WHIZZ POP BANG is a monthly magazine brimming with top-quality science for children aged six to twelve.
Our NEW downloadable resources link hands-on science experiments with key curriculum topics for years 2 to 6. The resources include lesson plans, hands-on investigations, PowerPoint presentations, games, science texts and guided reading comprehensions – all aimed at making science fun and engaging for children and teachers alike!
WHIZZ POP BANG is a monthly magazine brimming with top-quality science for children aged six to twelve.
Our NEW downloadable resources link hands-on science experiments with key curriculum topics for years 2 to 6. The resources include lesson plans, hands-on investigations, PowerPoint presentations, games, science texts and guided reading comprehensions – all aimed at making science fun and engaging for children and teachers alike!
An investigation into why it rains in rainforests and jungles for year 4 and P5, linking to the topic states of matter. Pupils will make their own miniature jungle and watch how it looks after itself!
This pack includes:
A lesson plan, complete with an explanation and a teacher-led demonstration.
A PowerPoint presentation which explains why it rains in rainforests and jungles.
Instructions to make a bottled jungle.
Simple to resource! The items you will need:
2 litre clear plastic bottles
Pebbles or gravel
Activated carbon or charcoal
Nutshells (e.g pistachios)
Soil
Potted ferns or palm plants
Moss, gathered from outside (optional)
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An investigation into why it rains in rainforests and jungles for year 4 and P5, linking to the topic states of matter. Pupils will make their own miniature jungle and watch how it looks after itself!
This pack includes:
A lesson plan, complete with an explanation and a teacher-led demonstration.
A PowerPoint presentation which explains why it rains in rainforests and jungles.
Instructions to make a bottled jungle.
Simple to resource! The items you will need:
2 litre clear plastic bottles
Pebbles or gravel
Activated carbon or charcoal
Nutshells (e.g pistachios)
Soil
Potted ferns or palm plants
Moss, gathered from outside (optional)
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This non-chronological report for year 2 and P3, linking to the topic animals including humans, investigates donkeys. The text explains how donkeys are related to horses, their diet and why their milk is marvellous.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
Two differentiated A3 reading spreads for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
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An explanation text for year 4 and P5, linking to the topic sound, about speakers. You hear them pumping on the stereo, bleeping and ringing in mobile phones and blasting out of cars – speakers are everywhere! They turn electrical signals into sounds, but how do they do it?
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A4 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
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A non-chronological report about water for year 3 and P4 linking to the topic plants. This text explains what water is made up of, how water is strong and how waves are formed.
The downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
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In this interview for year 4 and P5, linking to the topic sound, Caoimhe Doyle explains what she does in her job as a sound engineer. A Foley artist is someone who creates sound effects for film, television and video games. They recreate the footsteps for all the characters in the movie and also create many of the other sound effects using various props, from car bumpers to celery!
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
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There’s no doubt that microphones are an incredible invention – but no one can agree whose invention it was! This explanation text for year 4, linking to the topic sound, investigates each scientist’s claim to the invention. Was it Emile Berliner, David Edward Hughes or Thomas Edison?
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
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A biography for year 3 on the famous historical scientist Archimedes, linking to the topic plants. Archimedes discovered why some things float in water and others sink.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
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An interview with a geothermal scientist for year 3, linking to the topic rocks. A geothermal scientist is a specific type of Earth scientist focused on exploring and understanding Earth’s heat and its geothermal features, like hot springs, fumarole and volcanoes.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
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This resource includes a differentiated lesson plan linked to the national curriculum, a PowerPoint presentation that explains how the urinary system and kidneys work, a printable wee chart, instructions to make a urinary system and a Wee-ly true quiz.
Linking to the topics animals including humans and body system and cells, this lesson pack for year 6 and P7 teaches how our urinary system works. Think about everything you’ve eaten since yesterday. Right now, your body is breaking it down to release the energy and nutrients you need to grow. This also produces chemicals you don’t need. Your body gets rid of them by making wee! Your body has a whole wee-producing department called the urinary system, including your kidneys, bladder and the tubes that connect them and carry the wee out of your body.
This pack includes:
A lesson plan, complete with an explanation of how our kidneys work.
Differentiated printable instructions to make a urinary system.
A PowerPoint presentation that explains how the urinary system and kidneys work.
A printable wee colour chart.
A Wee-ly true quiz.
Simple to resource! The items you will need:
Empty shoe box
Empty plastic cartons
Coffee filters
A heavy weight, like a tin of food
Paper straws
Balloons
Yellow food colouring
This resource includes a differentiated lesson plan linked to the curriculum, a PowerPoint presentation explaining the sun and a printable template to make a sundial.
Linking to the topics Earth and space and space, year 5 and P4 pupils will investigate how Earth travels around the Sun by making a sundial. This lesson will take place over short intervals throughout one day, when children will mark the end of the shadow on the sundial, demonstrating how the Sun moves across the sky due to the Earth’s rotation.
This pack includes:
A differentiated lesson plan
A PowerPoint presentation explaining the Sun
A printable template to make the sundial
Simple to resource! The items you will need:
Modelling clay
An interview text for year 6 and P7 discussing the big plastic pollution problem. John McGeehan studies proteins that could help. As he states: “there are not many jobs where one good discovery could change the world!”
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
A reading comprehension question sheet.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
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This resource contains a differentiated lesson plan linked to the national curriculum, a PowerPoint presentation explaining how wheels and axles work, printable instructions and a differentiated table for results.
An investigation for year 2 and P3, linking to the topic everyday materials. Pupils will learn how wheels and axles work and investigate whether it is easier or harder to lift a heavy load with larger or smaller wheels. Pupils will also consider which material would be best to use for the wheels.
This pack includes:
A differentiated lesson plan
A PowerPoint presentation explaining how wheels and axles work
Differentiated tables for results
Printable instructions
Simple to resource! The items you will need include:
Wooden skewers
Pairs of lids of different sizes and made of different materials
A bag of flour
An interview with an electrical engineer for year 6, linking to the topic electricity. Nikita Hari explains why she become an electrical engineer, all the obstacles she overcame and gives advice to young scientists.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
A reading comprehension question sheet.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
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An interview with a visual effects artist for year 3, linking with the topic light. In this interview, Richard Stammers explains how they made the dragons look so realistic in Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, how he became a visual effects artist and gives advice to kids who would like to work in the field when they grow up.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
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This non-chronological report for year 3, linking to the topics animals including humans, investigates the dung beetle. The term dung beetle is used to describe over 5,000 species of insects that eat or breed inside other animals’ waste. They live around the world in every continent except Antartica.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets and answer sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
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This non-chronological report for P4, linking to the topics body systems and cells, investigates the dung beetle. The term dung beetle is used to describe over 5,000 species of insects that eat or breed inside other animals’ waste. They live around the world in every continent except Antartica.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets and answer sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
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This reading comprehension instruction text for year 2, linking to Science materials and Design and technology, explains how to make a water wheel. Each instruction has a photo to illustrate the step.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
Two differentiated A3 reading spreads for you to print.
Reading comprehension question and answer sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
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This non-chronological report text for year 5, linking to the topic living things and habitats, tells you everything you’d like to know about the sun-loving reptiles, marine iguanas. They were among the most fascinating animals encountered by Charles Darwin on his famous round-the-world expedition. The text features: where they live, how they are a cold-blooded (ectothermic) reptile and what they eat.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
A3 reading spreads for you to print.
Reading comprehension question and answer sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
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This non-chronological report text for year P6, linking to the topic biodiversity and interdependence, tells you everything you’d like to know about the sun-loving reptiles, marine iguanas. They were among the most fascinating animals encountered by Charles Darwin on his famous round-the-world expedition. The text features: where they live, how they are a cold-blooded (ectothermic) reptile and what they eat.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
A3 reading spreads for you to print.
Reading comprehension question and answer sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
Sign up at whizzpopbang.com/schools to access all of the teaching resources.