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Earth and Space Wordsearch
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Earth and Space Wordsearch

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KS2 Science: Earth and Space Help children secure key vocabulary for their Earth and Space topic in KS2 Science with this word search. 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
Moon Observation Chart and Making Moon Craters
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Moon Observation Chart and Making Moon Craters

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KS2 Science: Earth and Space Learn about and observe the phases of the moon with this moon observation chart. Discover why there are craters on the moon and carry out an investigation to further understanding. 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
Make a Stonehenge Clock
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Make a Stonehenge Clock

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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
Three Thoughts – Earth and Space. Addressing themes and misconceptions
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Three Thoughts – Earth and Space. Addressing themes and misconceptions

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KS2 Science: Earth and Space 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 ‘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
Earth and Space Word Mat
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Earth and Space Word Mat

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KS2 Science: Earth and Space Use this key word mat to help support the understanding and spelling of key words used in Earth and Space topics. 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
Three Thoughts – Animals. Addressing themes and misconceptions.
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Three Thoughts – Animals. Addressing themes and misconceptions.

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KS2 Science: Animals 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 ‘Animals: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com
Animal teeth – can you tell what they eat from their teeth?
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Animal teeth – can you tell what they eat from their teeth?

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KS2 Science: Animals Can you tell what they eat from their teeth? Can your pupils work out if these animals are omnivores, carnivores or herbivores from their teeth? Cross-curricular links: Science – Humans (comparing teeth) 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
Winter treasure hunt - seasonal changes
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Winter treasure hunt - seasonal changes

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KS1 Science: Seasonal changes - Winter treasure hunt Use this activity to teach Science in KS1 by going on an Winter treasure hunt in your garden, park or woodland. 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 This download helps meet the following National Curriculum targets: Year 1: Seasonal Changes Statutory requirements Observe changes across the four seasons. Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies. Note and guidance (non-statutory) Pupils might work scientifically by: making tables and charts about the weather; and making displays of what happens in the world around them, including day length, as the seasons change.
Can you name the body parts?
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Can you name the body parts?

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KS1 Science: Animals, including humans - Can you name the body parts? Label the body parts with these clear, real life pictures using a word bank with all key vocabulary. Cross curricular links - English. Get the children to write five sentence about what you can do with parts of the body. 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
My amazing sense of hearing booklet
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My amazing sense of hearing booklet

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KS1 Science: Humans - my amazing sense of hearing booklet A booklet with detailed and interesting facts about the sense of hearing. Real life and up close pictures are guaranteed to engage. This would also be perfect to use in guided reading sessions for cross curricular work. 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.
Alive or never alive?
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Alive or never alive?

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KS1 Science: Living things and their habitats - Alive or never alive? Use this worksheet to help address misconceptions of objects being alive or never alive. Will they think that water has been alive as it is natural, for example. 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.
Create a Woodland Collage
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Create a Woodland Collage

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Use this resource to help structure an art/science activity all about the woodland. Make a collage using various natural and art materials to make a woodland scene. Compliments Welcome to the Woodland from the series ‘Living Things and Their Habitats’. Find this, and other books from this series, at https://www.rubytuesdaybooks.com/schoolsite/pages/livingThings.html Part of our free Learning at Home resources provided during Covid-19 lockdown.
Brilliant body bits (giraffe)
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Brilliant body bits (giraffe)

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KS1 Science: Animals - Brilliant body bits (giraffe) Label the body parts of a giraffe and answer scientific questioning about them. Key vocabulary includes: shoulder, neck, knee, back, eye, ear, mouth, tail, hoof, belly and leg. 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)
A Blackbird's Life Cycle
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A Blackbird's Life Cycle

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KS1 Science: A Blackbird’s Life Cycle Use these worksheets to teach Science in KS1. They complement 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 1: Animals, including humans Statutory requirements: Identify common animals including birds. Notes and guidance (non-statutory): Pupils should become more familiar with names of birds - here Blackbirds 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. 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: egg, chick, blackbird.
KS1 Science: Plants - Let’s study pine cones
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KS1 Science: Plants - Let’s study pine cones

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Encourage scientific questioning by observing pine cones and their seed dispersal. This resource includes a practical investigation into the seeds within pine cones. 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: Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants. 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.
KS1 Science: Plants -Let’s investigate seedling competition
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KS1 Science: Plants -Let’s investigate seedling competition

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Practical activity to encourage real scientific questioning about seedling competition. Don’t just grow a single plant this term - grow lots together to see how survival of the fittest works in action! 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 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: Plants - Are you stronger than a dandelion’s root?
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KS1 Science: Plants - Are you stronger than a dandelion’s root?

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Practical investigation into dandelion roots with engaging questions to get pupils thinking scientifically. 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. Year 2 Science: Plants 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
Spring Word Search
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Spring Word Search

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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
Ruler Race! Addition and Measuring activity
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Ruler Race! Addition and Measuring activity

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Help children with addition using this dice game. Total the sum of three dice and then find objects which measure that length in cm. This resource has been made for home learning and supports our Go For It! Maths series. To see these books and others, head to our website: www.rubytuesdaybooks.com
Let's Go on a Snail Hunt and Design a Snail Habitat
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Let's Go on a Snail Hunt and Design a Snail Habitat

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This download includes Let’s Go on a Snail Hunt (with graph to complete) and a design a snail habitat challenge. 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