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
Get children to consider and investigate how differing lights affect the size of their pupils. Use these information and structured investigation worksheets to help them work scientifically.
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
Help children understand how shadows are formed with this activity. Cut out the figures and get pupils to experiment with their light source to see if they can get the shadows figures in the correct proportion. A task to highlight how the size of an objects shadow is determined by how close the object is to the light source. Includes structured questions for conclusions.
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
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 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
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
Use this investigation to help children understand water resistance, stream lined shapes and speed. 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: Forces and Magnets
Use these pictures of pulleys and gears in real life to encourage scientific vocabulary to flow in your forces and magnets topic. Get children thinking about where they might see pulleys and gears in real life and how they might be helpful. This download would be great to use as part of a display/working wall. Ideas and thoughts about them could be put on post its at the start of a forces and magnets topic.
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
Use this key word mat to help support the understanding and spelling of key words used in Electricity topics.
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
Address key concepts and misconceptions in KS2 Science with our ‘Three Thoughts’ activity, designed to get children reasoning scientifically about their new science topic. Includes two layout options: the fully illustrated option could use this displayed on a whiteboard or working wall to encourage discussion, or the blank box version to encourage children of all writing abilities to record thoughts for their science 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: 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: Forces and Magnets
Help children understand the force of friction with this DIY ramp 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
KS2 Science: Electricity
Help children to explore the theme of climate change with these information and work sheets. Discuss what practical changes could be made by children and their families to help reduce their use of electricity. With children becoming more and more interested and motivated by environmental issues, start a healthy conversation about realistic goals and pledges that pupils could make.
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
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
KS2 Science: Animals
Great for a morning starter or supporting children with their science topic on Jane Goodall/animals/conservation.
Cross-curricular links:
English: spelling
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
Learn all about the long and interesting life cycle of stag beetles. A great alternative to the more standard butterfly/frog etc. Includes information on threats to stag beetles.
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
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
Help children secure key vocabulary for their Animals topic in KS2 Science with this word search.
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
Use this investigation to get pupils to consider how many animals live on our planet. Discuss number of species and animals facing extinction.
Cross-curricular links:
Maths: tally chart
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