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Elementary science
Electricity Symbols - Pairs Cards & Cut and Stick Worksheet
Pairs cards are great fun to reinforce topic knowledge and skills and can be used in loads of exciting ways. This set of 12 electricity pairs covers all of the common symbols for your electricity topic. There is also a cut and stick version with all of the cards on the same page.
Electricity symbols included:
bulb
wire
cell
buzzer
open switch
closed switch
resistor
ammeter
voltmeter
fuse
motor
battery / 2-cell
This no prep resource is perfect for a filler or extension activity for years 3 - 5. The worksheet could also be sent home for distance learning.
We love hiding the pairs in our outdoor space and getting the students to go on an electricity symbol pairs hunt! Get imaginative and see how many different ways you can use these cards.
Be sure to check out our Big Electricity Bundle full of fun and interactive activities.
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Dinosaur Footprints Math Investigation: Shape, Space, and Measure - Outdoor Maths
Dinosaurs and math. What’s not to love! For this activity your students will walk like dinosaurs as they draw different species footprints onto card using their scaling and measuring skills before cutting the footprints out, strapping it to their own feet, and walk like the dinosaurs.
This outdoor math activity is great if you’re looking at measuring, scaling up, and ratio.
Teaching structure:
Explain that they will be investigation the size of dinosaurs feet. Go through the Google Slides to help to introduce the activity.
Assign each student (or pair) a foot to go off and draw to scale either on card or on the playground using chalk (if you choose chalk on the playground you obviously can’t strap it to their feet!).
Give the students time to look at each others dinosaur feet and compare them.
This activity has two levels of differentiation.
Diff. 1: Students simply read the measurements and draw the foot.
Diff. 2: Students must first work out the true size by using the scale.
There is an extension sheet where they will figure out the body and leg length based on the size of footprint.
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Light and Sight: The Shadow Challenge Task Cards - Outdoor Science
These challenges are a great addition to your light and shadow unit. They will get your students exploring shadows in a fun and practical way as they attempt to complete each of the challenges on the cards.
These challenges encourage self-discovery and independent thinking as well as teaching them how shadows are created and the influence that the angle of light has on the shadow.
This activity works best on a sunny day first thing in the morning when the sun is lower in the sky so that the shadows are larger.
These cards contain a main challenge as well as some having an extension to the task (written in purple) for more of a challenge. Cards 1 - 10 are more simple activities. Cards 10 - 20 are more complex.
Some of these cards work much better when students are working in a small group. For the cards where students are required to make their own shadows, it’s really effective if you get them to use chalk to draw around the shadow they’ve created.
Digital version: You could get them to take photos of their shadows and upload it to the Google Slides.
There is also a printable answer sheet where they can record their challenges.
Check out our ‘Light & Sight’ Powerpoint.
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Animal Crime Scenes: The Hedgehog Horror - Science Investigation
Get your detectives hat on with our series of animal crime scene investigations!
These activities will teach your students about animals and their habitats as well as developing their observation, problem solving and inferring skills.
The crime scenes are easy to set up with printable props, clue cards, and suspect cards. If you want to add extra elements or real props this can help to bring it alive for the children even further!
The Hedgehog horror will take your class through an investigation involving the mysterious death of the friendly local hedgehog. They will need to use the clues provided to them as well as their knowledge of the local wildlife to determine who or what is guilty of the murder.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Prop Cards
Crime Scene Report
Suspect Cards (Blank and Complete)
Clue Cards
Clue Record Sheet
Verdict Record Sheet
Our Verdict
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Light and Sight Activity - Cootie Catcher Activity
This foldable activity consists of 2 cootie catchers (or fortune tellers) for learning or revising the light and sight key terms. The children must try to figure out which key word of the light and sight topic is being described. It’s a great way to have students review their knowledge and not even realise that they’re learning! They’ll be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack contains two Cootie Catchers, each with a second copy included if you would like your students to write their own definitions for each key term themselves. There are visuals included to meet different learning styles.
Key Terms included:
- Light Energy
- Reflection
- Shiny
- Opaque
- Transparent
- Optics
- Shadow
- Eyes
- Cornea
- Pupil
- Iris
- Sclera
- Lens
- Retina
- Optic Nerve
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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Check out our other science cootie catchers:
The Water Cycle
The Rock Cycle
Plant Structure
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Exciting Electricity PowerPoint
This PowerPoint is the perfect fun and interactive introduction or recap for your electricity topic. It will teach your children general information about electricity, energy types, circuit symbols, and complete circuits.
Contents:
- Slides 1 – 8: Introduction
- Slides 9 – 30: Game 1 (What type of energy)
- Slides 31 – 45: Game 2 (Know your symbols)
- Slides 46 – 48: Circuits
With thanks from Saving The Teachers.
Exciting Electricity Worksheets and Activities
These 7 differentiated electricity worksheets and activities will teach your children about complete circuits, symbols, and conductors and insulators in a fun and practical way. They work perfectly with your electricity and magnetism topic along with our other ‘Exciting Electricity’ products.
Contents:
- x 2 ‘Know Your Symbols’ (Cut and stick)
- x 3 ‘Will It Light?’ (Working out if the circuit is complete)
- x 1 ‘Will It Conduct?’ (Testing materials to see if they conduct
electricity)
- x 1 ‘Conductor Or Insulator?’ (Cut and stick)
With thanks from Saving The Teachers
The Human Body / Animals: Skeletons
This activity looks closely at how different skeletons are made up, encouraging children to think about how different animals are able to move in different ways depending on their skeleton.
This activity works best in groups.
Give each child an animal card and ask them to create the animals skeleton using sticks, thinking carefully about how the animal moves. Once they have done this and you have allowed for sufficient discussion both with each other and an adult, give them the animals skeleton card and let them see how they have done.
They can then take another animal to try. You’ll be amazed at the improvement of their skeletons over the course of one lesson!
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Contents:
A normal and skeleton sheet for each of the following
Human
Fish
Frog
Snake
Elephant
Horse
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Animal Classification Cootie Catcher Activity
This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising animal classifications. The children must try to figure out which key vocabulary term is being described (or visa-versa). It’s a great way to have students review their knowledge of animal classification and not even realise that they’re learning! They’ll be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes a complete cootie catcher where they need to figure out the definition, another where they need to figure out the key vocabulary, and another where they must complete the definitions themselves before playing.
There is a black and white copy of each sheet included as well as a blank template for them to create their own.
Vocabulary included:
Amphibians
Animals
Birds
Fish
Insects
Mammals
Plants
Reptiles
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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Animal Adaptations Cootie Catcher Activity
This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for animal adaptations. It’s a great science lesson starter or activity that will improve your class’ adaptation key word understanding without them even realising that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes a both complete cootie catchers with all the answers filled in, as well as blank cootie catchers where the blanks must be completed before playing the game.
Contents:
1 x completed cootie catcher
1 x blank cootie catcher
Blank template (for them to create their own!)
Vocabulary:
Adaptation
Behaviour
Camouflage
Habitat
Instinct
Mimicry
Predator
Prey
Folding and playing directions as well as B&W copies are also included.
Have fun!
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Healthy Eating - Food Categories Cut and Stick
This cut and stick healthy eating activity looks at the different food categories, getting students to think about what makes a balanced diet. This pack contains three worksheets, one where they look at unhealthy and healthy foods, another where they compare carbohydrates and proteins, and another where they look at fats and sugars.
Check out our bundle for more activities that will fit in perfectly with your healthy eating and nutrition topic.
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Humans And The Environment: How Humans Affect The Environment Bundle
This bundle on the affect humans have on the environment contains a powerpoint & quiz and worksheets to get your students thinking carefully about both the positive and negative impact humans are having on our planet.
PowerPoint & Quiz
An interactive PowerPoint and Quiz on the affect humans have on the environment is perfect for your sustainability / eco-friendly topic. It encourages the children to think about both the positive and negative impacts we’ve had on the environment as well as what they can do in their own lives to try and reduce the problems.
Contents
Slides 1 – 3: Introduction
Slides 4 – 9: Positive or Negative Affect Game
Slides 10 – 15: Negative Affects
Slides 16 – 23: Positive Affects
Slides 24 - 34: Quiz
Slide 35: Activity Ideas
Worksheets
This activity is perfect for your sustainability topic as students will look into what we do that has both positive and negative effects on the environment and our planet. This pack contains a worksheet with three levels of differentiation where they’ll look at items / actions and decide whether or not they have a positive or negatives effect on the environment.
Diff. 1: Students will cut and stick objects / actions into the correct column.
Diff. 2: Students will cut and stick a wider variety of objects / actions into the correct column.
Diff. 3: Students must decide whether or not the object / action has a positive or negative effect and explain their reasoning.
Black and white copies are also included.
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Outdoor STEM: Water Filter Challenge - Materials and Their Properties
This STEM activity gets your students looking at the properties of materials as they are challenged to test their survival skills by getting the dirt out of water using only natural materials and a drinks bottle (they need to design and make their own natural filters!).
To set up the challenge: - Put students into teams of 2 or 3. - Give them the instructions to read. - Give each group a good-sized plastic bottle with four small holes in the bottom (a hot metal skewer is great for this). - Tell them to go into your outdoor space and make their filters. - Test the filters by pouring muddy water in and seeing how much cleaner the water that comes out is. As well as leaves, sticks, stones etc. in your outdoor space, for this activity it is good for them to have access to both sand and gravel.
Once they have completed the activity they can fill in the evaluation sheet which encourages them to think scientifically about what they have done. Extension: You can then move onto looking at real filters and seeing how they work with different liquids – will it separate salt from water?
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The Rockpool Hunt
Rock pool hunts are great fun and easy to do. Print out the sheet for your students to take down to the beach and mark off the creatures and seaweeds as they find them.
It’s great if you can provide a magnifying glass so they can look at all the amazing details of the wildlife they find.
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Types of Energy: Energy Detectives - Outdoor Activity
Energy is all around us, inside and out, as your class will find out with this fun and practical lesson. This activity is a great introduction or recap for your ‘forms of energy’ topic as students will go on a hunt to see how many different forms of energy they can spot.
Teaching Structure:
Get your students to run on the spot, do star jumps, push ups etc. (tire them out!). Explain that in order to do this they need energy, however energy can come in lots of different forms. There are lots of good videos on youtube that you can watch to help introduce this topic.
Definitions sheet: Get the students to complete the definitions sheet (or use the pre-populated one) so they have a good understanding as to what the different forms of energy are. They can take this with them to help with the main activity.
Record Sheet (differentiated): In pairs, get students to walk around (inside and out) for 15 – 20 minutes recording down the different forms of energy they can spot.
Class discussion: Once the students have seen which kinds of energy they could spot, discuss their findings as a class or in small groups. This activity can be great in all sorts of weather! Don’t be afraid for them to waterproof up and head outside!
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Day and Night Picture Sort (Cut and Stick) - Venn Diagram & Table: Years 1 and 2
This resource contains two differentiated cut and stick sheets to teach day and night comparisons as part of your science topic. Students will cut out the pictures and stick them into the correct category.
** Activity Sheet 1**: Students will sort the pictures into ‘day’ and night’ and stick them in the table.
Activity Sheet 2: Students will sort the pictures into ‘day’, ‘night’, and ‘both’ in the Venn Diagram.
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The Human Body Systems Word Search Activity
This human body and systems word search is a great way to reinforce or introduce your human body topic key vocabulary. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or early finishers as well as distance learning that you can set online! Your class will learn the key terms in no time.
Key Vocabulary:
Arteries, Bladder, Bones, Brain, Bronchial Tube, Circulatory, Digestive, Electrolytes, Excretory, Gallbladder, Heart, Intestines, Kidneys, Larynx, Liver, Lungs , Mouth, Muscles, Muscular, Nerves, Nervous, Pancreas, Pharynx, Rectum, Respiratory, Skeletal, Spinal Cord, Stomach, Tracheaa, Veins, bladder
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Nature Bingo – Beach And Woodland
Exploring the outdoors is great fun. Get your student to head out on a scavenger hunt / bingo game where they will have to collect and spot different things, crossing it off their list as they go. It’s a great activity to do on a sunny afternoon to give your class a chance to release some energy and explore the outdoors.
This pack contains two sets of bingo sheets, one for school grounds / a woodland area and another for the beach.
Diff. 1: Students go outside and cross out the items once they have collected / spotted it.
Diff. 2: Students go outside and collect / spot items, working out calculations and identifying different living things. You can add a competitive aspect to this activity by setting a time limit for your students.
Resources needed:
Diff. 1: Bingo sheet
Diff. 2: Bingo sheet, scales, rulers, identification sheets / access to the internet
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Floating and Sinking Outdoor Challenge
For this activity students are challenged to make the same object both sink and float, encouraging them to think about why objects either sink or float, and then how it is possible that the same object can be made to both sink and float.
This resource has two differentiated results sheets and questions:
Diff. 1 – A simple question about the properties of items that sunk.
**Diff. 2 – **A question to encourage critical thinking about how it is possible the same object can be made to both sink and float.
A great follow up activity is to get your class to design and build a paper boat, seeing which boat is able to carry the most cargo without sinking.
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Human Sun Dial Investigation - Earth, Sun, and Moon
This investigation gets your class to look closely at their shadow, specifically looking at how it changes throughout the day. They will measure the length of their shadow at set time intervals and try to spot patterns in their results before thinking about the reasons behind these patterns. It is a great way to introduce the concept of the earth’s rotation while thinking about how you can use the sun to help tell the time.
For this investigation students (in pairs or small groups) will mark a spot with chalk and draw around and measure their shadow at set intervals throughout the day being sure to record their results on the table.
Teaching structure:
Investigation plan
Results table
Bar graph
Results questions
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