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.
Plant scavenger hunts are great fun and easy to do. It can be a great brain break or part of your living things topic.
Print out the sheet for your students to take into your outdoor space and mark off the plants as they find them. It’s great if you can provide some magnifying glasses so they can look at all the amazing details of each flower.
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The Egg Drop STEM Challenge is a nice variation on the commonly used egg parachute challenge. Your class will work together in small teams, thinking about the best way to protect an egg from being dropped using natural materials. They will be encouraged to think about the properties of different materials, considering which one will work best.
The whole activity is based around a story of an explorer who is trapped in the North Pole and needs food supplies, and of course, his favourite food is egg!
Read the instructions to your class before putting them into groups of 2 or 3. Encourage them to hunt out different natural materials that they think will protect them egg from breaking. Once they have padded out the tubs, give them the egg and see if it works by dropping it from a good height!
To save on money and waste, if an egg does not break, it can be re-used by the following team.
Once the challenge is complete each student can fill in an evaluation sheet.
Resources needed:
Supply of natural materials in an outdoor space
Activity sheets
Small tubs (big 500ml or similar)
Somewhere high to drop the eggs from (first floor or second floor)
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This activity will give your students lots of practice at counting between 1 and 20 as they collect natural items and explore the outdoors. It’s a great way to use concrete resources to support the learning of number recognition and counting.
Simply print off the cards (either on card or laminate the paper) and place them around your outdoor space. Your students can then go around and pile the correct amount of items on top of each card.
Each card shows a picture of an item as well as a number which indicates how many they need to collect and leave on top of the card.
Check out our Summer Counting Worksheets!
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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.
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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.
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This video comprehension takes a look at the ozone layer and its depletion. Your students will watch a video where they will learn about what the ozone layer is as well as what is damaging it and the issues that this has on life on Earth before answering a set of questions about what they’ve just seen.
This pack contains 3 levels of differentiation as well as an extension activity where they will draw a diagram to show how the ozone layer works.
What is video comprehension?
Our video comprehension series is designed to facilitate the learning of those students who find reading tricky. It allows them to access the same level of learning without the need to read large amounts of information as they will watch a video on the topic rather than reading large amounts of text. We have found it especially helpful with our SEN students.
Each set is differentiated three times. With the first level of differentiation requiring them to simply circle the correct answers.
These worksheets work best if each student has their own device as they can re-watch parts of the video to find the correct answers. However if you don’t have one device per students or pair we have done this with great success by having the video on repeat on the board / tv at the front of the classroom.
These activities are also perfect for home and distance learning.
We are constantly expanding our range of video comprehension worksheets so be sure to check back frequently for new resources.
Check out our other video comprehension packs:
- Compost
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Get your students involved with this drawing scavenger hunt where they’ll head outside to see if they can find and draw all the items on the sheet. It’s great if you’re looking at your local area, wildlife, and observation skills. You can also use this activity to help introduce habitats.
This resource contains a few different activity sheets that allow you to differentiate based on the things they are required to find.
It’s great if you can have a discussion about the scavenger hunt after they’ve completed it. What did they enjoy drawing the most? What did they find exciting to see? What were they surprised they saw?
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This video comprehension takes a look at water pollution and the impacts it has on the environment. Your students will watch a video where they will learn about what the water pollution is, what causes it, the environmental impact, as well as what we can do to help stop water pollution.
This pack contains 3 levels of differentiation as well as an extension activity where they will carry out further research to find 5 interesting facts about water pollution.
What is video comprehension?
Our video comprehension series is designed to facilitate the learning of those students who find reading tricky. It allows them to access the same level of learning without the need to read large amounts of information as they will watch a video on the topic rather than reading large amounts of text. We have found it especially helpful with our SEN students.
Each set is differentiated three times. With the first level of differentiation requiring them to simply circle the correct answers.
These worksheets work best if each student has their own device as they can re-watch parts of the video to find the correct answers. However if you don’t have one device per students or pair we have done this with great success by having the video on repeat on the board / tv at the front of the classroom.
These activities are also perfect for home and distance learning.
We are constantly expanding our range of video comprehension worksheets so be sure to check back frequently for new resources.
Check out our other video comprehension packs:
- Compost
- Ozone Depletion
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Debating is a great way to get students thinking creatively about persuasive language. For this activity students will go and find the most interesting item they can from your outdoor space and write a list of points as to why their item is the best using their persuasive language techniques.
Once they have put together a strong argument they can then get into groups of 3 or 4 and have a debate about whose item is the best. As an extension, you could then turn their arguments into a piece of persuasive writing.
This is a fantastic and fun activity to encourage the use of persuasive language, especially for your reluctant writers.
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The space map is a great cross-curricular activity to get children to think about the size of the planets in relation to each other as well as the distances between them. Get children to create a line of planets using the planet sizes table by drawing them on chalk on the playground. If space is limited it is good to do the sun as a whole class due to the massive size! As an extension you can get the children to write in between each planet the distance it is away from the sun as well as any fun facts they can think of or find out.
This pack contains two planet sizes sheet; one with decimals and one without.
Equipment needed:
Resource pack
Chalk
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This activity looks at how plants and trees survive by dispersing their seeds which is a key aspect of the life cycle of plants. Your class will collect seeds and classify them based on the key dispersal definitions.
Teaching Structure:
Discuss what a seed is and why it’s important that they are dispersed. Explain that plants and trees have different seed dispersal tactics.
Go outside and collect as many different seeds as you can. This can either be done during the school day (it can make a great trip!) or set as a home learning challenge.
Put the class into small groups and give each group a set of the definitions. - Get the children to sort the seeds into the correct seed dispersal classifications. You can then take a photo or get them to draw the seeds onto the activity sheet and answer the questions.
As an extension, get them to design their own seeds with a chosen dispersal method.
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This cut and stick worksheet will help your students learn about self control and how to their actions can make other children feel around them. It’s great as part of your PSHE friendship topic or as an intervention session for SEN students. They will read simple statements before deciding whether they make others feel sad or glad.
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These 12 sorting cards will teach your students about self control and how their actions can impact others around them. They are perfect for your PSHE topic or as an SEN intervention sessions.
They can be used both individually and in small groups. They are great to facilitate discussions and dive deeper into people’s emotions. The cards give different simple scenarios that the students will sort into two groups (making others sad or glad).
Check out our Self Control - Sad or Glad Cut and Stick Worksheet
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This worksheet aims to help children understand what self-control is and also become more aware of emotions and situations that might lead them to lose control of their feelings. They will read the 9 scenarios and sort them into examples of good self control or not self control.
Check out our Self Control - How I Feel When…
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This worksheet will get your students to think about how they would feel in different situations by coloring in the appropriate face next to the simple scenario. It can be a great way to facilitate and start discussion about appropriate ways to react when faced with situations that they may not like. It can be a useful support for those who need intervention session for self control along with students with SEN to help them understand others and their own emotions.
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This no-prep worksheet on self-control will teach students about the importance of using self-control to make good choices. They will consider the different outcomes on how we react to a situation.
It’s perfect for SEN intervention work or as a whole class activity.
Check out our Self Control - Making Good Choices Worksheet
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This no-prep self-control activity bundle will teach your students the importance of self-control. This bundle contains 6 activity sheets that will take your students through what self-control is, how they can use it and how their actions can effect themselves and others around them. It’s perfect for small group counseling sessions.
What this bundle contains:
‘How I feel when…’ color the faces
Sad or glad cut and stick
Sad or glad sorting cards
Spotting self-control cut and stick
Making good choices
What should will do?
Ideas for use:
With students who could benefit from increased self-control
With SEN students who find understanding emotions difficult
With students who need support with social skills
These activities work well both individually and in small groups. The discussions that can come from these worksheets can be very valuable.
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This pack contains 4 differentiated worksheets that will give your students loads of practise at working out fractions of amounts. For each worksheet the must circle the fraction which represents the highest number.
Check out our fractions of numbers game which is great to do before giving out the worksheets.
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This outdoor science investigation teaches your students about the properties of materials as they plan, investigate, record, and evaluate the rate in which different items melt.
This investigation is perfect for that hot summers afternoon where you simply need to get outside on. Students compare items that melt and investigate if these items have a different melting rate. It’s perfect if you’re looking at states of matter or materials and their properties.
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Have you ever wondered what lurks beneath the soil? With this science investigation you’re about to find out as your students become geologists to investigate what is underneath a patch of land. They will look into classifying what they find before creating their very own soil explorer museum. It’s a great resource if you’re looking at rocks and soil, geological skills, history, as well as the classification of materials and animals.
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