Year 2 Science worksheets
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Investigating animal homes
Think about all the ways our houses protect us. Now think about animals or bugs living in your garden or house. Where do animals and bugs like to live? Draw a picture and/or write the name of their home. Cut out all the cards and make two piles, one for creature cards and one for house cards; mix them up. Pick one card from each pile. Would a mouse like to live in a fish pond? Would a frog like to live in a bee hive? Why?
Bird watch
Have a look at the different trees in your neighbourhood and find one birds like to land in. Why might the birds have chosen that tree? Does it have a nest in? Then draw a picture of the tree and label your picture with all the reasons why you think this is a good tree for birds to nest in.
What is good food?
A cutting and sticking activity to help children understand which foods belong to which group.
How an electrical circuit works
A worksheet designed to illustrate the fact that a circuit must be complete for electricity to flow and a bulb to work.
Magnetic and non-magnetic
Worksheet with recording table to suggest a way of investigating whether different objects are attracted to a magnet.
What plants need to grow part 2
Following on from part 1 of the experiment, this further develops your child's knowledge of healthy plant growth and encourages their skills of comparison and conclusion.
Materials and their properties
A grid for you and your child to record what you find out about the properties of different materials.
Demonstrate the power of flight
Learning activity: launching a bottle rocket to demonstrate the power of flight. Please note: adult help is required to construct and launch the bottle rocket.
Natural or man-made
Worksheet to prompt your child to consider whether different objects are natural or man-made.
Learn about forces
This KS2 worksheet will reinforce your child's knowledge of forces and help them to use different methods of recording information.
Physical processes: electricity
A worksheet to encourage children to think about all the household items they know of that use electricity.
Changing materials investigation
A practical activity for children to test what happens when they stretch, bend, squash and twist different materials.
Sorting materials into sets
A worksheet with boxes for sorting different materials into sets according to their properties.
Classification of plants and animals
A cutting out and sorting activity to help your child understand the difference between plants and animals.
Time to investigate floating
An opportunity for your child to design their own investigation to find out which materials float.
Compare two materials
A worksheet to help your child choose two materials, then consider similarities and differences between the two, as well as considering their uses.
Understanding life cycles
A worksheet designed to prompt children to think about the life cycles of plants and animals.
Design a healthy menu
A worksheet to prompt children to think about how to incorporate healthy food types into their daily diet.
What is a living thing?
A brainstorm sheet to encourage children to write down everything they know about living things.
Design your own forces investigation
A worksheet to prompt children into carrying out an investigation into the force exerted by water on different objects.
What is good food?
A cutting and sticking activity to help children understand which foods belong to which group.
Electricity dangers
A worksheet to prompt children to think about the dangers of electricity and how they could warn others about this.
What's in our food?
A sheet encouraging children to look at the ingredients in different food and consider which are healthy and which are not.
Heating and cooling
An investigation to determine what happens when you heat and then cool down different foods. Children are then encouraged to record their results.