Science Year Four Planning

Discover schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in science for Year Four in Key Stage Two covering habitats, food digestion, states of matter, sound and electricity

Digestion

Identify and describe the functions of some of the different parts of the digestive system and the importance of eating foods as part of a healthy lifestyle

Teeth

Name, locate and explain the function of different types of teeth that are used in the initial digestion of food inside the human mouth

Electricity

Identify and record how to build a range of electrical series circuits to control and manage devices and components for different functions and outputs

Sound

Identify how sounds are made by vibration, investigate ways of changing pitch and volume and test how some materials can be used for soundproofing

States of Matter

Explore, test and explain how a range of different materials can change their states between solids, liquids and gases by conducting a series of fair tests

  • World Animals

    World Animals

    Identify and record how to use the correct determinants before nouns in sentences about animals that live in different habitats around the world

  • Determinants Vowels and Consonants

    Determinants Vowels and Consonants

    Investigate and record how to compose sentences when using the correct determinants before nouns to match their initial vowels or consonants

  • Weather Events

    Weather Events

    Investigate how to add and punctuate fronted adverbials in model sentences explaining when, how or where something happened in the weather

  • Space Race

    Space Race

    Explore how the space race in the 1950s and 1960s heralded a number of technological, cultural and political changes and advancements in the world