Children will investigate jewelry design from around the world before designing their own. In the past, I have used the finished jewelry to sell for our school’s art show. This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England, and links to NGSS in the United States are listed where appropriate. A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.

This resource has been designed to use as a way to teach the Working Scientifically objectives apart from the core science objectives. In the past, I have used the lessons with the class as a way to reinforce the concept of a fair test, as well as different types of variables. Baking gives the children the opportunity to go deeper into concepts, combining them with design, Maths, and core science. I have included recipes at the start of the pack to do with the class initially and expose them to different macarons. Alternatively, different types can be purchased ahead of time and shared with the class that way. A link is also provided should you want to access the file for editing and sharing on Google Classroom or Seesaw. -------------- You might also like: Working Scientifically I can Statements for Years 5 & 6 Working Scientifically with littleBits for Year 5 and 6 Working Scientifically with MakeyMakey in Years 5 & 6 Working Scientifically with Energy Bites for Years 5 & 6

**Updated with all new graphics!** Working Scientifically objectives have been taken from the 2014 National Curriculum of England for Lower Key Stage 2 and have been broken into smaller pieces and phrased as I can statements. The sheets can be printed off and laminated for display, as well as shared on an Interactive Whiteboard for lesson focuses during science investigations. A checklist has also been included for sharing and target setting with individual children. --------------- You might also like: Working Scientifically with Crayons for Years 3 & 4 - STEAM Unit Working Scientifically with Energy Bites for Years 3 & 4 Working Scientifically with Cookies for Years 3 & 4 Working Scientifically with MakeyMakey in Years 3 & 4 Working Scientifically with littleBits for Years 3 and 4

Give children an opportunity to use critical thinking and dig deeper into their understanding of events in stories as well as the characters by using social media. The pack provides scaffolded templates of Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook with suggestions related to the reading and writing standards for the 2014 National Curriculum of England in Key Stage 2. A link is also provided to a digital copy of the file for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool. ABOUT THE NOVEL: From the author of Newbery Medal winner Moon Over Manifest comes the odyssey-like adventure of two boys’ incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail. When Jack Baker’s father sends him from his home in Kansas to attend a boys’ boarding school in Maine, Jack doesn’t know what to expect. Certainly not Early Auden, the strangest of boys. Early keeps to himself, reads the number pi as a story, and refuses to accept truths others take for granted. Jack, feeling lonely and out of place, connects with Early, and the two become friends. During a break from school, the boys set out for the Appalachian Trail on a quest for a great black bear. As Jack and Early travel deeper into the mountains, they meet peculiar and dangerous characters, and they make some shocking discoveries. But their adventure is only just beginning. Will Jack’s and Early’s friendship last the journey? Can the boys make it home alive? ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (General D. Eisenhower, Holy Grail, pi, constellations, crew). Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.

Children will look at how sports team logos have changed over time before designing a team logo of their own. Children then repeat the same structure, this time looking at team jerseys. Last, they will write an explanation text of how logos or jerseys have changed over time. This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England. Links to the Common Core State Standards are also outlined, where appropriate. A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available by following the link provided at the time of download.

Children will learn about different Olympic athletes and their accomplishments. After their study, they will write an information text about their chosen athlete and their significance (number of medals, records broken). This pack includes lesson plans, rubrics, and editable rubrics to support with the learning process. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England. A digital copy for editing and sharing on digital platforms is available with download.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Bridge to Terabithia by Katharine Paterson. *Updated to include additional opportunities to show understanding under "Digging Deeper", including theme, setting analysis, and excerpts from the text. ABOUT THE NOVEL: Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie’s house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief. ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (milking cows, racing, scuba diving, Jacques Cousteau, Smithsonian). Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download. -------------------------------------------- You might also like: Hatchet Novel Study The Girl of Ink and Stars Novel Study The Skeleton Tree Novel Study The Lie Tree Novel Study Navigating Early Novel Study

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Turtles All the Way Down by John Green. ABOUT THE NOVEL: It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see. Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (black hole, meteor shower, Star Wars, tuatara, zoologist, Iron Man, microbiome). Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman. ABOUT THE NOVEL: Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy… Malcolm’s parents run an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. Malcolm and his daemon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm catches wind of something new: intrigue. He finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust - and the spy it was intended for finds him. When she asks Malcolm to keep his eyes open, he sees suspicious characters everywhere: the explorer Lord Asriel, clearly on the run; enforcement agents from the Magisterium; a gyptian named Coram with warnings just for Malcolm; and a beautiful woman with an evil monkey for a daemon. All are asking about the same thing: a girl - just a baby - named Lyra. Lyra is the kind of person who draws people in like magnets. And Malcolm will brave any danger, and make shocking sacrifices, to bring her safely through the storm. ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Background information on the novel (about the setting, about daemons), Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (daemons, spies, Aurora, priory). Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download. You might also like: <a title=“The Book of Dust (Vol. 1) Novel Study + STEAM BUNDLE” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-book-of-dust-vol-1-novel-study-steam-bundle-11855090”>The Book of Dust (Vol. 1) Novel Study + STEAM BUNDLE</a>

**Updated with new graphics In this resource, children will study the shape of honeycomb before designing, making and evaluating a honeycomb relief print. They will then research the anatomy of honeybees before designing, making, and evaluating a honey bee stamp to print over their honeycomb relief prints. A digital copy of the resource is available to editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw by following this link provided with download. You might also like: <a title="‘Pimp my Insect’ Explanation Text FREEBIE!" href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-pimp-my-insect-explanation-text-freebie-11617071”>‘Pimp my Insect’ Explanation Text FREEBIE!</a> <a title=“Colony Collapse Disorder - Persuasion Text” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colony-collapse-disorder-persuasion-text-11843200”>Colony Collapse Disorder - Persuasion Text</a> <a title=“Insect Study - Evolution & Inheritance” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/insect-study-evolution-and-inheritance-11843218”>Insect Study - Evolution & Inheritance</a> <a title=“Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/insect-study-adapted-insect-forms-11843240”>Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms</a> <a title=“Honey Bee Study with Maths and Scratch” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/honey-bee-study-with-maths-and-scratch-11799912”>Honey Bee Study with Maths and Scratch</a>

**Updated with new graphics In this resource, children will learn about the importance of honey bees before being introduced to Colony Collapse Disorder. Children will then write a persuasive text using modal verbs and Point, Evidence, Explain either persuading their audience to end Colony Collapse Disorder. In the past, I have introduced this outcome by teaching lessons on three consecutive days in the styles of Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Communism. The children then write their persuasive text in one of these styles. A digital copy of the resource is available to editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw with download. You might also like: <a title=“Honeycomb and Honey Bee Printing” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/honeycomb-and-honey-bee-printing-11843156”>Honeycomb and Honey Bee Printing</a> <a title="‘Pimp my Insect’ Explanation Text FREEBIE!" href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-pimp-my-insect-explanation-text-freebie-11617071”>‘Pimp my Insect’ Explanation Text FREEBIE!</a> <a title=“Insect Study - Evolution & Inheritance” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/insect-study-evolution-and-inheritance-11843218”>Insect Study - Evolution & Inheritance</a> <a title=“Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/insect-study-adapted-insect-forms-11843240”>Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms</a> <a title=“Honey Bee Study with Maths and Scratch” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/honey-bee-study-with-maths-and-scratch-11799912”>Honey Bee Study with Maths and Scratch</a>

In this resource, children will learn about heredity and adaptations by looking at variations in different insects. This resource can easily be tied in with <a title=“Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/insect-study-adapted-insect-forms-11843240”>Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms</a> where they can design and build a form of their own adapted insect. A digital copy of the resource is available to editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw by following link provided with download. You might also like: <a title=“Honeycomb and Honey Bee Printing” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/honeycomb-and-honey-bee-printing-11843156”>Honeycomb and Honey Bee Printing</a> <a title="‘Pimp my Insect’ Explanation Text FREEBIE!" href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-pimp-my-insect-explanation-text-freebie-11617071”>‘Pimp my Insect’ Explanation Text FREEBIE!</a> <a title=“Colony Collapse Disorder - Persuasion Text” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colony-collapse-disorder-persuasion-text-11843200”>Colony Collapse Disorder - Persuasion Text</a> <a title=“Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/insect-study-adapted-insect-forms-11843240”>Insect Study - Adapted Insect Forms</a> <a title=“Honey Bee Study with Maths and Scratch” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/honey-bee-study-with-maths-and-scratch-11799912”>Honey Bee Study with Maths and Scratch</a>

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Skeleton Tree by Iain Lawrence. ABOUT THE NOVEL: Less than 48 hours after twelve-year-old Chris casts off on a trip to sail down the Alaskan coast with his uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank have no radio, no flares, no food. Suddenly, they’ve got to find a way to forage, fish and scavenge supplies from the shore. Chris likes the company of a curious friendly raven more than he likes the prickly Frank. But the boys have to get along if they want to survive. Because as the days get colder, and the salmon migration ends, survival will take more than sheer force of will. There in the wilderness of Kodiak, they discover a bond they didn’t expect, and through it, the compassion and teamwork that might truly be the path to rescue. ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (tide, Alaska, northern lights, salmon, ravens, Marconi, wolves, Grizzly bears, tsunami, sailing). **STEAM ADD-ON **This pack also includes a STEAM activity for children to research different survival needs (shelter, food gathering, water collection) before designing a and making a prototype. Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.

**Updated with new graphics Children will study the variations in insect anatomies and how they can create variations to help their insect survive in their ecosystem. In the past, I have blended this pack with the <a title="‘Pimp my Insect’ Explanation Text FREEBIE!" href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-pimp-my-insect-explanation-text-freebie-11617071”>‘Pimp my Insect’ Explanation Text FREEBIE!</a>, where a bit more time is spent explaining the variations. A digital copy of the resource is available to editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw by following the link provided with download. You might also like: <a title=“Honeycomb and Honey Bee Printing” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/honeycomb-and-honey-bee-printing-11843156”>Honeycomb and Honey Bee Printing</a> <a title="‘Pimp my Insect’ Explanation Text FREEBIE!" href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-pimp-my-insect-explanation-text-freebie-11617071”>‘Pimp my Insect’ Explanation Text FREEBIE!</a> <a title=“Colony Collapse Disorder - Persuasion Text” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colony-collapse-disorder-persuasion-text-11843200”>Colony Collapse Disorder - Persuasion Text</a> <a title=“Insect Study - Evolution & Inheritance” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/insect-study-evolution-and-inheritance-11843218”>Insect Study - Evolution & Inheritance</a> <a title=“Honey Bee Study with Maths and Scratch” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/honey-bee-study-with-maths-and-scratch-11799912”>Honey Bee Study with Maths and Scratch</a>

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. ABOUT THE NOVEL: Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present—and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parent’s divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self pity, or despair—it will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed, to survive. **ABOUT THE RESOURCE: ** Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (porcupines, black bears, black flies, mosquitoes, bush planes, moose). STEAM ADD-ON This pack also includes a STEAM activity for children to research different survival needs (shelter, food gathering, water collection) before designing a and making a prototype. Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with two novels written by Francis Hardinge: <a title=“The Lie Tree Novel Study” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-lie-tree-novel-study-11821573”>The Lie Tree Novel Study</a> and <a title=“A Skinful of Shadows Novel Study” href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-skinful-of-shadows-novel-study-11833536”>A Skinful of Shadows Novel Study</a>. The pack has been designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6. ABOUT THE RESOURCE: This pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel. Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Witch’s Boy by Kelly Barnhill. The pack has been designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6. ABOUT THE NOVEL: When Ned and his identical twin brother tumble from their raft into a raging river, only Ned survives. Villagers are convinced the wrong boy lived. Across the forest that borders Ned’s village, Áine, the daughter of the Bandit King, is haunted by her mother’s last words: “The wrong boy will save your life, and you will save his.” When the Bandit King comes to steal the magic Ned’s mother, a witch, is meant to protect, Áine and Ned meet. Can they trust each other long enough to cross a dangerous enchanted forest and stop the war about to boil over between their two kingdoms? ABOUT THE RESOURCE: This pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (stuttering, witch, goat, wolves, lynx, falcon, gallows). Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download. You might also like: The Witch’s Boy Novel Study + STEAM BUNDLE

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Secret Life of Daisy Fitzjohn (also known as Brightwood) by Tania Unsworth. It bundles The Secret Life of Daisy Fitzjohn (Brightwood) Novel Study with two STEAM packs about designing and making memory boxes, including building on the poem The Magic Box by Kit Wright. ABOUT THE NOVEL: Daisy Fitzjohn knows there are two worlds: the outside world and the world of Brightwood Hall, her home—and the only place she’s ever been. Daisy and her mother have everything they need within its magnificent, crumbling walls. But, when Daisy’s mother leaves unexpectedly one morning, a strange visitor arrives on the estate, claiming to be a distant cousin, James Gritting. As the days tick by and Daisy’s mother doesn’t return, Gritting becomes more and more menacing. He wants Brightwood for himself, and he will do anything to get it—unless Daisy, with only her imaginary companions to help her, can stop him. ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (yachts, topiaries, the Amazon, poisonous berries), and STEAM enrichment activities where children design, make, and evaluate their own memory boxes, including building on the poem The Magic Box by Kit Wright according to Key Stage 2 Design Technology objectives. Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.

This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Lie Tree Novel Study by Frances Hardinge with a STEAM extension about designing and making an adapted organism. ABOUT THE NOVEL: Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy—a proper young lady who knows her place as inferior to men—but inside, Faith is full of questions and curiosity, and she cannot resist a mystery: an unattended envelope, an unlocked door. She also knows secrets no one suspects her of knowing. For one, she knows that her family moved to the close-knit island of Vane because her famous scientist father was fleeing a reputation-destroying scandal. And when her father is discovered dead shortly thereafter, she knows that he was murdered. In pursuit of justice and revenge, Faith hunts through her father’s possessions and discovers a strange tree. The tree bears fruit only when she whispers a lie to it, and when that fruit is eaten, it delivers a hidden truth. But while the tree might hold the key to her father’s murder, it could also lure his murderer directly to Faith. **ABOUT THE RESOURCE: **Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (fossils, sea caves, The Origin of the Species, mermaids), and a STEAM enrichment activity where children design, make, and evaluate their own adapted insect according to Key Stage 2 Science, Art and Design, and Design Technology objectives. Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.