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Primary science
Electricity Circuit Building Activity
Teach your children about electricity through our Electricity Task Cards. This is a fantastic hands on activity that will teach your children to construct series and parallel circuits. They will love creating the circuits from the differentiated task cards.
This can be done using electrical components or our symbol cards provided.
Contents:
- x 14 Electricity circuit diagram cards
- Electrical components symbol cards
We hope you enjoy!
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Animal Adaptions: Camouflage and Mimicry Activities
These fun, engaging, and practical activities on camouflage and mimicry are the perfect compliment to your science curriculum for Grades 2 - 4. They will get the children thinking creatively about how animals have adapted their looks to survive in different habitats.
Contents:
1 x ‘Spot The Camouflage’ - Go outside on the hunt for camouflaged animals.
2 x ‘Masters of Disguise’’ - Find the hidden animals in the photos and explain how they are camouflaged.
3 x ‘Camouflage This Bug’ - Color in the bug to camouflage it against the background.
2 x ‘My Invisible Animal’ - Cut out the animal and think of somewhere to hide it. Colour it in to make it camouflage and see if another member of the class can find it.
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Have fun!
States of Matter Vocabulary Cards
14 visual states of matter vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They are a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this exciting topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language or spelling difficulties. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid.
Contents
14 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
State
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Viscosity
Temperature
Volume
Pressure
Change of State
Melting
Evaporation
Boiling
Check out our other Word Walls:
- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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Space: Planet Fact File
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.
Animal Crime Scenes: The Hedgehog Horror - Science Investigation
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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States of Matter (Liquids, Solids, and Gases) QR Code Quiz
This QR code quiz is perfect for introducing the topic of ‘States of Matter’ or as a refresher lesson for years 3 - 6. It covers a variety of questions on solids, liquids, and gases. You will be amazed at how much they can learn about states of matter in a short amount of time!
This activity works best in the outdoors. Hide the QR codes around your outdoor area and then give the children the answer sheet and the I-pads. They must go around, find the answers, and complete the answer sheet.
If you are using the QR codes, you will need a QR scanner, which you can download free from the app store.
Alternatively you can print the cards two sided (with the answers on the back) if you do not have the technology available.
I find it works really well if you get the children to do the QR quiz, and then a week later give them the same questions to see what they have remembered.
Contents:
- 16 QR Quiz Cards
- 16 Cards with answers that you can print on the back of the question cards
- 1 answer sheet
We hope you have as much fun as our class did!
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Animal Adaptation Huge Bundle - PowerPoint, Activities, Investigations & Vocab
This fun, engaging, and practical PowerPoint, activities, and vocabulary cards bundle is perfect for your animal adaptations topic. It gets children to think about how animals have adapted to survive in different habitats, looking closely at camouflage and mimicry with a wide range of activities to suit different learning styles.
This pack contains a fun PowerPoint and quiz, a selection of practical indoor and outdoor activities, a science investigation, and a word search and cootie catcher which is great for filler work as well as a key term vocabulary card pack.
PowerPoint Contents:
Slides 1 – 8: Introduction
Slides 9 – 13: Physical Adaptions
Slides 14 – 19: Behavioural Adaptations
Slides 20 – 29: Quiz
Slide 30: Conclusion
Worksheets Contents:
1 x ‘Spot The Camouflage’ - Go outside on the hunt for camouflaged animals.
2 x ‘Masters of Disguise’’ - Find the hidden animals in the photos and explain how they are camouflaged.
3 x ‘Camouflage This Bug’ - Color in the bug to camouflage it against the background.
2 x ‘My Invisible Animal’ - Cut out the animal and think of somewhere to hide it. Colour it in to make it camouflage and see if another member of the class can find it.
1 x Word search
1 x Cootie catcher
Science Investigation Pack:
Children will investigate whether our physical appearances effect our ability to do different tasks, answering question such as ‘do people with longer legs run faster?’
6 x investigation cards
2 x differentiated investigation plan template
2 x differentiated results table
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Science Murder Mystery - Materials and their Properties - States of Matter
Science Murder Mysteries are great fun for both you and the students. For this mystery students will use their knowledge of materials and their properties as well as their states of matter knowledge to investigate who poisoned Andrew Smith. They’ll look at the 5 suspects poisons both using their eyes and under a microscope and compare the poisons to the one found at the crime scene.
They’ll have to figure out how to separate the substances in the water (salt, sugar, etc.) to take a closer look and make their comparisons to figure out which suspect to put in jail!
Contents:
Teacher’s Guide
Bottle Labels
The Crime Brief
Investigation sheet part 1
Investigation sheet part 2
Conclusion questions
Equipment needed:
Resource pack
6 plastic bottles per group
Petri dishes
Pipet
Microscope (or magnifying glasses if not available)
Salt, sugar, & coffee
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The Water Cycle Activity
This foldable activity consists of 2 cootie catchers (or fortune tellers) for learning or revising the water cycle key terms. The children must try to figure out which part of the water cycle is being described. 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 their own definitions for each key term themselves. There are visuals included to meet different learning styles.
Key Terms included:
- Water Cycle
- Condensation
- Transpiration
- Groundwater
- Cloud
- Evaporation
- Surface Runoff
- Water Vapor
- Precipitation
- Humidity
- Dew Point
- Perspiration
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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Check out our other science cootie catchers:
The Rock Cycle
Plant Structure
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Healthy Eating & Nutrition: What's In Your Lunchbox?
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.
Check out our bundle for more activities that will fit in perfectly with your healthy eating and nutrition topic.
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The Egg Drop - STEM Activity
The Egg Drop STEM Challenge is a nice variation on the commonly used egg parachute challenge. Your class will work together in small teams, thinking about the best way to protect an egg from being dropped using natural materials. They will be encouraged to think about the properties of different materials, considering which one will work best.
The whole activity is based around a story of an explorer who is trapped in the North Pole and needs food supplies, and of course, his favourite food is egg!
Read the instructions to your class before putting them into groups of 2 or 3. Encourage them to hunt out different natural materials that they think will protect them egg from breaking. Once they have padded out the tubs, give them the egg and see if it works by dropping it from a good height!
To save on money and waste, if an egg does not break, it can be re-used by the following team.
Once the challenge is complete each student can fill in an evaluation sheet.
Resources needed:
Supply of natural materials in an outdoor space
Activity sheets
Small tubs (big 500ml or similar)
Somewhere high to drop the eggs from (first floor or second floor)
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Alphabet Journey (Description, 5 Senses)
This is a great literacy game to send home with your children that is easy to prepare. Each child must go on a journey to try and find things that they can see, smell and touch for each letter of the alphabet.
Depending on ability, you may want to get children to write, draw, or write and draw the answers. Their journeys can be anything from their trip to school to a walk up a mountain! There are loads of fun challenges you can set with this activity.
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Animal Habitats Hunt Outdoor Activity
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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Big Nature Scavenger Hunt
This exciting nature-themed scavenger hunt printable is the perfect way to get kids outside exploring nature in your local area. They’ll explore the natural area, trying to find 20 different natural treasures. It’s ideal for birthday parties, school trips, or simply a fun family outing.
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Check out our Woodland Scavenger Hunt!
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Types of Energy Vocabulary Cards
14 visual types of energy vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They are a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this exciting topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language or spelling difficulties. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid.
Contents
14 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
Absorption
Chemical Energy
Electrical Energy
Electromagnetic Energy
Energy
Heat
Heat / Thermal Energy
Kinetic Energy
Light Energy
Mechanical Energy
Nuclear Energy
Potential Energy
Solar Energy
Sound Energy
Check out our other Word Walls:
- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- States of Matter
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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Humans And The Environment: How Humans Affect The Environment Worksheets
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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Pollution - Ocean Plastics: Clean Up Invention Project
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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Animal Adaptions PowerPoint & Quiz
A fun interactive PowerPoint and quiz is designed to give your class an introduction into the amazing world of animal adaptions. It goes through the basics of the different types of physical and behavioural adaptions, giving interesting examples for each. We have found this great for introducing the topic or as a quick refresher for the children.
Contents
- Slides 1 – 8: Introduction
- Slides 9 – 13: Physical Adaptions
- Slides 14 – 19: Behavioural Adaptions
- Slides 20 – 29: Quiz
- Slide 30: Conclusion
Check out our camouflage activities.
Animal Adaptions: Camouflage and Mimicry Activities
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Plant Structure Activity
This activity, which is part of the life cycles unit, consists of 2 cootie catchers (or fortune tellers) for learning or revising plant structures. The children must try to figure out which part of the flower is being described. It’s a great way to have students review their knowledge of different plant parts 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 their own definitions for each plant part themselves. There are visuals included to meet different learning styles.
Vocabulary included:
- petal
- pollen
- stem
- roots
- seed
- fruit
- leaf
- plant
- stamen
- stigma
- sepal
- ovary
- style
- anther
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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Video Comprehension - The Importance of Composting
This video comprehension is all about the wonderful world of compost. Your students will learn what compost is and how it works, the importance of composting, as well as what we can and can’t compost.
This pack contains 3 levels of differentiation as well as an extension activity where they must write a persuasive letter.
What is video comprehension?
Our video comprehension series is designed to facilitate the learning of those students who find reading tricky. It allows them to access the same level of learning without the need to read large amounts of information. We have found it especially helpful with our SEN students.
Each set is differentiated three times. With the first level of differentiation requiring them to simply circle the correct answers.
These worksheets work best if each student has their own device as they can re-watch parts of the video to find the correct answers. However if you don’t have one device per students or pair we have done this with great success by having the video on repeat on the board / tv at the front of the classroom.
These activities are also perfect for home and distance learning.
We are constantly expanding our range of video comprehension worksheets so be sure to check back frequently for new resources.
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