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Grouping Posters - Fruits
Group your students according to fruits using these Grouping Posters.
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Grouping Posters - Endangered and Extinct Animals
Group your students according to endangered animals using these eleven Grouping Posters.
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Grouping Posters - Colours
Group your students according to colours using these Grouping Posters.
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Groups Organiser Chart - BW
Use this groups organiser to split up your class into groups for rotational activities.
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Groups Organiser Chart - Watercolour
Use this groups organiser to split up your class into groups for rotational activities.
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Groups Organiser Chart - Orange Starburst
Use this groups organiser to split up your class into groups for rotational activities.
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Electricity Investigation - Worksheet
An investigation of whether electricity moves better through different wire gauges.
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Light Teaching Resource Pack
A comprehensive set of posters, activities and worksheets related to the concept of light.
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Earthquakes Teaching Resource Bundle
Download earthquake activities, worksheets and more year 6 printables for your lesson plans!
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Science Equipment Poster Bundle for the Classroom
A poster resource pack containing a diagrams with labels showing the key parts of various pieces of scientific apparatus.
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Natural Disasters Unit Plan
This Science unit addresses the concepts of plate tectonics and natural disasters.
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Plant and Animal Adaptations Unit Plan
This Science unit addresses the concept of plant and animal adaptations.
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It's Electric! Unit Plan
This Physical Sciences unit addresses the principles of electricity. It explores what electricity is, how it is transferred and how energy is transformed to create it.
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Living in the Material World - Examining Natural and Processed Materials
A 60 minute lesson in which students will examine and understand the differences between natural and processed materials and their uses.
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Material World Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit investigates natural and processed materials. Demonstrations and experimental procedures are explored with particular attention given to the scientific method.
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Light Fantastic Unit Plan
This Physical Sciences unit addresses the properties of light. It explores the phenomena of reflection, refraction, shadow and more.
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Facts of the Matter
This Chemical Sciences unit explores the concept that solids, liquids and gases have different observable properties and behave in different ways.
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Light and Sound Unit Plan
This Physical Sciences unit addresses the concepts of light and sound and how they are sensed.
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Changing States Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit addresses how changes in state from solid to liquid and liquid to solid can be caused by adding or removing heat.
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Chemical Sciences: Clever Changes – Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit investigates the physical changes of materials and how properties change when materials stretch, bend, twist, heat or cool. Students predict how materials will vary and whether they can be returned to their original state.
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Growth and Change Unit Plan
This Biological Sciences unit explores how living things grow and change. Animal offspring (including humans) are compared with their parents and plants are grown from seed in order to observe change over a period of weeks.
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Living Things and Their External Features Unit Plan
This Biological Sciences unit covers a range of concepts relating to living things, such as their external features and the places in which their needs are met.
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Going, Going, Gone!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will recognise that substances exist in different states depending on the temperature.
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Assessment: Chemical Science – Clever Changes
A 30-minute assessment designed to assess students' ability to describe physical changes in materials.
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Changes I Can See!
This Earth and Space Sciences unit explores how and why changes occur in the sky and landscape, and develops students' ability to describe these changes in their local environment.
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Our Place in Space - Unit Plan
This Earth and Space Sciences unit explores the concept that Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the sun).
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The Heat is On Unit Plan
This Physical Sciences unit addresses the concept of heat energy, including heat sources, heat transfer, thermal conductors and thermal insulators.
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Light and Shadow - Design an Experiment
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of light and fair testing.
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What is Light?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will research the concept of light and generate a list of statements that can be tested.
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Thermal Insulators - Keeping Out the Heat
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate which materials are the best thermal insulators.
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Properties of Materials Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit investigates the observable properties of materials. Descriptive vocabulary is explored as well as the suitability of materials for different purposes.
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Living Things and Their Needs Unit Plan
This Science unit covers a range of concepts relating to the basic needs of living things.