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Year 4 pathway
Year 4 science, step by step
Four steps that cover the whole of Year 4 science. Every step has short lessons, two experiments you can do at home, and a quiz at the end.
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Which drink is hardest on your teeth?
Does a fizzy drink stain and soften an eggshell more than water does?
Build a real food chain from your garden or park
Can you find every link of a food chain in one small patch outside?
Model the journey of your food
What happens to a cracker on its way through the digestive system?
Quiz
Step 1 quiz: Teeth, digestion and food chains
6 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
What this step covers
- •Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans
- •Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions
- •Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey
Try it yourself
Make your own minibeast key
Can you write yes-or-no questions that identify five minibeasts?
What happens under a paving slab?
Does covering a patch of grass change what lives there?
Quiz
Step 2 quiz: Living things and habitats
4 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
What this step covers
- •Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
- •Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things
Try it yourself
The ice cube melting race
Where does an ice cube melt fastest, and why?
Quiz
Step 3 quiz: States of matter
4 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
What this step covers
- •Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases
- •Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature
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Bottles and bands: changing pitch and volume
What changes the pitch of a note, and what changes how loud it is?
Conductor or insulator? Test ten things
Which materials in your house let electricity through?
See a sound being made
Can you prove that every sound comes from something vibrating?
Quiz
Step 4 quiz: Sound and electricity
8 questions from the lessons in this stage. No timer, and you can try again as many times as you like.
What this step covers
- •Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating
- •Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it
- •Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts
- •Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors
Where this leads
These four steps are the whole of Year 4 science, and they lead into Year 5: forces, earth and space, and life cycles.