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Everyday materials

Identifying everyday materials like wood, plastic, glass and metal, and describing their properties

Seasons and weather

Learning about the four seasons, how the weather changes through the year, and how day length changes

Animals and their needs

Learning about pets, farm and wild animals, what they need to live, and what they eat

Plants: parts and growth

Learning the main parts of a plant, the difference between trees and flowers, and deciduous and evergreen trees

Humans: parts of the body and senses

Naming the parts of the human body and learning about the five senses

Living, dead and never lived

Sorting things into living, dead, and things that have never been alive

Plants: parts & functions

Identifying the parts of flowering plants and understanding their functions

Animals: skeleton & muscles

Understanding how skeletons and muscles support, protect and enable movement

Rocks & soils

Comparing different types of rock, understanding soil composition, and learning about fossils

Light & shadows

Understanding light sources, how shadows form, and the properties of transparent, translucent and opaque materials

Forces & magnets

Exploring push, pull, friction and magnetic forces, and understanding which materials are magnetic

States of matter

Understanding the properties of solids, liquids and gases, and how particles are arranged in each state

Changing states

Understanding melting, freezing, evaporation and condensation, and the water cycle

Sound

Understanding how sound is made by vibrations, how it travels, and how pitch and volume work

Electricity & circuits

Understanding simple circuits, electrical components, and the difference between conductors and insulators

Living things & habitats

Exploring food chains, habitats, classification of living things, and how organisms adapt to their environment

Animals: digestion & nutrition

The digestive system, food groups, and types of teeth

Properties of materials

Hardness, transparency, conductivity, solubility, and magnetism of everyday materials

Reversible & irreversible changes

Dissolving, mixing, burning, rusting, and separating mixtures

Earth & space

The solar system, Earth's rotation, Moon phases, and orbits

Forces: gravity, air & water resistance

Gravity, weight vs mass, friction, air resistance, water resistance, levers, and pulleys

Life cycles

Life cycles of mammals, birds, insects, amphibians, and plants; reproduction

Human body: circulation & health

The heart, blood vessels, blood components, exercise, diet, and drugs

Evolution & adaptation

Natural selection, fossils as evidence, variation, inheritance, and adaptation to environment

Classification of living things

Vertebrates, invertebrates, animal and plant groups, and microorganisms

Light: reflection & refraction

How we see, reflection from surfaces, refraction, prisms, colours, and how eyes work

Pollination and seed dispersal

How flowers are pollinated and how plants spread their seeds to new places

Water transport through stems

How water moves from the soil, up through the plant, and out from the leaves

Teeth: types, functions and dental care

The four types of human teeth, what each one does, and how to keep them healthy

Classification keys (branching)

Using yes/no questions to identify living things with a branching key

Mechanisms: levers, pulleys and gears

How simple machines like levers, pulleys and gears help us do work with less effort

Materials testing: solubility

Investigating which materials dissolve in water and how temperature affects solubility

Microorganisms: helpful and harmful

Tiny living things - bacteria, viruses and fungi - and how they help or harm us

Working scientifically: fair tests and variables

Designing a fair test by changing one variable, measuring another, and keeping the rest the same

About KS2 Science practice

34 concepts of science practice, covering Years 3 to 6 of the England national curriculum. Each concept has 10 questions across three difficulty levels, with hints if you need them and a short explanation after every answer. Your SmartScore tracks how you're doing in each concept. Get to 80 and it's marked as complete.

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Pick a concept from the list above. You'll get 10 questions in mixed difficulty, using whichever question format fits the topic best: multiple choice, fill-the-blank, drag-to-order, true or false, word match, grid shading, an interactive clock face, label-the-diagram or sentence builder. Right answers add 8 to 12 points to your SmartScore; wrong ones take some off. Get to 80 and the concept is marked as complete.

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