Science · Year 5
34 interactive lessons to explore
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Our Solar System
Explore the Sun, the eight planets, and why we have day and night.
⏱ 22 min · 12 questions
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Food Chains and Energy
Trace how energy passes from the Sun to plants and animals along a food chain.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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The Water Cycle
Follow water as it evaporates, condenses, falls as rain and flows back, around and around.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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How Light Travels
Discover how light travels in straight lines, reflects off surfaces and lets us see.
⏱ 16 min · 7 questions
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Ecosystems and Living Things
Explore how plants, animals and their environment work together in an ecosystem.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Gravity: The Pull of the Earth
Discover how gravity pulls everything towards the Earth and why things fall down.
⏱ 16 min · 7 questions
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The Sun: Our Star
Learn what the Sun is, why it is so important, and how the Earth's spin gives us day and night.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Phases of the Moon
Find out why the Moon seems to change shape and how it orbits the Earth.
⏱ 20 min · 8 questions
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Classifying Vertebrates
Sort animals with backbones into mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish.
⏱ 20 min · 8 questions
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Forms of Energy
Discover that energy comes in many forms and can change from one form to another.
⏱ 19 min · 8 questions
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The Digestive System
Follow food on its journey through the body and learn how we get energy from it.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Planets of the Solar System
Take a tour of the eight planets that orbit our Sun.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Magnetic Forces at a Distance
Investigate how magnets pull and push without even touching.
⏱ 16 min · 7 questions
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Biomes Around the World
Explore Earth's big habitats, from hot deserts to icy poles and lush rainforests.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Changing State with Temperature
Explore how heating and cooling change matter between solid, liquid and gas.
⏱ 18 min · 6 questions
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Adaptations for Survival
Investigate the special features and behaviours that help living things survive.
⏱ 18 min · 6 questions
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Earth's Rotation and Day-Night
Discover how Earth spinning on its axis creates day and night.
⏱ 18 min · 6 questions
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Light, Colour and Prisms
Discover that white light is made of many colours and how we see colour.
⏱ 18 min · 6 questions
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Particles in Matter
Use the particle idea to explain why solids, liquids and gases behave so differently.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Nature's Decomposers
Meet the fungi and bacteria that break down dead things and recycle nutrients in an ecosystem.
⏱ 16 min · 7 questions
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Day, Night & Earth's Spin
Understand how Earth's rotation, not the Sun moving, causes day and night and changing shadows.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Forces All Around
Identify contact and non-contact forces and how balanced and unbalanced forces affect motion.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Tiny Living Things
Discover microbes like bacteria and fungi, and how they can be helpful or cause food to spoil.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Acids & Bases Around Us
Discover everyday acids and bases, how they taste and feel, and how indicators detect them.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Stars & Constellations
Explore what stars are, why they twinkle, and how people group them into patterns called constellations.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Levers & Pulleys
Discover how levers and pulleys are simple machines that make it easier to lift and move heavy loads.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Comparing the Planets
Big and small worlds! Compare the sizes and features of the planets.
⏱ 15 min · 6 questions
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Filtering Mixtures
Strain it out! Learn how filtering separates solids from liquids.
⏱ 15 min · 6 questions
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The Nervous System
Body messages! Discover how your brain and nerves work together.
⏱ 15 min · 6 questions
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Renewable & Non-Renewable Resources
Will it run out? Compare resources that can be replaced with those that cannot.
⏱ 15 min · 6 questions
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Pollinators & Plants
Bees, birds and insects help plants make seeds. Explore the role of pollinators.
⏱ 15 min · 6 questions
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Dissolving Faster
Temperature, stirring and size change how fast a solid dissolves. Test the factors.
⏱ 15 min · 6 questions
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Balanced Forces
When forces are balanced, things stay still or move steadily. Explore push and pull.
⏱ 15 min · 6 questions
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Weather vs Climate
Weather changes day to day, but climate is the pattern over many years. Tell them apart.
⏱ 15 min · 6 questions