Investigative skills worksheets
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.
Identify the loudest sound
A fabulous game to encourage discussion and develop your child's reasoning skills whilst learning more about sounds.
Designing for a purpose
Let your child use their imagination to create a camouflage outfit, helping them explore ideas about designing for a purpose.
Plan a scientific investigation
This worksheet encourages children to read through a plan of an investigation and decide where the problems might be.
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.
Identify the parts of a plant
This Year 1 science worksheet is all about plants and their different parts and offers you the opportunity to discuss how plants grow with your child.
Experimenting with forces
Develop your child's understanding of forces with an experiment to demonstrate the workings of a jet engine whilst encouraging scientific discussion.
Step-by-step investigation
Use this worksheet to help your child plan an investigation into the amount of light different materials will allow through.
Test a hypothesis
A hypothesis about the game noughts and crosses which prompts children to find their own method to prove or disprove the initial statement.
Illustrate a plant's life cycle
Your child will learn all about the life cycle of a plant and what plants need to grow with this fun worksheet.
Draw a route map
This worksheet encourages your child to think about and draw the journey they take to school with sense of 'aerial perspective'.
Super scientist quiz
Quiz questions to encourage your child to think about how scientists work and why they do the things they do.
Develop questioning skills - traffic survey
A worksheet to prompt children to carry out their own traffic survey and consider the answers collected.
Investigating and comparing materials
Develop your child's understanding of materials and their different properties.
Starting to collect data
Encourage your child to ask people about their favourite toys and record the information on this simple table.
Using scientific equipment
Use this worksheet to help your child plan an investigation into rock permeability.
Dissolving solids and temperature experiment
This experiment helps children to think about how to methodically carry out an investigation and then draw conclusions about temperature and dissolving from the results.
Investigating what bodies can do
Help your child learn about the human body and what it can do with this great worksheet.
Design your own forces investigation
A worksheet to prompt children into carrying out an investigation into the force exerted by water on different objects.
Learning about living things: using a microscope
The complexity of nature is studied in intricate detail using a digital microscope in this fascinating science activity for EYFS and KS1 children.
It is aimed at Key Stage 1 and EYFS pupils and should be done with a parent or carer.
It is aimed at Key Stage 1 and EYFS pupils and should be done with a parent or carer.