KS2/KS3 Earth and Space Lesson Sequence

Make teaching Earth and Space easier with this engaging collection of printable activities, visuals, diagrams and application questions designed for KS2 and KS3 learners.

The bundle includes ready-to-use, clear worksheets with engaging tasks and challenges, the worksheets come in a printable document and follows a lesson sequence, which are fully editable allowing you to tailor the content to meet the needs of your students and their learning pace.

Ideal for secondary school teachers, tutors and home educators, looking for ready-to-use activities to support their Earth and Space lessons - with answer sheets included to save valuable marking and preparation time.

What’s Included:

The Solar System

• Planets and their order
• Understanding our Solar System and key definitions
• Application questions

Day and Night and the Seasons

• Earth’s rotation
• Why we experience day and night
• Why we have different seasons
• Earth’s movement around the Sun
• Seasonal changes
• Application questions

The Moon, Gravity and Space

• The Moon and it’s relationship with Earth
• Gravity
• Space-themed activity
• Applying knowledge to explain space-related phenomena and encourage scientific thinking

Learners can develop their knowledge through a variety of activities including: matching tasks, diagrams and visual explanations, knowledge check questions, fun, engaging activities, recall and retrieval, reading comprehensions and opportunities to explain scientific ideas. These variety of activities make the resource suitable for different learning styles and can help keep learners engaged throughout the Earth and Space topic.

Simply open, print and use along-side your Earth and Space lesson. The resource is supplied as a PowerPoint, use them flexibly in your classroom or tutoring sessions.