Understanding Physical Processes

Containing 42 photocopiable sheets, this manual helps pupils to understand physical processes.

It focuses on forces and motion, electricity, light and sound, and the Sun and the Moon and their relationship to Earth.

The activities include: stretching and squashing forces; making things move; using magnets; and investigating electric circuits.The sheets seek to reinforce methods of scientific enquiry by requiring pupils to plan, carry out practical activities, consider evidence, and present ideas and conclusions.

There are a mixture of paper-based tasks and "hands-on" activities.

Symbols are used to indicate different types of activities: what to do, think and do, read, and investigate.

By encouraging written responses the sheets also aim to develop children's writing skills.The worksheets in the book overlap and several statements of the National Curriculum are covered several times in a number of different ways.

This is so that the worksheets can be used to repeat work on particular concepts to reinforce learning.