Age Group Archives

Early Years Magnetic Fun

8 December 2023/in Early Years/by Lucy Mottram

This worksheet provides a plan for a lesson will help younger children understand Magnets. Magnets are used to separate aluminium cans from steel cans in the recycling industry, as well as to extract ferrous metals from bottom ash in Energy from Waste plants in Devon.

Early Learning Goals

Physical development – ELG: fine motor skills – explored using a magnet and handling of different materials.
Understanding the world – ELG: the natural world: explore the natural world around them and understand some important processes in the natural world.
Literacy- ELG: comprehension – Use and understand recently introduced vocabulary during discussions.

Electrical Equipment Worksheets KS3/4

7 December 2023/in Electricals, KS3, KS4, Science, Subject Link/by Lucy Mottram

We use electrical equipment every day at home, work and at school. Whether a piece of toast in the morning, a nice cup of tea or photocopied worksheets, almost everything we do in the modern world relies on electricity to power it. But do we actually know how they work and what to do with them at the end of their lives? The science of electrical equipment explains how they work and helps us to dispose or recycle items safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.

The worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind the electrical equipment they use at home.

Electrical Equipment Worksheets

Electrical Equipment Quizzes

Key Stage 3/4 Worksheet:

(pdf) Download KS3/4 Worksheet: The Physics of a Toaster

(Word) Download KS3/4 Worksheet: The Physics of a Toaster

Link to KS3/4 Zone YouTube Playlist about Electrical Equipment and Toasters

Home Education Worksheet:

(pdf) Download Home Education Worksheet: Design a new pylon!

(Word) Download Home Education Worksheet: Design a new pylon!

Visit our Home Education pages for more Activities suitable for Home Learning.

Link to Home Education Playlist about Electrical Pylons

Electrical Equipment Worksheets KS2

7 December 2023/in Electricals, KS2, Science, Subject Link, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6/by Lucy Mottram

We use electrical equipment every day at home, work and at school. Whether a piece of toast in the morning, a nice cup of tea or photocopied worksheets, almost everything we do in the modern world relies on electricity to power it. But do we actually know how they work and what to do with them at the end of their lives? The science of electrical equipment explains how they work and helps us to dispose or recycle items safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.

The worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind the electrical equipment they use at home.

Electrical Equipment Worksheets

Electrical Equipment Quizzes

Key Stage 2 Worksheet:

(pdf) Download KS2 Worksheet: Ice Cube Tray Battery

(Word) Download KS2 Worksheet: Ice Cube Tray Battery

Link to Youtube Playlist KS2 Electricals: Science of Materials

Electrical Equipment Worksheets KS1

7 December 2023/in Electricals, KS1, Science, Subject Link, Y1, Y2/by Lucy Mottram

We use electrical equipment every day at home, work and at school. Whether a piece of toast in the morning, a nice cup of tea or photocopied worksheets, almost everything we do in the modern world relies on electricity to power it. But do we actually know how they work and what to do with them at the end of their lives? The science of electrical equipment explains how they work and helps us to dispose or recycle items safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.

The worksheets on this page will help students at KS1 (Year 1 & 2; 5-7 years old) understand the science behind the electrical equipment they use at home.

Electrical Equipment Worksheets

Electrical Equipment Quizzes

Key Stage 1 Worksheet:

(pdf) Download KS1 Worksheet: Sorting Salt & Pepper

(Word) Download KS1 Worksheet: Sorting Salt & Pepper

Compost Life Cycle

6 December 2023/in Compost, Food Waste, General, KS1/by Lucy Mottram

This sheet will help younger children (KS1) understand the Grow-Cook-Eat-Compost cycle. It links to National Curriculum Science in Year 1 & 2: Plants.

There’s also a simple pea and bean recipe below to help enjoy a small crop of peas and beans from a school garden.

Cardboard Worksheets: Home Activity

11 September 2023/in All, Cardboard, Home Education, Science, Subject Link/by Lucy Mottram

Cardboard is one of the most useful materials in our modern world. Light, adaptable, cheap to make and easy to reuse or recycle it is ideal for jobs such as food packaging and parcel delivery. The science of materials helps understand the life cycle, properties and recycling. These investigations will help students understand how to recycle materials safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.

The worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind the adaptable and useful material that is cardboard.

To find out more about card and cardboard visit our materials webpage.

Downloadable Worksheets

Videos

Home Education Worksheet:

(pdf) Download Home Education Worksheet: : What can you make
from a cardboard box?

(Word) Download Home Education Worksheet: : What can you make
from a cardboard box?

Link to Home Education Playlist about Cardboard

Visit our Home Education pages for more Activities suitable for Home Learning.

Properties of Materials Worksheets

24 April 2023/in All, Cardboard, Science, Subject Link/by Lucy Mottram

The Science of Materials allows us to find out what stuff is made of and their properties. It determines what we use for what purpose, ie. not using chocolate to make teapots or concrete to make trampolines!

The activity described in the worksheet below allows KS2 students to test a variety of materials and record the properties of each of a range of samples. This is the activity that our Waste Education Team deliver on our Free School Trips.

Material scientists use the properties of materials to sort out recycling too – find out how in the video below about Material Recycling Facilities – see if you can spot all of the properties used to sort out different materials into clean streams for recycling into new stuff.

Downloadable Worksheet

Science of Materials Activity (Pinbrook) Cover

Key Stage 2 Worksheet:

(Word) Download KS2 Worksheet: Science of Materials

Video Link to Properties of Materials

Cardboard Worksheets

4 April 2022/in All, Cardboard, Science, Subject Link/by Lucy Mottram

Cardboard is one of the most useful materials in our modern world. Light, adaptable, cheap to make and easy to reuse or recycle it is ideal for jobs such as food packaging and parcel delivery. The science of materials helps understand the life cycle, properties and recycling. These investigations will help students understand how to recycle materials safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.

The worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind the adaptable and useful material that is cardboard.

To find out more about card and cardboard visit our materials webpage.

Downloadable Worksheets

Quizzes

Visit our Home Education pages for more Activities suitable for Home Learning.

Electrical Equipment Worksheets

28 January 2022/in All, Electricals, Science, Subject Link/by Lucy Mottram

We use electrical equipment every day at home, work and at school. Whether a piece of toast in the morning, a nice cup of tea or photocopied worksheets, almost everything we do in the modern world relies on electricity to power it. But do we actually know how they work and what to do with them at the end of their lives? The science of electrical equipment explains how they work and helps us to dispose or recycle items safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.

The worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind the electrical equipment they use at home.

Electrical Equipment Worksheets

Electrical Equipment Quizzes

Key Stage 1 Worksheet:

(pdf) Download KS1 Worksheet: Sorting Salt & Pepper

(Word) Download KS1 Worksheet: Sorting Salt & Pepper

Key Stage 2 Worksheet:

(pdf) Download KS2 Worksheet: Ice Cube Tray Battery

(Word) Download KS2 Worksheet: Ice Cube Tray Battery

Link to Youtube Playlist KS2 Electricals: Science of Materials

Key Stage 3/4 Worksheet:

(pdf) Download KS3/4 Worksheet: The Physics of a Toaster

(Word) Download KS3/4 Worksheet: The Physics of a Toaster

Link to KS3/4 Zone YouTube Playlist about Electrical Equipment and Toasters

Home Education Worksheet:

(pdf) Download Home Education Worksheet: Design a new pylon!

(Word) Download Home Education Worksheet: Design a new pylon!

Visit our Home Education pages for more Activities suitable for Home Learning.

Link to Home Education Playlist about Electrical Pylons

Paper Worksheets

28 October 2021/in All, KS2, KS3, Materials Link, Paper, Science, Subject Link/by Lucy Mottram

Paper is everywhere! From our earliest pictures stuck to the fridge by our parents to the letter telling us about the latest supermarket offers, even in our modern society, paper is still used for writing and drawing or passing on information. And who can imagine a world without toilet roll! From magazines to junk mail there are lots of ways to reduce the amount of paper we use in our everyday lives. Check out our resource pages to find out more about Paper.

Paper can be recycled everywhere in Devon from the kerbside (see our District Recycling Sheets). To find out what happens after the recycling truck leaves your doorstep watch our video about how paper is recycled in Devon.

Downloadable Worksheets and Paper Quizzes

We have created Science of Materials: Paper worksheets for all ages. Each worksheet is accompanied by a quiz to assess learning. Some also include a playlist of relevant videos.

We hope the worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind paper. We hope doing these activities will create better scientists and more critical thinkers. We know the wicked problems (complex and difficult issues like climate change and biodiversity loss) we are leaving the next generation will need some innovative thinking to solve them!

Why not try out our fun quiz at the bottom of the page too!