Growing plants is great fun and can lead to loads of teaching opportunities. For this activity students will plant a variety of species and measure their growth rate over time. The students first look at how they can carry out this investigation, completing an investigation plan. After the seeds are planted they’ll measure the height of each plant every week and record their findings on the table. As part of the sheet they’ll need to work out differences in heights. We suggest using 4 - 5 different types of plants, ideally ones with a clear difference in growth rate. How you carry this investigation out depends greatly on the space you have available. You may choose to use separate plant pots or maybe you have a veg patch available. It’s good to discuss the importance of the plants being in the same locations. Why is the sun important for plants? Why is water important? You can go into as much or little detail as needed in these discussions. It can be useful to set up a timetable of who is going to care for the plants each day. If you choose to use fruits or vegetables (highly recommended!) you can then go onto use these as another stimulus for activities. Suggested Plants: Tomato Spinach Baby Carrots Bush Beans Green Onions Summer Squash Beets 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!

Growing plants is great fun and can lead to loads of teaching opportunities. For this activity students will plant a variety of species and measure their growth rate over time. The students will measure the height of each plant every week and record their findings on the table as well as drawing a picture of the plants. We suggest using 4 - 5 different types of plants, ideally ones with a clear difference in growth rate. How you carry this investigation out depends greatly on the space you have available. You may choose to use separate plant pots or maybe you have a veg patch available. It’s good to discuss the importance of the plants being in the same locations. Why is the sun important for plants? Why is water important? You can go into as much or little detail as needed in these discussions. It can be useful to set up a timetable of who is going to care for the plants each day. If you choose to use fruits or vegetables (highly recommended!) you can then go onto use these as another stimulus for activities. Suggested Plants: Tomato Spinach Baby Carrots Bush Beans Green Onions Summer Squash Beets 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!

15 visual trash and recycling 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 15 X Key Vocabulary Cards Display Title ** Trash and Recycling Vocabulary Included** Compost Conservation Disposable Driving a car creates pollution. Environment Hazardous Waste Natural Resource Pollution Trash Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

A set of 24 differentiated task cards to practice the bar model method with addition and subtraction. These task cards are perfect to give Kindergarten – Grade 1 students loads of practice with addition and subtraction using the visual bar model method. This pack contains two levels of differentiation each with 12 cute animal themed cards. You can provide equipment to add a further level of differentiation for this who need a more concrete approach. We love to hide these cards around our outdoor space and use them as a maths scavenger hunt but there are loads more ways to use these task card to fit your needs! **Purple cards: Bond to 10 and 20. Pink cards: Bonds to numbers between 10 and 30.** Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This outdoor STEM activity gets students thinking and questioning what properties make something either float or sink. They will be faced with the challenge to get a stone to float using only natural materials, string, and tape. Equipment: Stones (roughly the size of a golf ball - the bigger the stone the more the challenge) Tape String Bowl / tub of water Teaching Structure: Get students to think of examples of items that both float and sink. Encourage them to start thinking about what it is that makes them float or sink. Explain that their mission is to make a stone float using only natural materials before the end of the lesson. Put students into groups of 2 or 3 and get them to complete the mind map sheet. Once they’ve discussed their ideas, set them off on their challenge. We find 15 - 20 minutes is enough time for this part of the lesson. It’s a good idea to limit the amount of string and tape they can use. The less string and tape used the more the challenge. Once students have successfully made their stone float or the time has run out get them to complete the evaluation sheet or simply discuss the questions on the task cards. The task cards can be placed at different points in your outdoor space. Finally, get students to share their thoughts and ideas as a whole class. 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 12 outdoor spellings task cards are a great way to spice up your spelling lessons. Students will go outside and practice their spelling lists through a range of fun and practical activities. Print out the task cards, laminate them, and then hand them out to the students. Once a student has completed an activity they can come back and swap their card for a new activity. It’s a good idea to keep track of which activities the students have done so that they don’t end up repeating the same ones. Check out our Phonics and Handwriting Dice Game for phase 2 - 5 sounds. 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 fun activity to experiment with measuring and units of measure. Children will find objects to measure in your outdoor space, however instead of using standard units of measure, they’ll create their own wonderful units of measure, for example, leaves. If they chose leaves as their units of measurement they’d use a leaf to measure the item and record their answers in the table. As an extension students can convert their ‘weird units’ to cm. 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 addition or subtraction number sentence and write their own number sentence according to the symbol shown. This resource pack contains 6 differentiated worksheets. If further differentiation is required you can provide students with cubes and number lines to help them to figure out the additions and subtractions Check out our Comparing and Ordering Numbers activity 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!

Den building, nature watching, gardening, digging, and even fire making! Outdoor learning is becoming a stand-alone subject as it has huge benefits to children’s development. Not only this, but the kids love it! This pack contains 20 task cards each with an outdoor based activity, some more challenging than others. They are perfect for an outdoor learning session in school, at camp, or even as a way to keep your children busy in the summer holidays! Contents - 20 x Outdoor Activity Task Cards ------------------------ Get outside and Enjoy!

A big set of literacy games that are perfect for a mid lesson brain break or as some fun lesson starters to get your classes minds in gear! Each game is designed to help improve literacy skills, from reading to spelling and writing, they have it all! Contents - Slides 1 – 15: The Riddle Challenge - Slides 16 – 34: Amazing Anagrams - Slides 35 – 41: Describe The Picture - Slides 42 – 47: The Persuasion Game - Slides 48 – 55: The Alphabet Game - Slides 56 – 60: Compare And Contrast - Slides 61 – 66: Complete The Sentence ------------------------ Enjoy! :)

A cross-curricular maths and science investigation that will get your class into the great outdoors on a bug hunt. They will learn about data handling, bar charts, estimation, averages, and basic number skills as they search for, and record, the different species of insects that they find. Your class are sure to love this exciting investigation! Contents - 4 Large Icon Insect Identification Sheets - 1 Small Icon Insect Identification Sheet - Instruction Sheet - Planning Sheet - Results Table - 2 x Differentiated Bar Charts - 1 x Analysis Sheet ------------------------ Please don’t forget to rate this product and provide feedback to earn credits that you can use toward future purchases on TpT. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This fun and entertaining activity (for both the teacher and children!) is played like charades. It is an exciting and a practical way for children to learn to recognise and use similes to improve their writing. There are 24 simile cards with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the simile. This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class. Contents: - 1 x Instruction Sheet - 24 x Simile Cards - 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it! Best of all, they now use similes effectively in their writing! ----------------------------------- Thank you! Don't forget to leave us feedback. :)

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. ----------------------------------- Enjoy!

This is an extremely fun outdoor activity for your children to learn about place value with decimals. Place Value Relay is an active way for children to learn about decimals and place value. This activity is best played outside where the children will take a decimal and place it in the correct place on the large number line in a relay format. This pack also contains 2 differentiated cut and stick worksheets where the children must place the decimals in the correct place on the number lines. Contents - Teacher’s Guide - 3 x Large number lines along with playing cards for each - 2 x Differentiated worksheets ------------------------ If you like this resources please don't forget to leave us feedback. Thank you! Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

The pack is a great way to get your children outdoors learning and exploring lines of symmetry. There are different activities and worksheets that will get your children exploring the outdoors while thinking about and creating patterns and shapes with one and more lines of symmetry. We have aimed this pack at grades 3 – 5, however it can be used in most grades with different levels of support and outcomes. Contents: - 1 x Symmetry Collecting Worksheet - 1 x Stick Bugs Activity Task Card - 1 x Symmetry Hunt Worksheet - 9 x Natural Symmetry Task Cards We hope you enjoy these as much as we did! ------------------------ If you liked this resource please don't forget to give us feedback.

Homophones with Larry The Knight PowerPoint, games, and worksheets lesson makes for a fun way to teach these tricky words. This highly visual and interactive PowerPoint will keep your children engaged and thinking carefully about the homophone spellings. I find this PowerPoint works best if all the children have a whiteboard to record their answers. This means there can be no hogs or logs! Contents - Slides 1 – 4: Introduction - Slides 5 – 21: Game 1: Homophone or Not? Children must decided whether the word is a homophone or not. - Slides 22 – 35: Hunt The Homophone. Children must find the homophone using wrongly in the sentences. - Slide 36: Conclusion Check out some of our other grammar resources! Figurative Language PowerPoint and Quiz Literacy Games PowerPoint Sentence Fixers PowerPoint Activity Adjective Acting Game Figurative Language Acting Activity Flash Cards: Similes ------------------------ Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This STEM activity is all about the negative effects that plastic pollution in our oceans is having on humans and the environment. Students will be challenged to design and create their very own invention to help save our ocean plastic crisis. Contents: Teacher Guide Invention Example Differentiated Design Sheets Differentiated Final Idea Pan Differentiated Evaluation Questions Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Algebra can be great fun outdoors! This activity will introduce simplifying algebraic equations to your children while exploring sticks and leaves found in your outdoor space. They will be given a differentiated task card containing a formula which they must build before simplifying. The ‘x’ represents sticks and ‘y’ represents leaves. If the formula reads x + y + x they must order stick, stick, leaf and then write ‘2x + y’ underneath. This pack contains 22 card with 8 challenge 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 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! </br> Contents: A normal and skeleton sheet for each of the following Human Fish Frog Snake Elephant Horse </br> --------------------- Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!