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Workbook answers
1 Living things
1.1 Animals and plants alive! 1.2 Parts of a plant
Focus Focus
1 1
flower

stem

leaf

roots

Practice
2 Living: lion, butterfly, tree
Non-living: water, Sun, chair Practice
Challenge 2
stem
3 A fish is alive.
A rock is not alive.
A cat can move.
roots
A cat is alive.
Water does not need food.
Water is not alive.
leaf
4 The tree is big/tall.
The leaves are small/big.

flower

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Challenge Challenge
3 3 2 3 Plant A was grown in the light.
Leaf
Plant B has small leaves.
Stem
Stem Plant B has a tall stem.
Plant B was grown in the dark.
Root 4 The plant will not grow.
Root
The stem will not grow.
4 1
The leaves will grow again.
Flower
1.4 Plants need water
Leaf Leaf
Stem Focus
Stem
1 a drawing of a wilted plant
Root Root a drawing of a healthy plant
Practice
4 a 
There are only flowers in picture 4 because
flowers are the last thing to grow on a plant. 2 The three missing drawings should be

b 
There is a root, stem and leaf on each Day 3 wilted plant
picture because the roots grow first, then Day 5 wilted plant
the stem and leaves grow.
Day 6 wilted plant
1.3 Plants and light Challenge
Focus 3 The bricks should be coloured in to show the
height of the plants as below.
1

Dark Light

Practice
2 Plants with light: short stem, green leaves,
big leaves
Plants in the dark: tall stem, yellow leaves, The height is less on day 5 and 6.
small leaves
The plant wilted because it had no water.

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2 Sound
2.1 Sound sources 2.3 Sounds move
Focus Focus
1 The learner should circle sources of sound 1
including: people, bird, telephone, computer,
musical instruments, bell, clock

Practice
2 Nice and not so nice sounds – accept any
reasonable answers.

Challenge
3 Indoor sources of sound – cooking, TV,
shower
Indoor and outdoor sources and sound – a
drum, phone, child
Outdoor sources of sound – an eagle, car rain,
aeroplane

2.2 Loud and quiet

Focus
1 Bubble blowing – quiet
Rain – loud or quiet
Bulldozer – loud
Volcano – loud
Ant – quiet
Bird – loud or quiet
Practice
2 Loud sounds – fire engine, person shouting,
teacher shouting
Quiet sounds – sleeping baby, library
classroom
Challenge
3 Volcano – loudest
Train – loud
Curtains closing – quiet
Tap dripping – very quiet
Tap with lots of water coming out – quiet

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Practice Challenge
2 When a sound source near
3 G C R T V Z Y V D Y
is far away the sound is D M H S L M T Z K R
When a sound source far away F E Y A O O S P L B
is near the sound is
A T A Z N U U O X Z
Sound sources are quiet
louder when you are R R D R T G R D F D
Sounds sources are loud W M A E S D E C N T
softer when you are
N E I M L B X U E N
N U T P D D O N L T
Q B G T M S X N D L

3 Materials in my world
3.1 Different materials
Focus

glass

rock

wood

paper

plastic

fabric

metal

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Practice 3.3 Sorting materials

2 a rubber Focus
b paper 1 Plastic – bin 4
c rock Paper – bin 2
d fabric
Metal – bin 3
e plastic
Glass – bin 1
Challenge 2 Bin 4
3 a The books are made from paper.
Practice
b The clothes are made from fabric.
3 Hard: metal, plastic, rock, glass
c The water bottles are made from plastic.
Soft: fabric, rubber
d The paper clip is made from metal.
Challenge
e The castle is made from rock.
4 a Fabric is flexible.
f The can is made from metal.
b Metal is strong.
3.2 Properties of materials c Glass is hard.

Focus d All of these are shiny.

1 a hard e All of these are flexible.

b strong f All of these are rigid.

c soft 3.4 Changing materials

d hard
Focus
e weak
1 a bend  b  twist
Practice c stretch   d  compress
2 a The brick is strong and dull.
Practice
b The rubber balloon is shiny and weak.
2 a The paper has been twisted.
c The rock is hard and rough.
b The pipe has been bent.
d The glass bottle is shiny and smooth.
c The balloon is being compressed.
e The paper is smooth and weak.
d The rope has been twisted.
Challenge
e The fruit has been compressed.
3 The mirror is made from glass because
a 
this material is shiny.
b The T shirt is made from fabric because
this material is soft.
c The balloon is made from rubber because
this material is flexible.
d The bridge is made from metal because
this material is rigid.
e The castle is made from rock because this
material is strong.

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Challenge 4 a Zara cannot compress the metal.

3 b Zara can compress/bend the fabric.
Material compress bend
c Zara cannot compress the wood.
paper yes yes
metal no yes d Zara can compress/bend the rubber.

fabric yes yes e Zara cannot compress/bend the glass.

wood no no
rubber yes yes
glass no no

4 The Earth
4.1 Planet Earth 4.2 Heat and light from the Sun
Focus Focus
1 The Earth is like a ball. 1 music – yes
There is land on Earth. observing – yes
There are seas on Earth. photographing – yes
Practice playing football – yes

2 living underground – no
the Earth is like a ball
Practice
2 a Light from the Sun helps us to see.
b Light from the Sun can hurt our eyes.
c At night there is no light from the Sun.
land
covered land d The Sun gives us heat to keep us warm.
by a sea
e Without heat from the Sun we would be
very cold.

land covered by a lake

Challenge
3 a The Earth is like very large ball.
b The Earth is a planet.
c The surface of the Earth is made of land.
d Some land is covered with water.
e Earth is home to lots of living things.

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Challenge Practice
3 3 A Chalk
B Limestone
night C Granite
day
Challenge
4 a The hardest rock was granite.
b The softest rock was sandstone.
c The granite broke the stick because it is
hard.
Earth
d Sandstone did not damage the stick
because it is soft.

4 He can see the day side of the Earth. 4.4 Soil

Focus
4.3 Rocks
1 Soil is just dirt
Focus
Plants only need water.
1 Rocks should be correctly named as granite
and slate. Practice
2 Granite is harder 2 worm, beetle, earwig, roots, bone, leaf, stone
Slate is smoother
Challenge
3 Both rocks are strong.
Both rocks are rigid. 3 The soil from the school garden.
It is better because it has rocks, living things
and living things that have died.

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5.2 Our amazing senses

5 Humans
Focus
5.1 Our bodies 1 Red: Orange, chocolate, coffee and banana
Focus coloured in red.
Blue: Mobile phone, tambourine and drum
1 coloured in blue.
hair
Practice
eye ear 2 hearing
nose
mouth

shoulder

chest
taste
elbow
tummy sight

hip
hand
finger

knee
smell
touch

foot
toe
3 a You hear with your ears.
b You see with your eyes.
c You taste with your mouth.
Practice
d You smell with your nose.
2 A This girl has hurt her foot.
B This man has hurt his knee. Challenge
C This woman has hurt her hand. 4 yes no
D This boy has hurt his eye. 1 prediction was right
E This girl has hurt her finger. 2 predictions were wrong

Challenge 5.3 Similar and different

3 Bill: 7 Bricks, Arun: 5 Bricks, Fen: 6 Bricks Focus
Amna has the longest feet
1 Answers are learner-dependent.
Arun has the shortest feet

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Practice Practice
2 a They have different skin colour. Yes ❒
✓ No ❒ 2 a Vegetables Healthy ❒
✓ Not healthy ❒
b They are a different height. Yes ❒ No ❒
✓ b Cake Healthy ❒ Not healthy ❒
✓

c They have similar hair. Yes ❒ No ❒

✓ c Eggs Healthy ❒
✓ Not healthy ❒
d They both have eyes. Yes ❒
✓ No ❒ d Noodles Healthy ❒
✓ Not healthy ❒
e They are both boys. Yes ❒ No ❒
✓ e Sweets Healthy ❒ Not healthy ❒
✓

Challenge Challenge
3 Short: Sam, Chi, Obi Tall: Umar, Dan 3 a All animals need water. (or air)
Black hair: Umar, Obi, Sam Grey hair: Chi, b All animals need air. (or water)
Dan
c All animals need healthy food.
5.4 Staying alive d Humans need these things to stay alive.
Focus e If you eat the wrong food you will be
unhealthy.
1 The following things are needed by animals to
survive and should be coloured in
• aqualungs/air tanks (air)
• water bottles
• Healthy food – fruit, vegetables, packet of
rice, loaf of bread

6 Forces
6.1 Moving things Practice
Focus 2

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Challenge Challenge
3 3 a and b

6.2 Push and pull forces

Focus
1 shopping trolley – push or pull
horse and carriage – pull 4 a The boy pushes the ball with his foot.
curtains – pull and push b The girl pushes the ball with her head.
car and trailer – pull c They can make the ball go faster by
pushing it harder.
toy car – push and pull
d They can make it go slowly with a little
drawer – push push.
keyboard – push
6.3 Making things move
pen top – pull and push
Focus
umbrella – push
1 circle around the girl on the roundabout
Practice
circle around the boy pulling the other boy
2 Any three reasonable pictures of things that on skates
would move if pushed.
Any three reasonable pictures of things that
would move if pulled

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Practice
2
hand / electric hand / electric

hand / electric hand / electric

hand / electric hand / electric

hand / electric hand / electric

hand / electric hand / electric

hand / electric hand / electric

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Challenge 6.5 Magnets can pull

3 toy car Focus
big push – a long way 1 magnetic materials – metal keys, metal nail
small push – a short way non-magnetic materials – brick, wood, cotton,
paper
ball
big push – a long way Practice
small push – a short way 2 Object Material Magnetic or
non-magnetic
6.4 Floating and sinking
fence wood non-magnetic
Focus
nail metal magnetic
1 I predict these things will float: balloon, ball plastic chair plastic non-magnetic
I predict these things will sink: rock, tea, spoon, newspaper paper non-magnetic
coin
scissors metal magnetic
Practice
3 metal
2 the two bowls should be circled
Challenge
the banana shape, the cylinder, the flat plate
shape should have crosses 4
Any solid non-bowl shape.
Any reasonable drawing of a bowl shape
Challenge
3 a and b floating high: balloon
floating lower: an apple, can of cola
c sink to the bottom – a can of cola,
a wooden bat
(accept cola as sink or floating low)
It/rubber is not magnetic/metal.

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