Unique Science and Design Technology resources for Early Years, Primary and Secondary education.
Focus Educational Software is a leading UK publisher of interactive Design Technology, Science and Bee-Bot software. Our Science and Design Technology online resources are compatible with Windows, Mac, iPad & Android tablets.
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The Focus on Science online resource pack includes the complete suite of Focus Science titles. Designed by UK teachers to compliment teaching of 12-18 age range Science and compatible with Windows, Mac, iPad, Android and Chromebooks. One fantastic price includes unlimited access at school and home to:
• NEW: Biology GCSE Required Practicals
• NEW: Chemistry GCSE Required Practicals
• NEW: Physics GCSE Required Practicals
• NEW: Science Images
• Essential Physics GCSE
• Essential Physics Key Stage 3
• Science Video Libraries
• Essential Chemistry
• Essential Biology
• Science Investigations 1
• Science Investigations 2
• Essential Physics
• Physics: Fields
• Physics: Waves
• Energy Use & Environment
• Modern Physics
• Science Revision Flashcards
Improve your students grades by providing them with high quality resources that they can access on their tablets and computers both in school and at home!
SAVE £30 by purchasing a two year site licence for just £169.95.
Multi-Academy Trusts: contact us for a quote to cover all school in your MAT.
A thoughtfully designed resource providing a unique and easy-to-understand insight into the exciting world of 21st Century materials, their development, use, and potential.
Focus on Smart, Modern & Composite Materials will help your students get to grips with this complicated and often misunderstood area of Design Technology.
Designed to fit in with well with AQA, Edexcel, OCR, SQA and WJEC specifications.
This online title can be purchased on it's own and is also included in the Focus Design Technology online resource pack.
A collection of interactive Required Practical simulations designed to support the teaching of the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC & WJEC Eduqas GCSE specifications.
Focus on Required Practicals includes separate sets of simulations for each examination board for Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
"These are an amazing addition to the site. Please carry on with the good work. We are so happy that you cover WJEC as well" David Williams, Science Teacher.
Best value: This resource can be purchased as part of the Focus Online Science Resource Pack.
Essential Biology is a unique collection of more than 60 interactive topics and experiments suitable for GCSE and KS3 level Biology. Main topic areas:
• Cells and Specialised Cells
• Movement of Substances
• Enzymes in Digestion
• Respiratory System
• Circulatory System
• Reproduction, Variation and Inheritance
• Excretion and the Kidney
• Homeostasis
• Nervous System
• Immune System
• Plants
• Interdependence
• Interactive Activities
Essential Chemistry is a brand new unique collection of more than 60 simulations, interactive topics and experiments suitable for GCSE and KS3 level Chemistry. Main topic areas:
• Properties of Matter
• Atoms and Elements
• Compounds
• Structure and Bonding
• Periodic Table
• Chemical Analysis
• Acids, Bases and Salts
• Electrolysis
• Extraction of Metals
• Rates of Reaction
• Energy Changes in Reactions
• Organic Chemistry
• Interactive Activities
Never lose track of those useful DT related Youtube, Vimeo and Facebook video clips ever again.
Our plan, with your help, is to build the most
comprehensive collection of DT themed video clips ever assembled.
When you come across a clip, simply copy and paste its web address into your custom library editing tool, add it to a topic category, and save. Then you and your students will always be able to find it. What’s more, you can see and add entries of other teachers to your library - making it truly collaborative.
... and if it’s not there you can add it!
The Focus DT Video Clip Library is only £24 per year for unlimited use or it can be purchased as part of the online Focus DT Resource Pack.
The Focus Design Technology online resource pack includes the complete suite of Focus DT titles. Designed to compliment teaching of the new DT specifications and compatible with Windows, Chromebooks, Mac, iPad and Android. One fantastic price includes unlimited access at school and home to:
• New: Focus on New & Emerging Technologies
• New: Focus on Surface Treatments & Finishes
• New: Focus 2D Vector Graphics Designer
• Focus on Smart, Modern & Composite Materials
• Design Technology Library of Video Clips
• DT Materials Database
• KD Fittings & Flatpack Furniture
• Focus on Product Analysis
• Focus on Metals
• Focus on plastics
• Focus on Mechanisms
• Focus on Graphic Products
• Focus on Wood Joints
• Focus on Energy Use & Environment
• Focus on Mechanical Toys
• Focus on the Food Industry
• Focus on Fairground Rides
• Focus on KS1 Design Technology
Improve your students grades by providing them with high quality resources that they can access on their tablets and computers both in school and at home!
SAVE £30 by purchasing a two year site licence for just £169.95.
Multi-Academy Trusts: contact us for a quote to cover all school in your MAT.
The perfect program for teaching Key Stage 1 Computing. Finalist in the 2015 BETT Awards.
25 BRAND NEW MATS AND ACTIVITIES
Focus on Bee-Bot 3 is a BRAND NEW cross-curricular interactive program based on the popular Bee-Bot programmable floor robot. The resource is an excellent starting point for teaching control, directional language and simple programming to young children. It is suitable for both individual study and whole class whiteboard teaching.
Program Features
The software includes a range of activities for 25 brand new Bee-Bot cross-curricular activity mats including Minibeasts, New & Old Toys and People Who Help Us. Challenges are solved by programming sequences of moves on-screen with feed-back given
at the end of each task.
Children create their own on-screen activity mats and build and save 3D Bee-Bot worlds. The program can be personalised by each user creating fabulous Bee-Bot shells on-screen. This encourages the development of image manipulation skills and can be linked to practical activities, such as printing and cutting out the designs for use as Bee-Bot jackets.
FREE On-Screen Maps of the World
Included with Bee-Bot Lesson Activities 3 is a free bonus pack of 24 on-screen country maps and regions.