I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
A resource that provides expanded knowledge organisers/ on a page summaries that can be used to support in a number of ways. This includes potentially using the resource to:
Support in the lesson
Support with knowledge retention at home
Quizzing
Supporting students who have missed lessons
There are two different topics included:
States of matter (solids, liquids and gases)
Changing states
For each one, there is key knowledge, key vocabulary and models and diagrams included, alongside potential misconceptions. Both topics are included in a colour and a black and white version to support with potential printing issues, as well as having UK and US English spellings.
A reading comprehension resource that focuses on the states of matter, providing information about the three main states of matter (solid, liquid and gas) as well as activities linked to this to check understanding.
The fact file includes information about each of the states, including particle diagrams and explanations, alongside a paragraph about changing states of matter.
The resource includes:
A fact file about the states of matter mentioned above (both in colour and black and white for ink saving purposes)
3 different comprehension activities of differing challenge - answers are included for these
A vocabulary activity that requires definitions to be found for each word provided.
UK and US spelling versions
A fully resourced 6 lesson unit on electricity in Year 6.
Included is a booklet format that includes all the questions, all the supporting information required and the activities linked to this. As much as possible, images, models and diagrams have been used to make the information as accessible as possible to refer back to following discussions. Each lesson also has key vocabulary and recap questions as well (the first lesson links to our previous unit of Animals including Humans so can be easily adapted).
Each lesson also has a PowerPoint that includes the information and diagrams from the booklet as well as any additional notes etc.
All the resources have been uploaded as PowerPoints so that you can easily adapt them to suit your setting.
most images and diagrams courtesy of BBC Bitesize
20 different writing activities that link to content from the Year 6 unit for Living Things and their Habitats to support the development of using different conjunctions in writing as well as thinking carefully about some of the knowledge and how they can apply the conjunctions appropriately using what they know about the subject area.
There are 20 days worth of activities, with each day having a different link to knowledge from the unit. Each day includes three different slides that follow the I do, we do, you do model.
However, it doesn’t need to be that each day you follow the model and that you may just model and then get pupils to do the you do or leave it up as pupils enter the classroom for them to then have a go at the because, but, so.
The idea is that it is short focused writing, with the full session lasting 15 to 20 minutes if using all three elements and shorter where all three elements aren’t used. Slides can be used as a pick up and go and don’t need to be done in the order set out.
A reading comprehension resource that focuses on parts of a flower, providing information about the different parts of a flower and the role they play as well as activities linked to this to check understanding.
The fact file includes a brief introduction before focusing on the different parts of the flower and the role they have. This includes petals, sepal, parts of the stamen and parts of the pistil.
The resource includes:
A fact file about parts of a flower mentioned above (both in colour and black and white for ink saving purposes)
3 different comprehension activities of differing challenge - answers are included for these
A vocabulary activity that requires definitions to be found for each word provided.
A reading comprehension resource that focuses on parts of a plant, providing information about the different parts of a plant and the role they play as well as activities linked to this to check understanding.
The fact file includes a brief introduction before focusing on the different parts of the plant and the role they have. This includes roots, the stem, leaves, flowers and fruit.
The resource includes:
A fact file about parts of a plant mentioned above (both in colour and black and white for ink saving purposes)
3 different comprehension activities of differing challenge - answers are included for these
A vocabulary activity that requires definitions to be found for each word provided.
Five pages of worksheets that can be used when teaching Year 6 Evolution and Inheritance.
The worksheets focus on inherited characteristics with an activity that focuses on sliding scales to decide whether it it inherited or acquired or whether it may fall somewhere inbetween such as hair colour.
There are then questions getting pupils to consider why hair and eye colour can be inherited or acquired.
The final worksheets focus on family trees and looking at what a child has inherited from different people in the family, considering the roles different people in the family may play including grandparents.
All the sheets can also provide rich discussion as a class in considering different elements of inheritance.
A complete writing unit for teaching explanation texts through writing one about the digestive system. It has been created with lower KS2 in mind but is easily adaptable.
Each ‘lesson’ is broken into chunks of learning rather than directly being a one hour lesson. This means some of the lessons may take more than an hour and be completed over a sequence of lessons instead, with the focus being on the learning and activities within this rather than ‘rushing’ through in an hour. Altogether, there is approximately two weeks worth of lessons, with slightly longer depending on how long drafting, redrafting and publishing take.
The unit includes lessons on:
Features of explanation texts
Cohesive devices
Research
Creating simple sentences
Drafting and redrafting
Publishing
All lesson PowerPoints with notes are included as well as a model text, a summary organiser about the digestive system, activity sheets and a explanation text summary sheet.
A six lesson unit for electricity that is based on the Year 4 Science curriculum. Included is a work booklet, a support booklet with information, lesson PowerPoints and a knowledge organiser that provides overview of some of the key information.
The 6 lessons are as follows:
Lesson 1: What is electricity and looking at examples of things that use electricity
Lesson 2: Keeping safe with electricity
Lesson 3: Conductors and insulators
Lesson 4: Circuits (this lesson does include a brief look at circuit symbols ahead of Year 6)
Lesson 5: Investigation into circuits
Lesson 6: Review lesson
The information booklet includes key supporting detail and can be printed into a reusable A5 format that signals the booklet is different to the activity booklet. This is then paired up with the work booklet that involves all the key tasks children will complete as part of their learning. The PowerPoints then bring all this work together as well as providing additional questions and information to discuss.
Credit to BBC Bitesize for images and some of the information included.
A pack of ten different activities linked to human organs to support learning in different ways.
The ten activities include:
Labelling identified body parts (boy and girl images available)
Cutting and sticking organs into the right place on the body (boy and girl images available)
Match the picture of the organ to the name
Match the name of the organ to the role it does
Match the picture of the organ to the role it does
Match the image of the organ to the correct name to the correct role
2x reading comprehension tasks - there is a fact file included that both of the comprehension tasks link to
Complete their own fact file
Wordsearch activity
Answers are also included for each activity, except the fact file which will vary.
A growing bundle for Year 3 Science that so far includes fully resourced units for Animals including Humans and Plants.
Included in the Animals including Humans Unit is:
Lesson 1 - Food groups
Lesson 2 - Food groups and nutrients
Lesson 3 - Bones
Lesson 4 - Organs
Lesson 5 - Muscles
Lesson 6 - Review/ assessment of unit
Each lesson includes everything that is needed to successfully teach that lesson including a lesson presentation, activity with challenge questions and answer sheets.
Lessons 1 to 5 also include support sheets should these be required to help with the activity whilst lessons 2 to 5 also include recap tasks that help support retention of learning across the unit.
Also included with each lesson is a second version with all the same style resources but aimed at a group potentially working at a slightly lower level to the original aimed group of the planning.
Included in the Plants Unit is:
Lesson 1 - The parts of a plant
Lesson 2 - What a plant needs
Lesson 3 - How water is transported in a plant
Lesson 4 - The parts of a flower
Lesson 5 - Seed dispersal and germination
Lesson 6 - Review/ assessment of unit
Each lesson includes everything that is needed to successfully teach that lesson including a lesson presentation, activity with challenge questions and answer sheets.
Lessons 1 to 5 also include support sheets should these be required to help with the activity whilst lessons 2 to 5 also include recap tasks that help support retention of learning across the unit.
A six lesson bundle/ unit of work based on a unit for Year 3 Animals including Humans.
Included in the lessons are:
Lesson 1 - Food groups
Lesson 2 - Food groups and nutrients
Lesson 3 - Bones
Lesson 4 - Organs
Lesson 5 - Muscles
Lesson 6 - Review/ assessment of unit
Each lesson includes everything that is needed to successfully teach that lesson including a lesson presentation, activity with challenge questions and answer sheets.
Lessons 1 to 5 also include support sheets should these be required to help with the activity whilst lessons 2 to 5 also include recap tasks that help support retention of learning across the unit.
Also included with each lesson is a second version with all the same style resources but aimed at a group potentially working at a slightly lower level to the original aimed group of the planning.
A lesson aimed at the Year 3 Science unit of Animals including Humans. This lesson is the sixth and final lesson of a sequence, focusing on reviewing the unit/ acting as an assessment of what children can remember and understand.
There are a number of different tasks that link to what has been taught over the unit, including true or false, labelling diagrams, and thinking about different importances of parts of the body. An answer sheet is also included and a presentation of the activity to discuss answers along each stage.
There is a second version of the review task also created for any group working at a slightly lower level with all the same factors and answer sheet included.
A lesson aimed at the Year 3 Science unit of Animals including Humans. This lesson is the fifth lesson of a sequence, looking at muscles. The lesson presentation includes a recap task looking at prior learning from a previous lesson (can easily be discarded if you are using this as a stand alone lesson) key vocabulary and discussion around why muscles are important to us and how they work.
This is then followed by an independent activity working on applying the learning about muscles and how they work. This is then followed by a challenge question regarding exercise and breathing heavier. An answer sheet and support sheet are also included, with an answer sheet also included for the recap task.
Alongside this is a second version of the lesson aimed at any groups who may be working at a lower level. The aim of the lesson is the same and there is a presentation, activity with answers and support sheet at a more appropriate level.
A lesson aimed at the Year 3 Science unit of Animals including Humans. This lesson is the fourth lesson of a sequence, looking at organs. The lesson presentation includes a recap task looking at prior learning from a previous lesson (can easily be discarded if you are using this as a stand alone lesson) key vocabulary and discussion around some of the different organs in the body and the role they play.
This is then followed by an independent activity working on applying the learning about organs and what they do. This is then followed by a challenge task to create a replica body with organs in the right place based on a provided image. An answer sheet and support sheet are also included, with an answer sheet also included for the recap task.
Alongside this is a second version of the lesson aimed at any groups who may be working at a lower level. The aim of the lesson is the same and there is a presentation, activity with answers and support sheet at a more appropriate level.
A lesson aimed at the Year 3 Science unit of Animals including Humans. This lesson is the third lesson of a sequence, looking at the human skeleton. The lesson presentation includes a recap task looking at prior learning from a previous lesson (can easily be discarded if you are using this as a stand alone lesson) key vocabulary and discussion around the different bones in the body and the role the skeleton plays. This is then followed up with some true and false questions linked to the information.
This is then followed by an independent activity working on identifying bones in the body, scientific names, the function of the skeleton and some true and false questions. This is then followed by a challenge task to show what else they know about bones. An answer sheet and support sheet are also included, with an answer sheet also included for the recap task.
Alongside this is a second version of the lesson aimed at any groups who may be working at a lower level. The aim of the lesson is the same and there is a presentation, activity with answers and support sheet at a more appropriate level.
A lesson aimed at the Year 3 Science unit of Animals including Humans. This lesson is the second lesson of a sequence, looking at the different food groups and the nutrients we require. The lesson presentation includes a recap task looking at prior learning from a previous lesson (can easily be discarded if you are using this as a stand alone lesson) key vocabulary and discussion around why we eat, as well as looking the Eatwell plate and the different food groups within this. This is then followed up by looking at different nutrients, the role they play and good food sources.
This is then followed by an independent activity working on the nutrients and food groups. This is then followed by a challenge question to provide the chance to reason. An answer sheet and support sheet are also included, with an answer sheet also included for the recap task.
Alongside this is a second version of the lesson aimed at any groups who may be working at a lower level. The aim of the lesson is the same and there is a presentation, activity with answers and support sheet at a more appropriate level.
A lesson aimed at the Year 3 Science unit of Animals including Humans. This lesson is the first lesson of a sequence, looking at the different food groups. The lesson presentation includes key vocabulary and discussion around why we eat, as well as looking the Eatwell plate and the different food groups within this.
This is then followed by an independent activity that requires children to label an Eatwell plate and consider foods for each group. This is then followed by a challenge question to provide the chance to reason. An answer sheet and support sheet are also included.
Alongside this is a second version of the lesson aimed at any groups who may be working at a lower level. The aim of the lesson is the same and there is a presentation, activity with answers and support sheet at a more appropriate level.
Three different examples of information texts written about plants.
These can be used for a number of purposes, including showing examples of how information texts can be organised differently and how they can include different information, used for learning about plants and flowers or used as part of general reading lessons.
A knowledge organiser that links to the Year 3 unit on plants, including key vocabulary, images and diagrams that link to some of the key information when learning about plants.
Also included are five different quizzes/ tasks that link to the information in the knowledge organiser that could be used on different weeks as a focus task/ revision of the information on the organiser.
These include quiz questions, matching definitions, completing diagrams and filling in blanks. For each quiz/ task, an answer sheet is also included.