Science · Year 4

Discover how pushes and pulls make things move, stop and change direction — and meet friction.

⏱ 18 min · 12 questions

Explore how plants and animals depend on their habitat to meet their needs and survive.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Find out how heating and cooling can change materials, and which changes can be reversed.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Discover how sounds are made by vibrations and how they travel to reach our ears.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Learn how levers, wheels, pulleys and ramps make work easier in everyday life.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Discover what the Moon is, why it shines, and how its shape seems to change each month.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Discover how special body features help animals survive in their habitats.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Trace how energy passes from plants to animals and how food chains link into food webs.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Explore how magnets attract and repel, which materials are magnetic, and what poles do.

⏱ 17 min · 8 questions

Discover how water turns into vapour and back again, and how this links to the water cycle.

⏱ 17 min · 8 questions

Discover how your skeleton supports your body and protects your organs.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Follow water as it rises into the sky, forms clouds and falls as rain.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Discover how animals use colour and shape to hide from predators and prey.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Explore the crackly, sticky force of static electricity and how it builds up.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Explore how heat moves from hot things to cooler things and how we measure it.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Discover how wind, water and ice slowly break down and move rocks over time.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Find out how to separate mixtures using sieving, filtering and magnets.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Discover the roles living things play in passing energy through a food chain.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Compare how insects grow, from full metamorphosis like a beetle to the simpler change of a grasshopper.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Find out why metal spoons get hot but wooden ones stay cool — conductors and insulators of heat.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Explore the resources Earth gives us, like water, soil, rocks and trees, and why we should care for them.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Discover how friction slows moving things down and how we use it and reduce it.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Discover how flowers, seeds and fruit help plants reproduce and spread to new places.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Explore how some solids dissolve in water to form a solution, and what speeds dissolving up.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Compare slow changes like erosion with fast changes like volcanoes and earthquakes.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Explore how magnets attract certain metals and how we use magnetism in everyday machines.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Hoot! Find out what owls eat and how they fit into a food chain.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

High, low, loud, soft! Explore how sounds can be high or low and loud or quiet.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Up in the sky! Learn how water vapour rises and makes clouds.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Lift with less! Discover how a lever helps you move heavy things.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Some animals are active at night. Discover the features that help them in the dark.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Iron can turn rusty when it meets air and water. Explore how and why metals rust.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Insulators slow down heat. Discover materials that keep things warm or cool.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Rocks form, break down and form again over a very long time. Explore the rock cycle.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Flowering plants grow, flower, make seeds and start again. Explore the stages of a plant's life cycle.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Some changes to materials can be reversed and some cannot. Tell the difference between reversible and irreversible changes.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Earth spins like a top, giving us day and night. Discover how Earth's rotation creates the daily cycle.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Magnets can pull together or push apart without touching. Explore poles and non-contact magnetic forces.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Discover that all living things are built from tiny building blocks called cells, too small to see without a microscope.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Investigate how shadows change length and direction through the day as the Sun appears to move across the sky.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions