Within the KS2 Science section the Life Processes and Living Things area helps children to learn about humans and animals. It includes information and interactive activities relating to the human body, keeping healthy and micro organisms. The Life Processes and Living Things area also includes a section on Green Plants with fact sheets, interactive activities and experiments relating to plant life cycles and growing plants. Children can also learn about variation and classification through a series of facts sheets, quizzes and activities about mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, amphibians and food chains.
The Materials area of the KS2 Science section helps children to enhance their understanding of grouping materials and changing materials. It encourages Key Stage 2 learners to carry out activities relating to topics such as soil, solids, gases, liquids and minerals and to test their knowledge through a series of fun quizzes.
Within the Physical Processes area of the KS2 Science section children are able to study forces and motion by learning about magnets & springs, friction and forces in action. They can also help to develop their knowledge of electricity through a range of resources, fact sheets and interactive activities. There is also useful information and fun activities relating to light, sound, the earth, planets and space.
The resources and activities in the KS2 Science section are in an interactive, online, or printable format that brings a differing dynamic to the subject for children studying at Key Stage 2.
Blood and Cuts - Find out how your cuts heal.
Boney Quiz - How many major bones can you remember? Be warned: they keep disappearing.
Doctor Over Time - Interactive site where you can see what a doctor would have said about illnesses from 1900 onwards.
External parts of the body - Wordsearch - A wordsearch to help children to identify the parts of the body
Frankenstein's Body Kit - Interactive activity for children to learn about body parts and organs.
Growth and Reproduction - Interactive activity about life cycles growth and development of humans.
Human Skeleton - Interactive test to see whether you can label the different parts of the skeleton.
Human Skeleton Test - Look at Boney Quiz and then test your knowledge of the human skeleton.
Humans - Clipart about humans.
Label the Skeleton - Interactive activity to learn about the human skeleton.
Make a feely bag - Science experiments to try
Make your own fingerprints - Science experiments to try
Moving and Growing Quiz - Interactive quiz about moving and growing
Muscles and Movement - This activity will help you understand the function of muscles.
Muscles and Movement Quiz - An interative quiz to test yourself on your knowledge of muscles.
Pod’s Mission – Bones - Information and activities about bones
Raspberry Blower - Follow the instructions and then see what happens when you blow a raspberry at the screen.
Research the Human Body - General questions about the human body.
The Amazing Human Body - Interactive activities about the body
The Anatomy of the Eye - Learn all about your eye with this interesting site.
The Digestive System - Online information and activities about what happens to the food we eat.
The Heart - Learn how your blood is pumped around your body by the heart.
The Respiratory System - Online information and activities about how we breathe.
The Senses - Activities and experiments about the senses
The Taste Test - Science experiments to try
Which Joints are Where? - Find out how joints help your skeleton to move.
Your Ears - Interactive activity about ears and hearing