WHIZZ POP BANG is a monthly magazine brimming with top-quality science for children aged six to twelve.
Our NEW downloadable resources link hands-on science experiments with key curriculum topics for years 2 to 6. The resources include lesson plans, hands-on investigations, PowerPoint presentations, games, science texts and guided reading comprehensions – all aimed at making science fun and engaging for children and teachers alike!
WHIZZ POP BANG is a monthly magazine brimming with top-quality science for children aged six to twelve.
Our NEW downloadable resources link hands-on science experiments with key curriculum topics for years 2 to 6. The resources include lesson plans, hands-on investigations, PowerPoint presentations, games, science texts and guided reading comprehensions – all aimed at making science fun and engaging for children and teachers alike!
This explanation text for P4 and P5 describes in detail how catapults work. For more than 2,000 years, mechanical catapults have been used in wars around the world. The Romans were masters at using these fearsome machines to attack and destroy their enemies’ strongholds. The text also includes instructions to make a simple catapult!
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question and answer sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
This biography text for year 3, linking to the topic rocks, describes the life of famous scientist Mary Anning. She is known for hunting fossils and in 1823 she discovered the first complete Plesiosaurus to have ever been found. She also found a flying reptile, now called a pterosaur, which was displayed in the British Museum in London. She started her own fossil shop where she could display her fossil finds to visitors. Many famous fossil collectors and geologists came from far and wide to buy them.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
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Linking to the topics Earth and space and space, year 5 and P6 pupils will set up their own investigation to find out what happens to the diameter of a crater when a meteor is dropped from different heights.
This pack includes:
A differentiated lesson plan
A PowerPoint presentation explaining how craters are formed.
A map of the Moon.
Simple to resource! The items you will need:
flour
coco powder
desiccated coconut
trays
metre rulers
30 cm rulers
rocks and marbles
Linking to the topics sound and vibrations and waves, this fun, hands-on lesson pack is aimed at year 4. Pupils will discover how sound travels by making a simple string telephone.
This pack includes:
A differentiated lesson plan with an explanation of the science behind the investigation
A PowerPoint presentation to help run the lesson.
An instructions sheet
Simple to resource! The items you will need:
String
Cups
Scissors
Pencils
This resource includes a differentiated lesson plan linked to the curriculum, a PowerPoint presentation explaining the sun and a printable template to make a sundial.
Linking to the topics Earth and space and space, year 5 and P4 pupils will investigate how Earth travels around the Sun by making a sundial. This lesson will take place over short intervals throughout one day, when children will mark the end of the shadow on the sundial, demonstrating how the Sun moves across the sky due to the Earth’s rotation.
This pack includes:
A differentiated lesson plan
A PowerPoint presentation explaining the Sun
A printable template to make the sundial
Simple to resource! The items you will need:
Modelling clay
You may have heard of the Wright brothers who made and flew the first aeroplane in 1903, but two other brothers actually invented human flight more than a century earlier! A biography text for upper key stage two.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question and answer sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
This non-chronological report for year 2 , linking to the topics of living things and habitats, investigates a nocturnal mammal, the badger. The text explains what they eat, where they live, their excellent sense of smell and much more.
The downloadable reading pack includes:
Two differentiated A3 reading spreads for you to print.
Reading comprehension question and answer sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
This interview text for year 5 and P6, linking to the topic Earth and space, explains what is was like to live on the ISS (International Space Station) for 200 days!
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question and answer sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
This biography text for year 2, linking to the topic Plants , describes the life of the historical scientist and author Beatrix Potter. Beatrix was curious about nature and made lots of paintings. Her paintings are so accurate that other people have used them to identify different species of plants and fungi. Find out about her life and how she developed as a scientist, as well as a well-known author.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
Two differentiated A3 reading spreads for you to print.
Reading comprehension question and answer sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
A non-fiction biography text for year 6 and P7, linking to the topics Living things and habitats and Biodiversity and interdependence. Carl Linnaeus was a botanist and doctor whose ideas on naming and sorting organisms are still used today. Carl divided all things into three kingdoms: animal, vegetable and mineral. Kingdoms were divided into classes, then orders, then genera and finally into species. (In modern classification, we also include the ranks of family and phylum.) Carl used binomial classification, where every living thing is named after its genus and its species.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question and answer sheets.
Discussion questions to be used as a whole class or with a partner.
This interview text for year 5 and P6, linking to the topic Earth and space, delves into what it is really like to travel in space. Tim Peake describes what it feels like to take off in a rocket and what it is like to be weightless, as well as his scariest moments. A must-read for your aspiring astronauts.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
Sign up at whizzpopbang.com/schools to access all of the teaching resources.
This is a FREE example of one of our lesson packs. In this lesson pack, pupils will learn the order of the planets by building their own version of the solar system using just paper, scissors and glue. This pack includes:
A differentiated lesson plan
A PowerPoint presentation explaining what a planet is
A printable template to make the solar system
A printable mnemonic
Two guided reading spreads: Interview with a Martian (sort of!) and the sensational scientist Nicolaus Copernicus
We hope you enjoy using this resource and we’d be really grateful if you could leave us a review. We also have lots more top-quality teaching resources available in our TES resource shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/WhizzPopBang. Your school can also subscribe to access to our entire collection of science resources via our website.
We’ve just launched a new individual membership option so teachers can access all of our amazing resources for just £20 for the whole year.
An activity for year 3 linking with the topic plants. A hands-on lesson in which your pupils will learn about the role bees and insects play in pollination.
This pack includes:
A lesson plan linked to the curriculum
A PowerPoint presentation
Printable instructions
Printable flowers and bees for the activity
Instructions to create a waggle dance, like bees do!
Simple to resource! The items you will need:
Two different coloured powders
Paintbrush
A fun investigation for year 5 and P6, linking to the topic properties and changes of materials, which uses vitamin tablets and water as the fuel to make a rocket launch. Pupils will plan a fair test and record what happens.
This downloadable pack includes:
A differentiated lesson plan which includes a scientific explanation.
A PowerPoint presentation explaining how a rocket launches, as well as a quick teacher-led experiment.
A printable group planning sheet.
A rocket template to print.
Three printable texts to use for guided reading, including an interview with astronaut Tim Peake.
Simple to resource! The items you will need:
Tall, sturdy glass
Tube of effervescent (fizzy) Vitamin tablets
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Linking to the topicliving things and habitats year 5 pupils will learn about an amphibian’s and an insect’s life cycles on the topic of ponds. Pupils will make their own 3D model of a life cycle and compare it with mammals and birds to find out the similarities and differences.
This pack includes:
A differentiated lesson plan
A PowerPoint presentation explaining amphibian and insect life cycles
Printable instructions
A Fishing Fun game
Images of different animals to use a a visual reference when making their models
Simple to resource! The items you will need:
Modelling clay
Thick cardboard
Glue gun
This non-chronological report for year 4, linking to the topic living things and habitats, investigates owls. The text explains how the nocturnal birds of prey hunt, how they can fly silently, why they need excellent vision and how they eat.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
Sign up at whizzpopbang.com/schools to access all of the teaching resources.
This biography text for year 6, linking to the topic evolution and inheritance, describes how Gregor Mendel discovered the basic laws of genetics – long before we even knew genes existed! He worked tirelessly for eight years breeding pea plants, to dispel the theory that characteristics were passed from parents to their children by ‘blending’. He worked out that characteristics like pea colour and shape were passed on in sets of two. He found some invisible factors that, nearly 80 years on, scientists would discover were genes that are carried in our DNA.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
A reading comprehension question sheet.
An answer sheet including the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
Sign up at whizzpopbang.com/schools to access all of the teaching resources.
Gliding along deep under the surface of the sea, submarines are the ultimate human-made swimming machines. This explanation text , linking to the topic Forces, explains how submarines works. The diagram has expanded captions explaining how each part works.
This downloadable reading pack includes:
An A3 reading spread for you to print.
Reading comprehension question and answer sheets, differentiated using our magnifying glasses key (on the bottom right). One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
In this lesson pack for year 5, linking to the topic forces, pupils will investigate how gears work and their purpose. Using bicycles, pupils will locate the gears and then count the number of rotations of the back wheel as it uses different gears. By the end of the lesson they will have gained an understanding of how gears work.
This lesson pack includes:
A lesson plan with cross-curricular links
A PowerPoint presentation explaining bicycle gears
An A4 How Stuff Works text on bikes
This is a FREE example of one of our science-based reading comprehensions, ideal for cross-curricular learning. This guided reading pack includes:
Question sheets differentiated using our magnifying glasses key. One magnifying glass indicates easier and two means harder.
An answer sheet showing the objective for each question, which is taken from the reading national curriculum.
The text for you to print.
We hope you enjoy using this resource and we’d be really grateful if you could leave us a review. We also have lots more top-quality teaching resources available in our TES resource shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/WhizzPopBang. Your school can also subscribe to access to our entire collection of science resources via our website.
We’ve just launched a new individual membership option so teachers can access all of our amazing resources for just £20 for the whole year.