Year 5 Science

This Levers and Pulleys Year 5 lesson explains how these mechanisms work. It will get your children thinking about ways in which we use 'simple mac...

The first lesson in this series looks at what a solution is and helps your class to investigate what happens to a variety of different materials wh...

This Year 5 Gears lesson describes how gears work together in a variety of different transmissions. It will challenge your children to consider how...

This lesson explores how materials that have been mixed with water can be separated again through filtering, sieving and evaporation. Your class wi...

This lesson gives your class the opportunity to identify and describe the properties of a variety of materials, and group them according to their c...

In this Year 5 Gravity lesson children will learn about the effects of gravity and, in particular, the ways in which falling objects of different s...

In this Water Resistance KS2 Year 5 Forces lesson, your children will consider the differences between moving on land and in water. They will discu...

In this Flowering Plant Reproduction KS2 Science lesson, your Year 5 children will build on their previous learning by finding out in detail about ...

Now that your class have investigated some reversible changes when certain materials are mixed together, they can look at some materials that produ...

This Seasons KS2 lesson pack provides you with the lesson plan, activity ideas, lesson slides and printable resources you'll need in order to teach...

This Year 5 friction investigation for KS2 explains what friction is and gets children thinking about instances of high and low friction. It includ...

This Asexual Reproduction in Plants KS2 lesson pack provides everything you need to teach your Year 5 children the ways in which plants 'clone' the...

The final lesson in this series challenges your class to think about why the properties of a variety of materials make them suitable for different ...

Your class now understand the difference between reversible and irreversible changes, so now they can explore which changes are reversible and whic...

This fiery lesson allows your class to explore what happens to materials when they are burned and whether the change is reversible or irreversible....

This Animal Reproduction lesson plan pack for Year 5 children contains everything you need (lesson plan, slideshow and printable teaching resources...

What is air resistance? How can we observe its effects? This Year 5 Air Resistance Experiment lesson clearly explains how this force affects moving...

In this Animal Life Cycles KS2 Science lesson, your Year 5 children will learn about the life cycles of animals living in a woodland environment, t...

Teach your Year 5 class about the movement of the three main celestial bodies using this complete Sun, Earth and Moon KS2 lesson pack. Using the de...

In this lesson, your Year 5 children will compare the life cycles of different animals, focusing on gestation periods and growth. After that, there...

This solar system KS2 lesson pack provides you with detailed lesson slides which inspire rich discussions with your class about the celestial objec...

In this lesson, children will find out all about the work of naturalists and animal behaviourists. They will go on to look at the impact of the res...

This lesson investigates Earth's rotation and the effects that this has on the planet. This day and night KS2 lesson pack explores how day and nigh...

Use this complete Phases of the Moon KS2 lesson pack to teach your Year 5 class about how we see different amounts of the Moon's lit surface at dif...