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KS2 Skeletons and Muscles Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for KS2 students learning or revising knowledge relating to skeletons and muscles. It contains comprehensive sections on:
The skeletal and muscular systems - complete with annotated diagrams and explanations of key bones/ muscles;
Overview of bones and muscles, including key facts;
Functions of the skeleton - support, protection, and the production of red blood cells;
How muscles work - voluntary and involuntary muscles;
Annotated diagram of the regions of the spinal column.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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The Rainforest - Pointless Game!
Based on the popular game show ‘Pointless,’ this resource is perfect for use as a whole lesson resource, enrichment option, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change questions. (I’ve also added a blank template so that you can make your own games from scratch). Containing 25 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning. There are several full rounds of questions to build or revisit knowledge of The Rainforest.
Round 1. Countries with Rainforests
Round 2. Birds of the Rainforest
Round 3. Name the Rainforest!
Round 4. Anagrams Round - (Layers of the Rainforest)
Round 5. Mammals of the Rainforest
The nature of this game ensures that the resource can challenge students of all levels.
A blank template has also been added, so that you can create your own games!
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KS2 Knowledge Organisers Big Bundle!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for KS2 students learning or revising knowledge relating to each of the following topics:
World War II;
Ancient Egypt;
The Solar System;
Tudors and Stuarts;
The Rainforest;
The Romans;
Ancient Greece.
Each organiser contains a number of comprehensive sections explaining the key elements of the topic, timelines detailing key times and events, diagrams and images to visually aid understanding, and key facts to extend the learning of higher attaining students.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Rainforests KS2 Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to rainforests. It contains comprehensive sections on:
The different layers of the rainforest (emergent, canopy, understory/shrub, forest floor) and diagram;
Information about where rainforests can be found in the world;
Animals of the rainforest (including distribution, images, habitat, size/weight, and key facts);
Timeline of deforestation;
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). The resource is most suitable for students in KS2 or KS3.
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KS2 Solar System Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for KS2 students learning or revising knowledge relating to the The Solar System. It contains comprehensive sections on:
- The Sun, Planets, and Dwarf Planets;
- Information about their moons;
- Other Bodies in the Solar System;
- Human Spaceflight;
- Timeline of Discovery;
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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The Solar System Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to The Solar System. It contains comprehensive sections on:
- The Sun, Planets, and Dwarf Planets - including classification, mean distance from the sun, size, and key composition information;
- Other Bodies in the Solar System - including comets, the asteroid belt, the Kuiper belt, and the Oort cloud;
- Human Spaceflight;
- Timeline of Discovery;
Key words and ideas are categorised logically for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
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Big Limericks Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS THE ENTIRE ANIMAL LIMERICKS ANTHOLOGY, THE COMPREHENSION TASKS, THE LUDICROUS LIMERICKS LESSON AND THE COMPARING POEMS LESSON!
These engaging, original and detailed resources are designed to help students gain an understanding of how to analyse and create imaginative limerick poems. Made up of interesting and exciting lessons, exceptional original examples, and fun tasks, students will complete this series of learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of haikus and limericks, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding and using creative language and structural devices, and conjuring and developing imaginative content.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the resources are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Limericks and Haikus Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS THE ENTIRE ANIMAL LIMERICKS ANTHOLOGY, THE COMPREHENSION TASKS, AND THE LESSONS FOR HAIKU POEMS AND LUDICROUS LIMERICKS!
These engaging, original and detailed resources are designed to help students gain an understanding of how to analyse and create imaginative limerick and haiku poems. Made up of interesting and exciting lessons, exceptional original examples, and fun tasks, students will complete this series of learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of haikus and limericks, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding and using creative language and structural devices, and conjuring and developing imaginative content.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the resources are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Holiday Fun Activities Bundle!
Included in this bundle are hours of fun, interactive, and productive activities that have been tried and tested with hundreds of happy children. Not only are the activities engaging, they also enable young people to develop their key skills in areas as varied as: Literacy, Numeracy, Science, Art and Design, PSHE, and Speaking and Listening.
Included within the bundle are the following popular resources:
- Murder Mystery Investigation: Students use exhibits, maps, evidence, and budgeting skills in order to solve a murder mystery case;
- Fantasy Football Club Group Project: Students design and resource their own football team from scratch, using a limited budget and selection of classic and modern footballers;
- Stating Your Case for the World’s Greatest Sportsperson - Students use their researching, persuasive writing, and speaking and listening skills to argue the case for the best sportsperson of all time;
- Space Mission: Find Us A New Earth! - Students are given an imaginative scenario and real-life information about the current most hospitable exo-planets, and must use their scientific and literacy skills to build a case for the next planet humans should inhabit;
- Crazy Animal Limericks Anthology - Loads of fun animal limericks for students to read, and comprehension/ creative tasks for them to complete.
All that you have to do is print and go, everything that you need for these resources (including teacher guidance) is provided.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slides of the presentations.
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Classifying Animals Lesson, Resources, and Pointless Game!
This bundle contains the 'Classifying Animals' lesson, and also the fun and interactive Animal Classes Pointless Game!
The detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of what animal classes are, and which animals belong to the different categories. Furthermore, they learn to categorise animals themselves, using scientific knowledge of the features of each animal class. Students justify their choices using critical thinking skills.
Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to:
- Define each animal class and understand its features;
- Exemplify each animal class, justifying their choices;
- Use research and investigative skills to categorise animals for whom the class is not immediately obvious;
- Evaluate the learning and understanding of themselves and their peers.
The resources include:
-Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation;
-Resources for the card-sorting activity;
-A categorising and justifying worksheet (and answer sheet for teacher);
-An investigation log;
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
To help their investigation write-ups, I've also thrown in the literacy writing mat for free!
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
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Classifying Animals!
This detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of what animal classes are, and which animals belong to the different categories. Furthermore, they learn to categorise animals themselves, using scientific knowledge of the features of each animal class. Students justify their choices using critical thinking skills.
Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to:
- Define each animal class and understand its features;
- Exemplify each animal class, justifying their choices;
- Use research and investigative skills to categorise animals for whom the class is not immediately obvious;
- Evaluate the learning and understanding of themselves and their peers.
The resources include:
-Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation;
-Resources for the card-sorting activity;
-A categorising and justifying worksheet (and answer sheet for teacher);
-An investigation log;
-Step-by-step lesson plan.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.
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Animal Classes - Pointless Game!
Based on the popular game show 'Pointless', this resource is perfect for use as a whole lesson resource, enrichment option, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change questions. (I've also added a blank template so that you can make your own games from scratch). Containing almost 30 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning.
There are several full rounds of questions to build or revisit knowledge of different animal classes and types - an important KS1 Science topic within the National Curriculum.
Round 1. Reptiles
Round 2. Animal Classes
Round 3. Anagrams Round
Round 4. Birds
The nature of this game ensures that the resource can challenge students of all levels.
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Space Mission: Find us a New Earth!
The year is 2086, and the students are needed for a special mission!
This space mission has been designed to provide students with a fun and interesting group challenge, whilst also building key skills in critical thinking and collaboration, and essential knowledge for Science, English, and Mathematics.
Students are placed in a scenario in which Earth is no longer habitable, and humans must seek to move to another planet in the Universe. Compiled for them is information on each of the potentially most habitable planets that are known to man (these are the real planets that have been confirmed by NASA and other agencies as having the most potential for life). In reading the key information, students will be drawing upon their knowledge of Science terminology, and will need to make some Maths calculations to work out implications of living on different planets.
What will become clear fairly quickly is that none of the potential planets are perfect, and they must use reasoned judgements to determine which of them have cons that could perhaps be overcome. They then present their ideas, using clear and articulate speaking and listening skills, and write up their report, using appropriate written communication (a scaffold is provided to frame this).
Everything is provided for you to download, print, and teach:
- A comprehensive, whole-activity PowerPoint that guides the students through the mission;
- Detailed and colourful information sheets on each of the contender planets for being the next Earth (these include links to amazing websites that can provide the children with more information);
- A 'Pros and Cons' scaffold, to help students record their findings;
- An information sheet on the 'habitable zone' around stars;
- A scaffold for writing up findings;
- Sorting cards for help with determining the key features of habitable planets;
- Full teacher guidance.
Considering the time and effort that it took to create these resources, I think that they offer exceptional value. Whenever I have used this activity before, it has taken at least 2-3 lessons, including the introduction, starter challenge, main mission, presentations, and write-up. I originally have used this with mid-ability Year 6,7, and 8 groups, but colleagues have easily adapted it for students across key stages 2-4.
All images have been cited at the end of the PowerPoint presentation and are licensed for commercial use.
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Crazy Animal Limericks Anthology! (Original Poems and Comprehension Tasks!)
This limerick anthology and comprehension pack contains over 20 pages of original, child-friendly, and humorous limerick poems, alongside differentiated comprehension resources for beginner, intermediate, and expert limerick learners.
I made these resources when I was writing a limerick scheme of learning a while back - I was disappointed with the lack of age-appropriate limericks available (that were suitable for KS1 and KS2 children, and still met the structural requirements of the poetic form). Therefore I began designing this anthology - from fashion-loving crocodiles, to sun-bathing penguins, to crime-fighting fish, to geese with anger management issues, all of the limericks here have gone down really well with all of the children that I have taught.
The comprehension tasks enable students to meet a number of the key expectations for Reading within the new National Curriculum. They focus upon comprehension of key elements such as interpretation of subject matter, analysis of language, and comments upon structural organisation.
The anthology contains a number of images, all of which are licensed for commercial use. Citations of these can be found on the final page of the anthology.
Many Thanks!
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Pointless - Template to Create Your Own Games!
Template for you to create your own Pointless games - whatever subject or topic you are teaching!
Based on the popular game show 'Pointless', this resource is perfect for use as a starter activity, plenary, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change the questions/answers. Containing almost 30 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning.
There are several built-in rounds of questions to build students' understanding in your topics, including:
- Identifying terms from definitions
- Anagrams of key terms round
- Recalling the highest level knowledge.
The nature of the game ensures that this resource can challenge students of all levels.
NOTE: You can buy this resource alone, or in a bundle of 8 Pointless games, for only £1 more!