Investigative skills worksheets
Understanding light and dark
A worksheet designed to help your child investigate and understand light and dark.
Time to investigate floating
An opportunity for your child to design their own investigation to find out which materials float.
Experimenting with pitch
Suggestions for activities to try at home to help your child investigate factors that affect pitch.
Understand sound and hearing
Your child will have tons of fun doing this experiment whilst learning all about sound and hearing.
Which is the best insulator?
An experiment for children to do at home, which will illustrate the meaning of insulation.
Make a bottle instrument
An activity to encourage children to think about how the amount of air in an instrument affects the pitch it makes.
What material is it made of?
Your child will develop their knowledge of materials and their properties with this fun to do worksheet.
Comparing data
A worksheet showing results of an experiment into soil permeability with questions for children to answer.
Predictions and conclusions: changing state
A worksheet describing a prediction regarding changing state with questions for children to think about, using their investigative skills.
Be a scientist
This activity will develop your child's imagination and design skills.
What plants need to grow
An experiment that combines having fun with learning all about what plants need to grow.
Good and bad scientists
A list of statements for children to look through and decide which are true of good scientists.
Predictions and conclusions: keeping healthy
A worksheet with predictions for an experiment into heart rates to test children on their investigative skills.