Science Year Five Planning

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

Testing Materials

Investigate and test the properties of different types of materials including durability, opacity, strength and conductivity

Changing Materials

Investigate, test and record how a range of different materials can be changed and altered including the use of dissolving and evaporation

Friction

Research, test and illustrate how to use different types of levers, pulleys and gears to change the direction and strength of a range of forces

Gravity

Investigate, test and record some of the effects that the force of gravity can have on a range of different objects and materials

Levers, Pulleys and Gears

Research, test and illustrate how to use different types of levers, pulleys and gears to change the direction and strength of a range of forces

Earth in Space

Describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the Solar System by using practical models and researching information

  • World Countries

    World Countries

    Research and add facts and information to sentences using brackets about some of the different countries that can be found around the world

  • Sports Poems

    Sports Poems

    Explain and model how to compose and present poems using special line structures and rhyming patterns to illustrate actions and themes connected to different sports

  • Bonfire Party

    Bonfire Party

    Select and use formal and informal language to compose invitations, letters and speeches for a family and town party on Bonfire Night

  • Digit Combinations

    Digit Combinations

    Practise building and comparing a range of numbers by combining and matching sets of digits with different number values