Year 6 Science: How Pet microchips work

This explanation text for year 6 , linking to the topic living things and habitats, explains how a pet microchip works. In the last few years, microchips have replaced tags on collars as the best way to identify pets. As well as helping reunite thousands of lost pets with their owners every year, they can also act as a pet’s own front door key. The text uses key vocabulary such as microchip, capacitor, antenna coil and electromagnetic energy.

This downloadable reading pack includes:

• An A3 reading spread for you to print.
• 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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