Support your pupils’ scientific understanding with this engaging Forces and Magnets Year 5 Topic Checker, designed to help assess learning at the end of the unit. Perfect for revisiting key concepts, this downloadable worksheet gives children the opportunity to consolidate their knowledge through a mix of clear, curriculum-linked tasks and hands-on thinking questions.
Covering all the key areas of the Year 5 Forces and Magnets topic, pupils are encouraged to apply what they’ve learnt about friction, gravity, air and water resistance, magnetic fields, and levers. Activities include vocabulary matching, sentence completion, labelling diagrams and true or false questions, all aimed at deepening understanding and identifying areas for review. There are also open-ended ‘Explain’ and ‘Prediction’ prompts to stretch reasoning skills and develop scientific enquiry.
Ideal for formative assessment, this resource helps teachers quickly identify gaps in knowledge while providing pupils with a confidence-boosting opportunity to show what they know. It can be used as an independent task, paired activity, or part of a whole-class review session.
Written to align with the KS2 Science national curriculum, this Forces and Magnets topic assessment supports teaching objectives while saving planning time. Whether you’re preparing for end-of-unit marking, looking for an easy-to-use homework task, or simply want to reinforce learning in a fun, structured way, this printable PDF makes it simple to check progress.