Term 1 review
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Choose an animal near your home. Write one structural and one behavioural adaptation it has.
Answers differ, for example a pigeon: wings (structural), flying to a shady ledge at noon (behavioural).
2
Draw the path of air from the nose to the blood. Label four parts.
Nose, windpipe, lungs, blood.
3
Make a code of three light signals with a torch and teach it to someone at home. How many messages out of five did they get right?
Answers differ; the child counts correct messages.
4
A train goes 240 km in 4 hours. What is its speed?
240 ÷ 4 = 60 km/h.
5
Write a claim, evidence and reasoning about why a heavy lorry is more dangerous in a collision than a bicycle.
Claim: a lorry causes a bigger change. Evidence: it has much more mass. Reasoning: more mass at the same speed means more kinetic energy.