A highly visual and interactive PowerPoint and quiz on microorganisms that looks at bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, and algae. It’s perfect for introducing this microscopic science topic or as a quick lesson recap. Contents - Slides 1 – 4: Introduction - Slides 5 – 11: Meet The Bacteria - Slides 12 – 17: Meet The Virus - Slides 18 – 21: Meet The Fungi - Slides 22 – 27: Meet The Protists (Protozoa & Algae) - Slides 28 – 49: Microorganisms Quiz - Slide 50: Conclusion ------------------------ Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new resources and hear about upcoming sales!

This pack contains three differentiated science investigation plan templates. They are a great way to help students organize their thoughts and ideas before carrying out the investigation. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This forces and motion 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 Vocabulary: Acceleration Balanced Force Deceleration Energy Force Friction Gravity Joule Kinetic Energy Mass Momentum Motion Newton Potential Energy Velocity Weight Check out our other science word searches: - Animal Adaptations Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new resources and hear about upcoming sales!

This PowerPoint is the perfect fun and interactive introduction or recap for your electricity topic. It will teach your children general information about electricity, energy types, circuit symbols, and complete circuits. Contents: - Slides 1 – 8: Introduction - Slides 9 – 30: Game 1 (What type of energy) - Slides 31 – 45: Game 2 (Know your symbols) - Slides 46 – 48: Circuits With thanks from Saving The Teachers.

Energy is all around us, inside and out, as your class will find out with this fun and practical lesson. This activity is a great introduction or recap for your ‘forms of energy’ topic as students will go on a hunt to see how many different forms of energy they can spot. Teaching Structure: Get your students to run on the spot, do star jumps, push ups etc. (tire them out!). Explain that in order to do this they need energy, however energy can come in lots of different forms. There are lots of good videos on youtube that you can watch to help introduce this topic. Definitions sheet: Get the students to complete the definitions sheet (or use the pre-populated one) so they have a good understanding as to what the different forms of energy are. They can take this with them to help with the main activity. Record Sheet (differentiated): In pairs, get students to walk around (inside and out) for 15 – 20 minutes recording down the different forms of energy they can spot. Class discussion: Once the students have seen which kinds of energy they could spot, discuss their findings as a class or in small groups. This activity can be great in all sorts of weather! Don’t be afraid for them to waterproof up and head outside! Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

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! From Saving The Teachers

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! ------------------------ Check out our other science cootie catchers: The Rock Cycle Plant Structure ------------------------

Science Murder Mysteries are great fun for both you and the students. For this mystery students will use their knowledge of materials and their properties as well as their states of matter knowledge to investigate who poisoned Andrew Smith. They’ll look at the 5 suspects poisons both using their eyes and under a microscope and compare the poisons to the one found at the crime scene. They’ll have to figure out how to separate the substances in the water (salt, sugar, etc.) to take a closer look and make their comparisons to figure out which suspect to put in jail! Contents: Teacher’s Guide Bottle Labels The Crime Brief Investigation sheet part 1 Investigation sheet part 2 Conclusion questions Equipment needed: Resource pack 6 plastic bottles per group Petri dishes Pipet Microscope (or magnifying glasses if not available) Salt, sugar, & coffee Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new resources and hear about upcoming sales!

This STEM activity is all about the negative effects that plastic pollution in our oceans is having on humans and the environment. Students will be challenged to design and create their very own invention to help save our ocean plastic crisis. Contents: Teacher Guide Invention Example Differentiated Design Sheets Differentiated Final Idea Pan Differentiated Evaluation Questions Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

These fun, engaging, and practical activities on camouflage and mimicry are the perfect compliment to your science curriculum for Grades 2 - 4. They will get the children thinking creatively about how animals have adapted their looks to survive in different habitats. Contents: 1 x ‘Spot The Camouflage’ - Go outside on the hunt for camouflaged animals. 2 x ‘Masters of Disguise’’ - Find the hidden animals in the photos and explain how they are camouflaged. 3 x ‘Camouflage This Bug’ - Color in the bug to camouflage it against the background. 2 x ‘My Invisible Animal’ - Cut out the animal and think of somewhere to hide it. Colour it in to make it camouflage and see if another member of the class can find it. ------------------------ Have fun!

Pairs cards are great fun to reinforce topic knowledge and skills and can be used in loads of exciting ways. This set of 12 electricity pairs covers all of the common symbols for your electricity topic. There is also a cut and stick version with all of the cards on the same page. Electricity symbols included: bulb wire cell buzzer open switch closed switch resistor ammeter voltmeter fuse motor battery / 2-cell This no prep resource is perfect for a filler or extension activity for years 3 - 5. The worksheet could also be sent home for distance learning. We love hiding the pairs in our outdoor space and getting the students to go on an electricity symbol pairs hunt! Get imaginative and see how many different ways you can use these cards. Be sure to check out our Big Electricity Bundle full of fun and interactive activities. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This outdoor animal habitat activity will require your class to get outside and hunt out habitats based on the information from the animal fact cards. It is the perfect way to get your children thinking about how different animals live in different habitats according to their needs. We find his is a great way to introduce the topic, however it can also be a great stand-alone lesson to get the children learning all about habitats while exploring the outdoors. Contents - Teacher’s Guide - 14 X Animal Fact Cards - 1 X Record Sheet ------------------------ If you liked this resource please don't forget to leave us feedback. Thank you! Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get your detectives hat on with our series of animal crime scene investigations! These activities will teach your students about animals and their habitats as well as developing their observation, problem solving and inferring skills. They are a great lesson to be use as part of your Living Things topic… or just for some outdoor fun! The crime scenes are easy to set up with printable props, clue cards, and suspect cards. If you want to add extra elements or real props this can help to bring it alive for the children even further! The Egg Thief will take your class through an investigation involving the mystery of a broken egg that is found outside of Mrs Jones’ house. They will need to use the clues as well as their own inference skills to figure out which of the suspects is guilty. Contents: Teacher Guide Prop Cards Crime Scene Report Suspect Cards Clue Cards Clue Record Sheet Verdict Record Sheet Our Verdict Check out our ‘Hedgehog Horror’ crime scene pack! Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Dinosaurs and math. What’s not to love! For this activity your students will walk like dinosaurs as they draw different species footprints onto card using their scaling and measuring skills before cutting the footprints out, strapping it to their own feet, and walk like the dinosaurs. This outdoor math activity is great if you’re looking at measuring, scaling up, and ratio. Teaching structure: Explain that they will be investigation the size of dinosaurs feet. Go through the Google Slides to help to introduce the activity. Assign each student (or pair) a foot to go off and draw to scale either on card or on the playground using chalk (if you choose chalk on the playground you obviously can’t strap it to their feet!). Give the students time to look at each others dinosaur feet and compare them. This activity has two levels of differentiation. Diff. 1: Students simply read the measurements and draw the foot. Diff. 2: Students must first work out the true size by using the scale. There is an extension sheet where they will figure out the body and leg length based on the size of footprint. Enjoy outdoor learning? Check out our outdoor home learning pack! Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

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. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This Planet Fact File is the perfect activity for your children to learn all about the planets in our solar system by completing their own personal booklet. They are required to research key information about the planets in order to complete the booklet. This pack contains two sets, one set where they can draw the planets, and the other where an image is already on the information sheets. You can use this activity in class, however lots of my class loved taking it home as a home learning project! Contents: - Fact File Front Cover - Differentiated Fact File Templates For: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

This free activity is a great way to get your class thinking about which foods create a healthy balanced diet as part of your health and nutrition topic. They will take a look in their lunch box to see what goodies are waiting for them and investigate the sugar content of each item using our sugar sheet, food packages, and the internet for research. They will then complete the results table and answer some simple questions getting them to think carefully about what’s in their lunchbox, if it’s healthy, and what they could do to make it even healthier. Contents: Teacher’s Guide Sugar Sheet Results Table & Questions This activity also has great links to addition with decimals. Check out our bundle for more activities that will fit in perfectly with your healthy eating and nutrition topic. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This investigation gets your class to look closely at their shadow, specifically looking at how it changes throughout the day. They will measure the length of their shadow at set time intervals and try to spot patterns in their results before thinking about the reasons behind these patterns. It is a great way to introduce the concept of the earth’s rotation while thinking about how you can use the sun to help tell the time. For this investigation students (in pairs or small groups) will mark a spot with chalk and draw around and measure their shadow at set intervals throughout the day being sure to record their results on the table. Teaching structure: Investigation plan Results table Bar graph Results questions Please don’t forget to rate resource if you enjoyed it. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a great challenge to set as home learning, use for distance learning, or as a home holiday project. It will get your students outdoors and exploring and enjoying the nature around them. For this activity students must try to complete the photo challenge by getting a photo of all the things specified on the worksheet. This is a free version of a bigger resource. For more photo challenges and the digital version check out the other resource in our store. Check out our full photo challenge pack here.