These Earth Day reading comprehension activities will be perfect in teaching your students about key issues that face the planet as well as improving their close reading skills.
There are** 5 passages** which focus on **climate change, deforestation, bees, plastic and endangered species. **Each passage has an accompanying questions sheet which will develop their skills of vocabulary, comprehension and information retrieval.
These sheets could be as individual or group work and have an approximate Lexile range of 810-1000L.
You might also like my **FREE Tigers **close reading sheets here:
Tigers
or my Science resources for Year 1:
Science Bundle
This country study lesson examines China which includes a colourful PowerPoint presentation, a worksheet booklet for students to complete and lesson instructions. A nice introduction to China with some great activities for students to complete.
The PowerPoint presentation is compatible with Google Slides™ if you wish to upload and convert it.
This download includes:
Lesson instructions
PowerPoint covering China facts, flag, common Mandarin phrases, Chinese food, famous landmarks and other Chinese culture including; Chinese dragons, lotus flowers and pandas
Worksheet booklet:
China cover page
China overview worksheet
Favorite China facts worksheet
China word search
China culture worksheet
Translate Mandarin phrases worksheet
Identify famous landmarks
Write a postcard activity
Colouring a hanfu activity
Write an acrostic poem
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That is a pdf worksheet booklet containing 11 sheets!**
You might also like my other country studies:
Vietnam
Japan
A fantastic country study of Japan which includes a colorful PowerPoint presentation, a worksheet booklet for students to complete and lesson instructions. A really fun introduction to Japan with some great activities for students to complete.
The PowerPoint presentation is compatible with Google Slides™ if you wish to upload and convert it.
This download includes:
Lesson instructions
PowerPoint covering Japan facts, flag, common Japanese phrases, Japanese food, famous landmarks and other Japanese culture including; geishas, martial arts, cat cafes, origami, bonsai trees and traditional dress
Worksheet booklet:
Japan cover page
Japan overview worksheet
Favourite Japan facts worksheet
Japan word search
Japanese food cut and stick worksheet
Translate Japanese phrases worksheet
Identify famous landmarks
Write a postcard activity
Colouring a kimono activity
Write an acrostic poem
Instructions on how to make an origami dog
That is a pdf worksheet booklet containing 13 sheets!
This lesson covers the Everyday Materials section for the **Year 1 National Curriculum **including:
distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made
identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock
describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials
compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties
This download includes:
Lesson Plan
PowerPoint covering a variety of materials including; wood, metal, glass, plastic, fabric, elastic, brick, paper, foil, water and rocks with examples of everyday objects for each. It explains the difference between natural and man-made materials.(17 slides)
Natural or man-made sorting worksheet
Design a boat worksheet
A space adventure worksheet
Off to the beach worksheet
Sentence completion worksheet
A variety of sorting cards to be laminated
Draw an object and list the properties sheet. One for each wood, metal, plastic, fabric, glass and rubber
Material scavenger hunt recording sheet
Material properties recording sheet
Flap book of natural and man-made materials
Natural or man-made worksheet
Float or sink recording sheet
That is a pdf containing** 23 sheets!**
You might also like my other Science lessons for Year 1 including:
Plants
Seasonal Changes
Animals including Humans
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This **big science bundle **contains PowerPoint lessons and worksheets for the following products:
Everyday Materials
Plants
Seasonal Changes
Animals including Humans: The Human Body
Animals including Humans: Classifying Animals
Classifying Animals Task Cards
Each comes with a:
Lesson Plan
Lesson PowerPoint
Worksheets and other suggested activities
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Classifying Animals Activity Task Cards
This is a set of 28 task cards to be used as a classifying animals activity.
There are 7 sets of cards each using different skills to test student understanding. Each one has a different picture so that you can quickly differentiate which tasks go together and they are also numbered. Answer sheets are included if you wish to use them along with teacher answers.
You could set up group stations for each set of task cards or give each group one of each task. Alternatively, you could use these as differentiated tasks for a mixed ability group.
One set of cards include QR codes for research, so you may or may not wish to include these depending on your availability of technology.
These cards can be used as a stand-alone task or in conjunction with our lesson ‘Classifying Animals KS1’, available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12494431
**Animals including Humans Classifying Animals Year 1 **
A great value bundle comprising of our Classifying Animals lesson and our Classifying Animals Activity: Task Cards. This is a brilliant bundle for any teacher wanting lots of activities for their classifying animals lesson.
Covering the following parts of the National Curriculum:
identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals)
The PowerPoint is a lovely introduction for students to classifying mammals, insects, reptiles, birds and amphibians! It also introduces them to the terms vertebrate, invertebrate, carnivore, omnivore and herbivore and other key terms too!
This bundle includes:
PowerPoint presentation (22 slides)
PDF of worksheets including suggestions for use (15 sheets). There is a sorting task, labelling task and infographics for students to complete on each classification.
1 set of classification cards
A set of 28 task cards
Answer sheets for task cards
Teachers answers for task cards
There are 7 sets of task cards each using different skills to test student understanding. Each one has a different picture so that you can quickly differentiate which tasks go together and they are also numbered.
Save 29% by buying a bundle!
You might also like my other Science lessons for Year 1 including:
Seasonal Changes
Animals Including Humans Bundle
Plants
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This Asia country study bundle includes 4 different countries in Asia; India, Japan, Vietnam and China. They examine local geography, food, culture and traditional dress
Each country study lesson contains:
Lesson Instructions
PowerPoint presentation
Worksheet booklet
The PowerPoint presentations are compatible with Google Slides™ if you wish to upload and convert them.