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What stores and transfers energy?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred from one store into another. In these pictures, which items do you think use energy? Which ones store energy? Do they all store/use the same type of energy? Cut them out and sort them into groups.
Understanding friction: Build your own balloon hovercraft
When a moving surface slides on a stationary surface it rubs against it, which slows it down. This is due to friction, a force which resists the movement of one object sliding past another. Understand more about friction with a fantastic practical project: make your own balloon hovercraft!
Super scientist quiz
Quiz questions to encourage your child to think about how scientists work and why they do the things they do.
Reaching conclusions
A worksheet showing results of an experiment with questions underneath to consider.
Predictions and conclusions: keeping healthy
A worksheet with predictions for an experiment into heart rates to test children on their investigative skills.
Key Stage 2 - 2009 Science SATs papers
This complete Science SATs papers pack will help your child to prepare for their science SATs test and assessments.
Micro-organisms: observing mould on food
A simple activity your child can carry out at home in order for them to see micro-organisms in the form of mould developing on different food types.
Observing forces – pushes and pulls
A fun worksheet that will help your child grasp the concept of forces.
Good and bad scientists
A list of statements for children to look through and decide which are true of good scientists.
Make simple predictions
This KS2 download will help your child to make simple comparisons and use first-hand experience to test predictions.
Thermal insulators and thermal conductors
A worksheet for children to cut out the names of different materials and then put them into the columns 'thermal insulator' and 'thermal conductor'.
Predictions and conclusions: life cycles
A worksheet showing the predictions and conclusions of an experiment into life cycles. Includes questions to encourage children to use their investigative skills.
Animals and their habitats
This worksheet encourages children to investigate why certain animals are adapted to their habitats.
Putting together a circuit
This worksheet encourages children to think about how they would carry out an experiment into circuits. It requires them to draw a diagram using the correct symbols.
Shadow spotting
This activity is a fantastic opportunity to introduce your child to the concept of light and dark.
Growing diary data
A worksheet showing results of an investigation into how different soils affect the growth of plants.
All about skeletons quiz
Quiz questions to prompt your child to think about what they know about skeletons.
Understanding food chains
Vocabulary related to food chains for children to cut out and then match to the correct definitions.
Proving that air exists
Activities for your child to do at home that will demonstrate the fact that air exists.
Can you separate solids from liquids?
This experiment helps children to understand that sometimes a solution of a solid and a liquid can be separated by evaporation.
Reversible and non-reversible changes
This experiment that you can do at home helps your child to understand the difference between a reversible change and a non-reversible change.
Understand how day and night occur
An ingenious experiment that will demonstrate how day and night occur in simple terms.
How are magnets used
A worksheet to encourage children to think about objects and whether they use magnets.
Circuits and conductors
A cutting out and re-ordering activity, where your child needs to match vocabulary on electricity with the correct definition.