Year 4 Science Lesson Plans
5 free Year 4 Science lesson plans for KS2. Each includes learning objectives, key vocabulary, a timed lesson structure and common misconceptions, and downloads as an editable Word document.
Year 4 science is one of the most practically rich years in the primary curriculum. Pupils engage with electricity for the first time as a structured unit, make and test real circuits, and begin to understand the components that make them work. They also explore sound through investigation, discovering the links between vibration, pitch, and volume — a unit that lends itself particularly well to cross-curricular work with music.
Materials & Earth
Physics
Pupils investigate how sound is produced and transmitted, discovering that all sounds are caused by vibrations.
Pupils investigate simple electrical circuits, learning to construct a complete circuit and identify what happens when a component is missing or broken.
Year 4 Science through the year
States of Matter
Compare and group materials together according to whether they are solids, liquids, or gases.
States of Matter lesson plan →Sound
Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating.
Sound lesson plan →Electricity
Identify common appliances that run on electricity.
Electricity lesson plan →Living Things and Classification
Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.
Living Things and Classification lesson plan →Digestion and Teeth
Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans.
Digestion and Teeth lesson plan →