Two lessons on the three states.
Lesson One: Three States- a revision of Solids and Liquids, and an Introduction to Gases, including Activities, Resource Sheets and Teacher’s Notes.
Lesson Two: It Gets Everywhere- a lesson on air spaces and bubbles, including Activities, Resource Sheets and Teacher’s Notes.
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Learning Outside the Classroom from LCP is a cross curricular resource providing teachers with fun outdoor activities and great ideas to engage KS2 (years 3, 4, 5 & 6) .
This free outdoor learning resource pack takes a look at some of the subjects covered in Learning Outside the Classroom. A great intro or perfect to use on their own! Download and take a look.
• Local Area as a Learning Environment
• Iron Age
• Collecting Invertebrates
Also see KS1 Learning Outside the Classroom.
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A worksheet on the Watercycle.
Written for Year 4. Taken from KS2 Geography Resources File.
Downloadable as a PDF
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The Learning Outside the Classroom resource provides teachers with fun outdoor activities and great ideas to engage KS1 and Early Years.
This free part of the outdoor learning resource takes a look at :-
• Natural Area around School and Local Area
• Health and Safety
• Natual Enviornment Case Study
Also see KS2 Learning Outside the Classroom.
Olympic activity worksheets for Upper KS2 (Years 5 and 6) pupils:-
• PE: Sport Bingo.
• PSHE: What does it take to win? Healthy Eating
• PSHE: What’s in the Shopping Basket.
A set of 3 Olympic based activity / worksheets for Year 5 and 6 (upper KS2) pupils. Activties are from LCP’s Olympic Games Resource - a complete cross curricular resource for primary teachers.
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Daily Dynamo! – the whole class resource that gives you over daily starters to challenge your pupils’ thinking and reasoning. Ideal for pre-Registration engagement in the morning, these PowerPoint slides are fully customisable by you to suit your class needs. All have clear links to ECM Objectives, and are themed so that you can choose on a daily basis which Daily Dynamo! to get your pupils powered up in the morning.
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5 Lessons including resources and lesson plans
Lesson 1: Where does water come from?
Learning objectives
Children should learn to:
• recognise the processes which make up the water
cycle;
• sequence the components of the water cycle;
• see that human uses of water are also part of the
water cycle.
Lesson 2: Where does water go?
Learning objectives
Children should learn to:
• understand what happens to rainfall when it
reaches the ground;
• undertake investigations in the field
Lesson 3: Weather around the world
Learning objectives
Children should learn to:
• investigate places;
• locate places using an atlas;
• describe what places are like in terms of weather
conditions;
• understand that different places experience
different weather/climate
Lesson 4: Where are hot and cold places found around the world?
Learning objectives
Children should learn:.
• to recognise broad global climate patterns;
• about weather and climate conditions around the
world
Lesson 5: Climate Patterns
Learning objectives
Children should learn to:
• describe the main climate patterns;
Taken from LCP’s LKS2 Geography Resource File
The LCP Primary Science Dictionary is an easy-to-use, alphabetically-arranged dictionary of scientific words, with lots of useful diagrams, photographs and illustrations. It will help students find out more about the science topics they study in class, improve their literacy skills as well as achieve a higher mark in their National Curriculum tests.
This is a really great resource aimed at primary KS1 & KS2 and is jam packed with 128 pages of scientific facts and information. A must have resource.
2 full lessons with worksheets, visual flipbook and lesson plans
1st Lesson: Air in Soil
Learning objective-
Children should learn: • that soils have air within them • to recognise whether measurements need to be repeated • to use results to compare the amount of air trapped in different soils
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • state that soils have air within them • state why measurements need to be repeated • make comparisons between samples from a set of data
Task: Ask the children to investigate which soil they think will contain the most air and why?
2nd Lesson- Gases in our Environment
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that there are a number of common gases that are useful to us in our everyday lives
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • name a number of common gases • state how a number of common gases are used
Task:The sheet provides a framework for children to research and collect information about carbon dioxide from secondary sources. Once the information has been recorded in note form, it could be displayed in a leaflet or poster.
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1 lesson with resources, flipbook and worksheet
Lesson: Shadow-Land
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that light travels in straight lines • that shadows are cast by objects which obstruct light • that the Sun casts shadows which change as each day progresses
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • explain what causes shadows • explain why shadows cast by sunlight move and change shape and size during a day
Task:The activity sheet has the cut-out parts for making a sundial. The children can mark on the dial the position of the shadow cast by the raised part at different times on the next sunny day. It will work better if you stick the sundial onto a card base
This resource includes 1 text with activities and questions. Text title:
Snakes
The cards primarily address text-level objectives for each year group and focus specifically on reading comprehension of non-fiction texts. The cards are designed to encourage talk and develop listening and speaking skills.
There is a main text on the front of each of the reading cards. The main text is followed by talk time , where there are open-ended questions, which are designed to stimulate a personal response to the issues raised and encourage children to think about the card’s theme.
The questions encourage discussion between two to six people. Talk time questions that are preceded by a require children to refer back to the text and are suitable for prompting children’s written responses. The box contains an interesting fact related to the card’s theme. This should appeal to the children’s sense of wonder and fascination for the remarkable.
The reverse side of each card carries things to do box. This contains activities and challenges that are designed to enable children to pursue the main theme still further. The activities are mainly practical in nature, so that all children can succeed, whatever their levels of literacy
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Taken from Learning Outside the Classroom: Early Years Foundation and Key Stage 1.
Includes 5 detailed Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: In this session, the children talked about why homes are important and thought about what it would be like to be homeless. I then introduced the children to a homeless woodlouse who needed us to help him fi nd a new home
Lesson 2: This session involved a walk around the local area, where the children looked at the different types of homes in which people live. This would then lead into the next session about the different homes in which animals live, which would help the children to fi nd a new home for Harry the woodlouse.
Lesson 3; In this session, we looked, in our school grounds, at the types of homes that different animals live in. The idea of the session was to gather some more ideas about the kind of home that Harry the woodlouse might like to live in
Lesson 4: In this session, we looked at ‘habitats’, as a wider term for animals’ homes, i.e. the area where an animal lives, fi nds food and moves around. We studied different habitats in the school grounds and looked at the animals which lived there. We focused particularly on minibeasts, to help us decide about the habitat we could create for Harry the woodlouse
Lesson 5: In this session, the class collected materials from outside to create their own habitat for Harry, which would be put outside afterwards for Harry and other wildlife to live in. The children used their prior learning about animal homes and habitats to decide on the important features of Harry’s new habitat.
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This resource includes 1 text with activities and questions. Text title:
Ants
The cards primarily address text-level objectives for each year group and focus specifically on reading comprehension of non-fiction texts. The cards are designed to encourage talk and develop listening and speaking skills.
There is a main text on the front of each of the reading cards. The main text is followed by talk time , where there are open-ended questions, which are designed to stimulate a personal response to the issues raised and encourage children to think about the card’s theme.
The questions encourage discussion between two to six people. Talk time questions that are preceded by a require children to refer back to the text and are suitable for prompting children’s written responses. The box contains an interesting fact related to the card’s theme. This should appeal to the children’s sense of wonder and fascination for the remarkable.
The reverse side of each card carries things to do box. This contains activities and challenges that are designed to enable children to pursue the main theme still further. The activities are mainly practical in nature, so that all children can succeed, whatever their levels of literacy
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Taken from our Year 2 Literacy Resource File
The focus is on following and producing explanatory texts. This unit is closely linked to the curriculum area of science and life cycles of plants. Children begin with an investigation into the seeds of various plants. This is followed by a reading phase about the life cycles of some of these plants. The children then link the texts with the appropriate diagrams and pull out some of the key language to help them make a glossary and understand how to write explanatory texts. Children are given the opportunity to look at more examples of explanatory texts before they begin the investigative study which they will finally write about. In groups, children follow instructions to grow potatoes. At each stage they are encouraged to observe and record the process and the results. They are encouraged to keep a diary of the investigation and to evaluate their own work as they go. At the end of the investigation, they are asked to review the process and finally to produce a presentation about the life cycle of the potato
1 What is it? • To promote interest in the topic. • To follow the stages in an explanatory text about the life cycle of a plant. • To understand what a glossary is.
2 Explanation language and features
• To focus on the form and organisational features of explanatory texts. • To widen the concept of what topics explanatory texts deal with.
3 Let’s grow potatoes
• To initiate an ongoing investigative study in order to develop and produce an explanatory text. • To read, understand and follow instructions.
4 Our potatoes• To conclude an ongoing investigative study in order to develop and produce an explanatory text. • To work collaboratively to produce a paragraph describing the end result of an investigation. • To share information
5 Presentations• To produce an explanatory text/ presentation. • To produce a suitable visual explanation of a process. • To use labels as an aid to visuals.
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Lesson 1: This activity should be used to focus on considering and analysing evidence, rather than planning an investigation. However, it can also be used before the children carry out an investigation of their own to provide them with a good structure for setting up their own tests
Lesson 1: Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• that plants need water but not unlimited water, for
healthy growth
• to use results to draw conclusions
Lesson 1: Learning outcomes
Children will be able to:
• state that plants need water to grow but too much
or too little water may kill them
• describe differences in the way the plants grew
Lesson 2: This activity is intended to support children in their understanding of how simple investigations are planned. Begin the lesson by asking the children to recall any investigations that they have done and the stages of planning that they went through.
Lesson 2: Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• to suggest how a fair test could be carried out
• that in experiments with living things, using just
one plant in each set of conditions does not give
sufficient evidence
Lesson 2: Learning outcomes
Children will be able to:
• recognise the correct order in which to undertake
a simple investigation
• describe factors that contribute to the test
being fair
• suggest why one sample may not be adequate in
each set of conditions
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Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day.
It includes all resources and hyperlinks.
Day 4 Transport includes links to Science, DT, Art, Writing, Reading and Maths.
DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly
unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites.
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Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day.
It includes all resources and hyperlinks.
Day 5 Animals includes links to DT, Art, Writing, Reading and Science.
DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly
unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites.
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The LCP Science Homework Activities are divided into three sections: Biological processes, Materials and Physical processes. There are 22 homework sheets in each section. There is also a teacher’s answer section, which provides answers to questions posed on the homework sheets and suggests the sort of responses you can expect from children.
The LCP Science Homework Activities contain 66 colourful, printable homework sheets which give your children the opportunity to practise scientific skills, encourage their curiosity and improve their understanding of science.
Each homework activity sheet is divided into two parts. The first part provides an opportunity for children to consolidate scientific skills, such as predicting, planning, observing, analysing data through tables and graphs, drawing conclusions and evaluating.
The second part of each sheet consists of practical challenges. Some are quick while others can take place over a few days. The challenges are varied, to suit different learning styles. They are also designed to be fun, in order to develop curiosity and inspire children to think and work like scientists. Because learning is always best shared, it is a good idea for children to carry out the challenges as a group; this could be with classmates or at home with a responsible adult.
This download is packed with homework sheets featuring written activities and practical challenges – all supported by a teacher’s answer section that suggests the sort of responses you should expect. All of the homework sheets are in Microsoft® Word.
Answers included!
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Encourage your child’s natural curiosity with this River Investigation.
Links to measure in Maths
Taken from the KS2 Geography Resources File. Available in PDF
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Push Me,Pull You Reviewing the effects of pushes and pulls on the movement and shape of objects
Learning objectives Children learn: • that pushes and pulls are examples of forces;
• that pushes and pulls can cause objects to move,to stop,to change shape.
Learning outcomes Children: • describe what they did using words such astwist,squeeze, stretch,pull out and classify actions as pushes or pulls,e.g.stretching is a pull,squeezing is a push.
One lesson plan with worksheets
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