KS2 Science: Solids, Liquids and Gases Support children’s understanding of reversible and irreversible changes with this investigation. Get pupils to approach their investigations scientifically with this structured worksheet. This download complements our book ‘Solids, Liquids and Gases: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Sound Consolidate knowledge of how sound is created and travels with these worksheets. Consider how musical instruments make a variety of sounds and then have a go at making your own with junk modelling materials. Get pupils to approach their investigations scientifically with this structured worksheet. This download complements our book ‘Sound: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Forces and Magnets Help children work scientifically through this parachute challenge. Get pupils to approach their investigations scientifically with this structured worksheet. This download complements our book ‘Forces and Magnets: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Light Investigate whether everyday items are light sources or not, using this cardboard box activity. Use the worksheets to help structure scientific inquiry and thinking. Help eliminate the myth that objects that reflect light are light sources. This download complements our book ‘Light: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Forces and Magnets Teach children about the different classes of levers with this download. Use information learnt to help identify different class levers in real life pictures of objects. Children to annotate worksheet with arrows to show the fulcrum, effort and load. This download complements our book ‘Forces and Magnets: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Electricity This download includes talking points for children to consolidate their knowledge of circuits. Pupils are to comment on whether they agree or disagree with a statement and provide reasons for doing so. This could be used as an assessment tool at the end of an electricity topic, as a plenary, on a working wall or as a greater depth task for children to record in their books. It also includes a matching circuit symbols to their names task and answers for further questions from our books. This download complements our book ‘Electricity: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Electricity Help children revise their knowledge of the Electricity with this fun quiz. Great to use to finish an Electricity topic in KS2 Science, or to assess some of their knowledge at the beginning of the topic. This download complements our book ‘Electricity: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

Get children to consider the impact of plastics on the environment. This resource includes an information sheet about future packaging possibilities and an investigation into how materials biodegrade by making a compost bin. It would be useful in KS1 science lessons on materials and even as a lesson structure for an Eco Club. This download complements our book ‘Let’s Investigate Plastic Pollution’ from our FUNdamental Science series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit: www.rubytuesdaybooks.com Since the airing of Blue Planet 2, awareness of plastics and the importance of our impact on the planet has been on everyones lips - keep the discussion going with these free resources. This download helps meet the following National Curriculum targets: KS1 Working Scientifically Statutory requirements Observing closely, using simple equipment. Performing simple tests. Identifying and classifying. Using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions. Gathering and recording data to help in answering questions. Notes and guidance (non statutory) Pupils in years 1 and 2 should explore the world around them and raise their own questions. They should experience different types of scientific enquiries, including practical activities, and begin to recognise ways in which they might answer scientific questions. They should use simple measurements and equipment (for example, hand lenses, egg timers) to gather data, carry out simple tests, record simple data, and talk about what they have found out and how they found it out. With help, they should record and communicate their findings in a range of ways and begin to use simple scientific language. Science - Year 1 Materials Statutory requirements Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock. Science - Year 2 Uses of everyday materials Statutory requirements Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses. Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching (could include biodegrading) Extracurricular Children to learn about their wider responsibilities in their communities.

KS2 Science: Animals Information sheet about the threats facing blue whales. Cross-curricular links: English (could be used as a guided reading text) This download complements our book ‘Animals: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Animals Get children to assess their knowledge of vertebrate groups by looking at animals which are more challenging to classify. These include: bats, dolphins, turtles and pangolins. This download complements our book ‘Animals: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Earth and Space Learn all about Stonehenge and how the Sun changes the stone’s shadows over the year. Then, have a go at making your own Stonehenge clock to help tell different times of the day. Cross-curricular links KS2 History: Stone Age This download complements our book ‘Earth and Space: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Earth and Space Help children revise their knowledge of the Sun and Earth with this fun quiz. Great to use to finish an Earth and Space topic in KS2 Science, or to assess some of their knowledge at the beginning of the topic. This download complements our book ‘Earth and Space: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Electricity Help children understand the concepts of insulators and conductors of electricity with this investigation. Get children to test a variety of objects within a circuit to establish if they are conductors or insulators. Get pupils to approach their investigations scientifically with this structured worksheet. This download complements our book ‘Electricity: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Animals Can your pupils classify these moths and butterflies with this classification key? This download complements our book ‘Animals: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS2 Science: Electricity Help children secure key vocabulary for their Electricity topic in KS2 Science with this word search. This download complements our book ‘Electricity: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

Differentiated worksheet to help children to secure key vocabulary: petal, stem, leaf, flower, roots and seeds. It complements our book ‘Roots, stems, leaves and flowers’ from our FUNdamental Science series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com This download helps meet the following National Curriculum targets: Year 1 Science: Plants Statutory requirements: Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees. Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

KS1 Science: Animals, including humans - Your heart, lungs and blood booklet Use this booklet to teach about the heart, lungs and blood in KS1 and KS2. This informative booklet would be ideal for cross curricular learning too - why not use it in a guided reading session or as a WAGOLL for non-fiction writing? It complements our book ‘Keeping Me Healthy’ from our FUNdamental Science series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com This download helps meet the following National Curriculum targets: Year 1 Science: Animals, including humans Statutory requirements: Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense. Notes and guidance (non-statutory): Pupils should have plenty of opportunities to learn the names of the main body parts (including head, neck, arms, elbows, legs, knees, face, ears, eyes, hair, mouth, teeth) through games, actions and songs Year 2 Science: Animals, including humans Statutory requirements: Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air) Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene. Notes and guidance (non-statutory): Pupils should be introduced to the basic needs of animals for survival, as well as the importance of exercise and nutrition for humans. Pupils might work scientifically by: observing, through video or first-hand observation and measurement, how different animals, including humans, grow; asking questions about what things animals need for survival and what humans need to stay healthy; and suggesting ways to find answer to their questions.

KS2 Science: Light Help children understand whether objects are translucent, transparent or opaque with this investigation using everyday items. Challenge children to consider if an item is made up of components which fit more than one category and sort them accordingly into a Venn diagram. This download complements our book ‘Light: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com

KS1 Science: Living things and their habitats - Alive, once alive, never alive. Use these bright, real life pictures to support understanding of whether objects are alive, once alive or never alive. Includes the answers and further information. Highlights misconceptions in this area. It complements our book ‘Is it living or non-living’ from our FUNdamental Science series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com This download helps meet the following National Curriculum targets: Year 2 Science: Living things and their habitats Statutory: Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive Notes and guidance (non-statutory) Pupils should be introduced to the idea that all living things have certain characteristics that are essential for keeping them alive and healthy. They should raise and answer questions that help them to become familiar with the life processes that are common to all living things. Pupils might work scientifically by: sorting and classifying things according to whether they are living, dead or were never alive, and recording their findings using charts. They should describe how they decided where to place things, exploring questions for example: ‘Is a flame alive? Is a deciduous tree dead in winter?’ and talk about ways of answering their questions.

KS1 Science: Animal mum and babies pairs Use this real life picture pairs game to help teach life cycles in KS1 Science by matching up these sixteen mums with their babies. Guaranteed to engage, the animal cards include: giant pandas, seals, red-eyed tree frogs and macaw parrots. It complements our book ‘Growing and Changing’ from our FUNdamental Science series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com This download helps meet the following National Curriculum targets: Year 2: Animals, including humans Statutory requirements: Notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals for survival. Notes and guidance (non-statutory): Pupils should be introduced to the basic needs of animals for survival, as well as the importance of exercise and nutrition for humans. They should also be introduced to the processes of reproduction and growth in animals. The focus at this stage should be on questions that help pupils to recognise growth; they should not be expected to understand how reproduction occurs. Example: spawn, tadpole and frog