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We provide a wide range of high quality primary resources to enhance learning opportunities and save teacher's time! They have been trialled in school before publishing to test how effective they are. We are delighted with the results and hope you will be too!
A range of different activities exploring the life and work of Zhang Heng. Zhang Heng was a Chinese inventor and Scientist. He invented the first seismograph and developed a calendar based on the stars. He identified the Earth was spinning, the North Pole, South Pole and equater as well as longitude and latitude. He first suggested the moon was not a light source but reflected the sun’s light,
Perfect for studying light in Science, earthquakes in Geography, Chinese history or the achievements of important Scientists.
Can be used at upper KS2 or lower KS3 level.
Included:
3 page written overview of his life and achievements.
Reading comprehension questions and answers
True or false statements to discuss and sort
Factfile worksheet or planning sheet for report writing
Wordsearch
colouring in page/ title page
Part of the ‘This is the life of…’ series. Other resources include
William Beaumont & Alexis St Martin,
Charles Drew
Hasan Ibn al-Haytham
Hedy Lamarr
Why not buy the bundle and be able to inspire your children to a range of fully diverse scientists?
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-this-is-the-story-of-bundle-1-hedy-lamarr-charles-drew-hasan-al-haytham-zhang-heng-and-william-beaumont-12724225
Digestive, digestive, digestive system
So many parts and we’re going to list them.
First is the nose and when it gets going,
Juices are produced and they start flowing
Try something new to teach the digestive system with this fun and lively rhyming story. The story will take you through each part of the digestive system and how they break down and absorb food.
To accompany this story, there are a page of physical activities you can do with your class as well as a range of different worksheets.
Part of the Rhyming Science series. Other titles include:
The Rock Cycle
The world of electricity
Have you ever wondered how London would have changed if the Gunpowder plot had been successful? Did you know the queen still has the cellars of Westminster checked by a guard before she arrives?
A range of fact-filled Bonfire Night themed resources for years 2 - 4. Great opportunities to create a class display. Resources include 3 chatterbox templates, two reading comprehensions, a lesson to create a wonderful fire poetry display and 2 themed word searches.
A range of seasonal themed reading comprehensions suitable for year 2-4. All differentiated for a wide range of reading abilities. A fun way to introduce some fascinating facts and develop retrieval, inference and deduction skills. Many open questions to enable for class discussion in the plenary and some questions relating to grammar and word choice.
A range of Literacy topics covered through 13 interactive pdf activities. Children can complete the activities using a kindle, ipad or laptop from home or school. A great resource to add to a google classrooms lesson or as a homelearning/ home work activity.
Topics covered include:
describing
story writing
connectives
reading comprehension
Please ensure you have an adobe reader to access the files. If you are unsure, then please try downloading this free resources to see if you can use the interactive elements:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks1-interactive-pdf-types-of-sentences-12482721
If you have found these activities useful and have more ideas of worksheets you would like to use please add them to the comments below and I will try to make them.
There once lived a rock all crumbled and grey,
Who started to cry “How did I get this way?”
And the sun replied “I’m a little bit older,
I remember you when you were just a boulder
and I know how you came to be
So just listen up and soon you’ll see…”
Try something new to teach the rock cycle with this fun and lively rhyming story. The story will take you through each type of rock and how they were formed using lots of scientific vocabulary.
To accompany this story, are 4 examples of physical activities you can do with you class as well as a range of different worksheets.
Part of the Rhyming Science series. Other titles include:
digestive digestive digestive system
The world of electricity
Running through the alphabet to revise handwriting. Children can copy into their books from the board or print out and they can copy onto the page. Good for morning work, extra home learning or as practise of key letters.
Inspire innovation this Science week with this scaffolded ‘Design your own app’ activity.
This booklet will take the children through five stages of design to allow them to design an app to solve a problem they have considered.
Differentiated word searches for all the class to access. Two word searches explore key Christmas words and two word searches introduce Christmas related adjectives. An excellent way to practise seasonal spellings or as a class treat.
Also check out these Christmassy resources:
Build a Christmas super sentence:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11449268
Explore facts about Christmas animals:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11449191
Christmas Reading Comprehension:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11449074
An Easter and spring word search differentiated to allow all the class to access. A fun way to introduce key language and practise spelling the words or as a finishing activity at the end of term.
Check out these other Easter resources:
Anagram Egg hunt
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11473017
Spring Chatterbox
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11473120
Spring Reading Comprehension
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11473213
An interactive PDF file exploring the different types of sentences. Perfect for using on ipads, kindles and laptops. A great set activity to add to a google classrooms lesson or as a homelearning/ homework activity.
Please ensure you have an adobe reader to access the interactive elements of the activity.
Get the children decorating your class with these Christmas paper chains. They will be amazed at how long they can make one as whole class one it if they all work together. Alternatively they can make their own individual ones as a Christmas treat. A great opportunity to teach repeated patterns. Add numbers to the pictures and children can explain the number sequence on the inside. Enjoy!
Also check out these seasonal resources:
Build a super Christmas sentence
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11449268
Christmas Reading story:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11449074
Christmas Chatterboxes:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11449139
Explore the key vocabulary about Bonfire night with this differentiated wordsearch. Use this at the start of the lesson to see what children already know about these words or at the end to sum up the learning on this subject.
Two wordsearches available; one about the story of Bonfire Night and one exploring adjectives to describe the celebration.
Also check out these resources about Bonfire Night:
Reading comprehension https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11747711
Bonfire Night Chatterbox https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11741990
A range of colourful writing paper to give children a themed page to write on. Great for editing and improving into ‘best’ and then adding to a class display.
A set of eggs to print off and hide around your classroom/school. In teams children find as many as they can. A reward can be offered to the team who finds the most amount. 6 eggs are ready to print in colour, 6 can be coloured in by the children prior to the hunt and a further 6 are empty for children to draw and colour. Enjoy your hunt!
For an education hunt, check out these resources:
Year 2 maths egg hunt:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11473052
Anagrams hunt:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11473017
Interesting words hunt:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11473044