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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!
Seaside similes poem
A worksheet to encourage children to generate similes and then organise them into a poem.
Practise multiplying by 100
This worksheet gives children an opportunity to practise multiplying various numbers (including decimals) by 100.
Make simple predictions
This KS2 download will help your child to make simple comparisons and use first-hand experience to test predictions.
Writing poetry from prose
This worksheet encourages children to look at a piece of prose and improve it with their own phrases, before transforming the prose into a poem.
Multiplication and division facts
This worksheet sets out the relationship between multiplication and division.
24-hour clock timetable
This worksheet helps children practise using the 24-hour clock and interpreting timetables.
Writing a haiku
This worksheet shows children how to structure a haiku and then gives them prompts on how to write their own.
Multiplication: the grid method
This worksheet clearly sets out the grid method, which is a simple way to multiply a two-digit number by another two-digit number.
Using chunking to divide
Chunking, or repeated subtraction, is a way to tackle complex division problems. This worksheet offers a step-by-step guide to the technique and some calculations to practise it on.
The short division method
This worksheet helps your child learn to set out their calculation using the long division method, then use it to solve division problems.
The multiplication grid method for big numbers
The multiplication grid method is a simple technique to help children learn to multiply big numbers. Review the technique with this worksheet and then put it into practice.
Place value practice
Place value is one of the building blocks of primary maths education. Help your child practise identifying the value of each digit in a number with this teacher-created worksheet and boost their confidence with units, tens, hundreds, thousands and more.
Analysing spoken commentary
This worksheet encourages children to listen to a spoken commentary and analyse it.
Writing haiku poems
A sheet encouraging children to choose a theme and then write three haikus that share this theme.
Word choice
Children are given a list of sentences with one word missing; they are then prompted to choose a word from the list given to improve the sentence.
Structuring a haiku
Children are encouraged to read these haikus and then think about the way haikus are structured.
Using unstressed vowel words
Your child needs to read the incomplete sentences and then choose a word from the list at the bottom to complete it. Each word in the list contains an unstressed vowel.
Using question marks, commas and exclamation marks
Worksheet prompting your child to write three sentences with a question mark, three with an exclamation mark and three with a comma.
Unstressed vowel words
Words with unstressed vowels and their definitions have been jumbled up. Children need to cut them up and then match the right ones together.