We produce educational publications for general use in the home, for home educators and schools. Our publications are sold as wirebound books, or as CD’s. The CD’s can be printed and made into books from your own computer – all CD’s include a cover page, contents pages and full text with illustrations.
Please find a complete listing of the educational material that I have been involved with over the years and that are available for purchase through this site. Please make your selection from the pulications or CD's below.
A Home for a Pet – Structures 1.
Peter Sellwood
(illustration – Dog in kennel)
This is the first publication in the Building Structures collection of three. This publication explains that structures are all around us, some, like mountains, hills, and rocks have been here for a very long time. Others, like bird's nests, termite mounds, and rabbit burrows, have been made by animals to provide protection. This book also looks at human-made structures and students are provided with tasks to find out how materials can be constructed into strong shapes. Students make a structure for a chosen pet as a challenge.
Key Stage 1 (UK) Published 1 May 2005 Usually dispatched within 14 working days
Price £12.50
Exploring Containers and Packages – Structures 2
Peter Sellwood
(illustration – Pink dog wrapped as parcel with jug etc)
In this publication young students find out about packaging by observation and investigation. They find out that almost everything we buy comes in a package, whether it is seeds to plant in the garden, chocolates for an aunt's birthday, or a fridge; they are all packaged. They find out how packages protect the contents by keeping it dry, protecting it from damage, and keeping out insects. Packages are shaped to match the shape of the contents and decorated using designs and lettering. Students make containers out of patterns and find out about volume and capacity.
Key Stage 1 (UK) Published 1 May 2005
Price £12.50
Exploring Roads, Tracks, and Pathways – Structures 3.
Peter Sellwood
(illustration – first on website cars racing through yellow landscape)
This publication is about roads, tracks and pathways and explores ways of getting from one place to another. It provides tasks and challenges that help young students to learn about how objects move along on different surfaces, and how gravity acts on rolling objects. It explores direction, distance and time. Activities are fun and student progress is recorded in a portfolio.
Key Stage 1 (UK) Published 1 May 2005
Price £12.50
Finding out about Electricity
Peter Sellwood
(illustration of simple electro-magnet)
Electricity is a major source of energy in the modern world. This comprehensive CD covers its history as an energy source, providing heat, light, sound and movement. It demonstrates how electricity can be generated through chemical reaction, how it can be stored in batteries, and how it can be put to use through electrical circuits. This publication provides a number of well structured experiments, tasks, and challenges to help students gain a broad understanding of electricity. The CD includes a portfolio for students to record their experiments.
Key Stages 1 & 2 (UK)
Price £15.00
Finding out about Static Electricity
Peter Sellwood
(illustration – Girl with wild hair)
Static electricity has been around since the very beginning of time, even our Stone Age predecessors knew of its existence - but they didn't call it that. They only knew it in its most violent form, thunder and lightning. Static electricity is an electric charge that becomes isolated, lightning is caused by a massive build-up of electricity that is looking for a pathways to the earth. In its less frightening form it can be generated by rubbing an inflated balloon on a woolen surface. The balloon becomes charged and will appear to be stuck to a wall while is charged with static electricity. There are many activities and experiments in this book.
Key Stage 1/2 (UK) Published 1 May 2005
Price £12.50
Finding out about Magnetism
Peter Sellwood
(illustration – magnetic field)
Magnets are always interesting to young students. Toy shops usually sell them and many students have one from an early age. Most young students will already know that magnets attract metal objects before their school days begin. This CD provides information and fun challenges. Students find out that magnets have two poles, a North-seeking pole and a South-seeking pole. When suspended, they will align themselves with one end pointing North, and the other South. They see uses for this when studying how a compass works.
Key Stage 1/2 (UK) Published 1 May 2005
Price £12.50
Travelling Through Air
Peter Sellwood
(illustration – Kites)
This book contains a wealth of activities. Students explore air pressure and its effect upon falling objects. They explore the principles of how parachutes and kites work, find out about compressed air, and investigate a chosen theme in aviation. The book contains a short history of aviation, a resource collection of 30 photographs for display and student resources, and student portfolios for all four units of work.
Key Stage 1/2 (UK) Grades K-8 (USA). Published 1 May 2005
Price £20.00
Building Structures
Peter Sellwood
(illustration – Suspension Bridges)
This CD contains activities that encourage students to explore and find out about beams, cantilevers, suspension bridges, and arch structures. Students learn about the properties of materials and the forces that act upon them. There is a student portfolio, resource photographs, teacher's notes, and a short history of materials and structures.
Key Stage 1/2 (UK) Published 1 May 2005
Usually dispatched within 14 working days
Wire-bound book Copy: Price £20.00
A Short History of Materials and Structures
Peter Sellwood
(illustration – waterwheel)
This publication traces the development of humans ability to fashion materials into necessary structures. The CD describes this development from the early use of wood, stone and clay, through bronze, iron and concrete. The CD is fully illustrated and contains a wide range of picture resources that demonstrate the development of structures from the pyramids to modern skyscrapers. The CD contains at least twenty photographs and illustrations for classroom display.
Key Stage 1/2 (UK) Published 1 May 2005
Price £12.50
A Short History of Aviation
Peter Sellwood
(Wright Brother first Flight)
This book explores the development of flight from its beginnings in mythology, through the experiments of Leonardo Da Vinci, to the experiments with hot air ballooning in the eighteenth century, and the Wright brothers first powered flight. It contains a number of interesting facts and there are over twenty photographs and illustrations that can be printed out and used for classroom display.
Key Stage 1/2 (UK) Published 1 May 2005
Price £12.50
Finding out about Air
Peter Sellwood
(illustration – thistle down blowing in the wind)
This book introduces young children to air and how it is all around us. They learn to 'feel' air, find out how something floats on air, and experiment with materials and shapes that will float on currents of air. Students observe natural objects that use air to travel to other places and experiment with materials to find shapes that float on air.
Key Stage 1 (UK) Published 1 May 2005
Price £12.50
Finding out about Flight
Peter Sellwood
(illustration – Model planes)
This CD involves young students in investigations about how and why some things fly and other things don't. Students are provided with tasks, explorations and challenges that bring about an understanding of flight. They use a range of easily accessable materials in a number of experiments prior to making a glider as there main challenge.
Key Stage 1 (UK)Published 1 May 2005
Price £12.50
Finding out about Hot Air
Peter Sellwood
(illustration – Hot Air Balloon)
This valuable book is full of interesting activities and experiments that show how warm air rises. They experiment with ways of detecting warm air currents and develop an understanding of how hot air balloons fly. Students will thoroughly enjoy the activities provided for them.
Key Stage 1 (UK) Published 1 May 2005
Wire-bound book Copy: Price £12.50
Finding Out About Pop-ups
Peter Sellwood
(attached to next e-mail)
This book introduces students to the world of Pop-ups. Pop-ups are a lot of fun and will provide good learning opportunities in math and science, as well as technology and art. Pop-ups engage students in measuring, geometry, cutting and folding and require good ideas, creative thinking and imagination.
Key Stage 1/2 (UK) Published 1 May 2005
Wire-bound book Copy: Price £20.00p
Understanding Children's Development Through Art
Peter Sellwood
This book demonstrates the importance of art in the development of young children. It is full of children’s drawings and describes the stages children go through in the early years. An invaluable book for both teacher and parent.
