for Younger and ESL Students.

ByMaking English Fun! January 28, 2020November 7, 2020

Work gets in the way so it is just a quick update today, I put onto Facebook an Animal Domino’s activity and it took off! 10000 people downloaded it in just one day, so that gave me a big smile all day. I hope it was useful for you if you downloaded it.

Junior Science: Make a Floating Compass.

ByMaking English Fun! January 26, 2020November 7, 2020

emember seeing this on an old ( very old) English TV show called Why Don’t You, when i was a kid and running off to my mum sewing kit to try to take her needles. I tried to explain it to her that if ever we were lost i was learning how to save us. Luckily she let me go.

Review: Carlton Books Augmented Reality (AR) for Classroom

ByMaking English Fun! January 19, 2020April 23, 2021

Using AR ( Augmented Reality) in the Classroom is a amazing way to bring your lessons to life. These are some of the best options out there!

How to use Augmented Reality (AR) in the Classroom

ByMaking English Fun! January 18, 2020March 14, 2021

Using AR ( Augmented Reality) in the classroom can be an awesome experience. There are AR books, Apps, websites and ideas all designed for students, schools and classrooms. Here we show you some of the best!