I'm a primary school teacher, & ex-scientist, with 17 years experience. My passions are Maths and Science throughout the school. I spend a lot of time developing challenging and engaging, real-life resources. I co-founded My Science Club in 2021.
The majority of my resources are free as I just enjoy the fact that other teachers might find them useful in their schools. If you do use them please leave a wee comment or rate them - all feedback is welcome as it helps me improve my own practice.
I'm a primary school teacher, & ex-scientist, with 17 years experience. My passions are Maths and Science throughout the school. I spend a lot of time developing challenging and engaging, real-life resources. I co-founded My Science Club in 2021.
The majority of my resources are free as I just enjoy the fact that other teachers might find them useful in their schools. If you do use them please leave a wee comment or rate them - all feedback is welcome as it helps me improve my own practice.
Set of 6 editable Dictionary Definition Cards designed to expand children’s vocabulary. Use as a starter, of finishing, task where children work independently, or in pairs, to find the definitions of the words in a dictionary.
Four Describe Me sheets with images for children to describe and space for them to write sentences about the images. Designed to encourage children to think of adjectives and be able to use them in a sentence.
A set of 16 reading cards to support children’s understanding of what they have read.
Cards are designed to be printed, cut up and used for children to choose a task.
Includes additional resources to support some of the activities.
A set of 12 high quality reading task cards to be used to support the development of reading skills. There are additional resources to support some of the tasks.
The cards are designed to be printed out, cut up and used to give pupils choice of reading task.
A set of four editable worksheets with mixed up sentences for children to correct. There are misspelled common words, capital letters missing and in the wrong place and punctuaction missing. The sheets get progressively harder.
Basic Character and Setting sheets for primary school classes. Easy to use to support your children develop their character and setting ideas before writing a story. Can be turned into an inspirational class book.
A challenging book review template that makes a great recommended book display, or folder in class. It makes children really think about what they have read and why they enjoyed it, or not.
Set of 20 challenging maths problems for upper primary pupils. Covers a wide range of concepts and strategies.
Includes worked solutions for all the problems.
A maths quiz that tests multiple areas of the maths curriculum:
Mental Maths
Calculations involving decimals
Money
Shape
Area and Perimeter
BODMAS
Measurements & Units
Percentages
Duration
Speed
Data Handling
Circles
Maths challenge cards covering a wide range of mathematical problems designed to improve problem solving strategies as well as numeracy and mathematical ability.
Designed to be printed, laminated and reused.
Disclaimer: These are free because the problems are from a wide variety of sources, most of which I have forgotten. I am a maths problem magpie and collect maths problems wherever I find them. All I have done is bundled these ones up to make it convienent.
If you find a problem that is yours and you don’t want it used please comment and I’ll remove it - cheers.
Maths problem solving booklets covering a wide range of mathematical problems designed to improve problem solving strategies as well as numeracy and mathematical ability.
Designed to be printed as A5 booklets.
Disclaimer: These are free because the problems are from a wide variety of sources, most of which I have forgotten. I am a maths problem magpie and collect maths problems wherever I find them. All I have done is bundled these ones up to make it convienent.
If you find a problem that is yours and you don’t want it used please comment and I’ll remove it - cheers.
Worksheet to develop pupils confidence multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
Can be used in class or as homework.
Can be used to teach the concept or for consolidation/revision.
Two lessons to teach pupils about meteorites, asteroids and comets and the differences between them. It includes information about the Solar System as well as information about specific meteorites.
These lessons were put together when we borrowed a set of meteorites from STFC as part of the Tim Peake Project in 2016 - most of the resource is adaptable for teaching the concept without the set of meteorites.
Introduction to meteorites, asteroids and comets
Meteorite Craters + activity
Meteorite crater recording sheet
This lesson was done for a school open day and comprised 6 linked activities which were done by groups of pupils in rotation.
Everything you need is here:
Introduction PPT
Pupils Activity Booklet
Instructions for 6 activities
Resources & extension tasks
Video clips (these are from YouTube and are not my original materiel)
Climate Change Critical Literacy PPT & worksheet
If you don't have access to First News then any newspaper or magazine articles can be used - or you could use articles from the internet.
This resource pack focuses of the force of buoyancy and includes a series of 4 lessons and all the resources needed to teach them.
There are also additional activities that can be incorporated into the programme of study.
Lesson 1 - a recap of forces, testing pupils prior knowledge and filling in any gaps with practical demonstrations and video clips
Lesson 2 -introduction to buoyancy with 2 practical investigations for pupils
Lesson 3 - an investigation into the buoyancy of drinks cans
Lesson 4 - designing and testing a boat
Some of the presentations contain links to videos on YouTube (they are not my property so I couldn't upload them here). If you can't get YouTube in your school consider ripping the videos onto your hard-drive to use, there are several pieces of software, or websites, where this can be done free of charge.
Please feel free to adapt the resources as you see fit, they have all being uploaded in editable formats. If you find the resources useful please comment on TES and share them with other teachers.
Thanks
A set of 18 problem solving sheets (4 problems on a sheet). Mixture of concepts - I've used with Primary 6 & 7 pupils who need to be pushed and challenged.
Also a set of 5 easier sheets.
The problems are mostly NOT mine - I've collected them from 100's of different sources of the last 9 years - often I adapt them from Third Level (KS3) or GCSE questions so they are suitable for older primary pupils