This outdoor STEM challenge gets students working as a team as they explore your forces and motion topic, with a focus on gravity. They will be set the challenge to transport water from a bucket at the top of a hill / set of stairs to the buckets at bottom using only a bucket and length of hose. Once they’ve completed the activity they can fill in the evaluation sheet which gets them to think about the effectiveness of their method as well as how they worked together as a team. Set Up: This activity works best in teams of 3 or 4. For each team you need 3 buckets and a length of clean hose. Find a hill (or set of stairs (however space can be an issue here) and place one bucket full of water at the top and another at the bottom for each team. The students can not touch either of these buckets. Their challenge is to transport the water from the bucket at the top to the bucket at the bottom without touching either of the buckets. They must only use the third bucket and the hose to transport the water. You will see lots of weird and wonderful ways that the students come up with to do this. The idea is for the students to develop a siphon by placing one end of the hose in the water and the other in the empty bucket, sucking until the water reaches the high point in the hose, and then letting gravity do the rest. If by the end of the activity the students have not used this method to transport the water, show it to them and encourage a discussion as to why it works. Resources Needed Per Team: 3 buckets of the same size Hose (1 - 2 meters long) To make things more interesting you could also add more objects they can use that won’t be as effective, such as a sponge. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a great outdoor activity as part of your living things topic, senses, outdoor art, or just as a fun outdoor activity. It’s a great way to get students exploring your outdoor space and appreciating the nature around them. For this activity students will go on a walk around your outdoor space, recording what they spot along the way using pictures and simple words or sentences. This activity is a great way to get students looking closely at the nature around them, making observations, and recording what they see. If pack contains different observation sheets to suite different needs and focuses. When on the walk you can either let the students choose when they want to draw or get everybody to stop at certain points to fill in their observations. It works really well if you can do two nature walks in contrasting areas so that students can compare their observations and discuss why they see different things in the contrasting environments. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a fun cut and stick / outdoor ordering activity for food chains as part of your living things topic. For this activity students will use chalk or our provided cards to complete the food chains. It’s a great way to introduce food chains while letting student get out of their seats taking part in the practical activity. Before the students compete this activity they’ll need an input as to what food chains are and how they work. Using Chalk: This method is our preferred way to do this activity. Put the students into pairs and give each pair the muddled food chain sheet. They must use the animals on the sheet to create their food chains by drawing pictures and arrows using chalk. This pack contains differentiated food chain sheets where the chains get more complex each time. Picture Cards: This pack also contains sets of picture and arrow cards to make up the food chains. Each set is color coded. Put the students into pairs and give each group a set of picture and arrow cards for them to use to complete the food chain. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a fun and practical activity for continuing patterns that’ll get your students identifying and continuing patterns without them even realizing they’re learning! These activity sheets are great for the main lesson, filler, or extension activities. They will roll a dice and complete the matching patterns on the activity sheet until all number patterns are complete. You can even add a level of competition by seeing how quickly they can complete the game. This resource contains 12 differentiated activity sheets for grades 1 - 5. Check out our other Roll and Multiply Bundle for times tables 2 - 12: Roll & Multiply Bundle Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a fun physical education lesson or brain break. The first lesson will take a little more time, however once students know what they are doing it can be done very quickly. Students will make their own secret code using sticks or chalk where they’ll create symbols to represent different activities. They’ll create a trail of their symbols for their partner to follow. This can be as long or as short as needed. **Teaching Structure: ** Activity Codes: Students will design symbols for each activity they choose. A code sheet is also provided if you want to skip this step. Students can now build their trails. To keep it simple, we find creating the trails in a straight line on the playground or field is easiest. Once the trails are finished they can swap with their partner and complete the trails. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Imagine if insects had a social media platform… well now they do! Your class will think like an insect and create a ‘bugbook’ page for their chosen insect. This is a great cross-curricular activity that will firstly get students looking at the features, habitats, and characteristics of insects in their outdoor space as well as practicing their non-fiction writing and research skills. It’s great when looking at description writing and non-fiction texts. You can also use this as a base to talk about internet safety using the question prompts provided. PSHE, science, and literacy all in one! Teaching Structure: Explain to your students that insects are getting social and love the new bugbook social media site. It’s their job to observe and research a chosen insect and make a bugbook profile for it. Share the example with them as a starting point to showcase the kind of things they may include. Get students to head outside, choose an insect they’d like to create a profile for and spend some time observing it, filling in as much of the research sheet as possible. They can then compete the sheet using the internet to research. Once the research sheet is complete they can create the insect’s profile using the templates provided. **Internet Safety: **Once they’ve completed their profiles, you can use the 10 internet safety question prompts to have a discussion with your class about the importance of being safe online. This could be done in small groups where each station is a different point outdoors. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Internet safety is an important topic to discuss with your class. These discussion cards are a perfect way for students to discuss key issues such as sharing information and personal privacy while online. This pack contains 10 discussion cards. Simply place them in different locations around the space, put students into groups of 3 or 4 and give them 2 - 3 minutes to discuss each card. At the end you can come back together and talk about their discussions and thoughts. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Exploring the outdoors and rhyming go together perfectly. Your class will learn about word structures and rhyming while talking part in this fun physical activity. This activity will work best if you can give an input or lesson before taking the class outside. Once outside, each student / pair will find an object and write it in the first column of their table, for example, a tree. They’ll then go around and see if they can find another one or two things that rhyme with their original object. They can the repeat this until they’ve had a chance to find a few rhymes. This activity can be made more competitive by assigning rhymes points. Extension: Once they’ve got a good amount of rhymes they can use them to create their own poems using our templates provided. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

These outdoor parts of speech verb task cards are a great way to get students recognizing and using action verbs. The activity works nicely as a starter or plenary to your verbs lesson and is designed to get students taking part in physical activity while learning about verbs. Put the class into pairs and give each a sentence card. One of the pair must read the sentence and point to / circle the verb, if their partner agrees they are correct, they must do the instruction given on the card. Once they’ve done it, they can swap their card with somebody else and let their partner have a turn. It’s good to let each pair go through a handful of cards before stopping the activity. If they are unsure of the correct answer, make sure they ask an adult for help before completing the instruction. This pack contains differentiated card levels. Green cards = Diff. 1 (1 verb per card). Blue cards = Diff. 2 (2 or more verbs per card). Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

All about adjectives is an activity where students will find something they find interesting outside, draw it, and think of some adjectives to describe it using all of their five senses. This pack contains differentiated sheets as well as word banks to support those who need the extra help. It can be a great starter activity, plenary, or even whole lesson depending on the age of your students and their abilities. It’s important students have a basic understand as to what an adjective is before starting this activity. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This creative outdoor writing activity gets students using their senses to describe the setting around them using a mixture of descriptive writing and drawing as they create their very own nature journals. Teaching Structure: Explain to the students that over the next few days / weeks they are going to use their senses to make their own nature journal to describe the settings in different outdoor areas. Go through the journal to check the students understand each section that they’re going to complete. There are three journal templates, one which is just for drawing, one for a little bit of writing and drawing, one for more advanced writers. Take the students outside to a specific place (or let them choose their own spots) and get them to complete a page of their journal. Do this on several different days (the more varied the setting and weather the better). Once they have several journal entries they can create their booklets using treasury tags or stapling them together. Give students time to share journals with each other. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity will get students sorting leaves and looking at different percentages as well as getting them to convert between percentages, decimals, and fractions. **Teaching Structure: ** Before this activity students need to have an input on working out fractions and converting them to percentages and decimals. Take students outside and ask them to collect the specified number of leaves (ability dependent). Get them to complete the table by sorting out the leaves into certain groups before working out the fraction, percent, and decimal. This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation. Diff.1: Students will work out the percentage after collecting 10 leaves and sorting them into groups. Diff. 2: Students will work out the fraction, percent, and decimal after collecting 10 leaves and sorting them into groups. Diff. 3: Students will work out the fraction, percent, and decimal after collecting 20 leaves and sorting them into groups. Diff. 4: Students will work out the fraction, percent, and decimal after collecting 15 leaves and sorting them into groups. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity will help reinforce students’ understanding of place value as they sort numbers on a number line in a fun and practical way. The pack contains two number lines and sets of number cards, one with numbers from 1 – 10 and another from 1 – 100. Set up: Print out the number line cards and number cards (laminate if possible so they can be re-used). Create the number line by sticking / tying the number line cards to something (a fence, the floor, trees, etc.). Try to make the scales as accurate as possible. Teaching structure: Give each child a number card and get them to run to the correct place on the numbers line. Once all students are in the correct place, get them muddle up, swap cards with somebody, then find the correct place on the number line. You can do this several times, giving students lots of practise at finding numbers on a number line. This activity is great both as a whole class and with smaller groups. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get your class engaged with your shape, space, and measure topic from the very start with this exciting outdoor math scavenger hunt activity for grades 3 and 4. It’s also a fantastic way to assess what your class already know or have learnt during the topic. It’s a hassle free resource with minimum prep, designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles. This pack contains 20 differentiated task cards that cover the following areas: 2d shape 3d shape Angles Area and perimeter Measuring & conversions -Symmetry My class had great fun in the outdoors while learning and recapping their skills. A fantastic lesson when the sun in shining! Contents: Teacher’s Guide 2 x Answer Sheets For The Children To Complete 20 x Task Cards Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get your class engaged with your forces and motion topic from the very start with this exciting outdoor science scavenger hunt activity. It’s also a fantastic way to assess what your class already know or have learnt during the forces and motion topic. It’s a hassle free resource with minimum prep, designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles. This pack contains 10 challenge task cards that cover the following areas: Air resistance Gravity Floating and sinking Friction Magnetism My class had great fun in the outdoors while learning and recapping their skills. A fantastic lesson when the sun in shining! Contents Teacher’s Guide 8 x Differentiated Answer Sheets For The Children To Complete 10 x Challenge Task Cards Top Tip: Laminate your cards so they can be used time and time again! Resources needed for cards: 1 - Leaves 2 - A4 and A3 paper 3 - Sticks 4 - Magnets 5 - Toy car 6 - Bucket of water 7 - Tennis ball & similar sized plastic ball 8 - Football / basketball 9 - Bin bag / similar 10 - Tennis ball & similar sized plastic ball Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This outdoor writing activity is great fun and a nice way to teach adjectives as well as introduce the idea of personification. Students will create their very own magical trees by using clay to make a face on their chosen trees trunk before drawing their tree and writing adjectives around the outside. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This poetry and description activity is designed to get students thinking creatively about trees, looking at their features closely and starting to personify the trees. After thinking about different ways to describe their chosen tree they will write a poem using the description and imagery they came up with. ** Teaching structure:** Explain to the students that in pairs they will find their favorite tree and using clay make a face on the trunk. Bigger trunks create better faces! First, students design their tree face on the ‘design’ worksheet. - Once their face has been designed, they can create the face on the tree. They can then fill in the description sheets. Having a lesson on adjectives and metaphors / similes, and personification before this can be useful. Once they have completed their description sheets they can use this to help them write their poems. You can either ask them to focus on a specific form of poetry or let them choose. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity is a great lesson to do before our ‘simple addition’ task cards as it’s slightly more adult led. Students will look at dividing a group of sticks into equal groups and seeing if there are any left over. It’s a great way to introduce multiplication and division to your students in a very visual and practical way. Teaching directions: Give your students an amount of time (1-2 minutes works well) to collect as many sticks as they can. Come back together with their sticks and get them to work through the differentiated worksheets. You can either let students complete the worksheet individually / in small groups or go through the worksheet as a group or class together. As you go through the sheet, try to introduce them to vocabulary such as ‘divide, division, share, remainder, etc. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Counting and adding outdoors is great fun with this simple activity where students will fill in the grids with the correct number of items. For example, they may be asked to fill in six squares with four leaves and two stones. This is a great way to introduce them to both counting as well as simple addition. It’s best to laminate this resource or print it on card so that it can be used multiple times. This pack contains 2 levels of differentiation. Diff.1: Students are only required to fill in the boxes. (10 activity sheets) Diff. 2: Students will fill in the boxes as well as write the addition. (10 activity sheets) Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Outdoor scales are a great way to introduce and refresh measuring weight and comparing different objects. Students will build their own (or the teacher can pre-build) simple outdoor scales so they can have fun measuring different objects as well as completing our differentiated activity sheets where they are required to find and compare the weight of different objects. Materials Needed: Activity pack Coat hangers String Buckets (or similar) Teaching Structure Build the scales: This is great for the students to do, however if you’re short of time this can be done prior to the lesson. Have fun playing with the scales: Give students time to experiment and have fun with the scales. Differentiated activity sheets: Students can now have more of a focus, completing the differentiated challenges on the activity sheets. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!