Science · Year 5

Explore the Sun, the eight planets, and why we have day and night.

⏱ 22 min · 12 questions

Trace how energy passes from the Sun to plants and animals along a food chain.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Follow water as it evaporates, condenses, falls as rain and flows back, around and around.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Discover how light travels in straight lines, reflects off surfaces and lets us see.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Explore how plants, animals and their environment work together in an ecosystem.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Discover how gravity pulls everything towards the Earth and why things fall down.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Learn what the Sun is, why it is so important, and how the Earth's spin gives us day and night.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Find out why the Moon seems to change shape and how it orbits the Earth.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Sort animals with backbones into mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Discover that energy comes in many forms and can change from one form to another.

⏱ 19 min · 8 questions

Follow food on its journey through the body and learn how we get energy from it.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Take a tour of the eight planets that orbit our Sun.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Investigate how magnets pull and push without even touching.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Explore Earth's big habitats, from hot deserts to icy poles and lush rainforests.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Explore how heating and cooling change matter between solid, liquid and gas.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Investigate the special features and behaviours that help living things survive.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Discover how Earth spinning on its axis creates day and night.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Discover that white light is made of many colours and how we see colour.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Use the particle idea to explain why solids, liquids and gases behave so differently.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Meet the fungi and bacteria that break down dead things and recycle nutrients in an ecosystem.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Understand how Earth's rotation, not the Sun moving, causes day and night and changing shadows.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Identify contact and non-contact forces and how balanced and unbalanced forces affect motion.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Discover microbes like bacteria and fungi, and how they can be helpful or cause food to spoil.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Discover everyday acids and bases, how they taste and feel, and how indicators detect them.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Explore what stars are, why they twinkle, and how people group them into patterns called constellations.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Discover how levers and pulleys are simple machines that make it easier to lift and move heavy loads.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Big and small worlds! Compare the sizes and features of the planets.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Strain it out! Learn how filtering separates solids from liquids.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Body messages! Discover how your brain and nerves work together.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Will it run out? Compare resources that can be replaced with those that cannot.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Bees, birds and insects help plants make seeds. Explore the role of pollinators.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Temperature, stirring and size change how fast a solid dissolves. Test the factors.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

When forces are balanced, things stay still or move steadily. Explore push and pull.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Weather changes day to day, but climate is the pattern over many years. Tell them apart.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Scientists sort living things into groups by their features. Explore how living things are grouped and why.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

All matter is made of tiny particles. Explore how their arrangement explains solids, liquids and gases.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

The Moon's gravity pulls on the ocean to make tides. Explore how the sea rises and falls each day.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Heat energy moves from hot to cold by conduction, convection and radiation. Explore how heat travels.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Explore how living things use oxygen from the air to release energy from food, and breathe out carbon dioxide.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Discover how igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks form and how rocks slowly change over time.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions