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Match Stick Maths Problem Solving Task Cards – Years 5 and 6 Extension Activity
This pack of 30 maths problem solving task cards will get your children balancing simple equations and solving shape based problems by moving the sticks around. They can be done mentally, however my children love acting them out by making the numbers with sticks as shown on the cards.
These cards work great as an extension activity. Laminate the cards and put them in a box with matchsticks ready for use.
The pack comes with sheets for children to record their solutions and an answer key.
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Contents:
20 x Maths Match Stick Problems Task Cards
10 X Pattern Match Stick Problems Task Cards
Answer Sheet
Solution Cards
Solution Sheet
Maths Task Cards: Years 5 and 6
These are perfect for those early finishers in years 5 and 6 who want a challenge or as a starter activity to get their brains warmed up. There are 46 differentiated cards that cover a range of concepts and problems complete with answer and solution sheets.
Task cards are a wonderful way to allow students to be active learners and work both independently or cooperatively with a partner or group. There are so many ways you can use them in your classroom!
No Prep and student friendly instructions.
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Ideas for the classroom:
- Starter activity
- Paired work
- Group work (carousel)
- Extension activity
- Have students solve a task card independently or with a group, then teach the problem to
another group or student.
- Set up math centers. Students can check their own work with the answer keys, as needed.
Religious Education: Easter Activities
Teaching Easter is easy with this set of exciting and engaging activities that will get your children thinking deeply about the true religious meaning of Easter. It is a perfect hassle free resource for both Sunday schools and in the classroom at this exciting time of year.
This Pack Contains:
1 x Easter Storyboard + Answer Key: The children must cut the images and text then put them in the correct order and retell the Easter Story. (3 pages)
1 x differentiated ‘Jesus On The Cross’: Using the template, the children must draw the scene of Jesus on the cross and write in the correct box how each person may have been feeling. You can do loads of in depth discussion and role-play based around this activity. (2 pages)
1 x ‘God Will Forgive’ craft activity: Easter is a time where we ask for forgiveness. This craft activity will get your class thinking about forgiveness in a thoughtful and imaginative way.
Have fun with it and Happy Easter!
Fractions of Numbers Game
This NO PREP engaging fractions lesson (with financial literacy links) is designed to help children learn or practise how to find a fraction of a number. It is designed to be played as a whole class, however would work just as well in small groups.
The aim of the game is to collect as much ‘money’ (obviously imaginary!) as possible. In each round they will be given two options (e.g. 1/3 of $21 or ¼ of $28) and must try to choose the highest amount. They choose which ever they think is highest, work it out, and record it on their sheet. If they work it out incorrectly they do not get to keep any of the ‘money’. At the end the player with the highest score / amount of money is the winner.
I award a few more of our Multiplication Trading Cards as a prize which they love.
For those that need more support we have found it helps if they go with a partner that is able to support them.
This is a fantastic lesson to link in with financial literacy as the harder fractions are generally the highest amount. They need to decide if it’s worth the risk and attempt the harder one.
Contents
- PPT GAME
- Teacher’s Guide
- Record Sheet
- Example Record Sheet
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Algebra Task Cards: Grades 4 - 6
Algebra is a word many children dread. These algebra task cards are a fun way for your class to get the basics to algebra problem solving. Simply print (laminate if you like), stick the cards around your school, and send them off on their algebra adventure. We have had great success with these cards and now the children ask to do more algebra!
These cards can also be a useful addition to your bank of extension activities.
Contents
- 18 Algebra Task Cards
- Answer Sheets
- Answer Key
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Enjoy!
The Bugs Hotel Research Project - Data Handling - Graphs - Habitats - Mini-beasts
Building a bug hotel is great fun for all ages groups, however this pack will encourage students to look more carefully at the different insects their hotel is attracting and the habitats they thrive in.
For this project they’ll design a hotel and observe the changes over time.
It is a great cross-curricular project if you are looking at data handling, habitats, living things, and even engineering.
This pack contains two levels of differentiation.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Instructions
Design Sheets
Results Table (before)
Bar Graph (before)
Results Table (after / during)
Bar Graph (after)
Conclusion Questions
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Space: Planet Fact File
This Planet Fact File is the perfect activity for your children to learn all about the planets in our solar system by completing their own personal booklet. They are required to research key information about the planets in order to complete the booklet. This pack contains two sets, one set where they can draw the planets, and the other where an image is already on the information sheets.
You can use this activity in class, however lots of my class loved taking it home as a home learning project!
Contents:
- Fact File Front Cover
- Differentiated Fact File Templates For: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Science Murder Mystery - Materials and their Properties - States of Matter
Science Murder Mysteries are great fun for both you and the students. For this mystery students will use their knowledge of materials and their properties as well as their states of matter knowledge to investigate who poisoned Andrew Smith. They’ll look at the 5 suspects poisons both using their eyes and under a microscope and compare the poisons to the one found at the crime scene.
They’ll have to figure out how to separate the substances in the water (salt, sugar, etc.) to take a closer look and make their comparisons to figure out which suspect to put in jail!
Contents:
Teacher’s Guide
Bottle Labels
The Crime Brief
Investigation sheet part 1
Investigation sheet part 2
Conclusion questions
Equipment needed:
Resource pack
6 plastic bottles per group
Petri dishes
Pipet
Microscope (or magnifying glasses if not available)
Salt, sugar, & coffee
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Copy The Sand Patterns – Shape & Motor Skills
These visual sand pattern / shape cards are great to have available in your outdoor space. Simply print them off, laminate them, and let your students re-create the patterns and shapes that are on the cards by drawing in the sand. Each card has an A4 photo of a shape or pattern created in the sand. This resources contains 18 cards with different levels of challenge.
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Counting to 10: Outdoor Number Hunt
This pack is designed to help children master their number recognition and counting to 10 as well as some simple addition in a very physical and practical way. It will get them outside exploring their senses and the world around them as they complete the task cards collecting different amounts and types of objects.
Contents:
39 x differentiated task cards (some that involve just finding a simple number, others that involve finding a simple number and size / colour, and more challenging ones which involve children finding two different numbers).
Even some of the most reluctant learners in our Kindergarten class had great fun with this!
Multiplication Station Task Cards: Years 5 - 7
These multiplication station task cards are a fun and active way to generate numbers for one, two, and three digit multiplication practise. Simply print them out and stick them around your outdoor area or hall (a few require some basic resources e.g. balls etc.) then let the children run about, completing the challenges and working out the written multiplications using their chosen method from the numbers generated.
Contents
- Teacher’s Guide
- Answer / Working Sheet
- 10 X Multiplication Station Task Cards
- 10 X Challenge Multiplication Station Task Cards
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Humans And The Environment: How Humans Affect The Environment Bundle
This bundle on the affect humans have on the environment contains a powerpoint & quiz and worksheets to get your students thinking carefully about both the positive and negative impact humans are having on our planet.
PowerPoint & Quiz
An interactive PowerPoint and Quiz on the affect humans have on the environment is perfect for your sustainability / eco-friendly topic. It encourages the children to think about both the positive and negative impacts we’ve had on the environment as well as what they can do in their own lives to try and reduce the problems.
Contents
Slides 1 – 3: Introduction
Slides 4 – 9: Positive or Negative Affect Game
Slides 10 – 15: Negative Affects
Slides 16 – 23: Positive Affects
Slides 24 - 34: Quiz
Slide 35: Activity Ideas
Worksheets
This activity is perfect for your sustainability topic as students will look into what we do that has both positive and negative effects on the environment and our planet. This pack contains a worksheet with three levels of differentiation where they’ll look at items / actions and decide whether or not they have a positive or negatives effect on the environment.
Diff. 1: Students will cut and stick objects / actions into the correct column.
Diff. 2: Students will cut and stick a wider variety of objects / actions into the correct column.
Diff. 3: Students must decide whether or not the object / action has a positive or negative effect and explain their reasoning.
Black and white copies are also included.
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Exciting Electricity Worksheets and Activities
These 7 differentiated electricity worksheets and activities will teach your children about complete circuits, symbols, and conductors and insulators in a fun and practical way. They work perfectly with your electricity and magnetism topic along with our other ‘Exciting Electricity’ products.
Contents:
- x 2 ‘Know Your Symbols’ (Cut and stick)
- x 3 ‘Will It Light?’ (Working out if the circuit is complete)
- x 1 ‘Will It Conduct?’ (Testing materials to see if they conduct
electricity)
- x 1 ‘Conductor Or Insulator?’ (Cut and stick)
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Estimation: Outdoor Problem Solving Task Cards
This maths pack has 20 differentiated task cards each with a problem involving estimation in outdoors. It will get your class outside applying and improving their estimation and problem solving skills.
Along with each card there is a clue card in order to support those children that need a helping hand.
How I used them: After having an initial lesson on what estimation is and going through a few basic problems I stuck the cards up in appropriate places outside. In the pairs the children went around the school grounds finding the cards and solving the problems. My class got through about 4 problems each per lesson.
This is a great activity to challenge your class and get them enjoying maths!
Contents:
20 x differentiated task cards
20 x clue cards
4 x answer sheets (for the children to record their answers on)
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Life Cycles Activities: The Big Plant Investigation
This is a fun, practical, and engaging unit on life cycles for years 3 – 6. It contains differentiated activities on the lifecycle of a plant along with a practical investigation looking at the best conditions for plants to grow in. It will teach your children about parts of plants and their functions, what plants need to grow, and reinforce the skills required to carry out a fair investigation.
It’s a great unit to get your class outside and enjoying science!
Contents
- Booklet Front cover
- 2 X ‘The Key To Success’: A practical activity investigation what plants need to grow.
- ‘What They Need’ Worksheet: A cut and stick activity about what plants need to grow.
- ‘Plant Parts – What Do They Do?’ – A matching activity looking at the function of different part of the plant.
- ‘Flower Parts – What Do They Do?’ – A matching activity looking at the function of different part of the flower.
- ‘Where Do Plants Grow The Best?’: Investigation planning sheet
- 3 X Results Sheets
- 2 X differentiated Line Graph Results Sheets
- Conclusion Worksheet
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Active Lesson Starters Activity Task Cards
A set of 22 active lesson starters to get your children engaged and improving their fitness. Research shows that children are able to focus better after doing short amounts of exercise. These cards can be used in many different ways to help keep your children’s bodies and minds energised. Along with this it will highlight the importance of keeping fit.
They can be used at the start of the day or randomly during the day as a lesson starter or brain break. Each activity is designed to be done three times over a couple of months so that the children are able to see a steady increase in their fitness and achievements.
Some of the activities require equipment, however everything needed should be readily available.
Contents
- 22 x Activity Task Cards
- Teacher Guide
- Tracking Sheets
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Living Things Science Investigation - The Egg Thief
Get your detectives hat on with our series of animal crime scene investigations!
These activities will teach your students about animals and their habitats as well as developing their observation, problem solving and inferring skills. They are a great lesson to be use as part of your Living Things topic… or just for some outdoor fun!
The crime scenes are easy to set up with printable props, clue cards, and suspect cards. If you want to add extra elements or real props this can help to bring it alive for the children even further!
The Egg Thief will take your class through an investigation involving the mystery of a broken egg that is found outside of Mrs Jones’ house. They will need to use the clues as well as their own inference skills to figure out which of the suspects is guilty.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Prop Cards
Crime Scene Report
Suspect Cards
Clue Cards
Clue Record Sheet
Verdict Record Sheet
Our Verdict
Check out our ‘Hedgehog Horror’ crime scene pack!
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Famous Soccer Players Reading Passage and Questions Bundle
Your kids will love reading about popular football players with our fun reading comprehensions! These are basic texts that go through who they are, how they have become such a huge football star, and key points in their career. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included For Each Player:
1 page reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each)
Answer key
Soccer Players Included:
Lionel Messi
Harry Kane
Christiano Ronaldo
Neymar
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20 Outdoor Challenges To Do Before I’m 8
Our ‘20 Outdoor Things To Do Before You’re 8’ is an absolute must for your young outdoor lovers!
Engaging with the great outdoors is an integral aspect of fostering children’s growth and development. We’ve curated an exciting collection of 20 outdoor activities designed to inspire children to embrace the wonders of nature before they reach the age of 8.
Each activity challenge page within this package not only offers a delightful experience but also provides space for children to capture their adventure through pictures or drawings. Additionally, they can reflect on their newfound skills through thought-provoking review sections.
For convenient access, we’ve also included a digital version of this resource on Google Slides.
Discover the joy of outdoor learning and make cherished memories together!
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Animal Crime Scenes: The Hedgehog Horror - Science Investigation
Get your detectives hat on with our series of animal crime scene investigations!
These activities will teach your students about animals and their habitats as well as developing their observation, problem solving and inferring skills.
The crime scenes are easy to set up with printable props, clue cards, and suspect cards. If you want to add extra elements or real props this can help to bring it alive for the children even further!
The Hedgehog horror will take your class through an investigation involving the mysterious death of the friendly local hedgehog. They will need to use the clues provided to them as well as their knowledge of the local wildlife to determine who or what is guilty of the murder.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Prop Cards
Crime Scene Report
Suspect Cards (Blank and Complete)
Clue Cards
Clue Record Sheet
Verdict Record Sheet
Our Verdict
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