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Welcome to the Science Essentials website, the learning zone for kids, teachers and parents for Key Stage 2 science (ages 7-11).

Find out loads more about science by investigating the three areas: Choose Life, Material World and Get Physical. Or search via the QCA index, the English National Curriculum or the Scottish Curriculum for more specific results.

If you are a teacher, take some time to read the Teachers' Notes area, this will help you get the best out of the Science Essentials website.

  
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Check out our A-Z of scientific words and terms.
 
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Question
Why are rocks different?
   
Answer
 
Some rocks are still as they were when the Earth was formed. But others have been heated, twisted and squashed. Others have been broken down by water, carried far from home and put down once again. All these changes have made the rocks different from each other.

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