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.
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.
14 visual parts of a plant and functions 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
14 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
Chlorophyll
Flower
Leaf
Ovary
Petal
Photosynthesis
Pistil
Pollen
Root
Seed
Stamen
Stem
Stigma
Style
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- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- States of Matter
- Types of Energy
- Types of Pollution
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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14 visual types of energy 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 exciting 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
14 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
Absorption
Chemical Energy
Electrical Energy
Electromagnetic Energy
Energy
Heat
Heat / Thermal Energy
Kinetic Energy
Light Energy
Mechanical Energy
Nuclear Energy
Potential Energy
Solar Energy
Sound Energy
Check out our other Word Walls:
- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- States of Matter
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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14 visual states of matter 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 exciting 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
14 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
State
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Viscosity
Temperature
Volume
Pressure
Change of State
Melting
Evaporation
Boiling
Check out our other Word Walls:
- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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13 visual animal adaptations 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 exciting 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
13 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
Adaptation
Camouflage
Carnivore
Endangered Species
Extinct
Habitat
Herbivore
Instinct
Mimicry
Omnivore
Predator
Prey
Behaviour
Check out our other Word Walls:
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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This free activity is a great way to get your class thinking about which foods create a healthy balanced diet as part of your health and nutrition topic. They will take a look in their lunch box to see what goodies are waiting for them and investigate the sugar content of each item using our sugar sheet, food packages, and the internet for research.
They will then complete the results table and answer some simple questions getting them to think carefully about what’s in their lunchbox, if it’s healthy, and what they could do to make it even healthier.
Contents:
Teacher’s Guide
Sugar Sheet
Results Table & Questions
This activity also has great links to addition with decimals.
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising the circulatory system. 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 the circulatory system 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:
Aorta
Arteries
Capillaries
Left Ventricle
Plasma
Platelets
Pulmonary Artery
Red Blood Cells
Right Ventricle
Valves
Veins
White Blood Cells
Folding and playing directions are also included as well as a blank template for them to create their own.
Have fun!
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This fun STEM team building activity (with math and financial literacy links) is designed to get your students outside developing a variety of team learning skills as well as allowing them to enjoy using your outdoor space. It’s perfect on a sunny afternoon at the end of year. Their challenge is to create the highest tower using sticks and string, however there are a few rules they must follow in order to complete the challenge.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Challenge Instructions
Design Sheet
Points Record Sheet
Science Evaluation Questions
Team Skills Evaluation Questions
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A highly visual and interactive 40 slide PowerPoint and quiz on global warming as part of your science or geography unit. The PPT focuses the issues facing our planet caused by greenhouse gases, looking at how it’s damaging nature as well as what we can do to help and be more sustainable. It’s perfect for introducing this topic or as a quick lesson recap.
Contents:
Slides 1 – 4: What is global warming?
Slides 5 – 8: The causes
Slides 9 – 16: The problems
Slides 17 – 20: What we can do to help
Slides 21 – 26: Facts
Slides 27 – 39: Quiz
Slide 40: Activity Ideas
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This health and nutrition bundle is perfect for your healthy eating topic. It contains a 30 slide PowerPoint and quiz which can be used to introduce the topic as well as three fun activities that’ll get your class thinking about the dangers of hidden sugars as well as what a healthy and balanced diet and lifestyle looks like.
Each activity has been differentiated to allow for the correct level of challenge for your students.
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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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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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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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For this investigation students will take a close look at soil and the different properties of three samples that they will collect. They will investigate and compare / contrast how each soil sample reacts when it is covered in water, thinking of reasons as to why the water acts differently for each sample (structure, particle size, etc.).
Your class will first go to collect three different soil samples in their jars and bring them back to the classroom to take a closer look and complete the sample sheet. They will then pour an agreed amount of water onto each sample (one at a time) and observe what happens, recording their observations on the experiment sheet.
This experiment is best done in pairs or small groups.
Each pair / group will need:
Resource sheets
3 jars
Shovel / trowel
Measuring jug
Water
Magnifying glass / microscope (optional)
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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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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for electric circuit symbol recognition. It’s a great science lesson starter or activity that will improve your class’ symbol recognition 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:
2 x completed cootie catchers
2 x blank cootie catchers
Blank template (for them to create their own!)
Folding and playing directions as well as B&W copies are also included.
Have fun!
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For this investigation your class will have a look at how our actions can impact local wildlife, encouraging them to think about what kind of habitats certain animals and plants thrive in. Throughout this study students will develop their investigation, observation, and statistic / data handling skills as they leave an area of maintained grass untouched for a few weeks and observe the changes that happen.
This investigation fits in really well if you are looking at living things, habitats, or sustainability.
To set up this investigation you need to find an area of grass which has been well maintained (cut regularly) that you have permission to corner off (1 meter square per group) and leave untouched for a few weeks.
Contents:
Teacher’s Guide
Investigation Planning Sheet
Results Table (before)
2 x Differentiated Bar Chart Templates (before)
Results Table (After)
2 x Differentiated Bar Chart Templates (after)
2 x Differentiated Bar Chart Templates (comparison)
2 x Differentiated Evaluation Question Sheets
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For this cross-curricular (science and math) activity your students will create a map of where to find different plant species in a chosen area. In order to draw the map, your class will use appropriate equipment to measure the different features of the area, working out the perimeter and area of each feature. They will then use technology and books to identify the plants they can spot and mark it on their maps.
In order to provide enough resources, this activity is best done in pairs or small groups.
Resources needed per group or pair:
Activity pack
Trundle wheel (or equivalent)
iPads or tablets (for a plant identification App)
Plant identification books or posters
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising microorganisms. It’s a great way to have students review their vocabulary of the topic and not even realise 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 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.
Vocabulary included:
Bacteria
Decomposers
Decomposition
Fungi
Germ
Hygiene
Reproduce
Virus
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising forms of energy. It’s a great way to have students review their vocabulary of the topic and not even realise 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 complete cootie catcher where they need to figure out the definition, another where they need to figure out the natural disaster, and another where they must complete the definitions themselves before playing.
There is a black and white copy of each sheet included.
**Vocabulary included:
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Absorption
Electrical Energy
Energy
Heat
Light Energy
Mechanical Energy
Sound Energy
Thermal Energy
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising states of matter. It’s a great way to have students review their vocabulary of the topic and not even realise 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 two complete cootie catchers where they need to figure out the definition, another two where they need to figure out the key vocabulary, and another two where they must complete the definitions themselves before playing.
There is a black and white copy of each sheet included.
Vocabulary included:
Cootie Catcher 1:
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Matter
Melting
Evaporating
Compensating
Mass
Cootie Catcher 2:
Freezing Point
State
Boiling Point
Matter
Sublimation
Evaporation
Condensation
Mass
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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