I enjoy creating high quality resources to help students achieve their full learning potential. Many of my products contain flexible lesson plans, differentiated worksheets and practical activities and PowerPoint Presentations on a wide range of subjects.
I enjoy creating high quality resources to help students achieve their full learning potential. Many of my products contain flexible lesson plans, differentiated worksheets and practical activities and PowerPoint Presentations on a wide range of subjects.
This resource comprises 5 worksheets on the water cycle and a missing jigsaw activity.
The worksheets are also on PowerPoint and PDF format.
These are additional worksheets you can give out during the lesson, use as assessment on the water cycle or as homework.
Two worksheets require students to write about the water cycle in their own words.
Three worksheets entail cut and paste activities. The simpler activities are cutting out the word strips and glue them onto the correct blank space to show the water cycle process.
The other cut and paste activity requires students to write the title in their workbooks or on a separate sheet of paper. Then they write about each word, cut out the strip and glue it into their workbooks. Some students may only be able to complete 4 strips. Let them choose a word to write about.
Once the students have written something about each word, they can draw a picture for each strip.
There is a jigsaw puzzle to complete. It has 4 pieces missing with which students complete the puzzle picture of the water cycle. When this is completed, student cut out and stick the labels into the correct spaces on the completed puzzle. A finished puzzle is included to how the puzzle should look. NB: The picture was drawn on the computer and coloured in by hand.
Missing Jigsaw Puzzle pieces (b/w) – Print off the page with just one puzzle piece in place. Students complete the whole puzzle by cutting out the rest of the puzzles (8 pieces) and sticking them in place to complete the water cycle picture. Then as above, cut out the words and glue beneath the correct picture, e.g. precipitation would go beneath the rain cloud.
Students can then colour in.
Hope you enjoy using these resources.
UPDATED WITH ANSWER SHEETS AND TEACHER NOTES MAY 2019
There are 7 Lesson Plans (with learning objectives) and Presentations. Worksheets and practical activities for whole group teaching. Please see Preview Panes.
The pack consists of:
-Sound and how sound travels including sound waves, vibrations, pitch, volume;
-The sounds we can make with our voices and what happens;
-How we hear;
-How some animals hear;
-How to get sound from different musical instruments and what happens; and
-The type of listening devices we use to locate sound, stethoscopes, hearing aids etc.
19 audio sounds for listening activities (MP3 audio)
Lesson 1: This is about how we use our voice and the different sounds we make. There is a diagram of how our voice works which includes vibration, pitch and how we need our teeth and tongue to produce sounds.
Activity: students are given a very short text to add vocal sound effects to in their groups - narrator/reader reads the short text (print this off the Slide) and the other students decide on vocal sound effects to add.
Lesson 2:- This is about musical instruments and how we produce sound from them (bang, hit, shake, pluck etc.) and group them into their categories (wind, stringed, percussion)- Grouping Activity sheets and Listening activity.
Lesson 3 - This is more practical and students plan and design their musical instruments. They are given ideas on what to do, e.g. make a guitar from cereal boxes, the handle is made of kitchen towel tube, strings are various sizes of elastic bands etc.
Lesson 4: This is about how we ear (also video youtube link - Children learn about the anatomy of the ear (outer ear, middle ear and inner ear) and how we receive and process sound. They also learn about why we get dizzy (semi-circular canals in our ear is filled with fluid).
There are worksheet activities and Listening activities on PowerPoint Presentations.
Lesson 5: This lesson is about different listening devices such as the stethoscope, ear trumpets that were used in the past and versions of it that are used to hear unborn babies. Students: make ear trumpets and pot telephones learning how sound travels to the ear via the string attached to the plastic cups. Students test different cups and length of strings.
Lesson 6: This lesson is about how some animals move their ears to hear sounds and locate their prey. - Activities: Students work with a partner to complete their worksheets with missing words.
Lesson 7: Investigation - Explores sounds get quieter when you are further away from its source - Sounds for Kids
All the lessons include information on volume, pitch, vibrations and sound waves.
All lessons contained in a .zip file - PowerPoint, PDF and MS Word files.
This is a US version. Please see UK version
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US Version - This product contains a 39 Slide PowerPoint Presentation on sound and the practical tasks the children can undertake.
The Teacher’s Note sets out how you can introduce the topic and suggestions on how to organize the activities and list resources needed.
You can organize a carousel system - so each table deals with a different aspect on sound or you can do a whole class lesson on one aspect of sound week by week, ending the term on a sound carousel for assessment.
The resource comprises:
PowerPoint Presentation – Review Work on sounds and contains background information on how the piano, guitar and wind instruments work and how we hear.
Teacher’s Notes (3 pages, excluding credit page)
14 Activity Cards to be laminated and cut out for each table. The cards contain questions to prompt the children to carry out their tasks.
There are ready-made investigations sheets and sample investigations sheets.
Numbered Table cards.
Vocabulary cards (See Preview Pane)
Worksheet on How We Hear
Worksheet on Volume and Pitch
Experiments include:
Vibration involving moving objects- e.g. students can experiment with a tuning forks and water and ping pong balls, rice on drums.
Sound and Pitch - e.g. use empty bottles filled with different levels of liquid to produce different pitches and also blow horizontally along the edge to produce sounds similar to wind instruments; and/or experiment with guitar strings –shortening and lengthening the string to produce different sounds;
Listening devices - experiment with different string telephones by changing variables such as type of string and material of cups;
Blocking Out Sound activities- students can make ear defenders out of margarine tubs packed with different materials or they can wrap the sound source like a buzzer or alarm clock with different materials to see which is best at muffling the sound.
Optional - Musical Instruments - Students can make musical instruments or use the ones they may have made in previous lessons - to adjust how they use it or even make it better - can experiment with various aspects of sound.
Outside activity - How sound gets fainter as you travel further away - Use a sound source like a buzzer.
There are instructions to make a simple balloon drum, a packing tape drum, comb kazoo and a guitar.
Photograph of guitar – taken by me.
Please see UK Version.
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Calendar for back to school you can display in early years/KS1 classrooms.
This resource pack contains a blank weather, date and year display poster to be completed each day using the changeable days, date, month, weather card displays.
The words in shadow show where the laminated day, date, month and year should go.
There is space for the weather conditions on the same blank display.
The preview window shows how the display will appear when you complete the blank display poster.
You can also change the weather button background if you don’t want plain white - click on, e.g. the ‘hot’ weather button, go to Drawing Tools then Shape Fill to choose your colour.
Print off displays onto card paper - enlarge to A3 if wish for a larger display.
I printed off onto coloured card paper.
This pack includes:
Teacher Notes
Title Displays
Days of the week
Months of the year
Ordinal dates from 1st to 31st.
Cardinal dates from 1 to 31
Years 2024 to 2028
Weather words and pictures
Seasons dial - laminate and cut round. Cut out the dial and insert with split pin in the centre - see preview window front page.
Laminate all the resources. Use Blu tac , double-sided sticky tape or velcro for the changeable words to be displayed on blank display board.
I have uploaded resources both in Word format (editable) and pdf. versions.
Updated January 2024 to include editable text sections in PowerPoint
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This product is on the topic of types of clouds.
• Lesson Plan – 1 hour session
• PowerPoint Presentation (1) – 30 Slides
• PowerPoint Presentation (2) – 6 Slides
• Optional Video link to The Science of Clouds (5:42 mins)
• Cloud Wheel Templates
• Worksheet - Latin Cloud Names/Various mini exercises
• Word Searches (x2) with Solutions
• 24 Flashcards (x2) Colour/b/w
The Lesson Plan includes learning objectives and outcomes and PowerPoint Slides numbers are referred to. The lesson starts off briefly reviewing the water cycle and then leads onto types of clouds and the sort of weather we may experience.
The PowerPoint Presentation explains how the clouds are formed, their features and there are photographs/pictures of the common type of clouds children may recognize in the sky. They even learn about how snow is formed and then falls as either snowflakes or sleet.
The Presentation a video link relating to clouds which children will enjoy watching. (5:42 mins long).
Presentation 2 - Provides helpful information for children to review water cycle vocabulary, meaning of cloud names and explains that cloud coverage is measured in oktas.
Differentiated Cloud Wheel Template: Children make a Cloud Wheel to be used in the last part of the lesson.
There is an example of a Cloud Wheel I made to show the children.
Two word searches
The worksheet contains 3 mini tasks.
Draw a line to match the Latin name to the English meaning.
Unscramble the name of the clouds and write them out.
Search for the 5 words in the mini word search.
24 Flashcards relating to clouds the weather in general:
cloud, fog, mist, cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, nimbus, nimbostratus, cumulonimbus, stratus, stratocumulus, cumulus, precipitation, altocumulus, altostratus, temperature, water droplets, ice crystals, rain, snow, hail, sleet, sunny, overcast.
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This is a cloud matching activity resource. A useful additional to your weather unit on types of clouds.
<strong>Content:</strong>
2 Sets of Photographs of Different Types of Clouds (Total of 20 photos)
10 Cloud Name Labels to match to photographs
2 Sets of Photographs with Answers
10 Cloud Description Task Cards
10 Cloud Description Task Cards with Answers
The clouds are:
cirrus
cirrostratus
cirrocumulus
altocumulus
altostratus
stratus
stratocumulus
nimbostratus
cumulonimbus
cumulus
4 photos to one page.
Print all photos onto card paper, laminate and cut out.
Print Cloud Card labels, laminate and cut out
Children match the blank photos with the correct cloud labels.
Reveal answers: Show the photographs with the name of the cloud already labelled.
<strong>Description Task Cards – Answers Included</strong>
You or the students can cut out these task cards and glue into workbooks.
Students read the description of the cloud and write the name of the cloud in the space provided.
Please see Preview Pane for sample of resources.
Total download: 22 pages
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This Weather Bundle contains:
PowerPoint Presentations on the water cycle and clouds
Flexible Lesson Plans
Matching Activities
Cut and Paste Tasks
Reading Comprehensions - Snow, Sleet and Hail
Worksheets
Flash cards for water cycle and clouds
Weather Instruments
Fun stuff
Students will learn about the water cycle and types of clouds and types of precipitation, i.e. why some clouds produce rain, snow, sleet and hail.
Lots of resources are to hand.
Some preparation is required such as printing and laminating small photos of clouds for matching activities.
Please see individual description for each product.
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Teacher’s notes/guide (2 pages)
A great addition to your weather unit activities.
The product contains:
• Letterings that spell ‘WEATHER INSTRUMENTS’
• 17 Posters with photos and description for wall display
• 9 Factsheet Posters with clipart weather instruments
• 9 Worksheets
• 9 Blank writing slips for students to complete
• 9 cut and glue match up weather activity
LO: To learn weather instruments and what they are used for.
Includes lesson starter.
Letterings that spell ‘WEATHER INSTRUMENTS’
Seasonal lettering designs and plain white lettering that spell out weather instruments in upper case. Just print, laminate and cut around letters and attach to your wall display.
17 posters for display show photographs of each instrument and some facts. The posters are also on PowerPoint so that you can read them through with your class. Weather instruments:
Anemometer
Atmometer
Barometer
Wind vane
Wind sock
Hygrometer
Thermometer
Sling psychrometer
Weather balloon
Weather satellite
Rain gauge
Snow gauge
Pilot Balloon
Weather map
Weather radar
Stevenson screen
These factsheet posters will help students complete their independent activities.
9 Factsheets clipart weather instruments
These can be used as flashcards and/or you can also put a selection on students’ desks to complete their independent activities. <strong>The main weather instruments are: Anemometer, Barometer, Wind vane, Wind sock, Hygrometer, Thermometer, Weather balloon, Weather satellite and Rain gauge.</strong>
Independent work
9 Worksheets: The more able students can complete the whole page worksheets. They write one or more facts about the instrument shown. Their writing should contain a lot more detail which they can obtain from the factsheets.
Activity 1 - Cut out lined strips with picture of weather instrument: For students who can write one or two sentences about the weather instrument. Write the instrument and a sentence about it.
Activity 2 – Read and match, cut and glue activity: Each strip of paper has a picture of a weather instrument and on a separate bit of paper is a description of an instrument. Students read the description of an instrument and then glue it to the correct picture on the strip of paper.
Please see Preview Pane.
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Labelling the 4 countries of the UK - Flag of St George, St Andrew, St Patrick & the Welsh Dragon - The Union Jack Flag to colour in.
Differentiated Worksheets - Unscramble the four cities and correctly match them to the countries.
There is basic information on the UK and the development of the UK flag together with worksheets. Please adapt to suit lessons.
The cut/paste activity has been taken from Curriculum Bank (Scholastics) - Geography KS1 Text.
I have not included Southern Ireland as part of the UK. The location of Southern Ireland is shown so that educators and children can see where Northern Ireland is located.
New editable worksheets added and Presentation
There is some basic information about the Crimean War - opportunity for children to research more and how it prompted two pioneering nurses to go to the Crimea to use their nursing skills.
Please adapt Information Sheet to suit needs of pupils to complete the missing information in Worksheet 1.
Worksheet 2 is Cross-curricula - Geography link - See how many countries the chn can label by comparing Worksheet 2 with labelled map of the world.
Literacy link - children choose adjectives to describe the nurses and write sentence using 'because'.