We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
This STEM activity is all about the negative effects that plastic pollution in our oceans is having on humans and the environment. Students will be challenged to design and create their very own invention to help save our ocean plastic crisis.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Invention Example
Differentiated Design Sheets
Differentiated Final Idea Pan
Differentiated Evaluation Questions
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This World Religions visual word search is a great way to reinforce or introduce your key vocabulary for your topic and help students learn the names of the 7 main religions.
It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! This activity is perfect for distance learning.
**Key Vocabulary: **
Buddhism
Christianity
God
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Religion
Shinto
Sikhism
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Description
This worksheet helps students to be aware of what situations and emotions can trigger a lack of self-control which is crucial in helping them to develop appropriate self-control reactions. For this worksheet they will read how Will The Whale has badly reacted to different situations before thinking about what he could have done better to show good self-control in those situations. Each situation is one that children can relate to in and around school.
Check out our Self Control - ‘How I Feel When’ Activity Sheet
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Your kids will love reading about Minecraft with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through what Minecraft is, the key features of the game, and why it’s so popular. 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:
1 page Lego reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each)
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
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The pack is a great way to get your children outdoors learning and exploring lines of symmetry. There are different activities and worksheets that will get your children exploring the outdoors while thinking about and creating patterns and shapes with one and more lines of symmetry. We have aimed this pack at years 3 – 5, however it can be used in most years with different levels of support and outcomes.
Contents:
- 1 x Symmetry Collecting Worksheet
- 1 x Stick Bugs Activity Task Card
- 1 x Symmetry Hunt Worksheet
- 9 x Natural Symmetry Task Cards
We hope you enjoy these as much as we did!
Get your class engaged with math from the very start of the year with this exciting outdoor math scavenger hunt activity for years 2 and 3 (Grades 1 and 2). It’s also a fantastic way to assess what your class have remembered over their summer break. It’s a hassle free resource with minimum prep, designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles.
This pack contains 12 task cards that cover the following areas:
- Shape
- Measuring
- Multiplication
- Division
- Estimation
- Symmetry
- Simple Fractions
- Simple Ratio
My class had great fun in the outdoors while learning and recapping their skills. A fantastic lesson when the sun in shining!
Contents
- Teacher’s Guide
- 2 x Answer Sheets For The Children To Complete
- 12 x Task Cards
Top Tip: Laminate your cards so they can be used time and time again!
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
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- 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
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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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This activity gets your students looking at fact families through the very popular bar model. This pack contains 8 differentiated sheets where they must use the bar model to help them complete the blank boxes to make the fact family by finding the appropriate additions and subtractions. The sheets contains bonds to 20, 30, 50 and 100 with the bonds both complete and incomplete.
It’s perfect for halloween, if you have a monster topic, or just like the fun graphics!
The bar model is a great visual way for students to visualise the problem.
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise column addition with and without carrying without them even realising they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with differentiated addition problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to teach addition.
Contents:
Diff. 1: Column addition without carrying.
Diff. 2: Column addition without carrying (larger numbers).
Diff. 3: Column addition with carrying.
Diff. 4: Column addition with carrying (larger numbers).
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A set of NO PREP differentiated practise questions and word problems using the bar model focussing on addition and subtraction for years 5 - 6. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea while giving them loads of practise at using it with and without word problems.
Contents
- 2 Sets of differentiated practise questions with challenge word problems
- 3 Sets of differentiated word problems
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Check out our Bar Model resources for other ages
Years 1 - 2
Years 3 - 4
Years 5 - 6
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise column subtraction with and without carrying without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with subtraction problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their column subtraction method. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends.
Contents:
Board
Playing cards with carrying
Playing cards without carrying
Check Out Our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
Elapsed Time
Long Multiplication
Mental Multiplication
Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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Dive into the 2024 Olympic Games with this engaging reading comprehension passage and questions!
This passage explores the rich history of the Olympic Games and what’s to come at the exciting 2024 Paris Games. After reading, students will answer differentiated questions. Some questions will test their understanding of the text (explicit information), while others will require them to infer meaning by drawing conclusions (implicit information).
The resource contains one passage along with two differentiated question sets.
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A set of 5 NO PREP worksheets using the bar model to look at inverse operations. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea while giving them loads of practise at using it to solve inverse operation problems which include carrying / borrowing.
Contents
5 differentiated inverse operation worksheets + answer key.
Check out our inverse operations worksheets for years 2 and 3.
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This foldable activity consists of 2 differentiated cootie catchers (or fortune tellers) for learning or revising converting fractions to decimals. The children must look at the fraction given, convert it to a decimal, and fold back the paper to see if they’re right. It’s a great way to have students review their knowledge and not even realise that they’re learning! They’ll be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack contains two Cootie Catchers, each with a second copy included if you would like your students to write the equivalent decimal for each fraction themselves. There are visuals included to meet different learning styles.
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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Check out our other cootie catchers:
The Rock Cycle
Plant Structure
The Water Cycle
This outdoor animal habitat activity will require your class to get outside and hunt out habitats based on the information from the animal fact cards.
It is the perfect way to get your children thinking about how different animals live in different habitats according to their needs.
We find his is a great way to introduce the topic, however it can also be a great stand-alone lesson to get the children learning all about habitats while exploring the outdoors.
Contents
- Teacher’s Guide
- 14 X Animal Fact Cards
- 1 X Record Sheet
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Use these entertaining math puzzles for your students to practice finding a equivalent fractions. This pack contains three differentiated puzzles, which range from finding simple equivalent fractions to converting top heavy fractions and mixed numbers. Each puzzle has a complete set and a muddled puzzle set. I have used these to great success over the last few weeks. My children have loved them and are now pros at finding equivalent fractions!
Contents:
- 1 x Simple Equivalent Fraction Puzzle Set (complete and mixed puzzles)
- 1 x More Challenging Equivalent Fraction Puzzle Set (complete and mixed puzzles)
- 1 x Equivalent Fraction Puzzle Set with top heavy fractions and mixed numbers (complete and mixed puzzles)
Check out our other Math Tarsia Puzzles!
Fractions of Numbers Large and Small Tarsia Puzzles
Fractions, Decimals, and Percents Tarsia Puzzle Activity
Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, and 1000
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This free scavenger hunt template lets children develop their creativity by designing their own hunt for friends. They can fill in each box with an item of their choice, sending their friends on a mission to collect them all! Perfect for indoor or outdoor adventures.
Check out our Walking To School Scavenger Hunt!
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This free activity is a great way to get your class thinking about which foods create a healthy balanced diet as part of your health and nutrition topic. They will take a look in their lunch box to see what goodies are waiting for them and investigate the sugar content of each item using our sugar sheet, food packages, and the internet for research.
They will then complete the results table and answer some simple questions getting them to think carefully about what’s in their lunchbox, if it’s healthy, and what they could do to make it even healthier.
Contents:
Teacher’s Guide
Sugar Sheet
Results Table & Questions
This activity also has great links to addition with decimals.
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Get your students involved with this drawing scavenger hunt where they’ll head outside to see if they can find and draw all the items on the sheet. It’s great if you’re looking at your local area, wildlife, and observation skills. You can also use this activity to help introduce habitats.
This resource contains a few different activity sheets that allow you to differentiate based on the things they are required to find.
It’s great if you can have a discussion about the scavenger hunt after they’ve completed it. What did they enjoy drawing the most? What did they find exciting to see? What were they surprised they saw?
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