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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.
Year 6 worksheets taster pack
Find out what your child will learn in Year 6 English, maths and science, try out a few learning activities and read our top tips about how to support their learning and development in our free, downloadable Year 6 Taster Pack.
Year 5 worksheets taster pack
Find out what your child will learn in Year 5 English, maths and science, try out a few learning activities and read our top tips about how to support their learning and development in our free, downloadable Year 5 Taster Pack.
Year 4 worksheets taster pack
Find out what your child will learn in Year 4 English, maths and science, try out a few learning activities and read our top tips about how to support their learning and development in our free, downloadable Year 4 Taster Pack.
Year 3 worksheets taster pack
Find out what your child will learn in Year 3 English, maths and science, try out a few learning activities and read our top tips about how to support their learning and development in our free, downloadable Year 3 Taster Pack.
Understand the Earth's movements
An investigation and activity sheet to help Y5 children consolidate their knowledge about the Earth and how it moves in space.
Shadow investigation
A Year 5 science investigation into shadows and what they can tell us about the position of the Sun in the sky.
Learning about the moon
Find out about the Earth's moon and then answer some true-or-false questions in this Year 5 science worksheet.
The life cycle of a plant
A life cycle is the different stages of life for a living thing. Fill in a circular life cycle diagram to show you understand how a plant's life cycle works.
Gases all around us
Gases are all around us, but they can be hard to spot! Help your child work through this investigation into the gases we can see and what they're used for.
Repeating experiments: changing sounds
A practical investigation into pitch and how sounds change in different conditions.
KS2 Easter activities pack
Get ready for some egg-y, chocolate-y, Easter-y fun! The KS2 Easter activities pack has plenty of themed maths, English and science learning opportunities to keep kids busy and learning over the spring break.
Festive fun activities for KS2
With Christmas lists to write, present-delivery schedules to work out, Grotto problems to solve and light and dark experiments to try this bumper pack of festive learning activities will keep your child engaged over the Christmas break.
Make your own skeleton puppet
Cut along the dashed lines and assemble the skeleton. Use string and sticky tape to connect the bones, then hang the puppet pieces from a hanger
What do fossils tell us about the past?
A fossil is the remains or the impression of a prehistoric animal which has been left embedded in rock. Fossils can tell us lots of things about the past. Have a look at this image and see if you can answer the following questions.
Vertebrate or invertebrate?
Can you identify which of these are vertebrate and which are invertebrates?
Understanding puberty
In order to be able to have children, our bodies need to go through changes. Puberty is a big change that occurs in girls and boys roughly between the ages of 11 and 14. Read this text a few times. Now cover it over and see if you can remember four changes for girls and four changes for boys
The life cycle of an owl
Can you cut out these cards and arrange them in the correct order on the life cycles frame?
The life cycle of a sunflower
Can you cut out these cards and arrange them in the correct order on the life cycles frame?
The life cycle of a bee
Can you cut out these cards and arrange them in the correct order on the life cycles frame on the next page?
The human life cycle
Can you cut out these cards and arrange them in the correct order on the life cycles frame?