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We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
This types of habitats student research booklet is a great project for students to carry out research on all different habitats around the world, creating a page for each where they’ll research each habitat and record their findings as well as drawing a picture in their booklet. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity if you’re looking at continents
This pack comes with a blank template if they which do cover a habitat not included.
To create the booklet, cut each A4 page in half, hole punch the top corner, and use some string or treasury tags to hold them together.
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These differentiated task cards are perfect for your students to get loads of practice at working out missing angles for 3, 4 and 5 sided shapes as well as other missing angles as part of your shape, space, and measure topic.
This pack contains 20 differentiated cards along with an answer sheet for students to fill in as well as an answer key.
These cards can be used in loads of different ways. We love to stick them up around our outdoor space and get the students to hunt them out before solving the missing angles.
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These cycling records are perfect to keep track of your cycling activity while looking at some mathematics skills such as addition and averages.
This pack contains 5 levels of differentiation to suite ages from 4 - 12 (or older!).
**Diff. 1: **Students will record the day and draw a picture for each of their rides.
Diff. 2: Students will record the day, miles ridden and draw a picture for each of their rides before calculating their total miles (great for simple addition practice). Two design options available.
**Diff. 3: ** Students will record the day, miles ridden and draw a picture for each of their rides before calculating their total miles at the end of each ride (great for simple addition).
Diff. 4: Students will record the day, miles ridden and draw a picture for each of their rides before calculating their total miles at the end of each ride. Once all of their rides are complete they will answer some questions involving subtraction, averages, and division.
Diff. 5: Students will record the day, miles, total miles and time taken before working out their average speed for each ride. Once all of their rides are complete they will answer questions involving subtraction, averages, and division.
This record is perfect for national cycle weeks but is also a great way to teach mathematical skills in real world situations.
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This activity is designed to get students thinking about instruction writing while appreciating the world around them. It can easily be adapted to suite a wide age and ability range.
Ages 4 – 6
Get students to go into your outdoor space / woodland area and draw something they really like about the area on ‘my favorite thing’ sheet (animals, plants, sky, etc.).
Come back together as a group and discuss what they have chosen as their favorite thing. Explain to the students that you are going to use all of their favorite things to create a recipe for a woodland. This can be done together verbally or by writing a recipe on the board.
Ages 7 – 9
Get students to go into your outdoor space / woodland area and draw / list all the things they like about the space on the ‘my favorite things’ sheet.
Once you’re back in the classroom (or an appropriate space outside), explain that they’re going to write a recipe for their perfect woodland, using all the things they thought about while outside.
At this point it’s good to show the students a variety of other recipes, getting them to highlight the key features. Once they are familiar with the key features, they can begin to write their recipe for the perfect woodland, using our prompt sheets to help if needed.
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The tree age investigation is a great activity if you’re focusing on perimeter, measuring, or data handling. Your class will use a simple formula to figure out the rough age of the trees around your outdoor space, completing some fun challenges, or collecting data to input into graphs.
This resource pack contains two different activities you could do when looking at the ages of trees.
Challenge questions – For this activity your class will figure out the age of trees while completing the different challenges on the sheet.
Data handling – Students will collect data by identifying trees and calculating their age. They will then use this data to complete bar graphs and answer some questions about their findings. Both of these activities work best in pairs as it makes it easier to measure the diameter of trees.
Resources needed:
Flexible tape measure
Activity pack sheets
Calculator
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This part-whole bar model subtraction worksheet pack is great to give your students loads of practice at using the bar model method to solve subtraction word problems.
The bar model is great to help children visualize and solve mathematical problems.
This pack contains 20 differentiated worksheets from numbers 1 - 20.
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This part-whole bar model addition worksheet pack is great to give your students loads of practice at using the bar model method to solve addition word problems.
The bar model is great to help children visualize and solve mathematical problems.
This pack contains 20 differentiated worksheets from numbers 1 - 20.
[Check out our subtraction bar model worksheets for grade 1.]https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/bar-model-subtraction-worksheets-years-1-and-2-12311177)
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This part-whole bar model subtraction worksheet pack is great to give your students loads of practice at using the bar model method to solve subtraction word problems.
The bar model is great to help children visualize and solve mathematical problems.
This pack contains 22 worksheets with an increasing level of challenge throughout.
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Growing plants is great fun and can lead to loads of teaching opportunities. For this activity students will plant a variety of species and measure their growth rate over time.
The students first look at how they can carry out this investigation, completing an investigation plan. After the seeds are planted they’ll measure the height of each plant every week and record their findings on the table.
As part of the sheet they’ll need to work out differences in heights.
We suggest using 4 - 5 different types of plants, ideally ones with a clear difference in growth rate. How you carry this investigation out depends greatly on the space you have available. You may choose to use separate plant pots or maybe you have a veg patch available.
It’s good to discuss the importance of the plants being in the same locations. Why is the sun important for plants? Why is water important? You can go into as much or little detail as needed in these discussions.
It can be useful to set up a timetable of who is going to care for the plants each day. If you choose to use fruits or vegetables (highly recommended!) you can then go onto use these as another stimulus for activities.
Suggested Plants:
Tomato
Spinach
Baby Carrots
Bush Beans
Green Onions
Summer Squash
Beets
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Growing plants is great fun and can lead to loads of teaching opportunities. For this activity students will plant a variety of species and measure their growth rate over time. The students first look at how they can carry out this investigation, completing an investigation plan.
After the seeds are planted they’ll measure the height of each plant every week and record their findings on the table. As part of the sheet they’ll need to work out differences in heights. We suggest using 4 - 5 different types of plants, ideally ones with a clear difference in growth rate.
How you carry this investigation out depends greatly on the space you have available. You may choose to use separate plant pots or maybe you have a veg patch available. It’s good to discuss the importance of the plants being in the same locations. Why is the sun important for plants? Why is water important? You can go into as much or little detail as needed in these discussions.
It can be useful to set up a timetable of who is going to care for the plants each day. If you choose to use fruits or vegetables (highly recommended!) you can then go onto use these as another stimulus for activities.
Suggested Plants:
Tomato
Spinach
Baby Carrots
Bush Beans
Green Onions
Summer Squash
Beets
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Bird hunts are great fun and easy to do. Print out the sheet for your students to take into your outdoor space and mark off the birds as they find them.
It’s great if you can provide binoculars so they can spot the birds from a distance.
This resource contains sheets for both American and European birds.
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This health and nutrition activity aims to get students to understand which foods create a balanced diet. They will choose their favourite athlete and create either a day or weeks meal plan, researching which foods are needed for them to get the correct amount of nutrients. They will then think about why an athletes diet may be slightly different to somebody who is not involved in so much sport, answering a few scientific based questions.
**Contents:
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Teacher’s Guide
4 x Differentiated Meal Plan Sheets
Question Sheet
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Growing plants is great fun and can lead to loads of teaching opportunities. For this activity students will plant a variety of species and measure their growth rate over time. The students will measure the height of each plant every week and record their findings on the table as well as drawing a picture of the plants.
We suggest using 4 - 5 different types of plants, ideally ones with a clear difference in growth rate. How you carry this investigation out depends greatly on the space you have available. You may choose to use separate plant pots or maybe you have a veg patch available.
It’s good to discuss the importance of the plants being in the same locations. Why is the sun important for plants? Why is water important? You can go into as much or little detail as needed in these discussions.
It can be useful to set up a timetable of who is going to care for the plants each day. If you choose to use fruits or vegetables (highly recommended!) you can then go onto use these as another stimulus for activities.
Suggested Plants:
Tomato
Spinach
Baby Carrots
Bush Beans
Green Onions
Summer Squash
Beets
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Humans and The Environment: This pollution PowerPoint, quiz, and worksheet / activity bundle is great to get your students thinking about and working on this important and relevant topic. It focuses on what the different kinds of pollution are, how they affect the environment, and what we can do in our lives to try and reduce the amount of pollution produced.
Contents:
PowerPoint and quiz
Cause and effect activity: Students must match the cause of pollution to the effect with these differentiated worksheets.
Good and Bad Habits: Students look at what we do in our own lives that can have negative or positive effects on the environment.
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Minibeast hunts are great fun and easy to do. Print out the sheet for your students to take into your outdoor space and mark off the minibeasts as they find them.
It’s great if you can provide a magnifying glass so they can look at all the amazing details of each minibeast.
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for pollution as part of your ‘Humans And The Environment’ topic. It’s a great lesson starter, filler, or activity that will easily get your learning some scary facts about pollution without them even realising that they’re learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes both complete cootie catchers with all the answers filled in, as well as blank cootie catchers where the students must find the answer before playing the game.
Contents:
Folding instructions
1 x Complete Cootie Catcher Quiz
1 x Cootie Catcher Quiz With Blank Answers
Have fun!
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15 visual trash and recycling vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They’re a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this relevant and engaging 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
15 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
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Trash and Recycling Vocabulary Included**
Compost
Conservation
Disposable
Driving a car creates pollution.
Environment
Hazardous Waste
Natural Resource
Pollution
Trash
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This fun and visual sorting / cut and stick activity for recycling is a great addition to your sustainability or humans and the environment topic. Students will look at the items and sort them into the four main recycling materials (plastic, paper / cardboard, glass, and metal).
This resource works great both in small groups and individually. It’s great to encourage students to think about the kind of items they can recycle instead of throw into the trash.
You may also be interested in our pollution bundle.
Humans and The Environment: Pollution - HUGE BUNDLE
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Get ‘Back To School Ready’ with these fun under the water themed name tags and labels that will look great in your classroom. These tags and labels are very versatile as you can edit them in powerpoint or print out blank copies to simply write on and laminate.
This pack contains 30 different tags and labels all of which have an editable and blank version.
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Get ‘Back To School Ready’ with these fun ‘Happy Campers’ themed name tags and labels that will look great in your classroom. These tags and labels are very versatile as you can edit them in powerpoint or print out blank copies to simply write on and laminate.
This pack contains 30 different tags and labels all of which have an editable and blank version.
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