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.
This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising microorganisms. It’s a great way to have students review their vocabulary of the topic and not even realise that they’re learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes a complete cootie catcher where they need to figure out the definition, another where they need to figure out the key vocabulary, and another where they must complete the definitions themselves before playing.
There is a black and white copy of each sheet included.
Vocabulary included:
Bacteria
Decomposers
Decomposition
Fungi
Germ
Hygiene
Reproduce
Virus
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for animal adaptations. It’s a great science lesson starter or activity that will improve your class’ adaptation key word understanding without them even realising that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes a both complete cootie catchers with all the answers filled in, as well as blank cootie catchers where the blanks must be completed before playing the game.
Contents:
1 x completed cootie catcher
1 x blank cootie catcher
Blank template (for them to create their own!)
Vocabulary:
Adaptation
Behaviour
Camouflage
Habitat
Instinct
Mimicry
Predator
Prey
Folding and playing directions as well as B&W copies are also included.
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising forms of energy. It’s a great way to have students review their vocabulary of the topic and not even realise that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes a complete cootie catcher where they need to figure out the definition, another where they need to figure out the natural disaster, and another where they must complete the definitions themselves before playing.
There is a black and white copy of each sheet included.
**Vocabulary included:
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Absorption
Electrical Energy
Energy
Heat
Light Energy
Mechanical Energy
Sound Energy
Thermal Energy
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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These butterfly ID guides are the perfect addition to your outdoor classroom. Simply print them off, laminate them and have them available for the students to take outside to help them identify the butterflies in your outdoor area.
They are also easy to view digitally to save on printing and laminating.
This resource goes perfectly with our butterflies dinner investigation.
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for electric circuit symbol recognition. It’s a great science lesson starter or activity that will improve your class’ symbol recognition without them even realising that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes a both complete cootie catchers with all the answers filled in, as well as blank cootie catchers where the blanks must be completed before playing the game.
Contents:
2 x completed cootie catchers
2 x blank cootie catchers
Blank template (for them to create their own!)
Folding and playing directions as well as B&W copies are also included.
Have fun!
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This is a great addition to your electricity topic. This Google Slide / Classroom activity is great recap your students circuit building skills while further developing their understanding into the magical world of electricity.
This resource contains 10 Google Slides where students are required to complete the circuits using the components given on the screen. They are also required to trouble shoot a couple of the circuits to figure out why they are not working. It’s great to further and reinforce their understanding of electricity.
The circuits get more difficult throughout the slides.
These Google Slides are aimed at years 3 - 5 and work great individually, in pairs, and as distance learning.
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This is a great cross curricular activity where students will create a video tour on the nature around your outdoor area. It’s perfect if you’re looking at script writing, living things (habitats, animals, etc.) and video making. This activity is best done in pairs or small groups.
Teaching Structure:
Explain to the students that they’re going to create a virtual video tour for nature around your outdoor space. Get them to complete the ideas sheet that encourages them to think about what they may want to include and how they will create the video. It can be good for them to walk around the outdoor space while doing this to help them get ideas.
Examples of things they could talk about: different habitats, trees, plants, animals, etc.
After this they will complete the script where they’ll write exactly what they are going to say and what video will be played during the audio. Once they’ve completed their script it’s time to film, record the audio, and edit it all together. These videos can be used in loads of different ways. You can create them into QR codes and put them up in your outdoor space, put them online, or simply share them with friends, family or other students.
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This activity gets students thinking about the materials used to build different items that you will find in your outdoor space. They will consider what material has been used and why that material is appropriate for the intended use as well as what other material could also be suitable to use. This investigation is perfect for your materials and their properties science unit. This pack contains two levels of differentiation.
Diff. 1: They will draw a picture, write what the item is used for and what material has been used.
Diff 2: They will draw a picture, write what the item is used for, the material is it made from, and the properties it needs to have. They will then consider other materials which would also be appropriate for the job.
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising the circulatory system. The children must try to figure out which key vocabulary term is being described (or visa-versa). It’s a great way to have students review their knowledge of the circulatory system 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 includes a complete cootie catcher where they need to figure out the definition, another where they need to figure out the key vocabulary, and another where they must complete the definitions themselves before playing.
There is a black and white copy of each sheet included as well as a blank template for them to create their own.
Vocabulary included:
Aorta
Arteries
Capillaries
Left Ventricle
Plasma
Platelets
Pulmonary Artery
Red Blood Cells
Right Ventricle
Valves
Veins
White Blood Cells
Folding and playing directions are also included as well as a blank template for them to create their own.
Have fun!
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A set of entertaining NO PREP periodic table puzzles for your students to practice recognising symbols in the periodic table. Each differentiated puzzle has a complete set and a muddled puzzle set. I have used these to great success over the last few months. These puzzles are a great extension or main activity to help revise this tricky topic in a fun and engaging way.
Contents:
2 x Complete Tarsia Puzzles
2 x Mixed Tarsia Puzzles
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This cut and stick healthy eating activity looks at the different food categories, getting students to think about what makes a balanced diet. This pack contains three worksheets, one where they look at unhealthy and healthy foods, another where they compare carbohydrates and proteins, and another where they look at fats and sugars.
Check out our bundle for more activities that will fit in perfectly with your healthy eating and nutrition topic.
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These pond life ID cards are the perfect addition to your trip down to explore the pond. Simply print them off, laminate them and have them available for the next time you head down to investigate this fascinating habitat.
You may also like our Butterfly ID Cards.
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This is a great team activity to get children thinking carefully about composting. They will have to sort object cards based on whether they can be composted or not in a fun relay race.
**Teaching structure:
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Discuss what composting is and why it’s so important. - Put the students into teams of 3 or 4.
Have two labeled zones or tubs for ‘compost’ and ‘don’t compost’.
Get the students to line up in their teams a good distance from the zones or tubs.
The first person from each team collects an object card from the teacher and takes it back to their team (if you want to make this even more exciting you could use real items!).
The team discusses whether it can be composted or not before the first player runs it to the correct zone / tub.
The next child then runs to collect a new card. - Do this activity for an agreed amount of time or until all of the object cards have been used.
Go through the object cards to see if they are all correct.
To add a greater level of competition you can get each team to write or put a colored sticker on each of the cards they collect and then count up how many cards each team got correct.
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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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This activity, which is part of the life cycles unit, consists of 2 cootie catchers (or fortune tellers) for learning or revising plant structures. The children must try to figure out which part of the flower is being described. It’s a great way to have students review their knowledge of different plant parts 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 plant part themselves. There are visuals included to meet different learning styles.
Vocabulary included:
- petal
- pollen
- stem
- roots
- seed
- fruit
- leaf
- plant
- stamen
- stigma
- sepal
- ovary
- style
- anther
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising The Rock Cycle. It’s a great way to have students review their vocabulary of the topic and not even realise that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack contains two Cootie Catchers with a second copy for each one included if you would like students to fill the definition for each key word themselves.
Vocabulary included:
- Weathering
- Deposition
- Rock Cycle
- Sediment
- Sedimentary Rock
- Igneous Rock
- Rock
- Metamorphic Rock
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising states of matter. It’s a great way to have students review their vocabulary of the topic and not even realise that they are learning! They will be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack includes a two complete cootie catchers where they need to figure out the definition, another two where they need to figure out the key vocabulary, and another two where they must complete the definitions themselves before playing.
There is a black and white copy of each sheet included.
Vocabulary included:
Cootie Catcher 1:
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Matter
Melting
Evaporating
Compensating
Mass
Cootie Catcher 2:
Freezing Point
State
Boiling Point
Matter
Sublimation
Evaporation
Condensation
Mass
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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Science Investigations Skills Mountain for years 1 – 8. It’s designed to be stuck in the front of the children’s science books to help both the child and teacher know what their next step is. They also include definitions of all the main key vocabulary that the children should know.
I have found these so useful in helping me plan my science lessons and my children have really benefited, as they have been able to have more of a focus within their science.
Contents
- Level 1 – 2 Skills Mountain
- Levels 2, 3, and 4 Skills Mountain
- Levels 3, 4, and 5 Skills Mountain
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.
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This foldable activity consists of 2 cootie catchers (or fortune tellers) for learning or revising the light and sight key terms. The children must try to figure out which key word of the light and sight topic 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:
- Light Energy
- Reflection
- Shiny
- Opaque
- Transparent
- Optics
- Shadow
- Eyes
- Cornea
- Pupil
- Iris
- Sclera
- Lens
- Retina
- Optic Nerve
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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Check out our other science cootie catchers:
The Water Cycle
The Rock Cycle
Plant Structure
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