The perfect place for all your EYFS, KS1 and KS2 resources, Explore Education aims to provide you with amazing, outstanding lessons that help you to shine. Each lesson often has detailed planning, PowerPoints and differentiated resources. So whether you are looking for a maths lesson to get you through your next interview, an English lesson that will help you impress OFSTED or a history, science, RE, PSHE or PE unit to wow your class, this is the shop for you!
The perfect place for all your EYFS, KS1 and KS2 resources, Explore Education aims to provide you with amazing, outstanding lessons that help you to shine. Each lesson often has detailed planning, PowerPoints and differentiated resources. So whether you are looking for a maths lesson to get you through your next interview, an English lesson that will help you impress OFSTED or a history, science, RE, PSHE or PE unit to wow your class, this is the shop for you!
Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your KS2 students about chocolate and its origins, production, history and impact? Do you want to inspire them to write creatively, think critically and design their own perfect town? If so, this chocolate unit is perfect for you!
This unit consists of five outstanding geography lessons that cover the following topics:
★ Where chocolate comes from and how Fairtrade helps the farmers who grow it
★ How chocolate is made from bean to bar and the steps involved
★ How to write a diary entry as a cacao bean and use personification and descriptive language
★ How to sequence historic events using a timeline and learn about the history of chocolate
★ How to design and describe a perfect town based on preferences and values and use persuasive techniques
Each lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, a PowerPoint presentation and a worksheet for the students. The lessons are designed to be interactive, creative and informative, and to meet the national curriculum objectives for geography, literacy and art. The lessons also include links to videos, images and websites that enhance the learning experience and provide additional information.
This chocolate unit is ideal for Key Stage 2 students who love chocolate and want to learn more about it. It is also suitable for teachers who want to save time and effort in planning and delivering high-quality geography lessons. The unit can be used as a standalone topic or as part of a wider theme, such as fair trade, sustainability or global issues.
Download this chocolate unit today and treat your students to a delicious and educational journey through the world of chocolate!
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This Christianity and the Bible RE unit is perfect to use across a half term and is a great way to delve into the stories of Christianity and understand the Bible.
Children will learn all about the Bible through looking at four different stories and how they have influenced Christians today.
These five lessons are perfect to be used during a half term, with some flexibility for additional lessons or other school activities. They are fully resourced and planned, with detailed lesson plans provided.
Created by an experienced Religious Education subject lead, these lessons have been used in a real classroom with real students across KS2.
Included is:
5 PowerPoints
5 lesson plans
The Bible Fact File Information Sheet
Mary Jones - a Synopsis
The Story of Mary Jones Storyboard
The Wedding at Cana Story
The Sower and the Seed Story
The Sower Worksheet
The Miracles of Jesus Storyboard
The Miracles of Jesus Storyboard Help Sheet
Lessons:
What do we know about the Bible?
What is the Mary Jones story?
The Wedding at Cana
The Sower and the Seed
Jesus the Healer
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Dive into the fascinating world of magnets and explore the forces that make them so captivating with this comprehensive LKS2 Magnets and Forces Science Unit. Designed to engage and educate young learners, these six outstanding lessons cover essential topics such as friction, magnetic poles, magnetic materials, and magnet strength. Through hands-on experiments, interactive activities, and thought-provoking discussions, students will develop a solid understanding of magnetism and its practical applications.
Lesson 1: Friction and Movement on Different Surfaces
Discover the role of friction in movement as students compare how things move on various surfaces. Through investigations and recording their findings, students will gain insights into the importance of friction and factors influencing it.
Lesson 2: Exploring Friction in Electricity
Investigate the concept of friction in the context of electricity. Students will test different materials to find the best one for keeping a map on a car dashboard without it falling off. Through experiments and analysis, they will understand the impact of materials and their frictional properties.
Lesson 3: Forces Between Magnets
Observe the forces of attraction and repulsion between magnets. Students will explore magnetic poles, conduct experiments, and record their observations to develop a general understanding of magnetic forces.
Lesson 4: Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Materials
Explore magnetism and classify everyday materials based on their magnetic properties. Through hands-on activities, students will differentiate between magnetic and non-magnetic materials, gaining a deeper understanding of magnetism.
Lesson 5: Practical Uses of Magnets
Discover the practical applications of magnets in everyday life. Students will research and present information about the uses of magnets, identify magnetic materials, and discuss their significance in practical situations.
Lesson 6: Testing Magnet Strength
Investigate and compare the strength of magnets through fair tests. Students will plan and conduct experiments, record data, and use scientific vocabulary to explain their findings regarding magnet strength.
Engage your students with these outstanding lessons that combine scientific exploration and interactive learning. By the end of this unit, students will have a solid understanding of magnetism, magnetic fields, and the properties of magnetic materials. They will also develop critical thinking skills through hands-on experiments and creative activities. Equip your LKS2 learners with a strong foundation in magnetism with this comprehensive science unit.
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Engage your students with our 36-slide PowerPoint presentation and script centered on Remembrance Day. This educational resource delves into key aspects, including:
The significance of Remembrance Day.
★ A comparative look at Remembrance Day then and now.
★ Exploring the symbolism of poppies.
★ The iconic “Flander’s Fields” poem.
★ The role of The British Legion in supporting veterans.
Relevant for a Wide Audience:
This versatile presentation caters to students across different key stages, from EYFS and KS1 to KS2, KS3, and KS4. It also aligns with topics related to British values, behavior, and worship.
Delve into the history and importance of Remembrance Day with our informative PowerPoint and script. Perfect for a broad range of students, this resource ensures that the significance of this day is well understood across various age groups and educational stages.
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Elevate your Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) setting with our comprehensive Under the Sea Continuous Provision Pack. This resource provides four weeks of engaging activities for both indoor and outdoor environments, designed to enrich learning experiences across multiple areas.
Product Features:
Four Weeks of Activities: A well-structured plan covering a full month, offering a variety of activities tailored for different learning areas.
Indoor and Outdoor Options: Includes two activities per week for each key area, ensuring diverse and dynamic play experiences both inside and outside.
Activity Details: Each activity comes with a title, a brief description, guidelines for setting up the environment, and differentiation strategies to cater to various learning needs.
Comprehensive Coverage: Indoor activities include water, sand, malleable, sensory, easel, creation, investigation, role play, writing, maths, carpet, small world, reading den, construction, games and puzzles, and computer areas. Outdoor activities focus on construction, role play, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, literacy, maths, creativity, and small world play.
This pack supports the development of key skills and provides a structured approach to continuous provision, making it an essential resource for EYFS practitioners aiming to create a rich and varied learning environment.
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This 5 session guided reading unit is all about a newspaper report. This newspaper report is actually based on Kensuke’s Kingdom, however no knowledge of this text is needed.
Great to study across a week or half term, these sessions are based around reading the text together as a whole class (or group) and predicting, clarifying vocabulary and exploring the text.
Children will build up a knowledge of the features and language used in a newspaper report.
Learning objectives:
To identify and explain the features of a newspaper report.
To analyse and evaluate the language and structure of a newspaper report.
To infer and deduce information from a newspaper report.
To evaluate and respond to a newspaper report.
To identify and compare the features of a newspaper report.
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This 5 session guided reading unit is all about setting descriptions. The included text is based on the setting of a fairground, including descriptive vocabulary.
Great to study across a week or half term, these sessions are based around reading the text together as a whole class (or group) and predicting, clarifying vocabulary and exploring the text.
Children will build up a knowledge of the features and language used in a setting description.
Learning objectives:
To identify and explain the features of a setting description.
To analyse and evaluate the language and structure of a setting description.
To identify and explain the features of a setting description.
To understand how the author uses language to create a vivid description of the fairground.
To understand and respond to a descriptive text about a fairground.
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Take your KS2 science students on a journey of discovery with this engaging lesson on classification keys! This comprehensive resource is designed to help your pupils in Years 3-6 understand how scientists organise and identify living things. Through hands-on activities and clear examples, your students will learn to use branching keys like real scientists.
What’s Included:
★ Step-by-Step Lesson Plan: A clear and concise guide to help you deliver a successful lesson on classification keys.
★ Interactive PowerPoint Presentation: Slides filled with information, questions, and images to spark discussions and deepen understanding.
★ Fun Sorting Activity: A hands-on activity using pictures of colorful sweets to introduce the concept of branching keys in a fun and relatable way.
★ Example Branching Keys: Provide your students with models to analyze and learn from, including a liquorice allsorts key and an invertebrate key.
★ Differentiated Support Materials: Help all learners succeed with a lower-ability template and guidance slips for those who need extra support.
★ Visual Aids: Pictures of different invertebrates to help students make connections between features and classifications.
What Your Students Will Learn:
★ What classification is and why it’s important in science.
★ How to use and create branching keys, an essential tool for identifying and organizing living things.
★ Improved observation skills by closely examining and comparing the features of different objects and organisms.
★ How to think critically and solve problems while creating their own branching keys.
This lesson pack aligns with the national curriculum for KS2 science and focuses on classification and living things. It’s designed to be easy to use, with everything you need to teach a fun and informative lesson.
By the end of the lesson, your students will have a solid understanding of branching keys and be able to use them to identify different types of invertebrates. This is a fantastic way to spark their interest in science and get them excited about the world around them!
Sink your teeth into this captivating KS2 science lesson that explores the fascinating world of teeth! Designed for Years 3-6, this comprehensive resource will equip your students with a deep understanding of the different types of teeth, their functions, and how they compare to those of other animals.
What’s Included:
★ Engaging Lesson Plan: A step-by-step guide with clear learning objectives, hands-on activities, and differentiation options for all abilities.
★ Informative PowerPoint: Visually appealing slides filled with teeth facts, diagrams, and discussion prompts to spark curiosity and learning.
★ Types of Teeth Fact Sheet: A handy reference sheet for students to consolidate their knowledge of incisors, canines, premolars, and molars.
★ Types of Skulls Activity: A unique and engaging plenary activity where students compare and contrast the teeth of different animals, fostering critical thinking and observation skills.
Key Learning Outcomes:
★ Identifying Teeth Types: Students will learn to recognize and name the four main types of teeth: incisors, canines, premolars, and molars.
★ Understanding Tooth Functions: Students will discover the specific functions of each type of tooth, from cutting and tearing to grinding and crushing.
★ Comparing Animal Teeth: Students will explore the diverse world of animal teeth, comparing and contrasting their shapes and functions to those of humans.
★ Developing Scientific Vocabulary: Students will learn and use key scientific terms related to teeth and their functions.
Why Choose This Resource?
★ Curriculum-Aligned: Meets the national curriculum objectives for KS2 science, covering living things and their environments.
★ Hands-On Learning: Students actively participate in investigations, discussions, and the unique skull comparison activity, promoting deeper understanding and engagement.
★ Teacher-Approved: Created by an experienced educator with a passion for science education.
★ Differentiated Activities: Caters to a range of learning styles and abilities, ensuring all students are challenged and supported.
★ Ready-to-Use: Everything you need is provided in a clear and organized format, saving you valuable prep time.
Spark a lifelong love of science and a healthy smile with this exciting lesson on teeth!
Ideal for: KS2 Science, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, teeth, human body, animal adaptations, science investigation.
Explore the world of movement and creativity with our KS1 African Animals PE Unit. This resource includes five thoughtfully designed lesson plans that focus on physical activity, teamwork, and imaginative learning. Through interactive activities and games, students will develop coordination, vocabulary, and a deeper understanding of animal movements. These lessons are an exciting addition to your curriculum, promoting active engagement and a holistic learning experience.
Lesson 1: Discovering Animal Movements and Vocabulary
Kick off the unit with a dynamic exploration of body movements in response to music. The Traffic Lights Game and engaging warm-up activities help students develop essential movement vocabulary while highlighting the significance of proper warm-ups before exercise.
Lesson 2: Embodying Animal Movements with Creativity
In this lesson, students embrace their inner animals through imitation and creative expression. Activities like “I’m a Lion and Late for Trip to the Waterhole” encourage physical movement and imaginative play, fostering both coordination and vocabulary development.
Lesson 3: Sequencing Animal Movements for Performance
Lesson 3 focuses on sequencing movements into cohesive performances. Students collaborate to choreograph dance sequences inspired by animal movements, enhancing teamwork skills and encouraging creative storytelling through movement.
Lesson 4: Crafting Collaborative Dance Stories
Students weave movement and imagination together in Lesson 4. Collaboratively creating dance sequences that embody African animal characteristics promotes cooperative learning and the art of storytelling through physical expression.
Lesson 5: Expressive Dance Performances with Animal Movements
The final lesson showcases students’ progress and creativity. Combining animal movements into expressive dance performances not only promotes physical activity but also encourages students to communicate through movement, emphasizing their understanding of animals and their unique traits.
Our KS1 African Animals PE Unit offers a well-rounded approach to physical education, promoting movement, teamwork, vocabulary development, and imaginative expression. Each lesson plan is carefully crafted to create an engaging and enriching learning experience for your students.
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Roll into the new term with this fundamental ball skills unit.
Used across 5 lessons, this unit comes with 5 detailed lesson plans that are easily adaptable for EYFS and KS1. There is differentiated success criteria for EYFS, Y1 and Y2.
Created by an experienced PE subject coordinator, these lessons have been rated Outstanding by PE professionals and leadership teams.
Files included:
✸ x4 lesson plans (spread across 5 lessons)
✸ Success criteria for throwing, catching and using a racket
✸ Bean game ideas
Lesson 1 Learning Objectives:
To perform basic catching skills
To follow instructions
To understand expectations in PE (R/Y1)
Basic Skills & Personal Development:
Catching a large ball. (EYFS)
Show good control and coordination (EYFS)
Throwing and catching skills (Yr 1 / 2 )
Lesson 2 Learning Objectives:
Send and receive a ball
To show an awareness of the immediate space around our bodies.
To practise different ways of sending and receiving a ball.
Basic Skills & Personal Development:
How to roll different equipment.
How to move and stop equipment safely. (Y1)
How to catch with both hands. (Y1/2)
Lesson 3 Learning Objectives:
To use a racket
To use space to move safely around others.
To use a racket safely to send and receive a ball.
Basic Skills & Personal Development:
EYFS: Experiments with different ways of moving.
Shows increasing control over an object in pushing, patting, throwing, catching or kicking it.
Year 1 / 2: Hit a ball with a racket.
Follow rules set e.g. Follow a line with a ball.
Lesson 4 / 5 Learning Objectives:
To perform basic actions using different body parts.
To use hands and feet to send and receive a ball.
To hit a target with a ball.
Basic Skills & Personal Development:
EYFS – Thawing an object with increasing control and accuracy
Year 1 – Throw an object in different ways
Year 2 – Use hitting, rolling and kicking during a game
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This comprehensive 40-session term unit is designed for mixed Year 3 and Year 4 classes, providing a complete framework for developing reading comprehension skills. Covering key strategies such as clarifying, prediction, questioning, and summarising, this unit offers detailed planning, text extracts, and a wide range of additional resources, including toolkits and worksheets.
The unit features diverse reading tasks:
Character descriptions
Diary entries
Setting descriptions
Balanced arguments
Letters (2-week focus)
Persuasive texts
Newspaper reports
Ideal for LKS2 (Lower Key Stage 2), this resource supports outstanding literacy teaching, helping students engage with various text types and improve their comprehension skills. Perfect for use in classrooms aiming for Ofsted excellence.
Keywords: Year 3, Year 4, reciprocal reading, LKS2, literacy, outstanding Ofsted, character description, diary entry, persuasive writing, newspaper report, planning, worksheets, text toolkit.
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A set of colourful maths resource labels with real photographs representing the items. Brilliant for maths subject leaders and class teachers.
These labels are also great for children with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) or EAL (English as an Additional Language) and helps build language development lower down the primary school.
Included in this download are the labels in printable PDF format in a range of sizes including:
One to a page
Two to a page
Four to a page
Six to a page
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Do you want to provide your students with some fun and engaging homework activities that relate to the theme of Africa? Do you want to cover different subjects such as geography, history, science, maths, writing, and reading? If so, this Africa Homework Choice Board is perfect for you!
This product contains a choice board of 30 tasks that span across various subjects and skills. Your students can choose which tasks they want to complete and how many they want to do each week. The tasks are designed to be creative, challenging, and relevant to the theme of Africa.
Some examples of the tasks are:
★ Research an African animal and create a poster with at least four facts.
★ Record the heights of 5 mountains in Africa and present in a bar chart. Which is the tallest? By how much?
This pack also includes a PDF of 54 African flags to decorate and a factfile worksheet. You can use this product as a whole-class homework project or as a differentiated option for individual students.
This Africa Homework Pack is a great way to extend your students’ learning beyond the classroom and to make homework more enjoyable and meaningful. Download it today and let your students explore the wonderful world of Africa!
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These Learning Experience posters are fantastic to remind staff what opportunities there are for children across a range of subjects and FS1 areas.
Each sheet includes:
☆ Promoting how children may learn
☆ Key learning opportunities for this area
☆ What adults will do
☆ What the adult will provide
☆ Organisation
☆ Key Vocabulary and Questions
Sheets for:
Art and design, fine motor, group time, heuristic play, mark-making, role-play, snack, block play, construction, ICT, small world, book corner and sand and water.
There is also an overview and a blank copy included if you need to create any more. These posters are all fully editable in word.
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A 27-page workbook based around The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde - including an extract. There is a week’s worth of lessons with handwriting, grammar, vocabulary and comprehension questions to complete. There is also an answer booklet.
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Empower parents to become reading advocates at home with this comprehensive Reading Parents Evening PowerPoint. With 18 informative slides, this resource is a valuable tool for hosting engaging and effective parents’ evenings. Ideal for primary age children, the content is editable and adaptable to suit the unique needs of your school community.
Resource Highlights:
★ Phonics Insight: Equip parents with a solid understanding of phonics to support their child’s reading journey.
★ Word Strategies: Provide practical tips for parents on helping their children tackle challenging words with confidence.
★ Book Exchange Procedures: Explain how book swapping works at school, fostering a collaborative approach between home and school.
★ Reading Mornings: Promote the importance of reading mornings and how they contribute to a child’s literacy development.
★ Editable Content: Tailor the content to align with your school’s specific reading initiatives.
Ideal For:
★ Parents’ Evenings
★ New Starters
★ Reading Boost Initiatives
How to Use:
★ Share insights about phonics and word strategies to enhance parents’ ability to assist their children.
★ Discuss the mechanics of book exchanges and the positive impact of reading mornings.
★ Edit and customize slides to align with your school’s reading program.
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Do you want to make grammar lessons more fun and engaging for your students? Do you want to help them master the different types of words and how to use them in their writing? If so, you will love these colourful and creative word type posters!
These posters are designed to help children learn and remember the nine main word types: noun, common noun, proper noun, pronoun, conjunction, prefix, suffix, verb, and adjective. Each poster features a clear and catchy definition of the word type, as well as an example sentence that shows how the word type works in context.
These posters also have eye-catching graphics and illustrations that match the word type and the example sentence. These visuals help children to associate the word type with its meaning and function, and make the posters more attractive and memorable.
These word type posters are perfect for displaying in your classroom, as they will brighten up your walls and reinforce your grammar teaching. You can also use them as a reference tool, a teaching aid, or a revision resource. Your students will love looking at these posters and learning from them!
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11 Posters to help children with calming down. Great for those with SEND or just for a quiet space in your classroom.
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Do you want to teach your pupils how to paint with a paintbrush, different brushstrokes and geometric blocks of primary colours in a fun and engaging way? Look no further than this resource pack, which includes three outstanding art lessons that cover these topics in a creative and interactive way and are suitable for Key Stage 1 pupils.
This resource pack contains:
⍟ Three detailed lesson plans that outline the learning objectives, success criteria, starter activities, main inputs, main activities, differentiations, plenaries and item lists for each lesson.
⍟ Three PowerPoint presentations that support the main inputs and plenaries, with text boxes for the teacher to read and key questions to ask the pupils. They also include images and diagrams to illustrate the concepts and techniques for each lesson.
⍟ Vocabulary task sheets that help the pupils to learn some words related to painting, such as brushes, thick, painting, palette, bristles, primary colours, thin, gentle, brushstrokes, handle, colour, shade, stroke, etc. The sheets have tables with three columns: word, definition and example. The pupils need to match the words with their definitions and examples or fill in the missing columns for each lesson.
⍟ Examples of paintings sheets that show some paintings that use different techniques and colours. You can use these sheets as references or print them out and display them in the classroom for each lesson.
⍟ Three Piet Mondrian painting question sheets that help the pupils to observe and describe some paintings by Piet Mondrian, an artist who used geometric shapes and primary colours to create abstract art. The sheets have some questions to test the pupils’ understanding and appreciation of the paintings. You can use these sheets as worksheets or as discussion prompts for the third lesson.
⍟ Piet Mondrian templates that help the pupils to divide their paper into rectangular sections using a pencil and ruler. The templates have some dotted lines to guide the pupils. You can use these templates as references or print them out and give them to the pupils for the third lesson.
This resource pack is suitable for Key Stage One pupils and covers the following skills and knowledge:
☆ How to identify the parts of a paintbrush: the handle, the ferrule and the bristles.
☆ How to hold and use a paintbrush correctly, with a relaxed grip and the bristles pointing downwards.
☆ How to use the dip, dip, dab method to apply paint, using water, paint and a palette.
☆ How to create different shades of colours by adding more or less water or paint.
☆ How to rinse and clean a paintbrush using water and a paper towel.
☆ How to make a range of marks by stroking the brush on the paper, such as curved, straight, dotted, etc.
☆ How to use black lines to border each section, creating a contrast and a neat finish.
☆ How to divide a paper into rectangular sections using a pencil and ruler.
☆ How to paint blocks of a single colour without mixing into other colours, using only red, yellow and blue.
☆ How to observe and describe paintings that use different techniques and colours.
This resource pack is designed to inspire and motivate your pupils to explore and experiment with painting with a paintbrush, different brushstrokes and geometric blocks of primary colours. It will also help them to develop their artistic skills and express their creativity. Download this resource pack today and make your lessons a masterpiece!
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