This pack of outdoor literacy challenge cards contains 20 cards each with a different literacy challenge for a wide range of topic areas for your students to do outside. These cards can be used in a variety of ways, from students choosing their own cards to using them as a scavenger hunt by placing them randomly in your outdoor space. This activity requires minimal preparation and is great as a starter activity or a fun brain break. 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!

The insect trap investigation gets students looking closely at all the amazing creepy crawlies that can be found in your outdoor space by creating small traps. It’s great if you’re looking at living things, habitats, or data handling as well as developing key investigation skills. **Ages 4 - 6: **Students will set the traps and observe what they collect. At this age it’s great for them to explore the wildlife, talking about their looks, how they move, key features, and other general observations. Once they’ve had time to study what they’ve trapped they can compete the observation sheet where they’ll draw what they’ve collected. **Ages 7 - 9 & 10 - 12: **Students will set the traps and wait to see what crawls inside (checking each day for a few days. They’ll identify the creatures and record their results on the results table. They can then use their results to create a bar graph of their findings (you can choose to accumulate all the results or just use individuals). After that, get them to complete the evaluation question sheets which will encourage them to think about how successful their traps were and the reasons behind their results. Equipment needed: Activity pack Trowel Yogurt pot Tray Card Stones ID Guide (optional) Check out our outdoor science bundle 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!

Metaphor acting is a great addition to your figurative language topic which will encourage your students to think about and use metaphors in their descriptive writing. This resource contains 20 game cards each with a different metaphor. How to play: Get a student to come to the front of the class and choose a game card at random. They must act out the metaphor for the rest of the class to guess. This game can also be done in small groups. On each card there are acting clues to help if needed. If the students are finding it difficult to guess you can give them part of the metaphor to help. Check out Similes Acting Game. 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 is a great way for students to practise their 1 - 10 times tables. They will find the answers to a set of multiplications in the number grid, coloring in the correct answers with the colour to match the times table. This pack contains one number word search for each times table (2-10). They’re a great lesson, filler, or home learning activity. My class absolutely love them as I’m sure yours will too! Black and white copies are also included in this pack. Check out our addition number word searches: Years 1 - 2 Years 3 - 4 Years 5 - 6 Check out our subtraction number word searches: Subtraction number search: Years 1 - 2 Subtraction number search: Years 3 - 4 Subtraction number search: Years 5 - 6 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!

Get your class engaged with your forces and motion topic from the very start with this exciting outdoor science scavenger hunt activity. It’s also a fantastic way to assess what your class already know or have learnt during the forces and motion topic. It’s a hassle free resource with minimum prep, designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles. This pack contains 10 challenge task cards that cover the following areas: Air resistance Gravity Floating and sinking Friction Magnetism 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 8 x Differentiated Answer Sheets For The Children To Complete 10 x Challenge Task Cards Top Tip: Laminate your cards so they can be used time and time again! Resources needed for cards: 1 - Leaves 2 - A4 and A3 paper 3 - Sticks 4 - Magnets 5 - Toy car 6 - Bucket of water 7 - Tennis ball & similar sized plastic ball 8 - Football / basketball 9 - Bin bag / similar 10 - Tennis ball & similar sized plastic ball 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 math board game is a great way for students to practise mental multiplication for tables 2 - 10 without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with multiplication problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their multiplications. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends. Contents: Board 2 - 10 Times table cards Check Out Our Other Board Games: Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals Elapsed Time Long Multiplication Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000 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!

Get your class engaged with your shape, space, and measure topic from the very start with this exciting outdoor math scavenger hunt activity for grades 3 and 4. It’s also a fantastic way to assess what your class already know or have learnt during the topic. It’s a hassle free resource with minimum prep, designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles. This pack contains 20 differentiated task cards that cover the following areas: 2d shape 3d shape Angles Area and perimeter Measuring & conversions -Symmetry 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 20 x 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!

Get your class engaged with your living things topic from the very start with this exciting outdoor science scavenger hunt activity. It’s also a fantastic way to assess what your class already know or have learnt during the living things topic. It’s a hassle free resource with minimum prep, designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles. This pack contains 10 challenge task cards that cover the following areas: Camouflage Food Chains Habitats Identification / Classification Observation Skills The Human Body 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 8 x Differentiated Answer Sheets For The Children To Complete 10 x Challenge Task Cards Top Tip: Laminate your cards so they can be used time and time again! Check out our Outdoor Science Bundle 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!

Get your little ones counting outdoors with this fun Christmas themed number recognition activity where they will find the correct amount of items before filling covering the squares on the activity sheets. This is a great activity for those early mathematicians that are working on simple number recognition and counting from 1 to 10. 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!

Woodland tracker is a great way to investigate which animals are sneaking around in your outdoor space or local woodland. It’s a great activity if you’re looking at observation skills or habitats and can be differentiated for all age ranges. For this practical science investigation students will mark out an area using sand or fine soil and leave it overnight before returning to see if they can spot and identify any animal tracks that have been left behind. This can be done as a one off investigation or as an ongoing project where you could introduce different variables such as location, season or food. Contents: Teacher’s Guide 2 x Match The Tracks activity sheet and answers(US & British animals) 2 x Investigation Method worksheets 3 x Results Table 4 x Investigation Question Cards 2 x Evaluation Question Sheets To further differentiate this activity, get students to carry it out multiple times choosing something to change. They can complete the investigation method sheet and questions to help guide them through this. 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.

The students have been trapped in a magic classroom by a mischievous wizard who has hidden the key to unlock the door in a series of algebraic equations. They must work together to solve the equations and find the key before time runs out! This escape room is a great end to your algebra topic or perfect start to see what they already know! This resource has 8 clue cards each with an algebra equation they must solve. This resource comes with two sets of 8 clue cards. The green ones are slightly easier and the blue ones are a little trickier. Contents: Teacher Guide 2 Sets of 8 Clue Cards (green = easier & blue = more complex) Answer Sheet Congratulation Card Check out our Algebra 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!

Imagine if insects had a social media platform… well now they do! Your class will think like an insect and create a ‘bugbook’ page for their chosen insect. This is a great cross-curricular activity that will firstly get students looking at the features, habitats, and characteristics of insects in their outdoor space as well as practicing their non-fiction writing and research skills. It’s great when looking at description writing and non-fiction texts. You can also use this as a base to talk about internet safety using the question prompts provided. PSHE, science, and literacy all in one! Teaching Structure: Explain to your students that insects are getting social and love the new bugbook social media site. It’s their job to observe and research a chosen insect and make a bugbook profile for it. Share the example with them as a starting point to showcase the kind of things they may include. Get students to head outside, choose an insect they’d like to create a profile for and spend some time observing it, filling in as much of the research sheet as possible. They can then compete the sheet using the internet to research. Once the research sheet is complete they can create the insect’s profile using the templates provided. **Internet Safety: **Once they’ve completed their profiles, you can use the 10 internet safety question prompts to have a discussion with your class about the importance of being safe online. This could be done in small groups where each station is a different point outdoors. 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 coordinate activity pack contains two different sets of activities and is designed to help children master coordinates in a fun and engaging way. One of the activities contains 8 differentiated (4 quadrant and 1 quadrant) worksheets where the children need to crack the code by finding the hidden animal name in the coordinates gird. The second is an outdoor activity where the children must hide words that make up a secret message at the correct coordinates around your school. This activity was a real hit with my class and now they do it for fun! It is also great for improving map reading skills. Contents - 8 differentiated ‘Hidden Animal’ worksheets - 2 differentiated worksheets for the outdoor activity with a ‘How To Use’ explanation sheet ------------------------

These space, shape, and measure task cards are perfect for your children to learn about measuring items accurately, perimeter and area, types of triangle, and types of angle. They are designed to be used outside in a variety of fun and interactive ways. Aimed at grades 3-4, however it is suitable for other age ranges. Contents: - 20 x Measurement Task Cards - 8 x Shape Task Cards - 3 x Answer / Question Sheets Possible ways to use the cards: Task Card Race: Place all of the cards in a pile and get the children to take and complete one at a time. See how many they can complete in a given time. Task Card Hunt: Stick the task cards up in various places around your grounds. The children must first hunt out the cards and then complete them. You could time how many they can find and complete in a given time. Photos: Integrate ICT into your lesson. Get the children to complete the task cards and record their evidence by taking a photo. Answer sheets: If you would rather the children record their evidence they can go around with the answer / question sheet completing the tasks. Get your learning in the best classroom of all. The Outdoors! 20 Measurement Task Cards Are Included ------------------------

This poetry scrapbook is the perfect way to get your class exploring the outdoors while letting their creative juices flow in the form of poetry. They each get their own personal scrapbook where they are required to think about what language they can use to describe specific things before putting their thoughts into a poem. This scrapbook gives the children the opportunity to write acrostic, quatrain, and couplet poems along with another, which they can choose. I have used this pack with great success in spring and summer where we would spend Friday afternoons going out to write poetry, however I am excited to have a go at it in winter too! It is very therapeutic for both the children and the teacher. Contents: - Scrapbook cover - Blank scrapbook cover (where they can draw their own) - ‘Beautiful Birds’ language ideas - ‘Beautiful Birds’ acrostic poem sheet - ‘Magical Mini-Beasts’ language ideas - ‘Magical Mini-Beats’ quatrain poem sheet (aabb rhyming pattern) - ‘Vibrant Views’ language ideas - ‘Vibrant Views’ quatrain poem sheet (abab rhyming pattern) - ‘Wonderful Weather’ language ideas - ‘Wonderful Weather’ couplet poem sheet - Free poem sheet (the children choose the form and subject for their poem) -----------------------------------

A 53 slide interactive PowerPoint and quiz on figurative language that looks at similes, metaphors, personification, and alliteration. Perfect for a lesson introduction or recap. TOP TIP: Make the quiz interactive by getting the children to write their answers on whiteboards. Contents - Slides 1 - 4: Introduction - Slides 5 - 10: Similes - Slides 11 - 15: Metaphors - Slides 16 - 19: Alliteration - Slides 20 - 23: Personification - Slides 24 - 52: Quiz - Slide 53: Conclusion ------------------------ If you like this resources, please give us a good rating! Thank you! Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This Science (Keeping Healthy) QR code activity is perfect for introducing the topic of ‘Keeping Healthy’ or as a friendly reminder about how to live a healthy lifestyle. You will be amazed at how much they can learn about keeping healthy in a short amount of time! This activity works best in the outdoors. Hide the QR codes around your outdoor area and then give the children the answer sheet and the I-pads. They must go around, find the answers, and complete the answer sheet. If you are using the QR codes, you will need a QR scanner, which you can download free from the app store. Alternatively you can print the cards two sided (with the answers on the back) if you do not have the technology available. I find it works really well if you get the children to do the QR quiz, and then a week later give them the same questions to see what they have remembered. Contents: - 16 QR Quiz Cards - 16 Cards with answers that you can print on the back of the question cards - 1 answer sheet We hope you have as much fun as our class did! ------------------------ 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 adjectives to improve their writing. There are 24 simile cards with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the adjective. This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class. Content - 1 x Instruction Sheet - 24 x Adjective 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 adjectives effectively in their writing! ----------------------------------- Have fun!

This QR code quiz is perfect for introducing the topic of ‘States of Matter’ or as a refresher lesson for years 3 - 6. It covers a variety of questions on solids, liquids, and gases. You will be amazed at how much they can learn about states of matter in a short amount of time! This activity works best in the outdoors. Hide the QR codes around your outdoor area and then give the children the answer sheet and the I-pads. They must go around, find the answers, and complete the answer sheet. If you are using the QR codes, you will need a QR scanner, which you can download free from the app store. Alternatively you can print the cards two sided (with the answers on the back) if you do not have the technology available. I find it works really well if you get the children to do the QR quiz, and then a week later give them the same questions to see what they have remembered. Contents: - 16 QR Quiz Cards - 16 Cards with answers that you can print on the back of the question cards - 1 answer sheet We hope you have as much fun as our class did!