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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!
Investigating floating and sinking
Activity encouraging children to use objects around the home to demonstrate floating, sinking and the upthrust force of water.
Positive and negative numbers on a scale
Use this worksheet to help your child practise positive and negative numbers on a horizontal and vertical number line.
Observing forces – pushes and pulls
A fun worksheet that will help your child grasp the concept of forces.
The benefits of friction
Worksheet prompting your child to design a poster letting people know about the beneficial effects of friction.
Calculate area and perimeter
This activity encourages your child to measure your kitchen at home and then calculate its perimeter and area.
Revise multiplication and division
This worksheet gives lots of examples of multiplication number sentences for children to try. They are then encouraged to make the connection between multiplication and division.
Understand how day and night occur
An ingenious experiment that will demonstrate how day and night occur in simple terms.
Using data to reach a conclusion
This worksheet shows the results of an experiment into friction. It has questions below to prompt children to think about what the results mean and draw their own conclusions.
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.
Setting out and solving column addition problems
This worksheet involves real-life word problems that need to be solved using column addition. All the numbers used have three or four digits.
Gravity explained
Deepen your child's understanding of gravity and offer an opportunity to illustrate that understanding.
What is friction?
Worksheet with a list of statement about friction which children need to sort into 'correct' and 'incorrect' boxes.
Explain chunking
Encourage your child to revise their knowledge of the chunking method by designing a poster to explain it. Can they think of some examples to illustrate this technique?
Understanding rounding rules
This worksheet gives a list of decimal numbers to round to the nearest whole number. It also gives tips on how to do this.
Perfect Punctuation Workbook
Full stops, commas, semi colons, apostrophes… Whatever aspect of punctuation your child is grappling with, we’ve come up with a bumper pack of 60 activities to help them practise, as well as a parent's refresher guide to each punctuation mark and how it's used.
Comparative sizes of the Earth, sun and moon
An activity for your child to try at home to help them get a clear understanding of the comparative sizes of and distances between the Earth, Sun and moon.
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.
Column addition with three-, four- and five-digit numbers
A sheet giving the opportunity to practise column addition using 3, 4 and 5 digit numbers.
Have fun with spelling
Does your child’s spelling really let their writing down? Have fun with spelling offers you practical and effective strategies to help support your child’s learning at home, based on a real understanding of how spelling is taught and why it’s tricky to master. The bad news? Your child will be beating you at Scrabble before you know it!
The difference between solids, liquids and gases
Worksheet showing the difference between solids, liquids and gases and encouraging children to find objects and describe them.