Do your pupils really understand light? This is a great resource to sort out misconceptions! This sheet takes common misconceptions about light and the children discuss and tick or cross the concepts they agree and disagree with. Correct answers have the double borders.

Worksheet for upper Key Stage 2/ Key Stage 3 investigating sounds with different pitches.

KS2 Forces - gears worksheets

KS2 Forces - gears worksheet

KS2 Forces - fulcrum levers worksheet

Pulleys worksheet

Lighting the Earth - worksheet to discuss misconceptions of concepts. This worksheet works a bit like a concept cartoon; pupils decide if the statements are true or false. Correct statements have a bolder border.

Learning outcomes - children learn about global warming and by using the model text, teaching notes and scaffold are able to write their own persuasive and informative texts on global warming. A model global warming persuasive information text provides lots of information, so children will learn about global warming. Teaching notes provide guidance on the features of the text type. Teaching notes also guide discussion of how the writer manages to persuade and inform. This builds the children’s understanding of the text type in order to help pupils write their own persuasive and informative texts on global warming. There is a scaffold frame that can also be used to support independent writing on global warming.

Planets worksheets for pupils to write their facts and research about planets.

Year 5 Science materials labels

Year 5 - compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets

321 Reading Strategy Worksheet for use with any non fiction text.

Fair test - melting experiment

A cloze procedure to test scientific understanding, following reading the wonderful book, A Drop in the Ocean by Jacqui Bailey.