Non-fiction books inspiring children to explore their natural curiosity and passion for learning. The real world is more amazing than anything you can make up!
Non-fiction books inspiring children to explore their natural curiosity and passion for learning. The real world is more amazing than anything you can make up!
An activity sheet with facts about places around the world on the June solstice plus space to draw what your solstice looks like? Or for children to imagine what the solstice is like around the world. Includes prompts to get children thinking.
The activity sheet is based on the book Solstice: Around the World on the Longest, Shortest Day by Jen Breach and 14 global artists. Here’s more about the book:
It’s June and sunshine time, but it’s also time for snowmen. How could that be? The June solstice is the longest day of the year in the north, but down south, it’s the shortest! Imagine Earth tilting like a seesaw, with the North Pole leaning towards the sun. This brings more sunshine to the north, while the south gets less.
In this book, you will join 14 fictional children in 14 real places from Antarctica to Stonehenge as they experience the June solstice. For some, it is a special day full of music, dancing, food and fun – whilst others go about their normal day.
Just open the book to begin your round-the-world solstice tour!
Wordsearch featuring animals found on the Galapagos Islands or in the sea around them.
It is based on the book Galápagos Islands: The World’s Living Laboratory by Karen Romano Young.
Far off the coast of Ecuador lies a group of volcanic islands unlike any other. Home to species as diverse as giant tortoises, salt-snorting marine iguanas, and the birds that made Charles Darwin famous, the Galápagos are a living laboratory for scientists working on the most urgent problem of our times: How can humans exist in harmony with nature on the only planet we are ever likely to have? Karen Romano Young, author of Antarctica: The Melting Continent, again takes to the field, visiting the archipelago to observe its environments first-hand and to interview the people who are lighting the way for the rest of us. Illustrator Amy Grimes brings Karen’s experience into vivid visual life for those of us who haven’t been there – yet.
A teacher guide focused on activating climate change agents in the classroom. The guide looks at tackling misinformation and helping your student gain a new understanding of global warming to become a protector of the planet in the classroom, at home, and throughout the community. The activities are split into two parts: personal choices and global progress.
Based on the book, How to Teach Grown-ups about Climate Change. A witty guide to the science behind climate change, which puts kids in charge.
Never has there been a more perfect time to empower children to take the lead and educate their grown-ups about climate change. Featuring a foreword by internationally renowned climate scientist Dr Michael E. Mann and bursting with fabulous original illustrations, this delightfully witty book deals with the pressing topic of our changing planet in an uplifting, positive manner. Interwoven amongst the more serious questions – why is Earth so special in the first place? How do we know about climate change? What causes it? How can we recognise false information? – are fun-filled facts about cow burps, woolly mammoths, panda-shaped solar panels, and much more. Crucially, this book also equips children and adults alike with the practical tools they need to tackle climate change in their everyday lives. And there’s a handy quiz at the end so that you can check your grown-up has been paying attention!
A climate change and environment focused poster which includes 10 tips that students can use to help the environment.
Based on the book, How to Teach Grown-ups about Climate Change. A witty guide to the science behind climate change, which puts kids in charge.
Never has there been a more perfect time to empower children to take the lead and educate their grown-ups about climate change. Featuring a foreword by internationally renowned climate scientist Dr Michael E. Mann and bursting with fabulous original illustrations, this delightfully witty book deals with the pressing topic of our changing planet in an uplifting, positive manner. Interwoven amongst the more serious questions – why is Earth so special in the first place? How do we know about climate change? What causes it? How can we recognise false information? – are fun-filled facts about cow burps, woolly mammoths, panda-shaped solar panels, and much more. Crucially, this book also equips children and adults alike with the practical tools they need to tackle climate change in their everyday lives. And there’s a handy quiz at the end so that you can check your grown-up has been paying attention!
A climate change and environment focused wordsearch which includes 10 hidden words/phrases as well as an answer sheet with the definitions of each word/phrase.
Based on the book, How to Teach Grown-ups about Climate Change. A witty guide to the science behind climate change, which puts kids in charge.
Never has there been a more perfect time to empower children to take the lead and educate their grown-ups about climate change. Featuring a foreword by internationally renowned climate scientist Dr Michael E. Mann and bursting with fabulous original illustrations, this delightfully witty book deals with the pressing topic of our changing planet in an uplifting, positive manner. Interwoven amongst the more serious questions – why is Earth so special in the first place? How do we know about climate change? What causes it? How can we recognise false information? – are fun-filled facts about cow burps, woolly mammoths, panda-shaped solar panels, and much more. Crucially, this book also equips children and adults alike with the practical tools they need to tackle climate change in their everyday lives. And there’s a handy quiz at the end so that you can check your grown-up has been paying attention!
True or false climate change quiz, based on the book How to Teach Grown-Ups About Climate Change.
Questions include; climate scientists are still debating whether or not climate change is driven by humans, no matter what we do temperatures will keep climbing for the next 30 or 40 years and all the melting Arctic sea ice is going to raise our sea levels.
Simple science quiz ideal for key stage two children based on the book Science Factopia! which introduces readers to 400 scientific facts.
Children need to find simple words to link each scientific fact and use each word twice to connect one fact to the next.
Evolution word search suitable for children in key stage two. Children can search for words relating to evolution including dinosaurs, fossil, predator, species and asteroid.
The word search is based on the book Evolution which encourages readers to dive into the history of life on Earth and learn what evolution is and how it works.
Quiz based on The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook .
In the book, readers will enjoy all thirty-eight histories, comedies and tragedies by William Shakespeare acted out in front of their eyes on a 6ft-long timeline featuring more than 1,000 pictures set in the iconic Globe Theatre.
Quick quick taken from the Science Timeline Wallbook.
Children can answer 10-questions all about science, with questions about rivers, hearts and the theodolite included.
Colouring sheets taken from Explorer Dinosaurs, a new Explorer series developed in partnership with the Natural History Museum.
As well as colouring images of dinosaurs including diplodocus and stegosaurus, they can learn basic facts about the giant beasts.
Colouring sheets taken from Explorer Mammals, the final book in the Explorer series, developed in partnership with the Natural History Museum.
In these sheets children can colour pictures of mammals including desmodus and dire wolf as well as learning simple facts about them.
Colouring in sheets, based on the book, Every Second.
Every second, somewhere across the globe, an aeroplane takes off and another one lands. Two people die, and four babies enter the world. 15,000 plastic bottles are produced and 1,600 are recycled. 8,000 scoops of ice cream are eaten, 200,000 text messages are sent.
Children have the opportunity to colour in four sheets focusing on trees, areoplanes, babies and ice creams.
Colouring sheets taken from Explorer Bugs, an amazing new series developed in partnership with the Natural History Museum.
Children can deepen their bug knowledge when colouring in these educational sheets.
Included are pictures of an edible spider, European honeybee and silkworm.
Colouring sheet all about plants, taken from Explorer Plants, a book developed in partnership with the Natural History Museum.
It introduces children to over 100 plants.
In the colouring sheets, children can cement their knowledge about plants as they colour in images of barley, grape vines, hemp and hemlock.
Activity sheets about the future and technology from Britannica All New Children’s Encyclopedia.
This encyclopedia takes you on a journey from the beginning of time to the present day and even into the future! It explores a wide range of topics and is divided into eight chapters by subject: Universe, Earth, Matter, Life, Humans, Ancient & Medieval Times, Modern Times and Today & Tomorrow.
In this activity pack, children can answer questions about technology and the future of the world. Examples include what was the first .com website registered, which was the world’s first full-colour daily newspaper and which is the most crowded city in the world.
They can search for words including; billionaire, endangered, inequality, internet, media and robot.
Ancient & Medieval History activities, including a quiz, crossword and wordsearch taken from Britannica All New Children’s Encyclopedia.
This encyclopedia takes you on a journey from the beginning of time to the present day and even into the future! It explores a wide range of topics and is divided into eight chapters by subject: Universe, Earth, Matter, Life, Humans, Ancient & Medieval Times, Modern Times and Today & Tomorrow.
Children can answer questions about the Akkadian Empire, Stonehenge and The Roman Empire. Ancient Gods, castle and pyramid are some of the words they can search for.
Modern history activities from Britannica All New Children’s Encyclopedia.
This encyclopedia takes you on a journey from the beginning of time to the present day and even into the future! It explores a wide range of topics and is divided into eight chapters by subject: Universe, Earth, Matter, Life, Humans, Ancient & Medieval Times, Modern Times and Today & Tomorrow.
The activity pack consists of a quiz, wordsearch and crossword and children can answer questions about European explorers, famous ships and Mughal emperors. They can also seach for words including abolition, war, communism and apartheid.
The Good Germ Hotel - Meet Your Body’s Marvellous Microbes is a book about the bacteria super heroes that live inside your body. These amazing microbes fight viruses, digest food and keep us humans healthy and happy.
The colouring sheets will show children that some germs are necessary for good health.
Britannica All New Children’s Encyclopedia - What We Know & What We Don’t.
The encyclopedia takes you on a journey from the beginning of time to the present day and even into the future! It explores a wide range of topics and is divided into eight chapters by subject: Universe, Earth, Matter, Life, Humans, Ancient & Medieval Times, Modern Times and Today & Tomorrow.
In this pack children can answer simple questions about space and universe, fill in a crossword and do a wordsearch.