Observing weather changes over time is simple but fascinating and a great learning experience for students where they will look at measuring and reading scales before presenting their results in a line graph (for the older children). For this activity they will record the temperature everyday for a week. There is two activity sheets. One where they record the temperature once a day, the other where they will record the temperature twice a day. You may also be interested in our Walking To School Scavenger Hunt. 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 minibeast ID guides are the perfect addition to your outdoor classroom. Simply print them off, laminate them and have them available for the students to take outside to help them identify the minibeasts in your outdoor area. They can also be used digitally on your outdoor adventures. This resource contains 28 cards with the insects name and an image. One of the downloads are insects more specific to North America. 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 fun outdoor task cards are the perfect addition to your living things topic. They are a great way to introduce or recap your topic. Each card has a challenge that your students will complete. The cards cover a range of subject areas from your topic. This resource contains 10 challenge cards along with two differentiated answers sheets. A digital version is also included. Topics covered: Food chains, lifecycles, classification, skeletons, habitats, & the human body. Check out our ‘Bug Book’ outdoor writing 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!

Get ready for a spooktacular adventure with our Halloween Outdoor Bingo! Encourage exploration and outdoor play as children hunt for spooky items like leaves, pumpkins, and creepy crawlies. Our themed bingo sheet is sure to add an extra layer of excitement to your Halloween festivities. Check out our Halloween Word Search 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!

Banned words is a great game to review or learn your animal adaptations topic key vocabulary. Your class will become word detectives and put their communication skills to the test as they describe key topic words without using a list of banned words. As they think about the animal adaptations themed key words and phrases they will take time to consider the meaning and deepen their understanding. We have found it extremely effective in helping students to retain the definitions. Banned words can be played in pairs, groups, or as a class. It is great to be used before, during, and after a topic to help their retention. This pack has three sets of differentiated cards. The first set contains slightly easier vocabulary and the second set will provide more of a challenge. Our third set contains more complex words to extend the learning for those children that need it. It also contains a digital version on Google Slides as well as blank copies for you to create your own. Vocabulary Included: Set 1 Adaptations Camouflage Mimicry Migration Nocturnal Omnivore Predator Prey Symbiosis Warning Coloration Set 2 Organism Species Environment Mutation Habitat Structural Adaptation Extinct Behavioural Adaptation Set 3 Aestivation Crypsis Estivation Trophic Level Keystone Species Commensalism Check out our: Electricity Banned Words Game Forces and Motion Banned Words Game 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!

Banned words is a great game to review or learn your forces and motion topics key vocabulary. Your class will become word detectives and put their communication skills to the test as they describe key topic words without using a list of banned words. As they think about the forces and motion themed key words and phrases they will take time to consider the meaning and deepen their understanding. We have found it extremely effective in helping students to retain the definitions. Banned words can be played in pairs, groups, or as a class. It is great to be used before, during, and after a topic to help their retention. This pack has two sets of 9 cards. The first set contains slightly easier vocabulary and the second set will provide more of a challenge. It also contains a digital version on Google Slides as well as blank copies for you to create your own. Vocabulary Included: Set 1 Force -Motion Speed Gravity Friction Mass Magnet Air Resistance Unbalanced Force Acceleration Weight Balanced Force Set 2 Deceleration Net Force Velocity Tension Compression Potential Energy Isaac Newton Momentum Lever You may also like our Electricity Banned Words Game 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!

Banned words is a great game to review or learn your electricity topics key vocabulary. Your class will become word detectives and put their communication skills to the test as they describe key topic words without using a list of banned words. As they think about the electrical themed key words and phrases they will take time to consider the meaning and deepen their understanding. We have found it extremely effective in helping students to retain the definitions. Banned words can be played in pairs, groups, or as a class. It is great to be used before, during, and after a topic to help their retention. This pack has two sets of 9 cards. The first set contains slightly easier vocabulary and the second set will provide more of a challenge. It also contains a digital version on Google Slides as well as blank copies for you to create your own. Vocabulary Included: Set 1 Battery Circuit Electricity Insulator Light bulb Magnet Switch Wire Light Set 2 Conductor Current Electron Motor Parallel Circuit Series Circuit Resistor Volt Meter Voltage Watt Fuse Cell You may also like our Electricity Symbols Pair 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!

Engage your students in a captivating investigation as they explore the profound effects of acid rain on our environment. This outdoor science investigation is an ideal addition to your sustainability or pollution curriculum, providing students with valuable insights into a real-world issue. This immersive project spans a couple of weeks and is designed to enhance both investigative and observational skills. Students will embark on an enlightening journey where they are entrusted with the care of three plants. Their mission: to investigate the repercussions of different strength acidic solutions on plant health. Each plant will be nurtured with a distinct acidic solution, varying in strength. Over the course of several days or weeks, students will meticulously document their findings through drawings and measurements. At the culmination of the investigation, they will analyze and compare the impact of these acidic solutions on the overall well-being of the plants. This hands-on exploration promises to not only deepen your students’ understanding of acid rain but also cultivate their scientific inquiry and analytical abilities. Get ready for a transformative learning experience that connects classroom concepts to the real world. You may also love our Humans and The Environment: Pollution - HUGE 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!

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. They are a great lesson to be use as part of your Living Things topic… or just for some outdoor fun! 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 Egg Thief will take your class through an investigation involving the mystery of a broken egg that is found outside of Mrs Jones’ house. They will need to use the clues as well as their own inference skills to figure out which of the suspects is guilty. Contents: Teacher Guide Prop Cards Crime Scene Report Suspect Cards Clue Cards Clue Record Sheet Verdict Record Sheet Our Verdict Check out our ‘Hedgehog Horror’ crime scene pack! 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 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. 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 challenge to set as home learning, use for distance learning, or as a home holiday project. It will get your students outdoors and exploring and enjoying the nature around them. For this activity students must try to complete the photo challenge by getting a photo of all the things specified on the worksheet. This is a free version of a bigger resource. For more photo challenges and the digital version check out the other resource in our store. Check out our full photo challenge pack here.

This is a great challenge to set as home learning, use for distance learning, or as a home holiday project. It will get your students outdoors and exploring and enjoying the nature around them. For this activity students must try to complete the photo challenge by getting a photo of all the things specified on the worksheet. There are a few ways you can get them to complete the challenge. Tick box: Get them to tick the challenges off as they complete them on the worksheet. Photo book: Get them to print out and complete their very own photo book. Google Slides: Get them to upload their photos on to the Google Slides photo challenge. Click here to get access to the Google Slides. Check out our Outdoor Maths 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!

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 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 team activity to get children thinking carefully about composting. They will have to sort object cards based on whether they can be composted or not in a fun relay race. **Teaching structure: ** Discuss what composting is and why it’s so important. - Put the students into teams of 3 or 4. Have two labeled zones or tubs for ‘compost’ and ‘don’t compost’. Get the students to line up in their teams a good distance from the zones or tubs. The first person from each team collects an object card from the teacher and takes it back to their team (if you want to make this even more exciting you could use real items!). The team discusses whether it can be composted or not before the first player runs it to the correct zone / tub. The next child then runs to collect a new card. - Do this activity for an agreed amount of time or until all of the object cards have been used. Go through the object cards to see if they are all correct. To add a greater level of competition you can get each team to write or put a colored sticker on each of the cards they collect and then count up how many cards each team got correct. 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!

Slide science is a fun and practical outdoor science investigation where students will look into which materials create the most friction when sliding down a slide as part of your forces and motion topic. We love to add a competitive element to this activity by explaining to the students that their challenge is to figure out which material has the least friction before choosing one of the materials to use for a slide race! Teaching Structure: 4 – 6: For younger students, they can simply carry out the investigation and complete the results table (with support if needed). 7 – 9, 10 – 12: Get the students to complete the investigation method sheet. Carry out the investigation by sitting on the different materials and timing how long it takes to go down the slide. Complete the bar chart to show their results. Have a slide race! Get the students to choose the material that they think has the least friction and see who can get down the slide the quickest. Equipment needed: A slide (the longer the better). Activity pack A selection of materials big enough for students to sit on. Stop watches 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 pack contains three differentiated science investigation plan templates. They are a great way to help students organize their thoughts and ideas before carrying out the investigation. 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 camouflage worm activity is great to teach your students the importance of camouflage in nature. It’s a very simple yet effective activity that clearly shows how animals are colored to suite their environment. Teaching Guide: Before the lesson cut lots of different colored wool into 10cm lengths. Hide the wool around your outdoor space. Discuss what the word camouflage means and explain that they are going to look into what it is and why it’s important. Tell the students that for the next 15 minutes (approx.) they are going to be birds on the hunt for some yummy woollen worms! Let them go outside and hunt as many of the woollen strips as possible. Once you’re back in the class get the students to discuss what they discovered when trying to find the wool. Which colors were hard to find? What can this tell us about the color of animals which may live in that area? If appropriate, get students to complete the question sheet to encourage them to think about what camouflage is and why it’s so important in nature. 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!

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. Enjoy outdoor learning? Check out our outdoor home learning pack! 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 gets students thinking about the materials used to build different items that you will find in your outdoor space. They will consider what material has been used and why that material is appropriate for the intended use as well as what other material could also be suitable to use. This investigation is perfect for your materials and their properties science unit. This pack contains two levels of differentiation. Diff. 1: They will draw a picture, write what the item is used for and what material has been used. Diff 2: They will draw a picture, write what the item is used for, the material is it made from, and the properties it needs to have. They will then consider other materials which would also be appropriate for the job. 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!

For this outdoor science investigation your students will become weather forecasters using only the clouds! Different kinds of clouds can give us a very good indication as to what weather is likely to follow. Your students will keep a record of the cloud types as well as the weather which follows for a few days / week before analysing their data to see if they can spot any patterns between the cloud types and the type of weather which follows. This investigation is great if you’re looking at weather, forecasting, pattern spotting, and investigation skills. Before you start the investigation, explain that before modern weather forecasts many people would depend on their knowledge of the clouds to predict the weather and help to keep them safe. Get the students to complete the table, recording the cloud types and the weather in the following days. Once they’ve done this for a good amount of time (9 or 10 days) they can then look at their data and see if they can spot any relationships between the cloud types and the weather which followed. Once they’ve analysed their data they can complete the investigation evaluation questions. Extension - Get them to complete the research sheet to see if their results were correct. Before you get the students to do their diary, it’s worth looking at the weather forecast to try and choose a period with varied weather. 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!