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My daughter is a year 6 pupil, working in the middle of level 5, has passed her 11+ and is a general all rounder apart from...
SCIENCE!!!
She really struggles with science, especially tests. She just done some levelled testing at school achieving only 50% - roughly 4b. This doesn't worry me, I have to say, you can't be good at everything!
However, it really seems to bother my daughter. Every test that she takes and gets a poor result seems to knock her confidence even further. For example, at the end of year 5 she achieved 4a in her tests so it looks like she has gone backwards!
Can anybody recommend some good science internet sites, books, etc that would be suitable for her? She is very eager to improve before her SATS in May.
SCIENCE!!!
She really struggles with science, especially tests. She just done some levelled testing at school achieving only 50% - roughly 4b. This doesn't worry me, I have to say, you can't be good at everything!
However, it really seems to bother my daughter. Every test that she takes and gets a poor result seems to knock her confidence even further. For example, at the end of year 5 she achieved 4a in her tests so it looks like she has gone backwards!
Can anybody recommend some good science internet sites, books, etc that would be suitable for her? She is very eager to improve before her SATS in May.
There are a whole host of Horrible Science books on various topics.
http://www.scholastic.co.uk/zone/book_horr-science.htm which are very readable. I think they help to develop an interest. The CGP books are also very good and cover exactly what is needed at each stage. www.cgpbooks.co.uk/
http://www.scholastic.co.uk/zone/book_horr-science.htm which are very readable. I think they help to develop an interest. The CGP books are also very good and cover exactly what is needed at each stage. www.cgpbooks.co.uk/
Sorry, I should have said try these.
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/
www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/Curriculum/Science.htm
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/Science/...
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/
www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/Curriculum/Science.htm
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/Science/...
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I'd try to find out where she is falling down first. Is it her basic knowledge of terms and ideas? Or is she unable to interpret graphs and experiments, and make conclusions from them?
I suggest you download a couple of science papers from 'st-josephs-pickering.n-yorks.sch.uk/past-test-papers.htm'. I got this address from the 'SATS' section of 11+ forum. Have her do the test and see where her weakness lies.
If it's simply information not retained, then you could always go through CGP Science. It's a bit dry in places but quite colourful. You could always make it more interesting by practical demonstration e.g. when you do the flower, have a flower for you to examine parts of it.
For how to interpret experiments, you might want to use some Lonsdale Revision guides (lonsdalesrg.co.uk) which have workbooks with graphs and questions on what an experiment proves. I am assuming they are still in print although my copy is quite old.
Hope this helps.
I suggest you download a couple of science papers from 'st-josephs-pickering.n-yorks.sch.uk/past-test-papers.htm'. I got this address from the 'SATS' section of 11+ forum. Have her do the test and see where her weakness lies.
If it's simply information not retained, then you could always go through CGP Science. It's a bit dry in places but quite colourful. You could always make it more interesting by practical demonstration e.g. when you do the flower, have a flower for you to examine parts of it.
For how to interpret experiments, you might want to use some Lonsdale Revision guides (lonsdalesrg.co.uk) which have workbooks with graphs and questions on what an experiment proves. I am assuming they are still in print although my copy is quite old.
Hope this helps.
Red cabbage indicator looks interesting, we haven't done that one, but found instructions here http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa012803a.htm
The bicarb and vinegar can have a bit of red food colouring added into an eggcup in the middle of a paper cone to make a fabulously messy volcano.
Put bicarb and colouring in first, then add the vinegar to get the acid - alkali reaction.
Have fun.
The bicarb and vinegar can have a bit of red food colouring added into an eggcup in the middle of a paper cone to make a fabulously messy volcano.
Put bicarb and colouring in first, then add the vinegar to get the acid - alkali reaction.
Have fun.
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My favourite is... take a container... a large 4 or 6 pint plastic milk bottle for example... for best effect it should be metal but plastic will do... put an egg cup of water in it and then place it open in the microwave... heat for 3 mins to turn the water into lots of steam.... put the cap on (be careful not to burn yourself!)... and then wait for the contraption to cool down...Y wrote:Best science experiment I ever did...
A simpler experiment... involves dropping something... anything... gravity is such a cool effect... and hard to explain!
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SVE
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