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The greenhouse effect investigation
Our planet is constantly affected by different forces and factors – many of which are caused by humans. We often hear about something called “the greenhouse effect”… but what is it? The greenhouse effect is when our planet heats up due to harmful gases collecting in our atmosphere. This simple investigation will show you how it happens!
Night and day investigation
What causes us to have a night and a day? Why is it night on one side of the Earth but day on the other? Let's investigate!
Life cycles card game
This game is designed to help you revise the key stages in different life cycles. The aim of the game is to collect all four stages in each life cycle.
Cleaning water experiment
In this activity you will learn how to clean some water!
Reading comprehension: more Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
Read this second extract from The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde and then answer the questions.
Reading comprehension: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
Read this passage from The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde then carefully answer the questions below.
Reading comprehension: Martin and Margot by Amy Le Feuvre
First read this extract from Martin and Margot by Amy Le Feuvre, then carefully answer the questions.
Reading comprehension: Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Carefully read this passage from Sara Crewe, an early version of A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, then answer the questions.
Re-ordering words to make sentences
Each of these groups of words makes up a sentence. Can you re-order them to reveal the sentence? You could cut the words out to help you.
Logic puzzles
Get your thinking hat on and see if you can work out these two logic puzzles. Warning: They are tricky!
Identifying onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like the noise it describes. Can you write a poem using onomatopoeia? Here are some subjects that you could choose from.
Connectives exercise
Connectives are words that join two parts of a text. Look at this passage and use some of the connectives in the table to fill in the gaps.
Cloze test: The wood at night
All these words belong in this text. Can you insert them correctly?
Antonyms
Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings. See if you can pair each word below with its opposite. You may need to use a dictionary to check some definitions
Non-verbal reasoning: Completing sequences
Here’s a sequence of figures, in order. By looking at how they change can you work out what the next figure in the sequence should be? Now, are you ready to do some complete-the-series questions?
Then let’s begin!
Then let’s begin!
Non-verbal reasoning: Understanding symmetry
Something is symmetrical when it is the same on both sides. A shape has symmetry if a central dividing line (a mirror line) can be drawn on it, to show that both sides of the shape are exactly the same. Looking at the shapes below, which ones don’t have a line of symmetry?
Non-verbal reasoning: Understanding rotation
Rotation means turning a shape around a point by a certain angle. A shape can be rotated in different directions, clockwise or counter-clockwise. Rotate the figure on the left by 90º. What will the rotated
shape look like?
shape look like?
Non-verbal reasoning: Understanding reflection
Reflecting shapes in a mirror line means imagining what a shape would look like if you were to look at it in a mirror. Which figure on the right is the reflection of the shape given on the left along the dotted mirror line?
Non-verbal reasoning: Understanding direction
In non-verbal reasoning, direction is also referred to as orientation – in other words, the way a shape or figure is positioned on the paper, which tells us which direction it’s pointing to. Have a go at these practical non-verbal puzzles and remember to think about the direction each shape is pointing in. Find the odd one in the group of figures.
Non-verbal reasoning: Rotating by 180°
Shapes can be rotated in any direction, clockwise or anti-clockwise, by turning the shape around a point by a certain angle. We’re going to look in detail at a 180° rotation. How would the figure on the left look when rotated by 180º clockwise?
Non-verbal reasoning: Rotating by 45º
Rotating a shape means turning it around a point by a certain angle, clockwise or counter-clockwise. Now we’re going to focus on a tricky rotation, 45º. It’s hard to identify, but it shows a movement of 1/8 of a complete turn. How would the figure on the left look when rotated by 45º clockwise?
Non-verbal reasoning: Reflection practice
Reflected shapes look as they would if seen in a mirror – in other words, they’ve been flipped across a mirror line. In non-verbal reasoning questions you usually won’t be shown the mirror line, you’ll need to spot reflected shapes yourself! Can you find the reflection of the shape on the left?