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About School Science Lessons

School Science Lessons is a database of primary and junior secondary science and agriculture lessons and topics for the interest of teachers, and is free to download for educational purposes.

The database contains school science experiments and investigations in physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, weather studies, agriculture projects for primary and secondary schools; and sexuality education and drugs education. It is based on a revision, updating and expansion of the "New UNESCO source book for science teaching", 1979 edition, UNESCO, Paris. It contains experiments from the "low cost" science teaching movement, simplified versions of classical experiments, experiments using locally available substances and kitchen chemicals, and environmental science. Some experiments anticipate experiments usually done in senior high school or college classes. The experiments should be "student-friendly" and "teacher-friendly" because there is no overwhelming technology. Enough theoretical background is included to remind teachers of the theoretical context of the experiment. Every experiment is based on materials listed in a modern commercial catalogue of chemicals and equipment for use by educational institutions. The procedures and safety standards are consistent with instructions issued by Education Queensland (Ministry of Education), State of Queensland, Australia.

Experiments described in these lessons are for use by teachers in properly supervised settings — please read the safety notice.

The website is available in two versions:

The graphical website (this site) is generated automatically from the HTML website, and refreshes shortly after any change there. If anything looks wrong here, every page links back to its original version — via the "Last updated" line at the top and a note at the bottom of each page.