ASK, SORT, TEST, SOLVE - SCIENCE ENQUIRY PACK

🔬 Ask, Sort, Test, Solve - Science Enquiry Pack
 
Teach children how to think like scientists, not only what scientists have already found out.
 
Most science resources for this age give children facts to learn and stop there, while every book in this pack finishes by handing children questions to ponder, so that the thinking carries on after the book is closed. Across four shared readings children practise the four habits that early years science actually runs on: posing a question, sorting and comparing what they observe, testing what happens, and breaking a large problem into pieces they can solve.
 
Whether you use it as a term-long sequence or as four standalone shared readings, this pack gives educators a complete structure for inquiry-based science without the planning hours it usually takes to build one.
 
📘 Includes:
 
How Far Does Space Go? – Asking. Posing a question and staying with it when there is no answer to find

What's It Made Of? Materials – Sorting. Telling an object apart from the material it is made from, and building the vocabulary to describe it

Simple Machines – Testing. Using the energy in our own bodies to push, pull and lift, and predicting what will change

Coding Cookies – Breaking down. Taking a large problem apart into small pieces a child can actually solve
 
🧠 Supports:
 
Science inquiry: questioning, predicting, observing and comparing
Earth and space science, materials, forces and motion
Design thinking and computational thinking
Critical thinking and problem solving
STEM foundations for the early years
Free downloadable teachers' notes with curriculum links for every title
A complete inquiry sequence for educators who would rather have children asking good questions than memorising answers.