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Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.

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Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.
Plant life cycle foldable sequencing activities (sunflower, bean, pumpkin, apple)
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Plant life cycle foldable sequencing activities (sunflower, bean, pumpkin, apple)

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These foldable crafts are ideal for science work books, and to support life cycle, growth, plants or seasonal changes units/lessons. This resource contains PDF templates for 4 different plants - pumpkin, apple, bean plant and sunflower. For each plant you’ll find at least 2 options (e.g. pupils colour, cut and fold the template, or sequence the life cycle stages before cutting and folding). Please note, the templates are not editable. Instructions for students are provided including guidance for how to fold.
Year 6 evolution and inheritance PowerPoint bundle
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Year 6 evolution and inheritance PowerPoint bundle

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A set of science PowerPoint to complement evolution and inheritance in year 6. There are 4 resources in this bundle: Insect adaptations PowerPoint. Discover the wonderful world of insect adaptations with this 22 slide presentation. This resource gives pupils the opportunity to identify adaptations on a variety of insects from around the world including the atlas moth, hissing cockroach, thorn bug and stag beetle. At the end, pupils are set the challenge of designing their own insect for a named habitat, outlining its adaptations to survive there. Who was Charles Darwin PowerPoint A 20 slide presentation covering information about Darwin’s early life, Beagle voyage and theory of natural selection. Mary Anning PowerPoint Introduce your class to this remarkable British paleontologist with this 15 slide presentation detailing her life and major discoveries including ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and winged reptiles! What can fossils tell us? How can a chipped tooth reveal what a giant shark ate? Why are mammoth teeth found in the North Sea? Find out how fossils can unlock the secrets of ancient creatures with this informative 25 slide presentation. Full of high quality images and questions to get your pupils thinking about what fossils can and can’t tell us about the past. Inheritance PowerPoint and monster activity 26 slide PowerPoint presentation ntroducing inheritance and inherited characteristics. Printable monster activity. Pupils meet the 3-eyed monsters and draw what their offspring might look like, with a focus on inherited physical traits. Please note, it is not possible to edit the text or images in these resources.
Summer life cycle foldable sequencing activities butterfly honeybee turtle watermelon
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Summer life cycle foldable sequencing activities butterfly honeybee turtle watermelon

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Looking for life cycle activities that are a bit different from a standard worksheet? Your kids will love these fun and engaging foldable activities. This printable resource covers 4 summer-themed life cycles: a sea turtle, watermelon, butterfly, and honey bee. The finished foldouts look great in an interactive science notebook. For each animal/plant, the templates are differentiated so you can choose the ones that best suit your learners. Each gives opportunities for pupils to sequence the life cycle stages, glue, cut, and fold. Some templates show the stages with pictures and a single word, others use descriptions. Instructions for students are provided as well as a picture guide showing how to fold their template.
Amazon rainforest foldout lapbook project
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Amazon rainforest foldout lapbook project

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Do you need a fun and hands-on way for your students to organise their research and learning around the Amazon rainforest? This interactive printable lapbook is full of templates to help children explore the animals, plants, and features of the Amazon. Use this resource over several lessons to support science and geography at upper KS1 or lower KS2. The individual components can be used as centres, for homework, or as a consolidation of a habitats or Amazon rainforest topic. There is no set way to present the lapbook - just choose the components you want to use based on the size of the card/folder you are using to make it, and the options available. This resource contains: Cover page, plus smaller ‘Amazon Rainforest’ title labels. Layers of the rainforest flipbook with cut and stick, or fill in the description options. Plants and animals of the rainforest activities (either fill in fact cards to place in pockets, or make a petal foldout of Amazon plants). Rainforest geography flipbook - children write about the location, climate, and features of the rainforest. Anaconda food chain foldable sequencing activity. Blue morpho butterfly life cycle foldable sequencing activity. Lift the flap writing prompts. Assembly notes with photos. Teacher notes. Please note, there will be an element of basic research required for some of the activities. Research notes and links are not provided. US and UK paper sizes are provided. This resource is 30 pages.
Summer life cycle foldable sequencing activities tomato plant sunflower dragonfly ladybird
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Summer life cycle foldable sequencing activities tomato plant sunflower dragonfly ladybird

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Looking for life cycle activities that are a bit different from a standard worksheet? Your kids will love these fun and engaging foldable activities. This printable resource covers 4 summer-themed life cycles: A sunflower, tomato plant, ladybird, and dragonfly. The finished foldouts look great in an interactive science notebook. For each insect/plant, the templates are differentiated so you can choose the ones that best suit your learners. Each gives opportunities for pupils to sequence the life cycle stages, glue, cut, and fold. Some templates show the stages with pictures and a single word, others use descriptions. Instructions for students are provided as well as a picture guide showing how to fold their template.
Science Classroom Displays KS1 Minibeasts Materials Plants and Weather
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Science Classroom Displays KS1 Minibeasts Materials Plants and Weather

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4 colourful packs of display materials for KS1 classrooms. This bundle includes: Materials Display 9 A4, full colour posters showing examples of everyday materials (glass, wood, metal, fabric, wool, plastic, ceramic, leather and paper). 12 descriptive words to add to your display if required (presented 3 to a page, to be cut out and mounted) 5 A4 posters with simple questions about the use of materials (e.g. Which material would be best for a superhero’s cape?). Title over 2 A4 pages, to cut out and join together. Minibeasts Display ‘Minibeasts’ title over 2 pages. Print, trim, and join. Real photo posters of minibeasts that live in a pond, on plants, and in/on the soil. These are included with and without a coloured background. For posters with a white background, trim, and mount on coloured paper. Magnfiers with insect examples (x9). Print and cut out individually. 2 life cycle posters (dragonfly and butterfly) ‘Parts of an insect’ and ‘parts of a spider’ posters ‘What is a minibeast’ poster 6 minibeast fact posters (included in 2 sizes) Plants Display Title lettering - P,L,A,N,T,S with leaf design. Print onto A4, cut and mount. 9 A4 posters showing photographs of the parts of a plant (leaves, flowers, seeds, stem, roots, trunk, branches, fruit, buds). Additional display printables - deciduous trees, evergreen trees, why plants are awesome and what do plants need. These are designed either to print on A4 and mount, or to print, cut and mount. Weather Display A4 weather chart and weather labels 9 bright and colourful A4 posters of different weather (sun, rain, wind, snow, hail, frost, fog, clouds, hail). 5 A4 printables with question prompts for children. Title (over 2 pages to trim and join together)
Woodland habitat animal and plant life cycles - hedgehog, owl, oak tree, stag beetle
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Woodland habitat animal and plant life cycles - hedgehog, owl, oak tree, stag beetle

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Explore the life cycles of woodland wildlife with these foldable sequencing activities. In this science resource, you’ll find life cycle foldouts for a hedgehog, barn owl, oak tree and stag beetle (mammal, bird, plant and insect). The differentiated templates allow pupils to sequence with 4 or 6 stages. There are also options to use simple words or descriptions of the stages. This makes the activity suitable for upper KS1, as well as KS2. What you need: Just print the templates you need on A4 paper. You’ll also need coloured pencils (different shades of brown as useful), as well as scissors and glue. The finished foldouts can be glued into a notebook, used for display, or taken home to show off to parents! The templates are not editable. UK and US versions included.
Rocks and fossils KS2 science bundle  including display PowerPoints and lesson activities
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Rocks and fossils KS2 science bundle including display PowerPoints and lesson activities

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Explore rocks and fossils with your KS2 class with this set of ready-to-use resources. This bundle, particularly suitable for year 3 science, contains activities, PowerPoint presentations and a rocks classroom display. Here’s what’s included: Resource 1: Rocks Classroom Display 8 rock example photos (granite, chalk, sandstone, flint, marble, pumice, limestone, slate). 3 rock type description cards (sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock, igneous rock). Cut-out letters with rock design - R, O, C, K, S A4 Rock Cycle Poster Rocks frame image file - this can be copied and pasted into other documents that you want to add to your display. Resource 2: A-Z Rocks and Fossils PowerPoint Consolidate learning on rocks and fossils with this 26 slide PowerPoint presentation. Each letter is a different themed word which will help pupils re-cap their learning, as well as introduce some new vocabulary. Questions within the presentation provide an opportunity for pupils to share their thoughts and knowledge. **Resource 3: How A Fossil is Formed Activity ** A 5 page PDF including 8 full colour pictures with the corresponding labels. Print, cut out individual pictures/labels and laminate. A 4 page PDF as above but with the labels included on the pictures for lower ability. **Resource 4: Mary Anning PowerPoint ** A look at the life and work of Dorset paleontologist Mary Anning. Resource 5: How a fossil is formed folding craft Teach the stages of fossilisation with this folding ammonite craft. Print on A4 card ready for pupils to colour and fold like a concertina. When closed, you’ll just see the large fossil ammonite but when opened, the fossilisation process will be revealed! Instructions are provided as well as some questions for discussion. Resource 6: Fossil identification activity Your class can become palaeontologists! This activity consists of 15 full colour photos of different fossils with labels to match (pictures can be printed with or without a background). Fossils include ammonites, a mosasaur tooth, megalodon tooth, shells, coral and a plesiosaur backbone. There are 2 sets of labels to choose from (1 set requiring some internet research, the other more descriptive to allow pupils to try to identify without needing to go online).
All about me foldable activity bundle for first week back to school
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All about me foldable activity bundle for first week back to school

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Get to know your pupils with these fun ‘all about me’ foldable activities. Each one is designed to be coloured, completed with words and pictures, cut, and folded. No glue required! Once folded, bring the 2 halves together to show the main images, and pull apart to reveal what’s inside! Each resource has UK and US versions. There are 4 sets in this bundle: Self-portrait foldables Children can pick the design that best matches their hairstyle. They then draw eyes, eyebrows, skin/hair colour, and lips, creating a self-portrait! The inside prompts them to add some information about themselves - name, age, favourite colours, something that makes them smile, and something they are good at. Space theme foldable activity In this set, each foldable displays a different letter so that students can complete one that matches the first letter of their name. The inner sections of the foldable have meaningful questions on an outer space theme as follows: -Captain… (children insert their name here) -Age -Things I love to the moon and back -I’m a star at… (for children to tell you what they are good at) -My mission is to get better at… (for children to let you know areas that they might need extra help and support). Dinosaur themed foldable activity There are 26 templates, each with a different scaly letter of the alphabet so students can use the template which displays the first letter of their name! Self-portrait (space to draw their features on the blank face). My dinosaur name (students add their first name in the space to create a dino name). Age. Things I think are RAWR-some (a space for favorite things). My 3 favorite colours (colour the bones). I’m EGG-cellent at (space to write about/draw their strengths). Stomp, stomp, I like to chomp (favourite foods). I’d LAVA to get better at… (what do they want to work on/improve during this next year). Vertical foldable activity A single design with the following questions inside: -Name -Age -Left/right handed -A place I’d like to visit -3 words to describe me -Things that make me smile -I want to learn more about… -If I were an animal I’d be a… -Something important to me.