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! 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

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: ** Drought Earthquake Flood Hurricane Tornado Tsunami Volcano Wildfire Folding and playing directions are also included. Have fun! 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising hurricanes. 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: Depression Eye Wall High Pressure Hurricane Low Pressure Storm Surge The Eye Typhoon Folding and playing directions are also included. Have fun! 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising earthquakes. 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:** Earthquake Epicentre Fault Focus Plate Boundary Seismic Wave Tsunami Richter Scale Folding and playing directions are also included. Have fun! 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

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 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity is a great starting point to get your students’ eyes into spotting and continuing patterns. They will head outside with the differentiated task cards to create and continue the pattern given to them. This can then be photographed or simply acknowledged! This pack contains three differentiated levels. ** Resources needed:** Differentiated pattern task cards Natural materials (leaves, sticks, and stones) Get outside and enjoy learning with your class! Please don’t forget to rate this product and provide feedback to earn credits that you can use toward future purchases on TpT. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Download the full resource here: Problem Solving Easter Addition and Subtraction Bar Model Word Problems. This is a FREE SAMPLE of the following resource: A set of Easter themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 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. This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation. Have a fantastic Easter break! Please don’t forget to rate this product and provide feedback to earn credits that you can use toward future purchases on TpT. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

**Download full pack here: **Problem Solving Addition and Subtraction Easter Bar Model Word Problems. This is a FREE SAMPLE for the following resource: A set of Easter themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 2 - 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. Have a fantastic Easter break! Please don’t forget to rate this product and provide feedback to earn credits that you can use toward future purchases on TpT. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

**Download the full pack here: **Problem Solving Easter Addition and Subtraction Bar Model Word Problems. This is a free sample of the following resource: A set of Easter themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the ‘part-part-whole’ bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 1 - 2. 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. Have a fantastic Easter break! 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

Whether you are looking at sculptures in art or would like a fun STEM outdoor activity, this creative session is perfect for your class. Following certain criteria, students will design and build a sculpture using only natural materials before going on to evaluate the success of their sculpture, thinking about what they could do to improve it. This activity works great in small teams or pairs. This pack contains 11 differentiated sets of criteria to follow, each with a design and evaluation sheet. Resources needed: Sculpture design and evaluation sheets. An area of outdoor space with a variety of natural materials. 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

A highly visual and interactive PowerPoint and quiz on hurricanes as part of your natural disasters geography unit. It’s perfect for introducing this topic or as a quick lesson recap. Contents: Slides 1 - 4: What is a hurricane? Slide 5: How they are measured. Slides 6 - 8: How hurricanes are formed. Slides 9 - 16: Primary and secondary dangers. Slide 18: Preparation. Slides 19 – 20: Worsening hurricanes. Slides 21 – 22: Case Studies Slides 23 – 25: Fun facts Slides 26 – 34: Quiz Check out our other natural disaster PowerPoints: Earthquakes [Volcanoes]https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/volcano-powerpoint-introduction-and-quiz-11845585) 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

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A set of animal themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for years 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 contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation. Please don’t forget to rate this resource is you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

A set of animal themed NO PREP differentiated word problems using the bar model strategy, focussing on addition and subtraction for grades 1 - 2. The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools. This pack contains 3 sets of word problem sheets each with 3 levels of differentiation. 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

This activity is designed to get your class thinking about their own, and other’s, global footprint. They will wonder around your school grounds (inside and out) finding things that they think will cause pollution and suggesting what we can do or use as an alternative. As a challenge, students can think more carefully about how exactly the item causes pollution. This activity fits in well with a sustainability topic as well as linking it in to special environment days such as ‘Earth Day’. 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

Introduce your class to Venn diagrams by taking a closer look at leaves! For this activity students will go outside to collect some leaves before placing / sticking them in the correct place on the Venn diagram. This activity contains four Venn diagrams with the categories pre-populated and one diagram which is blank where students can think of their own ways to sort the leaves. Resources needed: Outdoor space with leaves Glue Activity sheets 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

Leaf sorting is a fun activity where your class will go outside to collect some leaves before sorting them into groups according to their properties. It’s a good way to introduce your class to some simple data handling as well as developing their skills to sort items into groups by looking closely at their features and shape. This activity contains differentiated sheets with pre-populated categories as well as a blank sheet to encourage students to think of their own methods to sort the leaves. ** Resources needed:** Outdoor space with leaves Differentiated activity sheets 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!

Encourage your students to use all of their senses to help develop their descriptive writing. For this activity your class need to be in pairs, where one will be blind folded and the other will safely lead them to an area in your school grounds or outdoor space (this activity is most effective when you have a variety of different places available for students to go). The blindfolded student will then begin to describe what they can hear, smell, and touch while the other partner records what they are saying. The blind folded student will then be asked to guess where they think they are before removing the blindfold. Both students will then work together to describe and record what they can see. Once they have finished, they can swap roles and do that activity again. Encourage students to think carefully about powerful descriptive language as they are describing the settings they have been taken to. Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you en Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Develop your class’ report writing by getting them to observe nature in the world around them. They will head outside to find an animal to produce a report on, gathering their information through close observation and research. Once they have decided on their animal, they need to begin their research through observation, books, and the internet, recording their findings on the sheets. It is best if your students have access to magnifying glasses for this activity. When the research is complete, they can then write their report using the templates, or create their own unique design. It is good for students to go outside and capture their own photos to use within the report. Resources needed: Research sheets Differentiated template sheet Magnifying glasses Books / technology for research (optional) This resource can work well in pairs where students are able to support one another. 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 products and hear about upcoming sales!