Scientific Enquiry Planning Pack for KS1 and KS2: Planning Slides, Model Answers and Tracker

Plan any scientific enquiry with your class, live on the whiteboard

This pack gives you a ready-made planning slide for each of the six types of scientific enquiry, for KS1 and KS2. Put the slide on your interactive whiteboard, talk it through with the class and type their ideas straight into the boxes. You plan the enquiry with the children in the lesson, so it adds nothing to your planning time.

What you get

• 31 presentation slides in PowerPoint and Google Slides, and in Canva as a presentation and a whiteboard. The Canva versions work with a free Canva account.
• Six KS2 and five KS1 planning slides: observing over time, pattern seeking, identifying, classifying and grouping, comparative testing, fair testing (KS2) and research using secondary sources.
• A model answer after every planning slide, so the class can see what a good plan looks like.
• Question stems from Year 1 to Year 6 for each type of enquiry.
• A whole-school coverage tracker. Click a term and turn it pink when a year group has done that type of enquiry.
• A 15-page A4 teacher guide with every model answer.
• An A4 sticker sheet of 40 mm round stickers, so each child's book shows which type of enquiry they did. Print it on 40 mm round labels (Avery L7780 or Label Planet LP24/40R), or on plain paper to cut out and glue in.

For subject leaders

Every class plans with the same steps, so enquiry looks the same from Year 1 to Year 6. The tracker shows which types each year group has covered and where the gaps are. The stickers make a book look quick, because you can see the range of enquiry at a glance.

For class teachers

KS1 slides have four steps and KS2 slides have six, so the questions suit the age group. The model answers show the children what a good plan looks like before they write their own. You can print any slide at A3 for groups to plan on paper.

How you receive it

You download the PowerPoint file, a Start Here sheet with the links to the Google Slides and Canva versions, the teacher guide and the sticker sheet. Click the link for the version you want, and you get your own copy to edit.

Goes well with

The Working Scientifically Skills Pack (£9.99) gives you a slide for each of the six working scientifically skills, with a model answer after each one.

Free progression displays

The six free Working Scientifically progression displays show how each skill develops from Year 1 to Year 6.

You can read about each type of enquiry in the blog series Progression in Science: Scientific Enquiry.