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1 Living things
1.1 Animals and plants alive!
Worksheet 1A, 1B, 1C What living things can we find?

Worksheet 1.1A: Learners colour in the eight animals, three trees and all the grass and bushes.
Worksheet 1.1B: In addition, learners correctly label flower, sheep, horse and bird.
Worksheet 1.1C: In addition, learners correctly label cow and goat, then write a meaningful sentence that
includes the words ‘horse’, ‘biggest’ and ‘animal’, such as ‘The horse is the biggest animal’.

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1.2 Parts of a plant

Worksheet 1.2A, 1.2B Build a plant
Accept any plant put together correctly with roots connected to stem, stem connected
to leaves and flower attached to plant. Learners should also write the names of the
plant parts.

Worksheet 1.2C Build a plant

The roots get water for the plant.
The stem moves water to the leaves.
The leaf makes food for the plant.
The flower makes seeds.
These four labels are cut out and added to the correct plant part on the worksheet.

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2 Sound
2.3 Sounds move
Worksheet 2.3A, 2.3B and 2.3C Near and far sounds

louder quieter

near far away

near far away

near far away

The sound is louder when you are near.

The sound is quieter when you are far away.
When you are near to a sound it is louder.
When you are far away from a sound it is quieter.

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3 Materials in my world
3.1 Different materials
Worksheet 3.1A, 3.1B, 3.1C What else is made of…
Accept any reasonable item for each of the materials listed on the worksheets.

3.2 Properties of materials

Worksheet 3.2A, 3.2B, 3.2C Matching materials to properties
Accept any reasonable material for each of the properties listed on the worksheets.

3.4 Changing materials

Worksheet 3.4A, 3.4B, 3.4C Testing elastic materials

sponge paper rubber band paper clip

elastic ☑ elastic ☐ elastic ☑ elastic ☑
not elastic ☐ not elastic ☑ not elastic ☐ not elastic ☐

Paper clips are elastic if they are only bent a little. If the bend is too large,
then they are no longer elastic.

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4 The Earth
4.4 Soil
Worksheet 4.4A All about soil
1 Soil is more than just dirt.
2 In the soil we can see rocks.
3 Many parts of the Earth’s surface are made of soil.
Any animal that lives in the soil, for example, an earthworm.

Worksheet 4.4B All about soil

1 One soil is from the garden, the other is from the park.
2 Soil always has bits of rock in it.
3 Soil always has living things in it.
4 Soil always has the bodies of things that were alive in it.
5 Soil is very good, all our plants grow in it.
Examples could be earthworms, rocks, snails, shells.

Worksheet 4.4C Comparing soil

1 The soils both have rock, living things and bodies of things that were alive.
2 One soil is lighter the other is darker.
3 The park soil has larger bits of rock.
4 The garden soil has less rock in it.
5 The garden soil has more living things.
6 Garden
7 It has more living things that birds could eat.

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5 Humans
5.1 Our bodies
Worksheet 5.1 Make a person
Accept any suitable picture of a human with correct labels.

Stretch sheet
The four completed sentences should agree with the person made on Worksheet 5.1.
For example the sentence ‘My person will have long legs’ is correct if the person made
has long legs.
The body part labels should point to the correct part of the body.

5.3 Similar and different

Worksheet 5.3A, 5.3B, 5.3C Sorting friends
The answers for these worksheets will depend on the individual classmates chosen
by learners for the activity.

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6 Forces
6.2 Push and pull forces
Worksheet 6.2A Pushing forces
Circles drawn around each bat – in mini tennis, table tennis
Circles drawn around on hand for each player – in throwing and catching
Circles around at least one foot – in soccer

Worksheet 6.2B Pushing balls

Green circles drawn around each bat – in mini tennis, table tennis,
around one hand for each player – in throwing and catching
around at least one foot per player – in soccer
Red circles drawn around each bat – in mini tennis, table tennis
Circles drawn around one hand for each player – in throwing and catching
Circles around feet – in soccer

Worksheet 6.2C Making balls stop and move

Picture of any ball sport such as golf, American football, netball, baseball, rugby, softball,
basketball, cricket. Also allow other sports where pucks, shuttlecocks, etc are moved.
1 In the games the players use a pushing force to start the ball moving.
2 In mini tennis and table tennis children use a hand to push the bat.
3 In each game the children can use a push force to stop the ball.
4 When they pick the ball off the ground the children use their hands to pull the ball up.

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