HiddenScience teaching guides
Guides for teachers and parents on explaining science to children: true diagrams, phase changes, a real-scale Solar System, fair tests and recall.
Guides
How to teach Earth systems with simple diagrams (ages 8-12)
Teach the water cycle, food webs and weather versus climate with diagrams that tell the truth: pools and fluxes, reading arrows, a water budget, mix-ups.
6 min readHow to explain phase changes and latent heat to children
Teach melting, boiling, sublimation and the heating curve with the particle model, and work out how much energy water needs, using values from NIST.
6 min readHow to make a scale model of the Solar System
Build a true-scale Solar System with the Sun as a 10 cm ball: sizes and distances worked out from NASA fact sheets, a walking route, and why pictures cheat
6 min readHow to teach fair tests and variables to children
Teach children to change one thing, keep the rest the same and repeat: variables, a ball-on-a-ramp example with means and ranges, and what research says.
6 min readRetrieval practice and spaced review for children's science
What research says about testing yourself and spacing practice over days, how to use short audio lessons with recall pauses, and a replay plan to try.
6 min readHow to use icons in worksheets and slides so they stay clear
Small science icons help study materials when they are few, legible and purposeful: size tests, contrast, alt text, PNG or SVG, and what research says.
6 min readA visually coordinated collection explaining planets, moons, orbits, eclipses and the scale of our Solar System
The Solar System Field Guide has 10 astronomy charts, from the Sun to a scale model with the Sun as a 10 cm ball, each stating what is to scale, with NASA-based facts, a source register and an 8-page educator guide. €15 once; digital download only.