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Resources for working scientifically
Use our practical teaching ideas that have been tried and tested in the classroom to help your children develop good practice when working scientifically. They'll form a hypothesis, develop tests and record results.
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Six tips for British Science Week
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Six great ideas to help get your British Science Week off to
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F Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 | Materials | Life processes and living things | Physical processes | Working scientifically Published: 24/05/2017 |
Science in the news – Voyager’s 11 billion mile journey
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Explore the incredible journey of Voyager 1 as it leaves the
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Y5 Y6 | Physical processes | Working scientifically Published: 15/05/2017 |
See You in the Cosmos - Penguin Schools resource
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A teaching pack based upon Jack Cheng's novel, See You in the
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Y5 Y6 | Spoken language | Reading comprehension | Working scientifically | Published: 16/02/2017 | From the resource collection(s): Bookshelf | Books by Jack Cheng | Inference and deduction | Information retrieval – narrative | Debates | Jack Cheng | Science
Celery investigation – plant stem function
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How does water travel through a plant? An exploration where children
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Y3 | Life processes and living things | Working scientifically | Published: 03/02/2016 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations | Plants
Which magnet is the strongest? – investigation scaffold
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A simple proforma for planning and recording an experiment looking
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Y3 | Physical processes | Working scientifically | Published: 20/01/2016 | From the resource collection(s): Forces and magnets | Investigations and featured in our teaching pack(s) KS2 Science Curriculum Pack – Year 3: Forces and magnets
Investigation – is everything magnetic?
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An investigation planner including prompts for key aspects such
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Y3 | Physical processes | Working scientifically | Published: 20/01/2016 | From the resource collection(s): Forces and magnets | Investigations and featured in our teaching pack(s) KS2 Science Curriculum Pack – Year 3: Forces and magnets
Magnetic or non-magnetic – recording sheet
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A sheet for recording results for an investigation to answer
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Y3 | Physical processes | Working scientifically | Published: 06/01/2016 | From the resource collection(s): Forces and magnets | Investigations and featured in our teaching pack(s) KS2 Science Curriculum Pack – Year 3: Forces and magnets
Are all metals magnetic?
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A sheet for recording results for an investigation to answer
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Y3 | Physical processes | Working scientifically | Published: 06/01/2016 | From the resource collection(s): Forces and magnets | Investigations and featured in our teaching pack(s) KS2 Science Curriculum Pack – Year 3: Forces and magnets
Which magnet is strongest – super scientist prompts
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A set of prompts to help children plan an investigation to find
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Y3 | Physical processes | Working scientifically | Published: 06/01/2016 | From the resource collection(s): Forces and magnets | Investigations and featured in our teaching pack(s) KS2 Science Curriculum Pack – Year 3: Forces and magnets
Curious Chocolate – melting times investigation
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A great investigation to really get children working scientifically
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Y2 | Materials | Working scientifically | Published: 11/11/2015 | From the resource collection(s): Everyday materials | Investigations | States of matter
Rapid Rockets – rocket fuel investigation
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A great practical investigation into rockets and finding the
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Y5 | Materials | Working scientifically | Published: 11/11/2015 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations | States of matter
Mr Frosty's hand – investigating insulators
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A great practical investigation into the properties of materials.
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Y2 | Materials | Working scientifically | Published: 21/10/2015 | From the resource collection(s): Everyday materials | Investigations | States of matter
Identifying sounds
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Two activities to introduce the topic of sound. The first is
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Y4 | Physical processes | Working scientifically | Published: 07/10/2015 | From the resource collection(s): Sound
Sound insulator investigation
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A practical activity exploring the use of different everyday
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Y4 | Physical processes | Working scientifically | Published: 30/09/2015 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations | Sound
Sunflower surprise – plant investigation
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A great practical investigation to monitor and observe sunflowers
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Y2 | Life processes and living things | Working scientifically | Published: 30/09/2015 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations | Plants
Filtering sand and water
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Working in groups children predict which filter will be the most
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Y2 | Materials | Working scientifically | Published: 23/10/2014 | From the resource collection(s): Separating materials
Which fabric has the most stretch?
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Children are asked to design and carry out an investigation into
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Y3 Y4 | Materials | Working scientifically | Published: 29/08/2014 | From the resource collection(s): Everyday materials
One teaspoon or two?
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A simple spreadsheet to calculate the amount of sugar in processed
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Y5 Y6 | Working scientifically Published: 02/05/2014 |
Which paper is the most absorbent?
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Children design and carry out their own group experiment to find
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Trebuchet investigation
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A planning grid for testing the effects of counter balances on
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 | Published: 10/10/2013 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations and featured in our teaching pack(s) Castles project pack
Archery investigation
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A simple planning grid for an investigation into the distance
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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 | Published: 03/10/2013 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations and featured in our teaching pack(s) Castles project pack
How fit are your fingers?
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A nice simple investigation into muscle fatigue. Children will
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The Mozart effect investigation
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Does listening to Mozart make you smarter? Can it aid your c
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Science experiment template
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A template for writing up science experiments with young pupils.
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