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ISBN 000 0000 00000 0 ISBN 000 0000 00000 0 ISBN 000 0000 00000 0 Fiona Baxter, Liz Dilley and Alan Cross
 Introduction

The Cambridge Primary Science series has been developed to match the
Cambridge International Examinations Primary Science curriculum framework.
It is a fun, flexible and easy to use course that gives both learners and teachers the
support they need. In keeping with the aims of the curriculum itself, it encourages
learners to be actively engaged with the content, and develop enquiry skills as well
as subject knowledge.

This Activity Book for Stage 4 is designed to be used alongside the Learner’s Book
for the same stage, ISBN 978-1-107-67450-9.

In this book you will find a single-page exercise to accompany each topic
presented in the Learner’s Book, as well as a language review exercise at the
end of each unit to practise the key vocabulary. The exercises are designed to
be completed as pen-and-paper exercises, and learners can work on them
individually or in pairs or small groups. You can set the exercises as in-class work or
homework.

There are different styles of exercise throughout to maintain interest and to suit
different purposes. The main aims of the exercises in this book are:

• to consolidate the subject knowledge presented in the Learner’s Book

• tunderstanding
o encourage learners to apply the knowledge in new situations, thus developing

•  ttoo develop
practise scientific language
• investigations. scientific enquiry skills such as presenting and interpreting results from

The answers to the exercises in this Activity Book are available in the Teacher’s
Resource for Stage , ISBN 978-1-107-66151-6. This resource also contains extensive
guidance on all the topics, ideas for classroom activities, and guidance notes on
all the activities presented in the Learner’s Book. You will also find a large collection
of worksheets.

We hope you enjoy using this series.

With best wishes,

the Cambridge Primary Science team.

Introduction 3
 Contents

Introduction 3 4 Sound
Useful words 5 4.1 Sound travels through
materials 33
1 Humans and animals 4.2 Sound travels through
1.1 Skeletons 9 different materials 34
1.2 The human skeleton 10 4.3 How sound travels 35
1.3 Why do we need 4.4 Loud and soft sounds 36
a skeleton? 11 4.5 Sound volume 37
1.4 Skeletons and movement 13 4.6 Muffling sounds 38
1.5 Drugs as medicines 14 4.7 High and low sounds 39
1.6 How medicines work 15 4.8 Volume on percussion
Language review 16 instruments 40
4.9 Having fun with wind
2 Living things and instruments 41
environments Language review 42
2.1 Amazing birds 17
2.2 A habitat for snails 18 5 Electricity and magnetism
2.3 Animals in local habitats 19 5.1 Electricity flows in
2.4 Identification keys 20 circuits 43
2.5 Identifying invertebrates 21 5.2 Components and
2.6 How we affect the a simple circuit 44
environment 22 5.3 Switches 45
2.7 Wonderful water 23 5.4 Circuits with more
2.8 Recycling can save components 46
the Earth! 24 5.5 Circuits with buzzers 47
Language review 25 5.6 Mains electricity 48
5.7 Magnets in everyday life 49
3 Solids, liquids and gases 5.8 Magnetic poles 50
3.1 Matter 26 5.9 Strength of magnets 51
3.2 Matter is made 5.10 Which metals
of particles 27 are magnetic? 53
3.3 How do solids, liquids and Language review 54
gases behave? 28
3.4 Melting freezing,
and boiling 29
3.5 Melting in different solids 30
3.6 Melting points 31
Language review 32

4 Contents
 Useful words

arrange to put things in a certain order or pattern

Lan will arrange the pasta shapes to make a skeleton.

apply to do something with the help of knowledge you already

have

Aruna will apply her knowledge of the particle theory to

solve the problem.

bar chart a chart that shows results using bars; the lengths of the
bars show the sizes of the results

Yusef drew a bar chart to show the volume of water

absorbed by different paper towels.

check to make sure that you have done something correctly

You should always check your answers before you give

your teacher your work.

choose to select things from a group

Tabitha’s aunt said she could choose which sweets she

would like from all the sweets in the shop.

compare to look at the similarities and differences between things

They will compare the weather in Mumbai and Qatar

by looking at the monthly temperature and rainfall for
each city.
Useful words 5
 complete to finish something

Ahmed will complete his work by the end of the lesson.

compress to squash or squeeze

Joseph will compress the air into the cylinder to allow him
to swim underwater.

conclusion a statement of what has been found out

Bimla’s conclusion was ‘From the objects I have tested, only

the paper clip is magnetic. The others are non-magnetic.’

demonstrate to show somebody that you can do something

Paula will demonstrate that she can sing in front

of the class.

design to plan something by sketches and written ideas

Paulo liked making drawings to help him to design a

new car.

identify to recognise something from a group of things

Long was able to identify an example of a frog from a

group of animals.

instructions information that tells you how to do something

The book gave instructions on how to draw a graph.

6 Useful words
investigate to do a test or experiment to find something out

Meng was told to investigate which objects were

magnetic.

label to name the parts of something on a diagram

Juma will label six parts of a flower on the diagram in his

science book.

list to write or give examples of things, one after the other

I will list the things I need you to get at the shop.

measure to find the mass, length or volume of something

Ranjit will measure how long his thigh bone is.

plan to decide how to do an investigation

Ali wrote a plan to test different objects with a magnet.

practise to do something several times so that you get better at

doing it

Liam will practise the guitar every day until he can play
the piece without a mistake.

predict to think about what the result of an investigation might be

Aba was asked to predict which objects would be

magnetic.

Useful words 7
 record to write or draw to show what happened

Janis wrote the results in a table to record what

happened.

research to look for information by investigation or using books or

the internet

Jamil used the internet to research magnetism.

results the observations or measurements made in a test

Gopal’s results showed that many objects were not

magnetic.

suggest to think of some examples to be considered

I will suggest three dishes that we can make for the

birthday lunch.

table a way of writing numbers or words in rows and columns

The table showed which objects were magnetic and which

were non-magnetic.

8 Useful words
1 Humans and animals

Exercise 1.1 Skeletons

In this exercise, you will match the skeletons with the animals they come from.
You will identify their bones and fill in a table.
Y X W
1 Fill in the table. A

Animal Skeleton

bird Z

rabbit B

frog

crocodile

C
2 Write the names of the parts on skeleton A.

W is the .

X is the .
D

Y is the .

Z is the .

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 Exercise 1.2 The human skeleton
In this exercise, you will put bones in the right places to make
a human skeleton. You will label the bones.

1 Trace, or copy, the bones.

2 Cut them out and arrange them to make a skeleton.

3 Stick your skeleton onto a piece of paper.

4 Label the different bones on your skeleton using these words.

skull ribs thigh bone upper arm bone

finger bones toe bones hip bone

upper arm

thigh bone

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 Exercise 1.3 Why do we need a skeleton?
In this exercise, you will find information from a bar chart.

Nasreen measured the length of the upper arm bone of some people in her
family. She drew this bar chart to show her results. Use the bar chart to
answer the questions.
36
34
32
30
28
Length of upper arm bone in cm

26
24
22
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Nasreen Ahmed Meshack Fatima Ali

1 Who had the longest upper arm bone?

2 How long is the shortest upper arm bone?

1 Humans and animals 11

 3 Nasreen has two brothers. Their names are Ahmed and Ali.
Which brother is the oldest? Explain your answer.

4 Put Nasreen and her brothers in age order. Explain your answer.

5 a Who are Nasreen’s parents?

b Explain how you know this.

6 Predict the length of Meschack’s father’s upper arm bone.

Explain your answer.

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Exercise 1.4 Skeletons and movement
In this exercise, you will draw a diagram
A
to explain how your muscles work.
B
Amira and Jessie made a model to show D
how muscles work. This is what
their model looked like. C

1 Write down the body parts for each of the labels A–D.

2 a What happens to part C when you pull up on part B?

b Make a drawing
to show this.

3 Underline the correct words in the sentences to explain your drawing.

Part B relaxes/contracts and gets shorter/longer.

Part B pulls/pushes on part C and makes it drop/lift.

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 Exercise 1.5 Drugs as medicines
In this exercise, you will think about medicines.

1 Mark each of these statements as true [✔] or false [✘].

a Drugs are substances that make your body

change in some way.
b Medicines make us better when we are sick.
c Medicines are the same as drugs.
d Medicines cannot stop us from getting illnesses.
2 Find four ways we take medicines in the word square.
Some words are written across the box and others are written
down the box.

i n j e c t i o n t
n w e r t y n i o a
h a s d f g h n l b
a c b i u n l t h l
l e d b n t m m d e
e v f p o w d e r t
r u r k l g o n i u
m i x t u r e t p m

3 Choose three different medicines. Complete the table to say

what each medicine is used for.

Medicine What the medicine is used for

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