3 free physical sciences resources for Year 3: 3 worksheets. Answers included.
Forces, motion, energy, light, sound and electricity. Year 3 is a big year: students learn the multiplication facts, add and subtract three-digit numbers with regrouping, read time to the minute and begin unit fractions.
Students will practise: identifying sources of heat; explaining that heat moves from hotter to colder objects; classifying materials as heat conductors or insulators; explaining how clothing keeps us warm; carrying out a fair test and recording results; reading a thermometer scale; using degrees Celsius; comparing and ordering temperatures.
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Students learn where heat comes from, that heat moves from hotter things to colder things, and which materials let heat through easily…
Students learn what temperature is, how to read a thermometer in degrees Celsius, compare temperatures such as freezing water, body…
Students explore the different ways heat can be produced — sunlight, burning fuels, rubbing surfaces together (friction), electricity…
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Forces, motion, energy, light, sound and electricity. At Year 3, our resources focus on: identifying sources of heat; explaining that heat moves from hotter to colder objects; classifying materials as heat conductors or insulators; explaining how clothing keeps us warm.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
Yes — every worksheet has an answer sheet. Maths answer sheets show the working; English tasks include model answers or success criteria.
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