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.

Wicked Climate Detectives: Revealing the secrets of ponds and peat bogs

A Wicked Weather Watch resource. How can ponds and peat bogs  … read more

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Y4 Y5 Y6 | Working scientifically  | Published: 10/09/2018 | From the resource collection(s): Wicked Weather Watch | Other Wicked Weather Watch resources | Investigations

Awesome Arctic Experiments: rising sea levels and climate change

A Wicked Weather Watch resource. Even a small increase in sea  … read more

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Y4 Y5 Y6 | Working scientifically  | Published: 10/09/2018 | From the resource collection(s): Wicked Weather Watch | Other Wicked Weather Watch resources | Investigations

Six tips for British Science Week

Six great ideas to help get your British Science Week off to  … read more

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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

Explore the incredible journey of Voyager 1 as it leaves the  … read more

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Y5 Y6 | Physical processes | Working scientifically Published: 15/05/2017 | 

See You in the Cosmos - Penguin Schools resource

A teaching pack based upon Jack Cheng's novel, See You in the  … read more

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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

How does water travel through a plant? An exploration where children  … read more

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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

A simple proforma for planning and recording an experiment looking  … read more

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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?

An investigation planner including prompts for key aspects such  … read more

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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

A sheet for recording results for an investigation to answer  … read more

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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?

A sheet for recording results for an investigation to answer  … read more

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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

A set of prompts to help children plan an investigation to find  … read more

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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

A great investigation to really get children working scientifically  … read more

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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

A great practical investigation into rockets and finding the  … read more

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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

A great practical investigation into the properties of materials.  … read more

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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

Two activities to introduce the topic of sound. The first is  … read more

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Y4 | Physical processes | Working scientifically  | Published: 07/10/2015 | From the resource collection(s): Sound

Sound insulator investigation

A practical activity exploring the use of different everyday  … read more

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Y4 | Physical processes | Working scientifically  | Published: 30/09/2015 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations | Sound

Sunflower surprise – plant investigation

A great practical investigation to monitor and observe sunflowers  … read more

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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

Working in groups children predict which filter will be the most  … read more

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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?

Children are asked to design and carry out an investigation into  … read more

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Y3 Y4 | Materials | Working scientifically  | Published: 29/08/2014 | From the resource collection(s): Everyday materials

One teaspoon or two?

A simple spreadsheet to calculate the amount of sugar in processed  … read more

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Y5 Y6 | Working scientifically Published: 02/05/2014 | 

Which paper is the most absorbent?

Children design and carry out their own group experiment to find  … read more

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Y3 Y4  | Published: 05/12/2013 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations

Trebuchet investigation

A planning grid for testing the effects of counter balances on  … read more

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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

A simple planning grid for an investigation into the distance  … read more

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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?

A nice simple investigation into muscle fatigue. Children will  … read more

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Y4 Y5 Y6  | Published: 19/12/2012 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations

The Mozart effect investigation

Does listening to Mozart make you smarter? Can it aid your c  … read more

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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6  | Published: 21/09/2012 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations

Science experiment template

A template for writing up science experiments with young pupils.  … read more

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Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6  | Published: 07/03/2012 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations | Templates

Fizz bomb

Observe the teacher and write the instructions explaining how  … read more

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Y3  | Published: 11/06/2009 | From the resource collection(s): Investigations