A set of fun space themed NO PREP differentiated practise questions and word problems using the bar model focussing on addition and subtraction. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea while giving them loads of practise at using it with and without word problems. Contents 3 Sets of practise questions 3 Sets of differentiated word problems Check out our inverse operation worksheets using the bar model. 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!

A set of fun space themed NO PREP differentiated practise questions and word problems using the bar model focussing on addition and subtraction for years 4 and 5. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea while giving them loads of practise at using it with and without word problems. Contents 3 Sets of practise questions 4 Sets of differentiated word problems Check out our inverse operation worksheets using the bar model. 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 phase 4 phonics visual word search is a great prep free activity to get students looking at the phase 4 sounds and spellings. It’s perfect for a filler activity, main lesson, or home learning. To complete the word search the students need to look at the picture, spell the word, and find the spelling in the word search. This pack contains 4 word searches each with two levels of differentiation. Diff 1 - The students must complete the spellings using the phase 3 sounds. Diff. 2 - The student must spell the whole word. Check out our Phase 2 - 5 Phonics Handwriting / Spelling Dice Game 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!

This activity gets students exploring the wildlife in your pond by making their very own underwater viewer using just a plastic bottle, some tape, and scissors. It’s a fantastic activity if you’re looking at living things, habitats, or just want to give your students some time to explore this amazing world. Teaching Structure: Get the students to make their underwater viewers. Younger students may need help with this. Give them time to use the viewers to explore the wildlife in your pond. Either during or after exploring they can complete the differentiated sheets recording their observations. For higher grade levels you can get them to use books and the internet to ID what they see. Please note: There are obvious risks involved with this activity and there must be measures in place. We suggest getting all students to lie down on an area close to the water level before using the viewers. Check out our risk assessment creator to produce a risk assessment quickly and easily. We hope you find this pack useful and enjoy working outside with your class! Check out our Outdoor Science 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!

These CVC visual word searches are a great prep free activity to get students looking at the CVC short sounds and spellings. It’s perfect for a filler activity, main lesson, or home learning. To complete the word search the students need to look at the picture, spell the word, and find the spelling in the word search. This pack contains word search for the short, a, e, i, o and u sound. Diff 1 - The students must complete the spellings using the CVC sounds. Diff. 2 - The student must spell the whole word. Check out our Phase 2 - 5 Phonics Handwriting / Spelling Dice Game 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!

This is a great addition to your electricity topic. This Google Slide / Classroom activity is great recap your students circuit building skills while further developing their understanding into the magical world of electricity. This resource contains 10 Google Slides where students are required to complete the circuits using the components given on the screen. They are also required to trouble shoot a couple of the circuits to figure out why they are not working. It’s great to further and reinforce their understanding of electricity. The circuits get more difficult throughout the slides. These Google Slides are aimed at years 3 - 5 and work great individually, in pairs, and as distance learning. 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 an easy no prep Google Slide / Classroom activity to recap your electricity topic. It looks at the different symbols in a circuit as well as thinking about what each of the key components do through fun interactive activities. Activity 1 - Students must drag the correct label to match the electric circuit components symbol. Activity 2 - Fill the gap. Students need to drag the correct word to complete the sentence. Activity 3 - Students must drag the electric component symbols to create a working circuit. These Google Slides are aimed at grades 2 - 3 and work great individually, in pairs, and as distance learning. 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 STEM project to get students exploring the local weather as they design and build their very own wind vanes before recording the wind direction over a given time period. This projects is great if you’re looking at points of the compass, the weather, fractions, or as a fun STEM challenge. Teaching Structure: Talk about what a wind vane is and why they can be useful. In small groups, complete the design sheet by getting students to think of their own ideas about how to build a wind vane. If you don’t want to do this, just use the example design. Share each idea and discuss whether they’ll work or not. Share the example design. - Complete the final design sheet if their designs have changed. Build the wind vane. Place the wind vane in a suitable location and complete the record sheet over a given time period. It can be interesting to put each group in a different place and then compare their results to see any variations in wind directions. Complete the evaluation questions. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity is all about hugging trees! It’s perfect to encourage students to use adjectives in their descriptive writing as they use their senses (apart from sight and taste) to describe a tree as best as they can. Teaching Structure: Recap on what an adjective is. Put the students into pairs with one blindfolded. The partner which isn’t blindfolded will lead their blindfolded partner to a tree of their choice. The blindfolded students must think of adjectives to describe the tree using touch and smell. Their partner can record the adjectives they are thinking of on the activity sheet. After a couple of minutes the blindfolded partner is carefully taken back to the spot they started away from the tree and the blindfold is removed. They then must see if they can find the tree that they were just describing. - Swap the blindfold and repeat. 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 Halloween get your students drawing all of their favourite Halloween pictures while thinking about scaling up and measuring. For this activity students will use chalk to draw Halloween themed pictures on your playground using a specified measurement or scale to work to. It’s great at allowing students to practice using different equipment, measuring accurately, as well as scaling up. This pack contains two levels of differentiation. Diff. 1 - Students will use the measurements given to draw the images the correct size. Diff. 2 - Students must measure the images on the sheets and scale them up using the given scale before using chalk to draw the onto the playground. 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 will teach your students about the greater than, less than and equals symbols (<, >, =) as they figure out the multiplication and division number sentence and write their own number sentence according to the symbol shown. This resource pack contains 7 differentiated worksheets. If further differentiation is required you can provide students with cubes and number lines to help them to figure out the divisions and multiplications. 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 outdoor experiment that demonstrates how the earth is kept warm enough for life (as well as global warming) through the greenhouse effect. They will carry out an experiment comparing the difference in temperature between the air in a glass jar compared to the air outside of the jar. This demonstrates the effect the greenhouse gases have on the Earth. They will go onto think about what happens when we add to the greenhouse gases and the effect this has on the Earth’s temperature. **Equipment needed: **tall jar, 2 x thermometers, 2 x pieces of white card, timer, sunshine & an activity pack. Teaching Structure: Ask the students how they think the Earth is kept warm. Explain that there are gases in the atmosphere that trap the warming radiation in and keep the Earth warm. Explain that they are going to demonstrate this process by looking how the air warms up in a glass compared to the air outside of the glass. Get the students to complete the method sheet. Place 2 pieces of white card on the floor in a sunny spot (to keep the floor variable the same). Put the jar with a thermometer in on one piece of card and put the lid on (if the lid is opaque put the jar upside down). Place the other thermometer on the other bit of card. Record the temperature of both thermometers at the decided intervals and record the results in the table. Complete the discussion questions and evaluation sheet. 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 cloud diary is a fantastic way to introduce students to weather forecasting as well as getting them outside and observing the changes in the weather each day. Briefly explain how clouds are formed, linking it to the water cycle. Tell your students that they will go outside each day and see what clouds they can spot (using the cloud ID sheet) and record their results in the table. You could talk about the kind of weather we would expect to see with each of the different cloud types. They may start to make their own predictions about the weather. 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. This resource contains 2 activity sheets, a cloud ID sheet, as well as some evaluation questions. 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!

Ratios are everywhere and a great opportunity to take that math lesson outside! For this fun outdoor ratio lesson your students will collect some leaves before thinking about their features and writing some ratio sentences about each of the features. It’s a great way to introduce simple ratio to students and give them lots of practice at spotting different ratios. This resource contains two differentiated activity sheets. Diff 1: They find some leaves and complete the ratio sentence. Diff. 2: They find some leaves, write the ratio sentence and if possible, simplify the ratio. Check out our scaling up shapes outdoor activity task 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!

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!

This is an outdoor scavenger hunt with a twist. Before finding each item they must first figure out the fun outdoor riddle. This resource contains both task cards with the nature riddles as well as an activity sheet containing all of the riddles. Once they’ve figured out the riddle they can write or draw the answer before heading off to find it in your outdoor area. After they’ve completed the riddle scavenger hunt they could have a go at creating their own nature riddles for their friends. Love Outdoor Learning? Check out our years worth of outdoor learning challenges here! 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 conversion pair cards will get your students converting between different units of measure. They can be used in loads of different ways including as an outdoor scavenger hunt. They are sure to give your students tons of practice converting units of measure in a fun and engaging way. Conversions included: Millimeter, centimeter, & meters Milliliter & liter Grams & kilograms Ideas for use: **Game 1: **Hide the cards around your outdoor area and get the students to go on a scavenger hunt to find the matching pairs. **Game 2: **Give each of the children 1 card, get them to walk around and find the other person with the matching card. How quickly can they do it? **Game 3: **In pairs, put all of the cards face down on the table. Take it in turns turning over two cards to try and find a matching pair. The person with the most pairs at the end is the winner 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!