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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.
Circuits and conductors true or false
A list of statements on circuits and conductors that children need to think about and then sort into the 'true' and 'false' boxes.
Using different sources to answer questions
A worksheet with prompts to encourage children to research different aspects of the topics they cover over the course of Year 5.
Refuting a hypothesis
This worksheet requires children to give ways of proving that sound can travel through solids and then try out their ideas.
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.
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.
Investigating what bodies can do
Help your child learn about the human body and what it can do with this great worksheet.
Build a metal detector and learn about magnetism
Extend your child's understanding of magnetism by helping them build a metal detector.
Morning and evening routines
A prompt to discuss with your child what they usually do in the morning and evening. Encourage them to write and / or draw to record this.
Heating and cooling
An investigation to determine what happens when you heat and then cool down different foods. Children are then encouraged to record their results.
Plan a scientific investigation
This worksheet encourages children to read through a plan of an investigation and decide where the problems might be.
Circuits quiz
A list of quiz questions for children to test their knowledge of circuits.
Using information sources
A worksheet with spaces for children to research skeletons using various sources.
Repeating experiments
This worksheet shows the results of somebody who has measured their heart rate. It gives questions to prompt children to use their investigative skills.
Conductors and insulators
Use this worksheet to discuss conductors and insulators with your child. See if they can work out which materials will make the bulb light up and why.
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.
Know your body and its parts
This activity is a fun way to help your child to learn about the human body and its parts.
Gravity explained
Deepen your child's understanding of gravity and offer an opportunity to illustrate that understanding.
Nocturnal and diurnal animals
A worksheet to prompt the discussion of which animals are awake during the day (diurnal) and which are awake during the night (nocturnal).
How an electrical circuit works
A worksheet designed to illustrate the fact that a circuit must be complete for electricity to flow and a bulb to work.