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.
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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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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This fun and entertaining activity (for both the teacher and children!) is played like charades. It is an exciting and a practical way for children to learn to recognise and use adjectives to improve their writing.
There are 24 simile cards with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the adjective.
This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class.
Content
- 1 x Instruction Sheet
- 24 x Adjective Cards
- 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets
My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it! Best of all, they now use adjectives effectively in their writing!
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Use these math puzzles for your students to practice multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, and 1,000. The large puzzle pieces are great to be used as a fun outdoor extension or recap activity however the small puzzles can easily be used as a full lesson activity. I have used these to great success over the last few weeks. My children have loved them and are know pros at multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000!
Contents:
2 x differentiated Tarsia puzzles each containing
- Muddled up puzzle worksheet
- Complete puzzle worksheet
- Large puzzle pieces
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A scaling activity your children are sure to love. This pack contains a selection of worksheets along with a main outdoor learning activity where they have to scale a picture up to draw real sized animals. This allows them to put into practice lots of different mathematical skills while being amazed at the size of some of the animals.
Skills it focuses on:
- Scaling
- Measuring
- Timetables
- Accurate Drawing
Contents:
- 2 x differentiated worksheets where they scale up a simple shape into a grid
- 1 x worksheet where they draw a simple image and scale it up into a grid and then onto the playground
- 5 x animal scaling activity sheets where they must scale up the animals to their real size
Get your children outside, engaged, and learning!
This game is a fantastic and fun way to introduce or recap adverbs for your class. It consists of two interactive and entertaining games where the children will discover what an adverb is and why they are important, learning to recognize them within sentences.
Contents:
- Slide 1 – 4: Introduction to the game / adverbs
- Slide 5 – 40: Game 1 – Deciding whether the given words are
adverbs or not
- Slide 41 – 54: Game 2 – Finding adverbs within the sentence
We hope you enjoy!
For this NO Phonics and Sounds activity the children will head into the outdoors in hunt for different sounds. They will then complete their differentiated record sheets (some with clues and others without) where they will write the object and draw a picture of it. We have used this successfully as a starter to a lesson or even a whole lessons activity. Best of all, there is NO PREP needed!</br>
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A highly visual and interactive PowerPoint and quiz on renewable energy as part of your natural sustainability and natural resources geography unit. The PPT focuses on solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and geothermal energy and gives some activity ideas at the end. It’s perfect for introducing this topic or as a quick lesson recap.
Contents:
Slides 1 - 4: What is renewable energy?
Slide 5 - 7: Solar energy
Slides 8 - 10: Wind energy
Slides 11 - 13: Hydro energy
Slide 14 - 16: Geothermal energy
Slides 17 – 19: Biomass Energy
Slides 22 – 21: Which is best
Slides 23 – 34: Quiz
Slide 35: Challenges
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This natural disaster student booklet is a great project for students to carry out research on hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, and volcanoes, creating a page for each with space for a diagram or picture along with a front and back cover page. There is also a blank template so your students can add another natural disaster if they have finished. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity project if you’re looking at natural disasters.
This pack comes in both colour and black and white.
To create the booklet, cut each A4 page in half, hole punch the top corner, and use some string or treasury tags to hold them together.
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Differentiated worksheets where students look at the causes and effects of pollution as part of your Humans and the Environment topic. The first worksheet is a cut and stick activity where students must cut out the causes and effects, pair them up, and then stick them into the correct column. For the second worksheet students are given either the cause of effect, them must complete the other column in the table.
These sheets are a great way to get students to think carefully about what the causes of different types of pollutions and the negative effect it can have on both us, animals, and the world around us.
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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 resource will give your class loads of practise working out number bonds to 100 using the bar model method. It’s a non-prep resource which contains multiple levels of differentiation from working with multiples of 10, working outside multiples of 10, and solving word problems.
B&W copies are included with this resource.
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This board game is a great way for students to practise elapsed time problems 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 elapsed time 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 and fun way to teach time.
Contents:
Diff. 1: The board progresses in hour intervals
Diff. 2: The board progresses in half hour intervals
Diff. 3: The board progresses in half hour intervals using the 24-hour clock.
Diff. 4: The board progresses in 15-minute intervals
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise column addition with and without carrying including decimals 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 decimal 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 with decimals & without carrying.
Diff. 2: Column addition with decimals & without carrying (more challenging).
Diff. 3: Column addition with decimals & carrying.
Diff. 4: Column addition with decimals & carrying (more challenging).
Check out our Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game here.
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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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This animal themed activity gets your children thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions and is perfect for this non-fiction text topic.
This is a no-prep cut and stick activity where students will read the statement, decide if it’s a fact or opinion, and stick it in the correct column.
This pack has a fun animal theme with graphics for each statement.
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This Catholic prayer resource contains 2 differentiated worksheets / activities where children will think about the meaning behind the Hail Mary prayer as well as what it means to them. They will use their creativity to come up with a modern version of the prayer which can make a great display.
Worksheet 1 – Student will study the different sections of the prayer, thinking about what each part means before creating symbols to represent each section.
Worksheet 2 - Students will write their own modern version of the prayer, making it more relevant to our lives today.
Check out our Hail Mary word search activity here.
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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.
This is a fun number sense activity that will help your little ones recognise, compose, build, and compare numbers through this visual and practical game.
For this activity students will roll the dice and build the number using cubes for the corresponding square. For example, if they rolled a 6, they would find the square with the 6 dice next to it, look at the number, and stack that many cubes on top of the square.
This pack contains three levels of differentiation.
Diff 1: Numbers 1 - 6
Diff 2: Numbers 1 - 12
Diff 3: Numbers 5 - 16
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