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Open Wide! Labelling Teeth
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Open Wide! Labelling Teeth

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KS2 Science: The Human Body Help children understand the function and names of human teeth with these work and information sheets. Includes a picture of an open mouth for children to label and have in their science books. It also has a fun page on animal teeth - get them to really consider the function of teeth by challenging them to identify the omnivores, carnivores or herbivores. This download complements our book ‘The Human Body: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com
Plants - Wordsearch
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Plants - Wordsearch

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KS2 Science: Plants Help children secure key vocabulary for their Plants topic in KS2 Science with this word search. This download complements our book ‘Plants: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com
Forces and Magnets - Word Mat
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Forces and Magnets - Word Mat

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KS2 Science: Forces and Magnets Use this key word mat to help support the understanding and spelling of key words used in Forces and Magnets topics. 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
Create a Magnetic Game!
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Create a Magnetic Game!

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KS2 Science: Forces and Magnets Get children to consider everyday uses of magnets. Then get them to make a game for their peers using magnets and evaluate them. Great as a cross curricular design activity with 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
Three Thoughts – Solids, Liquids and Gases. Addressing themes and misconceptions
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Three Thoughts – Solids, Liquids and Gases. Addressing themes and misconceptions

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KS2 Science: Solids, Liquids and Gases 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 ‘Solids, Liquids and Gases: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com
Sound - Word Search
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Sound - Word Search

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KS2 Science: Sound Help children secure key vocabulary for their Sound topic in KS2 Science with this word search. This download complements our book ‘Sound: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com
Is it a Reversible or an Irreversible Change?
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Is it a Reversible or an Irreversible Change?

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KS2 Science: Solids, Liquids and Gases Support children’s understanding of reversible and irreversible changes with this investigation. Get pupils to approach their investigations scientifically with this structured worksheet. This download complements our book ‘Solids, Liquids and Gases: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com
Sound - Word Mat
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Sound - Word Mat

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KS2 Science: Sound Use this key word mat to help support the understanding and spelling of key words used in Sound topics. This download complements our book ‘Sound: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com
Ping Pong Vibration Investigation
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Ping Pong Vibration Investigation

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KS2 Science: Sound Help children understand how sound travels with this ping pong vibration investigation. Get pupils to approach their investigations scientifically with this structured worksheet. This download complements our book ‘Sound: Let’s Investigate’ from our KS2 Science Essentials series. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com
Putting Water Resistance To The Test!
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Putting Water Resistance To The Test!

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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
Pulleys and Gears: Picture Talking Points
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Pulleys and Gears: Picture Talking Points

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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
Forces and Magnets: Levers in Real Life
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Forces and Magnets: Levers in Real Life

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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
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.
Let's Investigate Plastic Pollution: packaging and single-use plastics
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Let's Investigate Plastic Pollution: packaging and single-use plastics

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Use these cross-curricular worksheets to support the teaching of Science, Maths and Art and Design in KS1. They complement our book ‘Let’s Investigate Plastic Pollution’ from our FUNdamental Science series. Since the airing of Blue Planet 2, awareness of plastics and the importance of recycling has been on everyones lips - keep the discussion going with these free resources. For more information, downloads and to purchase our books, please visit www.rubytuesdaybooks.com These resources help meet the following National Curriculum targets across Science, Maths and Art and Design: KS1 Science: Working scientifically Statutory requirements Asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways. Observing closely, using simple equipment. Identifying and classifying. Using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions Gathering and recording data to help in answering questions. Notes and guidance (non-statutory): Pupils in years 1 and 2 should explore the world around them and raise their own questions. Science - Year 1: Everyday materials Statutory requirements: Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made. Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock. Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials. Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties. Science - Year 2: Uses of everyday materials Statutory requirements: Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses. Maths - Year 2: Statutory requirements: To construct and interpret simple tally charts. Notes and guidance (non-statutory): To record, interpret collate, organise and compare information. Art and Design: Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences. To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
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
KS1 Science: Plants - grow a daffodil bulb
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KS1 Science: Plants - grow a daffodil bulb

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Grow a daffodil and observe its growth. Use these comprehensive resources with spaces for drawing observations and a bar chart to fill in. Cross curricular maths activity - recording daffodil growth in a bar chart. 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. 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.
Forces and Magnets - Quiz
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Forces and Magnets - Quiz

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KS2 Science: Forces and Magnets Help children revise their knowledge of the forces and magnets with this fun quiz. Great to use to finish a forces and magnets topic in KS2 Science, or to assess some of their knowledge at the beginning of the 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
Light It Up! Light Pathways!
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Light It Up! Light Pathways!

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KS2 Science: Light Experiment with torches and mirrors to help light up a pathway from one Lego person to another. Make it more challenging with more corners and mirrors in your pathway. A great way investigation to help embed knowledge of how light reflects and travels. 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