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.
Get your class engaged with math from the very start of the year with this exciting outdoor math scavenger hunt activity for years 2 and 3 (Grades 1 and 2). It’s also a fantastic way to assess what your class have remembered over their summer break. It’s a hassle free resource with minimum prep, designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles.
This pack contains 12 task cards that cover the following areas:
- Shape
- Measuring
- Multiplication
- Division
- Estimation
- Symmetry
- Simple Fractions
- Simple Ratio
My class had great fun in the outdoors while learning and recapping their skills. A fantastic lesson when the sun in shining!
Contents
- Teacher’s Guide
- 2 x Answer Sheets For The Children To Complete
- 12 x Task Cards
Top Tip: Laminate your cards so they can be used time and time again!
This set of Christmas themed subtraction word problems are perfect for grades 3 – 4 (years 4 - 5) to get ready for the festive season. There are 24 word problems, 12 of which are ‘challenging’ problems for those children who need the extra level of difficulty.
These subtraction problems can be used as worksheets, or they can be cut out and used as task cards.
Contents
- 12 X Subtraction Word Problems
- 12 X Challenging Subtraction Word Problems
- 2 X Answer Keys
We hope you have fun with these and have a wonderful Christmas! ☺
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This set of Christmas themed addition word problems are perfect for grades 3 – 4 (years 4 - 5) to get ready for the festive season. There are 24 word problems, 12 of which are ‘challenging’ problems for those children who need the extra level of difficulty.
These resources can be used as worksheets, or they can be cut out and used as task cards.
Contents
- 12 X Addition Word Problems
- 12 X Challenging Addition Word Problems
- 2 X Answer Keys
We hope you have fun with these and have a wonderful Christmas! ☺
A sentence fixer PowerPoint activity designed to help those children who forget the simple sentence punctuation along with some commonly mixed up homophones. The Sentence Snake has stolen some punctuation / mixed up the spellings. The children must read the sentence and see if they can find all of the errors.
It’s a great way to get your children editing their writing, learning to spot the common mistakes and improve their writing.
Contents
- Slides 1 – 10: Capital letters & full stops
- Slides 11 – 21: Apostrophise
- Slides 22 – 32: Homophones
- Slides 33 – 39: Capital letters, full stops, question marks, & exclamation marks.
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36 visual Weather and Water Cycle 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. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid.
Contents
- 36 X Weather & Water Cycle Vocab Cards
- Display Title
- 2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
- Water Cycle
- Evaporation
- Condensation
- Transpiration
- Groundwater
- Clouds
- Surface Runoff
- Water Vapour
- Humidity
- Precipitation
- Due Point
- Cool Air
- Air Pressure
- Atmosphere
- Beaufort Scale
- Cirrus Clouds
- Climate
- Cumulonimbus Clouds
- Equator
- Flood
- Front
- Global Warming
- Hurricane
- Jet Stream
- Lightning
- Meteorologist
- Overcast
- Seasons
- Snow
- Storm
- Thunder
- Tornado
- Typhoon
- Visibility
- Wind
- Waterspout
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16 visual Rock Cycle 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. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid.
Contents
- 16 X Key Vocab Cards
- Display Title
- 2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
- Metamorphic Rock
- Igneous Rock
- Sedimentary Rock
- Weathering
- Deposition
- Rock Cycle
- Sediment
- Rock
- Magma
- Lava
- Extrusive Rocks
- Intrusive Rocks
- Acid Rain
- Fossils
- Earth’s Crust
- Earth’s Mantle
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This diary writing & research project is a great way to get your class learning about and having fun with first person narrative in the form of diary writing (recounts) in the outdoors. This differentiated resource has been used very successful with grades 2 – 5 (years 3 - 6).
The children are to choose a min-beast and spend a few days finding, exploring, and researching their chosen mini-beast. They will then have great fun planning and writing a diary entry for their chosen mini-beast based around ‘a day in the life of’.
Contents:
- Teacher’s Guide
- Mini-Beast Identification Sheet
- 2 x differentiated drawing sheets
- Instructions Sheet
- Diary Extract Eample
- 2 x differentiated research templates
- 1 x Diary Writing Checklist
- 1 x planning sheet
- 2 x Differentiated writing checklists
This resource is a great way to get the children exploring the outdoor while learning about a key writing style.
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18 visual forces and motion 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. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid.
Contents
- 18 X Key Vocabulary Cards
- Display Title
- 2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
- Force
- Friction
- Speed
- Velocity
- Pulley
- Acceleration
- Balanced Force
- Unbalanced Force
- Gravity
- Isaac Newton
- Air Resistance
- Streamline
- Magnetic
- Simple Machine
- Work
- Lever
- Effort Arm
- Resistance Arm
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Check out our other Word Walls:
Weather & The Water Cycle
The Rock Cycle
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It’s time to get outside while teaching English! This outdoor literacy bundle covers instruction writing, persuasive writing, diary / recount, and poetry through fun, engaging, and practical activities. It is the perfect pack to help teach a large chunk of your English curriculum in the great outdoors.
A highly visual and interactive PowerPoint and quiz on earthquakes as part of your natural disasters geography unit. It’s perfect for introducing this topic or as a quick lesson recap.
Contents
Slides 1 - 9: Introduction
Slides 10 - 23: Vocabulary Quiz
Slides 14 - 27: Types of Earthquakes
Slides 28 - 29: Richter Scale
Slides 30 - 33: Case Study
Slides 34 - 43: Type of Earthquake Quiz
Slide 44: The Challenge
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A highly visual and interactive PowerPoint and quiz on volcanoes as part of your natural disasters geography unit. It’s perfect for introducing this topic or as a quick lesson recap.
Contents
Slides 1 - 7: Introduction
Slides 8 - 12: Types of Eruption
Slides 13 - 14: Types of Volcano
Slides 15 - 19: Fun Facts
Slides 20 - 32: Quiz
Slides 33 - 34: Conclusion / Challenge
<br/>Check out our other natural disaster PowerPoints:
Earthquakes
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This activity looks closely at how different skeletons are made up, encouraging children to think about how different animals are able to move in different ways depending on their skeleton.
This activity works best in groups.
Give each child an animal card and ask them to create the animals skeleton using sticks, thinking carefully about how the animal moves. Once they have done this and you have allowed for sufficient discussion both with each other and an adult, give them the animals skeleton card and let them see how they have done.
They can then take another animal to try. You’ll be amazed at the improvement of their skeletons over the course of one lesson!
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Contents:
A normal and skeleton sheet for each of the following
Human
Fish
Frog
Snake
Elephant
Horse
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Floating and sinking in the outdoors so a fantastic way to investigate this topic. This activity works perfectly as the first lesson for floating and sinking or just as a fun stand-alone lesson on a nice afternoon.
For this activity the children will head outside with a bowl of water to collect natural objects and predict and test whether they float or sink. They can then fill in their table with their results before thinking about reasons behind their results.
Contents:
Teacher’s Guide
Letter from Captain Smitty (the hook)
2 x differentiated results tables
Conclusion questions
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A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 and 4. 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, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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A FREE sample of our Halloween themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 - 4. 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, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 4 - 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, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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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 great activity around Halloween, if you’re looking at living things, or just as a fun team building / problem solving outdoor activity. Your students will hunt out and take a close look at a spider’s web before working as a team to create their own human web using string or wool.
First, get your class to find a spider’s web (ideally with a magnifying glass) and draw a picture of it on the sheet, looking carefully at the small details. Once they have completed the sheet, give each group (of 3 or 4) some string / rope and scissors and ask them to go find two trees or posts that are close to each other. They will use the trees / posts to create their human webs, thinking carefully about the design of the spider’s web they looked at.
Once they have finished they can draw their web or take a picture and stick it on the sheet.
It can be useful to give your class a lesson on simple knots before doing this activity.
Equipment:
2 x human web sheets
Magnifying glasses
String / rope
Scissors
Camera (optional)
**Check out our other outdoor Halloween resources:
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My Magical Potion
Magical Masks
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A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 5 - 6. 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, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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Perfect to be used as a phonics station, these fun puzzles are great for your early readers to practice matching upper-case letters to their lower-case pair. This pack contains 5 puzzles (both in color and black & white), which can be differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come!
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5 x Tarsia puzzles (color and black & white)
Check out our other Tarsia Puzzles for Early Years
English
Animal Phonics
Colour Matching Freebie
Math
Dice Addition (1-15)
Counting to 10 - Number Recognition