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Christmas Addition and Subtraction Bar Model Word Problems - Years 1 and 2
A set of Christmas themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 2 and 3. 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, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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Christmas Addition and Subtraction Bar Model Word Problems - Years 3 and 4
A set of Christmas themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 3 and 4. 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, giving them loads of practise at applying it to word problems.
**This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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Renewable Energy PowerPoint and Quiz
A highly visual and interactive PowerPoint and quiz on renewable energy as part of your natural sustainability and natural resources geography unit. The PPT focuses on solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and geothermal energy and gives some activity ideas at the end. It’s perfect for introducing this topic or as a quick lesson recap.
Contents:
Slides 1 - 4: What is renewable energy?
Slide 5 - 7: Solar energy
Slides 8 - 10: Wind energy
Slides 11 - 13: Hydro energy
Slide 14 - 16: Geothermal energy
Slides 17 – 19: Biomass Energy
Slides 22 – 21: Which is best
Slides 23 – 34: Quiz
Slide 35: Challenges
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Natural Disaster Activity - Cootie Catcher Game
This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising natural disasters. 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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Drought
Earthquake
Flood
Hurricane
Tornado
Tsunami
Volcano
Wildfire
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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States of Matter Activity - Cootie Catcher Game
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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Mean, Median, Mode, and Range Cootie Catcher Activity
This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for reducing averages (mean, median, mode and range). It’s a great lesson starter or activity that will improve your class’ averages skills 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 averages filled in, as well as blank cootie catchers where the questions must be completed before playing the game.
**Contents: **
2 x completed cootie catchers
2 x blank cootie catchers
Folding and playing directions as well as a blank template are also included.
Have fun!
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Animal Adaptations Cootie Catcher Activity
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.
Have fun!
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Plant Parts and Functions Vocabulary Cards
14 visual parts of a plant and functions vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They’re a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this relevant and engaging topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language or spelling difficulties. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid.
Contents
14 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
Chlorophyll
Flower
Leaf
Ovary
Petal
Photosynthesis
Pistil
Pollen
Root
Seed
Stamen
Stem
Stigma
Style
**Check out our other Word Walls:
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- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- States of Matter
- Types of Energy
- Types of Pollution
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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Periodic Table Tarsia Puzzle Activity
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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Types of Energy Vocabulary Cards
14 visual types of energy vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They are a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this exciting topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language or spelling difficulties. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid.
Contents
14 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
Absorption
Chemical Energy
Electrical Energy
Electromagnetic Energy
Energy
Heat
Heat / Thermal Energy
Kinetic Energy
Light Energy
Mechanical Energy
Nuclear Energy
Potential Energy
Solar Energy
Sound Energy
Check out our other Word Walls:
- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- States of Matter
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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Humans and The Environment: Good or Bad Habits Activities
These activities are intended to get students thinking about what we do that can damage the environment as well as what we can do to help the environment and live more sustainably. There are three differentiated worksheets in this pack that are perfect for your ‘Humans and the Environment’ topic.
**Sheet 1: **This is a cut and stick activity where students will look at a group of pictures and decide which are bad and which are good for the environment.
**Sheet 2: **Students will look at pictures, decided if they are good or bad for the environment and write down their reasoning.
**Sheet 3: **Students will think about their day-to-day lives, considering what they do that may be damaging to the environment and what they do that may help the environment.
There are black and white copies of all the worksheets included is this pack.
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Renewable Energy Research Booklet
This renewable energy student research booklet is a great project for students to carry out research and record facts on renewable energy solutions. They’ll create a page for each type where they must provide information, positives and negatives with space for a picture along with a front and back cover page. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity if you’re doing a sustainability topic.
This pack comes in both color and black and white as well as a blank template.
To create the booklet, cut each A4 page in half, hole punch the top corner, and use some string or treasury tags to hold them together.
Animals included:
Solar Energy
Wind Turbines
Hydro Power
Thermal Power
Nuclear Power
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Recycling PowerPoint and Quiz
An interactive PowerPoint and Quiz on recycling which is perfect for your sustainability / eco-friendly topic. It encourages the children to think about what happens to trash when it’s not recycled, the problems with recycling, and what we can do that’s even better for the environment than recycling.
Contents
Slides 1 – 5: Introduction to Recycling
Slides 6 – 8: Incineration and Landfill
Slides 9 – 19: Game - How long does it take to decompose?
Slides 20 – 24: What’s better than recycling?
Slides 25 - 29: Scary Facts
Slides 30 - 35: Quiz
Slide 36: Activity Ideas
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Balance The Equation Tarsia Puzzle: Addition and Subtraction - Years 6 and 7
Use these entertaining math puzzles for your students to practice finding balanced equations with addition and subtraction including decimals. This pack contains three differentiated puzzles where students must carry and borrow numbers to complete the additions and subtractions, some of which include decimals and negative numbers. Each puzzle has a complete set and a muddled puzzle set. I have used these to great success over the last few weeks. My children have loved them and are now pros balancing equations.
Contents:
3 x differentiated complete and mixed Tarsia puzzles.
Check out our other Math Tarsia Puzzles
Balancing Equations (Years 2 - 3)
Balancing Equations (Years 4 -5)
Equivalent Fractions
Fractions of Numbers
Long Division
Long Multiplication Tarsia Puzzle Activity
Measurement Conversion Tarsia Puzzles: MM, CM, and Meters
Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, and 1000
Number Bond Tarsia Puzzles: 100, 500, and 1000
Times Tables Tarsia Puzzle Activity
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Place Value: Adding Tens Activity
These differentiated worksheets are designed to get students looking at the relationship between units and tens when doing addition. They will complete the unit addition before looking at the comparative tens addition (e.g. 1 + 2 = 3 and 10 + 20 = 30).
Contents:
Diff. 1: Using base ten to complete the additions.
Diff . 2: Part-whole models with numbers 1 - 100.
Diff 3: Part - whole models with numbers 1 - 200.
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Comparing Number Sentences: Greater / Less than and Equals Signs Activity
This activity gets your students comparing equations, figuring out the answers to simple additions before deciding if they need the greater than, less than, or equals sign to make the number sentence correct.
This pack contains 4 differentiated worksheets which with different levels of addition challenge.
B&W copies are also included.
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Humans And The Environment: How Humans Affect The Environment Bundle
This bundle on the affect humans have on the environment contains a powerpoint & quiz and worksheets to get your students thinking carefully about both the positive and negative impact humans are having on our planet.
PowerPoint & Quiz
An interactive PowerPoint and Quiz on the affect humans have on the environment is perfect for your sustainability / eco-friendly topic. It encourages the children to think about both the positive and negative impacts we’ve had on the environment as well as what they can do in their own lives to try and reduce the problems.
Contents
Slides 1 – 3: Introduction
Slides 4 – 9: Positive or Negative Affect Game
Slides 10 – 15: Negative Affects
Slides 16 – 23: Positive Affects
Slides 24 - 34: Quiz
Slide 35: Activity Ideas
Worksheets
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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1 More or Less / 10 More or Less Coloring Activity
Your class are sure to love this fun coloring activity where they will get tons of practise looking at 1 more or less and 10 more or less. They will color a 1-100 grid by answering questions to reveal the secret picture. It’s a great visual way for children to practise this adding and taking away ones and tens.
There are two sheets, one for 1 more or less and one for 10 more or less.
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Elapsed Time Problems Board Game
This board game is a great way for students to practise elapsed time problems without them even realising 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 elapsed time 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 and fun way to teach time.
Contents:
Diff. 1: The board progresses in hour intervals
Diff. 2: The board progresses in half hour intervals
Diff. 3: The board progresses in half hour intervals using the 24-hour clock.
Diff. 4: The board progresses in 15-minute intervals
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Bar Model Fact Families Differentiated Sheets - Jungle Animals Themed
This activity gets your students looking at fact families through the very popular bar model. This pack contains 10 differentiated sheets where they must use the jungle animals themed 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 a jungle animal themed starter, filler or main lesson!
The bar model is a great visual way for students to visualize the problem.
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