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Year 5 Science Study Guides
Every lesson below links to a pupil-friendly study guide with key notes, vocabulary, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Earth, Sun and Moon
- How we see the Moon from Earth Study Guide
- More about the Sun (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Observing the Moon Study Guide
- Scientific theories from the past (non-statutory) Study Guide
- The movement of the Moon Study Guide
- The movement of the planets around the Sun Study Guide
- The planets in our solar system (non-statutory) Study Guide
- The relative sizes of the Earth, Sun and Moon (non-statutory) Study Guide
- The shape of Earth Study Guide
- The shape of objects in space Study Guide
- Why the Sun appears to move across the sky Study Guide
- Why we have day and night Study Guide
Forces including simple machines
- Air resistance: do and review Study Guide
- Air resistance: plan Study Guide
- Design and development of machines Study Guide
- Friction: do and review Study Guide
- Friction: plan Study Guide
- How gears can help us Study Guide
- How levers can help us Study Guide
- How pulleys can help us Study Guide
- Introduction to gravity Study Guide
- Pushes and pulls Study Guide
- Simple machines Study Guide
- Water resistance: do and review Study Guide
- Water resistance: plan Study Guide
Human development
- Analysing data about human height Study Guide
- Changes during puberty Study Guide
- Changes in adulthood Study Guide
- Changes in childhood Study Guide
- Changes in humans before and after birth Study Guide
- Changes in old age Study Guide
- Finding out about human height Study Guide
- Life expectancy (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- More about human development Study Guide
- Representing data about human height Study Guide
- The impact of population growth ( non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
Properties, changes and separating materials
- Bioplastics (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Burning plants as fuel (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Burning: an irreversible change Study Guide
- Everyday uses of thermal insulators Study Guide
- Greenhouse gases (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- How scientists work Study Guide
- Insulating our homes and schools (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- More irreversible changes Study Guide
- More reversible changes Study Guide
- Properties of materials Study Guide
- Providing safe drinking water (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Recovering insoluble solids Study Guide
- Removing salt from seawater (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Reversible changes of state Study Guide
- Rusting: an irreversible change Study Guide
- Separating soluble solids from solutions Study Guide
- Soluble and insoluble Study Guide
- Thermal insulators: do and review Study Guide
- Thermal insulators: plan Study Guide
- Uses of everyday materials Study Guide
Reproduction and life cycles: animals
- Amphibian life cycles Study Guide
- Animal gestation periods Study Guide
- Animal groups Study Guide
- Bird life cycles Study Guide
- Comparing the life cycles of amphibians and insects Study Guide
- Comparing the life cycles of mammals and birds Study Guide
- Endangered animals & life cycles (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Insect life cycles Study Guide
- Insects (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Mammal life cycles Study Guide
- More about endangered animals (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
Reproduction and life cycles: plants
- Asexual reproduction in plants Study Guide
- Conservation using seed banks (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Dangers to pollinators (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Parts of a flowering plant and what they do Study Guide
- Plant life cycles Study Guide
- Plant reproduction from cuttings Study Guide
- Plants from cuttings Study Guide
- Pollinators (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Selective breeding of plants (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide