Online Science Awards
Lift-Off With Ziggy
A sci-fi game developing primary pupils' problem-solving and thinking skills in science. This new, FREE interactive program is the fruition of primary teacher Matthew Revill's Online Science Award-winning idea.
Lift-Off With Ziggy is aimed at KS2, primarily 7-9 year olds, and contains learning activities about materials, rocks, magnets and space.
We are currently testing this resource with teachers and welcome any feedback. Please use the Contact page to give us your views.
The Insides Story
An interactive resource enabling KS3 students to observe the effects of an unhealthy lifestyle on the body.
This new, FREE interactive program is the fruition of secondary teacher Amy Harman's Online Science Award-winning idea.
The Insides Story is aimed at KS3, and contains learning material about the organs of the body and the risk of developing serious illnesses and diseases through poor lifestyle choices.
We are currently testing this resource with teachers and welcome any feedback. Please use the Contact page to give us your views.
Previous Winners - Primary
Anne Sweeney's award-winning entry was developed into Seeing and Hearing - an interactive CD-ROM with activities to involve children in selecting the correct names for illustrations, and in learning to identify and remember the sounds each of them makes. The program features: alarms, animals, birds, electrical appliances, musical instruments, people and traffic.
You can find more details about Seeing and Hearing in the Resources section, where you can also download a sample activity.
The Children's Olympics is the result of the winning idea from Judith Willis. Her idea, together with the ideas of runners-up, Lyndsey Gaughan and Joanne Brennand, was developed to form an interactive whiteboard teaching resource about friction and forces.
Find out more about The Children's Olympics in the Resources section.
Changing States - An Animated Mystery Tour is Darren Waters' winning idea for an interactive whiteboard program on materials and changing states.
It has been specifically designed for use on whiteboards for pupils studying materials and their properties at Sc3.
Reversible and non-reversible changes are featured in fun formats to put pleasure into learning.
Previous Winners - Secondary
Stop! is Jason Drewett-Gray's award-winning interactive program idea, and was the first winner in the Sellafield Ltd Whiteboard Awards for Secondary Teachers.
The program supports Applied Science and helps students to understand the concept of stopping distance in an emergency stop and that it consists of thinking distance and braking distance.
See the Resources section for more details about Stop!
Heat On The Move is Dave Payne's winning idea for an interactive program on heat transfer, and has been developed for use on whiteboards for pupils studying science at Key Stage 4.
It contains a simulation of an investigation into the three main mechanisms of heat transfer, conduction, convection and radiation.
Terms and conditions
As a condition of entry, all entrants undertake to allow Sellafield Ltd to develop their winning ideas into complete, stand alone, interactive whiteboard activities by professional, educational programmers.
The decision of the judges will be final and no correspondence will be entered into concerning submitted entries other than with the winner and runners-up.
Details of the award winners and their entries will be posted on this website.