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Important update from TheSchoolRun
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Ks1 worksheets
Free worksheets: Science, KS1, Y2
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Investigating animal homes
Think about all the ways our houses protect us. Now think about animals or bugs living in your garden or house. Where do animals and bugs like to live? Draw a picture and/or write the name of their home. Cut out all the cards and make two piles, one for creature cards and one for house cards; mix them up. Pick one card from each pile. Would a mouse like to live in a fish pond? Would a frog like to live in a bee hive? Why?
Bird watch
Have a look at the different trees in your neighbourhood and find one birds like to land in. Why might the birds have chosen that tree? Does it have a nest in? Then draw a picture of the tree and label your picture with all the reasons why you think this is a good tree for birds to nest in.
What is good food?
A cutting and sticking activity to help children understand which foods belong to which group.
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.
Learn to use connectives
Look at these connectives in this box. Which ones could you use in the sentences below? You might find that more than one connective could work in each sentence.
Full stop or exclamation mark?
We use exclamation marks when something is funny or scary or if we are shouting. Look at these sentences. Which ones need full stops and which need exclamation marks?
Compound words
A compound word is a long word made up of two short words. The blue words in the left-hand column go first; the orange words in the right-hand column go second. Cut out the words and see if you can match them up correctly.
Choose the correct punctuation mark
Should these sentences end in a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark? Choose the correct punctuation mark for each one, and don’t forget to add in capital letters if they’re missing!
Choose 'oa', 'oe' or 'ow' (Phase 5 phonics)
All these words have the /oa/ sound in them, but some are spelled with the digraph 'oa', others with 'oe' or 'ow' or 'o_e'. Can you cut out the words and stick them into the right columns in the table?
Choose 'ai', 'ay' or 'a_e' (Phase 5 phonics)
All of these words have the same /ai/ sound in them, but some are spelled with the digraph 'ai', others with 'ay' or the split digraph 'a_e'. Can you cut out the words and stick them into the right columns in the table?
Capital letters and punctuation marks: mark the passage
A Year 2 printable worksheet created by a primary school teacher to help your child with capital letters and punctuation marks.
Read this paragraph and add in the capital letters, full stops, commas, exclamation marks and question marks where you think they should go
Read this paragraph and add in the capital letters, full stops, commas, exclamation marks and question marks where you think they should go
Why do our bodies need exercise?
Whenever you or any member of your family or friends do some exercise, carry out a survey to find out how they felt. Use the table to record your findings. Look at the results of your table. What do you notice?
Which material for which job?
Some materials are more suitable for particular jobs than others. Look at these pictures and decide which of the materials could be used for each job. Which ones would not be suitable at all?
Using medicines safely
Look at the labels on the bottles and pills in your medicine cabinet with your mum or dad. Can you answer these questions about them?
Understanding temperature game
Look at these pictures. Can you identify what each item is? Which ones generate heat? Which ones don’t? Can you cut them out and sort them into two groups?
Sorting minibeasts
In maths we often use Carroll diagrams to help us sort numbers. These are also helpful in science when we need to classify and sort different plants and animals. Look at these pictures of different insects.
Can you sort them using the Carroll diagram?
Can you sort them using the Carroll diagram?
Sorting materials according to material properties
We can sort objects into groups on the basis of simple material properties: roughness, hardness, shininess, ability to float, transparency and whether they are magnetic or non-magnetic. Collect some of these materials and try different ways of sorting them. Can you make a physical pictogram to show how you’ve sorted things?
Sinking and floating investigation
Look at these pictures. Can you identify the objects? Which ones do you think will float in water? Which ones will sink? Why? Ask a parent if there any that you can test.
Recognise and name common materials
Cut out the cards below. Each player chooses one material card; the other players need to ask questions to help them guess what it is.
Materials: would it work?
We choose different materials for different jobs. Think about the objects below and what might happen if this material was used to make them. Record your answers.
Materials linking game
This game is designed to help you revise the key properties of different materials. Cut out the cards below. Each card has one material or one material property on it. Can you match all the cards together to make a chain, dominoes-style? How long a chain can you make?
Materials in your home
Draw a picture of your house and then go round with a clipboard and identify which materials you can see and label them on your picture.
Manufacturing materials
The shapes of objects made from some materials can be changed by some processes, including squashing, bending, twisting and stretching. Gather a selection of materials from home. Make sure that each object is made from a different material. List the object and the material in the table, then have a go at changing the object’s shape and note on your table what happens.Now have a go at making a glove.
Living or non-living?
In KS1 science children learn to differentiate between living and non-living things in terms of characteristics such as movement, growth and breathing. Identify which things are living and which are non-living, but watch out ... sometimes it's not as obvious as it seems!