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Renewable Energy Reading Comprehension - Sustainability
This reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your sustainability topic. This is a basic text that goes through what renewable energy is and the different forms of renewable energy that have been developed. Once they’ve read the passage they will use the text to complete the comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
Reading passage
Comprehension questions
Extension questions
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
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The Water Cycle Activity
This foldable activity consists of 2 cootie catchers (or fortune tellers) for learning or revising the water cycle key terms. The children must try to figure out which part of the water cycle 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:
- Water Cycle
- Condensation
- Transpiration
- Groundwater
- Cloud
- Evaporation
- Surface Runoff
- Water Vapor
- Precipitation
- Humidity
- Dew Point
- Perspiration
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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Check out our other science cootie catchers:
The Rock Cycle
Plant Structure
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Pollution - Ocean Plastics: Clean Up Invention Project
This STEM activity is all about the negative effects that plastic pollution in our oceans is having on humans and the environment. Students will be challenged to design and create their very own invention to help save our ocean plastic crisis.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Invention Example
Differentiated Design Sheets
Differentiated Final Idea Pan
Differentiated Evaluation Questions
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Renewable Energy Reading Comprehension: Solar Power
This reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your sustainability topic. This is a basic text that goes through what solar panels are are, how they work, and why they are an important renewable energy source. Once they’ve read the passage they will use the text to complete the comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
Reading passage
Differentiated Comprehension Questions
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
Check out our Wind Turbines Reading Comprehension.
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Renewable Energy PowerPoint and Quiz
A highly visual and interactive PowerPoint and quiz on renewable energy as part of your natural sustainability and natural resources geography unit. The PPT focuses on solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and geothermal energy and gives some activity ideas at the end. It’s perfect for introducing this topic or as a quick lesson recap.
Contents:
Slides 1 - 4: What is renewable energy?
Slide 5 - 7: Solar energy
Slides 8 - 10: Wind energy
Slides 11 - 13: Hydro energy
Slide 14 - 16: Geothermal energy
Slides 17 – 19: Biomass Energy
Slides 22 – 21: Which is best
Slides 23 – 34: Quiz
Slide 35: Challenges
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Recycling PowerPoint and Quiz
An interactive PowerPoint and Quiz on recycling which is perfect for your sustainability / eco-friendly topic. It encourages the children to think about what happens to trash when it’s not recycled, the problems with recycling, and what we can do that’s even better for the environment than recycling.
Contents
Slides 1 – 5: Introduction to Recycling
Slides 6 – 8: Incineration and Landfill
Slides 9 – 19: Game - How long does it take to decompose?
Slides 20 – 24: What’s better than recycling?
Slides 25 - 29: Scary Facts
Slides 30 - 35: Quiz
Slide 36: Activity Ideas
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Scavenger Hunt Free Template
This free scavenger hunt template lets children develop their creativity by designing their own hunt for friends. They can fill in each box with an item of their choice, sending their friends on a mission to collect them all! Perfect for indoor or outdoor adventures.
Check out our Walking To School Scavenger Hunt!
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Waste Management - Landfill and Incineration Pros and Cons Worksheets
These two worksheets will get your students considering the pros and cons of landfill and incineration as part of your humans and the environment topic. They’re perfect if you’re looking at pollution, waste management or environmental issues.
This resource contains two worksheets.
Worksheet 1 - They must decide whether the statement is a pro or con and which waste management strategy it is regarding.
Worksheet 2 - They must do their own research to find out the pros and cons of landfills and incineration plants.
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Renewable Energy Reading Comprehension: Wind Turbines
This reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your sustainability topic. This is a basic text that goes through what wind turbines are, how they work, and why they are an important energy source. Once they’ve read the passage they will use the text to complete the comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
Reading passage
Differentiated Comprehension Questions
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
Check out our ‘Renewable Energy Reading Comprehension’.
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Hurricanes PowerPoint Introduction and Quiz
A highly visual and interactive PowerPoint and quiz on hurricanes as part of your natural disasters geography unit. It’s perfect for introducing this topic or as a quick lesson recap.
Contents:
Slides 1 - 4: What is a hurricane?
Slide 5: How they are measured.
Slides 6 - 8: How hurricanes are formed.
Slides 9 - 16: Primary and secondary dangers.
Slide 18: Preparation.
Slides 19 – 20: Worsening hurricanes.
Slides 21 – 22: Case Studies
Slides 23 – 25: Fun facts
Slides 26 – 34: Quiz
Check out our other natural disaster PowerPoints:
Earthquakes
[Volcanoes]https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/volcano-powerpoint-introduction-and-quiz-11845585)
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Humans and The Environment: Types of Pollution Vocabulary Cards
18 visual types of pollution vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They are 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
18 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
**Vocabulary Included
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Acid Rain
Air Pollution
Biodegradable
Chemical Pollution
Ecosystems
Fossil Fuels
Greenhouse Effect
Groundwater
Light Pollution
Natural Resources
Noise Pollution
Non-Renewable Resources
Pollution
Recycle
Renewable Resources
Thermal Pollution
Toxic Pollution
Water Pollution
Check out our other Word Walls:
- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- States of Matter
- Types of Energy
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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Natural Disasters Student Booklet
This natural disaster student booklet is a great project for students to carry out research on hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, and volcanoes, creating a page for each with space for a diagram or picture along with a front and back cover page. There is also a blank template so your students can add another natural disaster if they have finished. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity project if you’re looking at natural disasters.
This pack comes in both colour and black and white.
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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Humans and the Environment: Pollution - Cause and Effect
Differentiated worksheets where students look at the causes and effects of pollution as part of your Humans and the Environment topic. The first worksheet is a cut and stick activity where students must cut out the causes and effects, pair them up, and then stick them into the correct column. For the second worksheet students are given either the cause of effect, them must complete the other column in the table.
These sheets are a great way to get students to think carefully about what the causes of different types of pollutions and the negative effect it can have on both us, animals, and the world around us.
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Humans and The Environment: Good or Bad Habits Activities
These activities are intended to get students thinking about what we do that can damage the environment as well as what we can do to help the environment and live more sustainably. There are three differentiated worksheets in this pack that are perfect for your ‘Humans and the Environment’ topic.
**Sheet 1: **This is a cut and stick activity where students will look at a group of pictures and decide which are bad and which are good for the environment.
**Sheet 2: **Students will look at pictures, decided if they are good or bad for the environment and write down their reasoning.
**Sheet 3: **Students will think about their day-to-day lives, considering what they do that may be damaging to the environment and what they do that may help the environment.
There are black and white copies of all the worksheets included is this pack.
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Renewable Energy Research Booklet
This renewable energy student research booklet is a great project for students to carry out research and record facts on renewable energy solutions. They’ll create a page for each type where they must provide information, positives and negatives with space for a picture along with a front and back cover page. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity if you’re doing a sustainability topic.
This pack comes in both color and black and white as well as a blank template.
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.
Animals included:
Solar Energy
Wind Turbines
Hydro Power
Thermal Power
Nuclear Power
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Types of Pollution Student Booklet
This forms of pollution student booklet for is a great project for students to carry out research on air, water, soil, light, noise, and plastic pollution, creating a page for each with space for a diagram or picture along with a front and back cover page. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity if you’re looking at types of pollution.
**This pack comes in both color and black and white as well as a blank template.
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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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Ocean Plastics Fact Cards
This pack contains 14 fact cards all about ocean plastics and the problems it’s having on animals and the environment. They’re great to be used as a display or research cards if you’re looking at plastic pollution or sustainability.
We love using fact cards for starter or plenary activities where you give each student a fact card. They must learn and remember the fact before going off, pairing up, and teaching each other the fact they learned.
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Bundle
Humans and The Environment: Pollution - HUGE BUNDLE
This huge pollution bundle is perfect for your ‘Humans and The Environment’ topic packed full of loads of goodies from quizzes, to investigations to engage your students. This pack teaches your students about the different types of pollution, getting them to consider the environmental impact each has on the environment along with how we can both negatively and positively affect the environment in the way that we live.
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.
Research Booklet: A booklet students can use to research and record fact about the different types of pollution.
Vocabulary Cards: A set of visual cards to teach your students the key topic vocabulary.
Pollution Detective Investigation – An investigation to look into the causes of pollution around your school grounds.
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Pollution Detectives - Sustainability
This activity is designed to get your class thinking about their own, and other’s, global footprint. They will wonder around your school grounds (inside and out) finding things that they think will cause pollution and suggesting what we can do or use as an alternative. As a challenge, students can think more carefully about how exactly the item causes pollution.
This activity fits in well with a sustainability topic as well as linking it in to special environment days such as ‘Earth Day’.
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Weather Symbol Cards - Weather Forecasting
A set of 10 weather symbols perfect for your weather or changing seasons topic. These cards can be used in a variety of ways in your classroom and are a great visual way to describe the weather conditions.
These symbol cards work perfectly with our ‘My Weather Diary’ resource.
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