KS2 Rocks and Soil Bundle | Hands-On Education

The Rocks and Soil topic is an essential part of the National Curriculum of England and covers six different ways rocks and soil are important and integral to one another. The first step is to learn how to identify and classify rocks, followed by learning about the hardness of rocks. For instance, granite and chalk have different levels of hardness.

If you are looking for more curriculum standard activities for your classroom or home-educated children, then check out the rest of the year three topics. Hands-On Education is a great resource that covers most points of the national curriculum for Year 3. You can also use their resources if you are teaching your children or students about seeds and lifecycles, fossils or my skeleton.

Hands-On Education offer a wide range of videos, activity sheets and easy-to-use activity plans to support children in their learning journey. Create your free account today to watch and download their videos alongside their exclusive educational material!

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Each hands-on lesson (or activity plan) provides parents and teachers with all the information needed to undertake and complete each activity successfully. We fully outline every step of the way, from what materials you need, to how the final solution may look, covering everything in-between. A huge amount of research has gone into each lesson and much of the key information we pass on to you, as the educator to pass on to your child or classroom. Our method is one of ‘learning by doing’ making the activities open ended with no ‘correct’ outcomes at the end. Our priority is for children to enjoy their learning experiences and allowing for children of various ages to join in the activities.

Many of our lessons take place outside and we encourage you to take advantage of locations in your local areas. We believe your child can learn about the world around them by exploring the world at their doorstep. The activity plans are all written with a single child in mind, they have not been developed purely for a home education or state school in mind. As they are developed to be quite flexible our intention is that they can be expanded to a two child household or a thirty child classroom with relative ease.

Many of the activities are accompanied by supporting activity sheets (worksheets, timeline cards, etc…) and videos which you may choose to use alongside the lesson. We love books and recommend your local library as one of the best free resources available to you. Check out loads of books about the topic you are learning and spend time reading and looking through them together. In many topics we recommend books related to the activity or broader subject. We offer a full booklist that you may wish to checkout.