We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
A scaling activity your children are sure to love. This pack contains a selection of worksheets along with a main outdoor learning activity where they have to scale a picture up to draw real sized animals. This allows them to put into practice lots of different mathematical skills while being amazed at the size of some of the animals.
Skills it focuses on:
- Scaling
- Measuring
- Timetables
- Accurate Drawing
Contents:
- 2 x differentiated worksheets where they scale up a simple shape into a grid
- 1 x worksheet where they draw a simple image and scale it up into a grid and then onto the playground
- 5 x animal scaling activity sheets where they must scale up the animals to their real size
Get your children outside, engaged, and learning!
This math board game is a great way for students to practise multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with differentiated multiplication and division problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to teach addition.
Contents:
Diff. 1: Whole numbers
Diff. 2: Larger whole numbers
Diff. 3: Includes decimals
Diff. 4: Includes decimals (more challenging)
Check out our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
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This microorganisms visual word search is a great way to reinforce or introduce your topics key vocabulary. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! Your class will learn the key terms in no time with the help of our fun visuals and word search.
**Key Terms: **
Algae
Archaea
Bacteria
Decay
Fungi
Germ
Hygiene
Microorganism
Mold
Protozoa
Vaccination
Viruses
A color and black and white copy are included in this pack as well as a definitions sheet.
**Check our our other science word searches: **
- Animal Adaptations
- Animal Classification
- Forces and Motion
- Food Chains
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise long multiplication without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with differentiated long multiplication problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to teach multiplication.
Contents:
Diff. 1: 1 digit x 2 digit numbers
Diff. 2: 1 digit x 3 digit numbers
Diff. 3: 2 digit x 2 digit numbers
Diff. 4: 2 digit x 3 digit numbers
Check out our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
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Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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Inventing an outdoor game is a great way for your class to develop their instruction writing skills as part of your non-fiction topic. They’ll first look at an example set of instructions in the form of a memory game, studying the different features of instruction writing before planning and writing a set of instructions for their own game that they can test out on their friends.
**Contents: **
Teacher Guide
Instruction Writing Checklist
Instruction Example (Memory Game)
Differentiated Mind maps
Differentiated Writing Templates
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Be it measuring, converting cm to m, data handling, estimation, graphing, or science, this outdoor math activity has it all. Your students will use a practical technique to measure and record the height of trees around your outdoor space before compiling their results into a chart that could be used for further investigation.
It’s useful for students to have access to books / the internet for this activity to help them identify the trees.
**Contents: **
Instruction sheets
Differentiated record sheets
Differentiated bar chart sheets
Questions sheet
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This foldable activity consists of 2 cootie catchers (or fortune tellers) for learning or revising the water cycle key terms. The children must try to figure out which part of the water cycle is being described. It’s a great way to have students review their knowledge and not even realise that they’re learning! They’ll be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack contains two Cootie Catchers, each with a second copy included if you would like your students to write their own definitions for each key term themselves. There are visuals included to meet different learning styles.
Key Terms included:
- Water Cycle
- Condensation
- Transpiration
- Groundwater
- Cloud
- Evaporation
- Surface Runoff
- Water Vapor
- Precipitation
- Humidity
- Dew Point
- Perspiration
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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Check out our other science cootie catchers:
The Rock Cycle
Plant Structure
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Teach your children about electricity through our Electricity Task Cards. This is a fantastic hands on activity that will teach your children to construct series and parallel circuits. They will love creating the circuits from the differentiated task cards.
This can be done using electrical components or our symbol cards provided.
Contents:
- x 14 Electricity circuit diagram cards
- Electrical components symbol cards
We hope you enjoy!
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Metaphor acting is a great addition to your figurative language topic which will encourage your students to think about and use metaphors in their descriptive writing.
This resource contains 20 game cards each with a different metaphor.
How to play:
Get a student to come to the front of the class and choose a game card at random. They must act out the metaphor for the rest of the class to guess. This game can also be done in small groups.
On each card there are acting clues to help if needed. If the students are finding it difficult to guess you can give them part of the metaphor to help.
Check out Similes Acting Game.
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This Lord’s Prayer (Our Father) visual word search is a great way to reinforce or introduce your key vocabulary for your Catholic prayers and help students learn the key terms. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! This activity is perfect for distance learning.
Key Vocabulary:
Bread
Forgive
God
Heaven
Jesus
Kingdom
Pray
Temptation
Trespasses
Check out our Hail Mary word search.
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This activity gets your students looking at fact families through the very popular bar model. This pack contains 8 differentiated sheets where they must use the bar model to help them complete the blank boxes to make the fact family by finding the appropriate additions and subtractions. The sheets contains bonds to 20, 30, 50 and 100 with the bonds both complete and incomplete.
It’s perfect for halloween, if you have a monster topic, or just like the fun graphics!
The bar model is a great visual way for students to visualise the problem.
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A set of NO PREP differentiated practise questions and word problems using the bar model focussing on addition and subtraction for years 5 - 6. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack will guide your children through the idea while giving them loads of practise at using it with and without word problems.
Contents
- 2 Sets of differentiated practise questions with challenge word problems
- 3 Sets of differentiated word problems
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Check out our Bar Model resources for other ages
Years 1 - 2
Years 3 - 4
Years 5 - 6
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This activity is perfect for your sustainability topic as students will look into what we do that has both positive and negative effects on the environment and our planet. This pack contains a worksheet with three levels of differentiation where they’ll look at items / actions and decide whether or not they have a positive or negatives effect on the environment.
**Diff. 1: **Students will cut and stick objects / actions into the correct column.
**Diff. 2: **Students will cut and stick a wider variety of objects / actions into the correct column.
**Diff. 3: **Students must decide whether or not the object / action has a positive or negative effect and explain their reasoning.
Black and white copies are also included.
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This outdoor ‘facts and opinions’ activity is great as a starter or main activity for your non-fiction texts lesson. It will encourage them to think carefully about the differences between facts and opinions as they produce their own statements with about your outdoor area.
Students will go to your outdoor area (this can also be done inside) and complete the table by writing facts in the left column and opinions in the right column about the area you are using. This activity is great when done both in pairs and individually.
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This fun and entertaining activity (for both the teacher and children!) is played like charades. It is an exciting and a practical way for children to learn that adverbs modify verbs.
There are 30 adverb cards (mostly of manner ending in 'ly') with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the adverb.
This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class.
Contents:
- 4 x Box Decorations
- 30 x Adverb Cards
- 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets
My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it!
Playground Battleships is a great way to learn about, or recap finding coordinates on a one quadrant grid.
In pairs your class will play a large scale version of Battleships by drawing a grid using chalk and then using natural objects or chalk to keep track of when and where their ships have been hit.
Resources needed:
Chalk
Natural objects (stones, sticks, leaves, etc.) – optional
Resource sheet
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A big set of literacy games that are perfect for a mid lesson brain break or as some fun lesson starters to get your classes minds in gear! Each game is designed to help improve literacy skills, from reading to spelling and writing, they have it all!
Contents
- Slides 1 – 15: The Riddle Challenge
- Slides 16 – 34: Amazing Anagrams
- Slides 35 – 41: Describe The Picture
- Slides 42 – 47: The Persuasion Game
- Slides 48 – 55: The Alphabet Game
- Slides 56 – 60: Compare And Contrast
- Slides 61 – 66: Complete The Sentence
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This activity is all about students exploring the properties of different materials in the outdoors. This lesson can be done anywhere, from the beach to your garden.
If access to the outdoors is limited you can easily adapt it to be done inside. For this activity students will find items matching the properties on the sheet and record what they’ve found by either writing or drawing.
Encourage students to think carefully about their decisions. What makes something heavy? Would that be heavy for a giant?
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A set of entertaining NO PREP long multiplication puzzles for your students to practice one, two, and three digit numbers. Each differentiated puzzle has a complete set and a muddled puzzle set. I have used these to great success over the last few months. My children have loved them as a way to reinforce or learn long multiplication.
This pack includes puzzles for:
- 1 digit x 2 or 3 digit
- 2 digit x 2 or 1 digit
- 3 digit x 3 or 2 digit
Check out our other Math Tarsia Puzzles
Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, and 1000
Fractions of Numbers
Equivalent Fractions
Times Tables Tarsia Puzzle Activity
Number Bond Tarsia Puzzles: 100, 500, and 1000
Measurement Conversion Tarsia Puzzles: MM, CM, and Meters
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For this investigation students will take a close look at soil and the different properties of three samples that they will collect. They will investigate and compare / contrast how each soil sample reacts when it is covered in water, thinking of reasons as to why the water acts differently for each sample (structure, particle size, etc.).
Your class will first go to collect three different soil samples in their jars and bring them back to the classroom to take a closer look and complete the sample sheet. They will then pour an agreed amount of water onto each sample (one at a time) and observe what happens, recording their observations on the experiment sheet.
This experiment is best done in pairs or small groups.
Each pair / group will need:
Resource sheets
3 jars
Shovel / trowel
Measuring jug
Water
Magnifying glass / microscope (optional)
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