This fun puzzle involves children using Google Earth to find a specific letter of the alphabet. All the letters are made-up from different features on earth such as buildings and rivers. Each coordinate leads to a different letter. Once the children have recorded the letter, they can zoom out to find out and record what country it is in. Once they have all the letters, they have to rearrange them to make up the mystery word. You can see all the answers by selecting the text in both the country and letter columns and changing the text colour. They are hidden in plain sight, so don’t forget to remove them if you are setting this as a document online. This could either work as an individual competition - see who can find all the places in the quickest time. Or it could be done as a collective effort - the whole class working to find the different places before the time runs out. Children and adults alike really enjoy this activity! Extension ideas: a) Have the children find their own letters around the world, or for more difficulty, in their local area. b) Use the snipping or Print Screen (PrtSc) tool to copy images of letters and spell out a name or even a phrase.

This fun activity involves children using Google Earth to discover various famous landmarks from around the world. Examples include a mixture of man-made structures such as The Taj Mahal, and natural landmarks such as Ayre’s Rock. Children can ether type or copy the coordinates into Google Earth and then easily find the monument. Older students could even try to manually find the coordinates. Once there, they can explore the landmark following which they should record its name and country in the table. This could either work as an individual competition - see who can find all the places in the quickest time. Or it could be done as a collective effort - the whole class working to find the different places before the time runs out. It works as a great follow-up lesson to mapping and use of coordinates or even just as an introduction to Google Earth or an introduction to famous human and physical geographic landmarks.

This fun activity involves children using Google Earth to find a variety of places or things around the world. They aren’t specific places per se, but generally places. Examples include a football stadium, cactus, iceberg etc. The idea of having generic places and things to find is that the children generally aren’t able to just do a text search. They have to actively seek and find! Children can either using a snipping tool or PrtSc (Print Screen) to save a picture of the place/thing or they could provide the coordinates of their find. This could either work as an individual competition - see who can find all the places in the quickest time. Or it could be done as a collective effort - the whole class working to find the different places before the time runs out. I hope your children enjoy it as much as mine did!

This mystery trail is designed to be used online as a Google Doc as there are many connected links within. The mystery trail is made up of a ten tricky puzzles to solve. The solution to each puzzle provides one word of the mystery phrase. To add support, and an extra element of detective work, under each puzzle is a clue that can only be revealed by the children highlighting that area, (as the the text is white). It’s worth seeing how easy you are able to solve each puzzle so you can be on hand to provide extra support if needed. Some of my more independent learners in Year 3 were able to do it all on their own in one period. They really enjoyed the variety of puzzles and what they needed to do to figure them out. Very challenging, yet enjoyable puzzle sheet, that quite honestly took me hours to make! I hope you and your children enjoy it too.

This art/maths crossover is designed to be used online as a Google Doc. It could still be printed out though. It’s made up of a 10x10 grid in which children have to create a pattern or picture (with the Google Doc background changer) using six different colours. Once they have created their art, the second job is to identify the fractions of each of the colours they used in making it. It’s a fun way to connect maths and art and let’s the children create pixel type art. Expect a lot of Minecraft related stuff to be handed in! Finally, it’s great for use in Google Classroom where every child gets their own copy. You can then easily check their individual progress live and then check their results.

This worksheet could be printed out, but was designed to be completed by children online in Google Docs. It’s made up of 4 questions, a bonus and an extension task. Each question involves a table shape with different numbers of cells shaded different colours. Children have to identify the fraction of each of the colours shaded. It builds in difficulty up to where the children then have to place the fractions in order of size. The bonus question involves ordering fractions with different denominators. It’s great for use in Google Classroom where every child gets their own copy. You can then easily check their individual progress live and then check their results.

This worksheet could be printed out, but was designed to be completed by children online in Google Docs. It’s made up of 10 questions, a bonus and an extension task. The first five questions involve the children shading in the given shape (using the background colour changer in Google Docs) as well as naming the fraction either as a word or in its number form. The second five questions involve naming the fractions based on a given shaded area of the shape. The bonus is a slightly trickier question based on the second half of questions and the extension involves children creating their own table shape, shading the cells and typing up the fraction name. It’s great for use in Google Classroom where every child gets their own copy. You can then easily check their individual progress live and then check their results.

This display is ideal for projecting the denominations of British Pound. Underneath the labeled coins and notes is an enlarged table for typing in different amounts of pounds (with space for up to £999.99). To achieve the lesson objective - make up given amounts, children will need either actual or fake money. Our school has a large set of fake currency which I divide up between small groups. Individuals can then easily select what they need to make up the given amount. Projecting the chart on a white board also allows you to tally or cross-off coins as you work through examples on how to make up different amounts. You could also do the same on the document too as it’s fully editable. To add difficulty to the LO, ask the children to make it in the easiest way possible or once they have made it up one way, challenge them to make it up another way.

This simple worksheet involves children colouring in the paths of both the odd and even numbers. There is more than one route to follow for each but also several dead ends, so it’s important children plan properly before committing to colouring the squares in. It serves as a fun way to reinforce and check the children’s ability to understand odd and even numbers. It also allows chance to easily circulate as they colour to further check understanding.

This is an snazzy looking quiz template which is made up of a title page, question numbers pages, question pages (with one minute timers) and answer pages. It is fully editable and perfect for quickly adding your own questions and answers for a pop quiz or end of unit test. The timers only start when you click them so you can give the children a chance first before starting them or you could just start them straight away, depending on how much time you think they may need.

This worksheet is for use towards the end of a maths unit where the children start to make their own word problems for others to solve. The worksheet is split into two sections. The first part has a space for children to write their facts and question and another space for drawing a small illustration related to the problem. The second has spaces for using a bar model or equivalent to help determine how to solve the problem and then spaces for the calculation and answer.

This worksheet has a diagram showing four common electrical symbols and their pictures - battery/cell, lamp, cables/wires and a switch. The children have to draw an electrical circuit for a light with a switch. The second part of the worksheet is a fill in the blanks activity in which children use the words from the box to complete the paragraph about the circuit. This worksheet serves as a good introduction or reinforcement for children who are just starting to learn about electrical circuits and the symbols used to draw them.

This quiz contains eight questions (with answers) which are all word problems involving length and distance. The calculations are mostly addition and subtraction with some basic multiplication towards the end. There are a range of metric units use, mostly km. For each question a one-minute timer is provided which will start when clicked. You could use it as the actual timer for children to do the working or you could have it as a final minute timer which is what I usually do. Play it by ear. After each question when the answer is revealed, we go through the working on the board and create bar models to help explain where necessary. The quiz is fully editable so you can easily change the content. I like to use the names of children from my class to make it more personalised. I also spent time creating a colourful and well-designed template too so you can reuse this quiz format for other topics and subjects also.

This PowerPoint based activity is made up of 12 numbered tiles which when individually clicked on will reveal a question behind them. When a student or group gets the correct answer the question tile can then be removed to reveal a part of the picture hiding behind. It’s perfect for Book Day or even as a warmer for a reading lesson. All the questions relate famous children’s books. Please take a look at the previews to see the questions. The game is fully editable, so with a few clicks, (instructions in the PowerPoint), you can change the content as you please and use it for any question from any topic you like! I usually split the class up into teams for this and let them have one collected guess at the picture if they answer a question correctly. The first team to correctly state what book the picture is about, are the winners.

This fact finding worksheet is made up of 16 statements about the human and physical geography of Japan. Each statement has 1-3 blanks that the children have to fill in through either prior knowledge or researching on the internet or in books. The final part of the worksheet is a word search which contains many of the answers and other words too. It even has a hidden message that is only revealed when the children have found a certain number of words. The worksheet serves as a nice introduction to various facts about Japan and requires the children to think about what search terms to use to find the information they need effectively. I usually have the children work in pairs for this as they can bounce ideas off each other, discuss and divide the questions up between them. You could even provide a certain statement to each student and then have them share their findings at the end for others to record.

On this A3 worksheet, children create a key and colour in the countries on the map of Africa. Except for the map, this document is fully editable. Instructions: a) Select and write down the names of 15 countries, found in Africa, in the key below. b) Assign a different colour for each country and then colour in the corresponding location on the map of Africa. c) Mark on either the names of the oceans or some of the capital cities. You could also have the children draw on some of the human-made or natural landmarks as an additional activity.

On this A3 worksheet, children create a key and colour in the countries on the map of South America. Except for the map, this document is fully editable. Instructions: a) Write down the names of the 12 countries found in S. America in the key below. b) Assign a different colour for each country and then colour in the corresponding location on the map of S. America. c) Draw on some of the key natural landmarks, for example, the Amazon River, the Andes etc. You could also have the children label the capital cities for each country and/or the oceans.