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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.
This is a fun and practical concrete addition activity that will help your little ones carry out basic sums using cubes to help them. For this game students will roll the dice, find the corresponding square, complete the addition and stack the correct number of cubes on the square. For example, if they rolled a 6, they would find the square with the 6 dice next to it, complete the addition (using the cubes to help), and stack that many cubes on top of the square. This pack contains three levels of differentiation.
Activity sheet 1 – Numbers 3 – 10
Activity sheet 2 - Numbers 5 – 15
Activity sheet 3 – Numbers 5 – 20
Check out our number recognition / counting roll and stack activity.
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This is a fun and practical concrete subtraction activity that will help your little ones carry out basic subtractions using cubes to help them.For this game students will roll the dice, find the corresponding square, complete the subtraction and stack the correct number of cubes on the square. For example, if they rolled a 6, they would find the square with the 6 dice next to it, complete the subtraction (using the cubes to help), and stack that many cubes on top of the square.
This pack contains three levels of differentiation.
Activity sheet 1 – Numbers 3 – 10
Activity sheet 2 - Numbers 5 – 15
Activity sheet 3 – Numbers 5 – 16
Check out our roll and stick for:
- Number recognition / counting roll and stack activity.
- Addition
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Playground Battleships is a great way to learn about, or recap finding coordinates on a one quadrant grid.
In pairs your class will play a large scale version of Battleships by drawing a grid using chalk and then using natural objects or chalk to keep track of when and where their ships have been hit.
Resources needed:
Chalk
Natural objects (stones, sticks, leaves, etc.) – optional
Resource sheet
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Be it for Halloween, a literacy topic (instruction writing fits in well with this), or just for fun in the outdoors, this activity is sure to get your classes imagination flowing. Each student will plan and make their own magic potion using natural materials that they can find in your outdoor space. There are two differentiated sheets, one which gets your students to think about what they might include in their potion, the other that expands on this, getting them to think about the purpose of the potion.
Once your class have completed the planning aspect of the sheet they can go outside and start creating their potions in a small bowl, pot, jar, or anything else you can find!
Equipment needed:
Differentiated sheets
Small container
Natural resources
Spoon or equivalent (optional)
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This is a fantastic activity to get your students exploring the smells of nature while thinking about adjectives.
Give each student or pair a tub to take outside. Get them to collect and crush (using a stone or hands) flowers and leaves and put them in the tub to make their very own scent tubs. Once they’ve made their scent tubs, get them to complete the activity sheet where they’ll draw whats in their tub and write adjectives around the outside to describe what they can see and smell.
This resource contains two activity sheets, one with a word bank and one without.
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Equipment needed:**
Tubs
Activity sheets
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For this activity students with think about the properties of different materials as they figure out whether they float or sink, cutting and sticking the pictures into the correct columns.
It’s a great lesson or topic starter for your floating and sinking topic.
This pack contains two levels of differentiation.
Diff. 1: The activity contains two columns - float and sink.
Diff. 2: The activity contains three columns - float, sink, and both. Students are encouraged to think about items which can both float and sink depending on the situation.
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Dive into the 2024 Olympic Games with this engaging reading comprehension passage and questions!
This passage explores the rich history of the Olympic Games and what’s to come at the exciting 2024 Paris Games. After reading, students will answer differentiated questions. Some questions will test their understanding of the text (explicit information), while others will require them to infer meaning by drawing conclusions (implicit information).
The resource contains one passage along with two differentiated question sets.
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This sea-level rise reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your humans and the environment topic. This is a basic text that goes through what sea-level rise is, what impacts sea-level rise, and why they are an important issue that we need to be aware of. 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 Solar Energy Reading Comprehension!
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Your kids will love reading all about Easter with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through how Easter started, the meaning behind Easter and how it is now celebrated. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
2 page reading passage
2 x comprehension questions
Answer key
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Your kids will love reading about popular footballer Harry Kane with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through who he is, how he has become such a huge football star, and key points in his career. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
1 page reading passage
2 x differentiated comprehension questions
Answer key
Check out our other famous footballers reading:
Ronaldo
Messi
Neymar
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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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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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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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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.
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Wild story telling is a great way to let your students’ imaginations run wild as they use natural items they find in your outdoor space to plan and tell their very own wild story. It’s perfect if you’re looking at descriptive language or as a stimulus before they begin to write down their own stories. For this activity they will head outside and collect 6 items that will be used within their story. These items could be imagined into anything from characters in their stories to powerful magical items. Encourage them to collect varied items as this will help when planning their stories.
Once they’ve got their 6 items they can either tape or draw one item per box on the activity sheet. They must now think about what their item could be within their story. You can either get them to include the items in chronological order or allow them to use them randomly within the story. Once they’ve planned their story they can get into small groups and use their activity sheet and items to help them as they tell their wild story to others.
This activity is designed to be done verbally while in your outdoor area. They can plan their stories either individually or in pairs.
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Who doesn’t love a treasure hunt!? This is a great activity for looking at compass bearings and use as well as instruction writing. For this lesson students will hide some treasure before writing instructions to get from the starting point to the treasure using compass bearings.
Once the instructions are complete they can swap with a friend and see if they can find each other’s treasure.
We hope you find this resource useful and enjoy working outside with your class!
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for addition with regrouping. It’s a great lesson starter or activity that will improve your class’ additions skills with 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers 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 additions filled in, as well as blank cootie catchers where the addition questions must be completed before playing the game.
Contents:
7 x completed cootie catchers
7 x blank cootie catchers
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for addition without regrouping. It’s a great lesson starter or activity that will improve your class’ additions skills with 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers 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 additions filled in, as well as blank cootie catchers where the addition questions must be completed before playing the game.
Contents:
7 x completed cootie catchers
7 x blank cootie catchers
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 natural disasters. 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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Drought
Earthquake
Flood
Hurricane
Tornado
Tsunami
Volcano
Wildfire
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 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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