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Important update from TheSchoolRun
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Year 4 Science worksheets
Free worksheets: Science, KS2, Y4
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Understanding light reflection: Build your own periscope
Mirrors change the direction of light and reflect it. We can demonstrate this practically by making a periscope. Light is reflected from one object into a mirror and then onto the other mirror before reaching your eyes. Collect your materials and find out for yourself!
What is evaporation?
In this investigation you are going to see if water can move – or does it just change?
Food webs
When we look at habitats we often look at food chains to see the feeding relationships within them. Sometimes, though, more than one animal feeds off others. This is when we make food webs. Look at these cards. Can you cut them out and arrange them on the table with the arrows to show which animals feed off each other?
I hear with my little ear
Sit in a quiet place and close your eyes and listen really carefully. What can you hear inside the room? What can you hear inside yourself? Record the sounds you hear.
Circuits and conductors true or false
A list of statements on circuits and conductors that children need to think about and then sort into the 'true' and 'false' boxes.
Predictions and conclusions: changing state
A worksheet describing a prediction regarding changing state with questions for children to think about, using their investigative skills.
Circuits quiz
A list of quiz questions for children to test their knowledge of circuits.
Proving that air exists
Activities for your child to do at home that will demonstrate the fact that air exists.
Draw a food chain diagram
A worksheet to prompt your child to use their knowledge of food chains to make their own chain with the given organisms.
Refuting a hypothesis
This worksheet requires children to give ways of proving that sound can travel through solids and then try out their ideas.
Finding habitats
An activity to encourage your child to go outside and look for habitats, then record the features they find.
The water cycle
A cutting and sticking activity to help reinforce children's knowledge of the water cycle.
Keeping warm investigation
This worksheet prompts your child to think about how they would plan an investigation into keeping warm.
Useful gases around us
A worksheet encouraging your child to research into how different gases are used to help us in everyday life.
Solids and liquids quiz
A quiz involving questions about solids and liquids for children to test their knowledge with.
Conductors and insulators
Use this worksheet to discuss conductors and insulators with your child. See if they can work out which materials will make the bulb light up and why.
Solids, liquids and gases
This worksheet involves cutting out scientific vocabulary regarding solids, liquids and gases and matching it to its definition.
Food chains and interdependence
A cut out and stick activity that encourages children to think about which animals eat which plants and animals. They need to arrange these into food chains with arrows pointing the correct way.
Temperature and heat
Vocabulary regarding temperature and heat for children to cut out and match with the correct definitions.
Thermal insulators and thermal conductors
A worksheet for children to cut out the names of different materials and then put them into the columns 'thermal insulator' and 'thermal conductor'.
Understanding food chains
Vocabulary related to food chains for children to cut out and then match to the correct definitions.
Using different sources to answer questions
A worksheet with prompts to encourage children to research different aspects of the topics they cover over the course of Year 5.