4 free physical sciences resources for Year 5: 4 worksheets. Answers included.
Forces, motion, energy, light, sound and electricity. Year 5 brings fractions with different denominators, decimals, factors and multiples, written multiplication and division, and problem solving across several steps.
Students will practise: explaining how shadows form; classifying materials as transparent, translucent or opaque; describing reflection and how we see objects; identifying light sources; planning an investigation and identifying variables; explaining that sound is caused by vibrations; describing how sound travels through different materials; explaining what changes the pitch of a sound.
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Students learn that light travels in straight lines, how shadows form when an opaque object blocks light, how we see things by reflected…
Students learn that sounds are made by vibrations, that sound travels through solids, liquids and gases but not through empty space, how…
Students trace the path of light from a source, off an object and into the eye, learn the jobs of the cornea, pupil, iris, lens, retina…
Students learn that light bends (refracts) when it passes from one transparent material into another, explain why a pencil looks bent in…
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Forces, motion, energy, light, sound and electricity. At Year 5, our resources focus on: explaining how shadows form; classifying materials as transparent, translucent or opaque; describing reflection and how we see objects; identifying light sources.
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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