KS2 Science: Plants
Help children secure key vocabulary for their Plants topic in KS2 Science with this word search.
This download complements our book ‘Plants: 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
Make your own sun dial activity using a paper plate, pencil and plasticine. Get children to question the uses and limitations of their sun dial.
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: Light and cross curricular Art and Design
Encourage children to think about reflective clothing designs and what can make people safe. Get them to investigate how well certain materials reflect light. Use these worksheets to help support the design, making and evaluation stages of making a reflective dog jacket for either a husky, pug or dachshund.
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
Get children to really consider their impact on the environment. This resource includes information sheets on litter, ocean pollution and the impact of plastic on our environment. It 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:
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 local and wider communities.
KS1 Science: Animals - A newt’s life
Information on a newt’s life cycle. It complements our book ‘Wings, paws, scales and claws’ 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
Statutory
Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
Notes and guidance (non-statutory)
Pupils should become familiar with the common names of some fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including those that are kept as pets.
Year 2 Science: Animals
Statutory
Notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults
Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air)
Notes and guidance (non-statutory)
The following examples might be used: egg, chick, chicken; egg, caterpillar, pupa, butterfly; spawn, tadpole, frog; lamb, sheep. Growing into adults can include reference to baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult.
KS1 Science: Animals -All about ocean mammals
Read information about ocean mammals, including: dolphins, orcas, sea lions, seals, walrus and blue whale. Also includes a blue whale quiz. It complements our book ‘Wings, paws, scales and claws’ 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
Statutory
Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets)
Notes and guidance (non-statutory)
Pupils should become familiar with the common names of some fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including those that are kept as pets.
Pupils might work scientifically by: using their observations to compare and contrast animals at first hand or through videos and photographs, describing how they identify and group them; grouping animals according to what they eat; and using their senses to compare different textures, sounds and smells.
Year 2 Science: Animals
Statutory
Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air)
Notes and guidance (non-statutory)
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 answers to their questions.
KS1 Science: Animals and Seasons - Ladybird Facts and Dominoes Game
Learn all about ladybirds, including their body parts and habitat. Includes ladybird domino game and instructuions. This download complements our book ‘Wings, paws, scales and claws’ from our FUNdamental Science series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com
KS1 Science: Seasonal changes - Spring Word Search
It complements our book ‘What’s the Season?’ from our FUNdamental Science series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com
Grow a daffodil and observe its growth. Use these comprehensive resources with spaces for drawing observations and a bar chart to fill in. Cross curricular maths activity - recording daffodil growth in a bar chart. 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.
Notes and guidance (non-statutory):
Pupils should use the local environment throughout the year to explore and answer questions about plants growing in their habitat. Where possible, they should observe growth of flowers and vegetables that they have planted.
Pupils might keep records of how plants have changed over time, for example the leaves falling off trees and buds opening; and compare and contrast what they have found out about different plants.
Year 2 Science: Plants
Statutory requirements:
Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.
Find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.
Notes and guidance (non-statutory):
Pupils should use the local environment throughout the year to observe how different plants grow. Pupils should be introduced to the requirements of plants for germination, growth and survival, as well as to the processes of reproduction and growth in plants
Pupils might work scientifically by: observing and recording, with some accuracy, the growth of a variety of plants as they change over time from a seed or bulb, or observing similar plants at different stages of growth; setting up a comparative test to show that plants need light and water to stay healthy.
KS1 Science: Humans - my five senses
A worksheet to help structure an activity whereby you draw the part of the body associated with a sense and what you might be able to sense with it. It complements our book ‘My Senses’ 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
Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense.
KS2 Science: Light
Experiment with torches and mirrors to help light up a pathway from one Lego person to another. Make it more challenging with more corners and mirrors in your pathway. A great way investigation to help embed knowledge of how light reflects and travels.
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
Perfect for an assembly, early morning work and alongside science work on materials, this fact sheet is guaranteed to get children engaged and discussing the important issue of the impact of plastics on our environment. Since the airing of Blue Planet 2, awareness of plastics and the importance of recycling has been on everyones lips - keep the discussion going with this free resource. Suitable for both KS1 and KS2.
This fact sheet 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
KS2 Science: Forces and Magnets
Help children understand gravity and air resistance with this gravity investigation. Get pupils to approach their investigations scientifically with these structured worksheets.
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
Grow a sunflower to discover what things plants need to survive. Cross curricular activities:
English - writing a sunflower diary
Maths - recording sunflower growth in a bar chart.
It complements our book ‘From a tiny seed to a mighty tree’ 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.
Notes and guidance (non-statutory):
Pupils should use the local environment throughout the year to explore and answer questions about plants growing in their habitat. Where possible, they should observe growth of flowers and vegetables that they have planted.
Pupils might keep records of how plants have changed over time, for example the leaves falling off trees and buds opening; and compare and contrast what they have found out about different plants.
Year 2 Science: Plants
Statutory requirements:
Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.
Find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.
Notes and guidance (non-statutory):
Pupils should use the local environment throughout the year to observe how different plants grow. Pupils should be introduced to the requirements of plants for gemination, growth and survival, as well as to the processes of reproduction and growth in plants
Pupils might work scientifically by: observing and recording, with some accuracy, the growth of a variety of plants as they change over time from a seed or bulb, or observing similar plants at different stages of growth; setting up a comparative test to show that plants need light and water to stay healthy.
Encourage quality scientific questioning with these work sheets showing real life seeds up close. Engaging and varied seeds. It complements our book ‘From a tiny seed to a mighty tree’ 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.
Notes and guidance (non-statutory):
Pupils should use the local environment throughout the year to explore and answer questions about plants growing in their habitat.
Pupils might keep records of how plants have changed over time, for example the leaves falling off trees and buds opening; and compare and contrast what they have found out about different plants.
Year 2 Science: Plants
Statutory requirements:
Find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.
Notes and guidance (non-statutory):
Pupils should use the local environment throughout the year to observe how different plants grow. Pupils should be introduced to the requirements of plants for germination, growth and survival, as well as to the processes of reproduction and growth in plants.
Get children to consider fruits and seeds in their diet and undertake cross curricular maths activity: estimating the amount of seeds in fruit. It complements our book ‘From a tiny seed to a mighty tree’ 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.
Year 2 Science: Plants
Statutory requirements:
Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.
Notes and guidance (non-statutory):
Pupils should be introduced to the requirements of plants for germination, growth and survival, as well as to the processes of reproduction and growth in plants.
KS1 Science: Habitats - what habitats do snails prefer?
Use these resources to get pupils to investigate the habitat of snails, go on a snail hunt and then design a snail habitat. This investigation also includes maths targets of using a tally and bar chart. It complements our book ‘Habitats and Food Chains’ 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 requirements:
Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, anyhow they depend on each other.
Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including micro-habitats
Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.
Notes and guidance (non-statutory):
Pupils should raise and answer questions that help them to become familiar with the life processes that are common in all living things.
Pupils should be introduced to the terms ‘habitat’ and ‘micro-habitat’.
They should raise and answer questions about the local environment that help them identify and study a variety of plants and animals within their habitat and observe how living things depend on each other.
Pupils should compare animals in familiar habitat with animals found in less familiar habitats, for example, on the seashore, in woodland, in the ocean, in the rainforest.
Year 2 Maths: Statistics
Statutory requirements:
Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables
Ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity
Ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data.
KS1 Science: Animals - All about bird bodies
Information about birds, including: eagle, robin, penguin, duck and parrot. What makes them a bird? What do they have in common and what is different? Includes a colour and label parts of a parrot activity. It complements our book ‘Wings, paws, scales and claws’ 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
Statutory
Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets)
Notes and guidance (non-statutory)
Pupils should become familiar with the common names of some fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including those that are kept as pets.
Pupils might work scientifically by: using their observations to compare and contrast animals at first hand or through videos and photographs, describing how they identify and group them; grouping animals according to what they eat; and using their senses to compare different textures, sounds and smells.
KS1 Science: Animals - A frog’s life cycle
Use this cut and stick activity to help teach the life cycles of a frog in KS1 Science. 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
Year 2: Living things and their habitats
Statutory requirements:
Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals.
Hunt for different species of leaves using real life quality pictures. Includes a draw an colour your own leaf activity. 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.
Notes and guidance (non-statutory):
Pupils should use the local environment throughout the year to explore and answer questions about plants growing in their habitat. Where possible, they should observe growth of flowers and vegetables that they have planted.