Primary Early Career Teacher Resources

Welcome to ASE's Primary Early Career Teacher Resources page. This page has been curated by our Primary Committee to highlight key resources from our longer Primary Resources Hub, that should be particularly useful in your early years of teaching.

Curriculum linked

Primary Science Assessment (PLAN)

The PLAN primary science assessment resources – www.planassessment.com – have been produced to help schools plan and assess effectively the science National Curriculum (England).

Primary Remote Learning Resources

These curriculum-led resources have been designed to help deliver a structured series of topic-based primary science lessons in a home environment, but can easily be adapted for the primary classroom.

Mary Anning - A fossil hunters story

Teaching and learning resources, and professional learning strategies, for teachers of children aged 9-11 years to support their knowledge and understanding of the big ideas of fossils and evolution, the nature of scientific enquiry and the strengths and limitations of scientific knowledge.

Guidance

Primary Science Skills

Primary Science Skills and How to Teach Them: Getting to grips with scientific enquiry is a new, member-only, resource based on the AKSIS project collaboration between the ASE and King's College London...

Primary link directory

A selection of education resource links - originally collated to support home learning - curated by the ASE's Primary Committee.

ASE Best Practice Guidance documents

This series of best practice documents - collated by the ASE's Education Committee - brings together important advice on key aspects of the teaching science. 

General science classroom resources

Primary Science Swap Shop Collection

Explore the collection of Science Swap Shop activities featured in previous issues of Primary Science, now available as downloadable PDFs in one easy-to-navigate place.

Primary upd8

Primary upd8 is an archive series of engaging science activities for 5-11 year olds. Produced some years ago but many topics remain timeless

ASE digital CPD sessions

This collection of videos features recordings of online webinars and sessions aiming to help primary teachers improve pedagogy.

Why you'll never catch smallpox

Use this award-winning resource to transport your pupils back to a time when smallpox stalked the world and introduce them to Dr Jenner, James Phipps, and the experiment that might well have saved their lives...

Outdoor learning

ASE is committed to promoting outdoor learning as an effective and inspirational way to teach science. We have curated articles from ASE journals covering key aspects of outdoor learning and fieldwork.