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 PowerPoint is designed to get your children thinking about how animals use camouflage and mimicry to blend into their habitats. The children will play a fun quiz where they must spot the animal in the photos and think about how and why it is so well camouflaged. It is the perfect introduction to your adaption topic.
This PowerPoint is designed to go with our engaging and practical Camouflage and Mimicry activities. Check them out HERE
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Welcome the arrival of spring with this free downloadable scavenger hunt! Get your students outdoors to spot all sorts of spring-related items. Perfect for all ages, this scavenger hunt is a delightful activity for a sunny afternoon, whether at school or home.
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This free scavenger hunt template lets children develop their creativity by designing their own hunt for friends. They can fill in each box with an item of their choice, sending their friends on a mission to collect them all! Perfect for indoor or outdoor adventures.
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A simple guide for your students to identify common British trees. For each tree it shows a picture of the tree, its’ leaves, and seeds. Laminate these sheets and use the time and time again. Equally, leave them in your outdoor space for students to use as this wish while exploring the world around them.
This is a simple but fun activity that will help improve your classes measuring skills. Using a ruler, meter stick, trundle wheel, tape measure, or other measuring tool get your class to measure and record different items in your outdoor space.
It can be useful to give clear demonstrations as to how to use the different equipment. This activity can be further differentiated by allowing students to use a variety of equipment as well as asking them to measure to a greater level of accuracy.
Diff 1 - Students are given a pictures of which objects to measure.
Diff 2 - Students get to choose their own objects to measure.
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The “Our Beach Adventure Recount” worksheet guides young explorers through the exciting moments of their beach day. From the arrival at the beach to the playful activities, seashell hunts, and sandcastle building, students will have the opportunity to relive the highlights of their seaside exploration.
Teachers and parents can use this “Our Beach Adventure Recount” worksheet to encourage children’s writing proficiency, creativity, and memory recall while providing a platform for sharing their beach tales with friends and family.
This resource contains just one recount template. Check out our full pack to get all three templates here.
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For this outdoor scavenger hunt students will solve literary clues inspired by beloved children’s stories. As they work together to find hidden objects, they’ll engage their reading comprehension skills and explore the natural world around them, making connections between stories and the environment.
Other World Book Day Resources:
William Wordsworth Outdoor Poetry
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The Egg Drop STEM Challenge is a nice variation on the commonly used egg parachute challenge. Your class will work together in small teams, thinking about the best way to protect an egg from being dropped using natural materials. They will be encouraged to think about the properties of different materials, considering which one will work best.
The whole activity is based around a story of an explorer who is trapped in the North Pole and needs food supplies, and of course, his favourite food is egg!
Read the instructions to your class before putting them into groups of 2 or 3. Encourage them to hunt out different natural materials that they think will protect them egg from breaking. Once they have padded out the tubs, give them the egg and see if it works by dropping it from a good height!
To save on money and waste, if an egg does not break, it can be re-used by the following team.
Once the challenge is complete each student can fill in an evaluation sheet.
Resources needed:
Supply of natural materials in an outdoor space
Activity sheets
Small tubs (big 500ml or similar)
Somewhere high to drop the eggs from (first floor or second floor)
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A FREE sample of our pirate themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of pirate themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 4 and 5. 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.
The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.
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These 10 outdoor STEM activities are perfect as a stand-alone outdoor team building activity or as a team builder at the start or end of year.
This pack contains 10 challenge cards that you can laminate and use time and time again. Each resource is easy to facilitate, with most challenges only needing a selection of natural resources. We recommend you allow at least 20 minutes for each challenge card, however depending on how you want to use them, students could spend hours on just on one challenge.
We’ve seen them used really well when each team does 1 card per week, spending around 1 hour on each challenge.
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Recommended resources in your outdoor space:**
A variety of different sized sticks
Plants with a variety of different sized leaves (ferns etc.).
A variety of different sized stones / bricks.
Wooden benches / chairs etc.
Logs
A variety of thin / thick rope and string.
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Introduce a refreshing twist to your sessions with this Phase 5 phonics activity. It provides students with ample practice in decoding words and identifying sounds within them. During the activity, students venture outdoors to hunt for word cards, bringing them back to place on the appropriate sound map. This resource contains Phonics Phase 5 sounds.
Check out our Phase 2 ‘Match The Sound’ activity.
Check out our Phase 3 ‘Match The Sound Activity’.
Check out our phase 4 'Match The Sound Activity.
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These tree ID cards for the UK and Europe 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 the trees in your outdoor area.
Check out our other ID Guides.
- British Woodland and Garden Birds ID Guide
- North American Woodland Birds ID Guide
- 24 Pond Life ID Cards
- Butterfly ID Guide
- A4 Pond Life Identification Sheet
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Whether it’s blowing a gale, raining or bright sunshine this is the perfect lesson to encourage descriptive writing through the use of figurative language. The weather is such a powerful learning tool that can spark worlds of imagination. For this activity you will take the students outside in a variety of different conditions and allow them to use their senses to come up with similes, metaphors, and alliteration to describe the conditions.
This is a great activity to do before writing a story when thinking about setting descriptions.
We have loads more weather themed resources to check out!
- Weather Diary
- Weather Investigation
- Weather Word Wall
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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.
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This resource is the perfect addition to our ‘Underwater Viewer’ pond investigation.
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A guide for birds commonly found in the British woodlands & gardens. Laminate these sheets and take them with you when heading outside or keep a set accessible for students to use as they wish.
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Observing weather changes over time is simple but fascinating and a great learning experience for students where they will look at measuring and reading scales before presenting their results in a line graph (for the older children). For this activity they will record the temperature everyday for a week.
There is two activity sheets. One where they record the temperature once a day, the other where they will record the temperature twice a day.
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These Solar System Dominoes are perfect for an extension activity or an end of unit refresher, and best of all, we are giving them away for free! The children must match the facts with the correct planet in order to complete the dominoes. They can be used individually, in pairs, or as a whole class.
- Individual: Complete the dominoes puzzle
- Pairs: Take it in turns to complete the puzzle
- Class: Give each child a card and get them to make a line by matching the facts and planets.
A FREE sample of our Halloween themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
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A set of Halloween themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 4 and 5. 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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A FREE sample of our pirate themed addition and subtraction word problems using the bar model.
Check out the full pack here.
A set of pirate themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for grades 3 - 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.
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The full pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation.**
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Liven up your spelling list homework with this fun outdoor spelling activity sheet. Simply get the children to write down their spelling lists and take the activity sheet home to complete the challenges. The activities require very few resources and should be done easily at home or in a local outdoor area.
You may also like ‘20 Outdoor Challenges To Do Before I’m 8’.
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