Easiteach Science is available as an upgrade that can be added to an existing Easiteach Studio installation.

Easiteach Science tools are designed specifically to support the teaching of Science in a whole class or group teaching environment and with both Primary and Secondary age pupils. Many of the tools are also useful on desktop computers and can help with the preparation of Science teaching materials.

The tools provide facilities such as links to digital cameras and microscopes (for example, the Intel QX3), and additional tools such as digital measuring devices designed to work with captured images. This means that microscope slides can be displayed for the whole class, or an experiment on the teacher’s desk could be viewed by a low-cost webcam and displayed for the whole class to see. Images captured from these devices can then be displayed and annotated perhaps as a record of an experiment, all within Easiteach.

Other tools within Easiteach Science include a drawing facility to create concept maps, web diagrams, lifecycles and food chains based on science clipart or on a variety of box shapes, plus a branching database facility, access to a range of scientific symbols, timers and stopwatches plus an extended calculator.

Science content pack
The Easiteach Science Content Pack includes 18 animated simulations, over 40 whole-class teaching activities, 40 investigations, 60 Concept Cartoons and 12 video clips all with accompanying teaching notes, as well as Science clipart.

The content is focused on aspects of the science curriculum that are harder to teach or harder for pupils to visualise and understand. All the materials work within the Easiteach environment and can be annotated, adapted and extended by teachers. The simulations and video clips can all be controlled so that teachers can adapt and use them at their own pace.

Examples of the simulations are heartbeat, respiration and blood flow, plant lifecycles, wind resistance and friction, shadows, and Earth, Sun and Moon. Most simulations allow your pupils to vary different elements of each scenario and then witness the impact of those changes on the scenario.

The whole-class teaching activities are spread across the full range of Primary levels; from sinking and floating to reversible changes, from sorting and using materials to micro-organisms.

The video clips include melting solder, burning paper, a wind turbine and a car exhaust, demonstrating a variety of chemical processes at work in the world around us.