Start the fun on Earth Day/ Week by having your pupils make a pledge. This Earth Day activity allows your pupils to take ownership of their targets for the week and become responsible global citizens. This colorful and exciting pledge can be used as a place mat or displayed on the wall during Earth Week. Two variants include Earth Day and Earth Week for whichever event you are celebrating this year.

What do you want to achieve from Earth Day? When starting a new area of learning or project I find that it is a great idea to have the class set themselves personal and individual targets. This file contains two sheets. The first contains the sub-headings for the days of the week, the second is blank for the student to add their own entries.

Looking for some green-fingered activities for Earth Day? This download contains six easy to run gardening activities. Ideal for an Earth Day or Earth Week activity. Let your pupils get green fingers and become young gardeners during your Earth Day celebrations. Mini themes can include: learning about the growth of seeds, the role insects play in our environment and farming, and how household materials can be re-used in the garden. My young gardener's club, who were 5-6 years old, loved these activities. Older students will also appreciate the opportunity to get their hands dirty and seek out bugs on the school grounds.

Students respond to the famous Dog and the Bone fable by writing a character sketch. Contains extension challenge for the higher ability students. Includes the story text. Ideal as a fables homework or worksheet.

This slideshow presentation details the life of famous British explorer Percy Fawcett. This can be used when teaching historical figures, explorers, rainforests and how real figures become the inspiration for fictional characters. I created this presentation for Book Week, Earth Day and Environment Week and taught about the adventurer Percy Fawcett in the Amazon jungle after reading the book The Great Kapook Tree. Similar book study resources: The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960

Your Earth Day/ Earth Week celebrations can be made more fun for your pupils with a game of Earth Day Bingo! This Earth Day activity is ideal for introducing, reinforcing or assessing your students’ knowledge of age appropriate geography and sustainability key words and concepts. 5 differentiated Earth Day bingo game activities for 5-18 years old. The difficulty of the games ranges from: the reading of key words and showing of flash card illustrations (KS1) through to the reading of scientific and geographic terminology and definitions (KS2 - KS3). Bingo game cards range for 9 boxes to 16 boxes. For the older students to requirements of the game can be: recognition of key words from definition (easier game) or recognition of definitions from key words (harder game)

Forward Thinking: For Tomorrow's World is a set of critical thinking exercises that challenge pupils to apply knowledge and skills to 5 geographical scenarios. Ideal for a lesson starter, warm-up to a skills lesson or exam preparation, these activities encourage the pupils to 1) apply knowledge, 2) communicate, 3) discuss and collaborate, to come with potential solutions to real-world problems

River worksheet that encourages the student to investigate the negative effects of using river water in unsustainable ways. A great resource when teaching about rivers, water, sustainability and environment issues. Ideal as a class or homework sheet.

This information sheet (supplied as both pdf and Word in this download) suggests many ways in which a students can learn to spell words. Ideal for the students who struggle to learn words for their weekly spelling tests - can also be used to help learn spellings and material in other languages. Not every brain is the same, so not all students can learn through seeing and repeating. This information sheet lists contrasting methods that target the VAK - visual, audio and anesthetic (movement). This could be displayed as a poster in a bedroom, at a work desk or in a classroom. Could be used as part of spelling or handwriting lessons. Excellent for introducing when studying the Brainwaves unit of work. If you're trying to learn something then give some of these methods a try and you'll find the results speak for themselves.

Activities for every chapter of Louis Sachar’s Holes. Visible Thinking, Drama, Creative Writing and Reading Comprehension. The Holes book study teaches students how to understand reading comprehension through VIPERS - vocabulary, inferences, predictions, explanations, retrieval and summaries. Activities for every chapter -no printing required. Suitable for a range of class sizes - from individual students to large classes. File includes ppt. and pdf versions of the book study.

Activities for Philip Pullman’s Clockwork or All Wound Up. Visible Thinking, Drama, Creative Writing and Reading Comprehension. The Clockwork/ All Wound Up book study teaches students how to understand reading comprehension through VIPERS - vocabulary, inferences, predictions, explanations, retrieval and summaries. Activities for every chapter - no printing required. Suitable for a range of class sizes - from individual students to large classes. File includes ppt. and pdf versions of the book study.

Activities for every chapter of David Walliam’s Ratburger. Visible Thinking, Drama, Creative Writing and Reading Comprehension activities. The Ratburger book study teaches students how to understand reading comprehension through VIPERS - vocabulary, inferences, predictions, explanations, retrieval and summaries. Activities for every chapter -no printing required. Suitable for a range of class sizes - from individual students to large classes. File includes ppt. and pdf versions of the book study.

Peer review is an excellent end of lesson plenary activity for writing lessons. In my class I have these posters doubled-sided-printed and laminated and readily available around the room as well as featuring on my English display board. The first two students to have adequately finished their work then peer review each others' by offering a compliment, suggestion and correction. Having completed the activity a couple of times the students really understand what makes constructive feedback (the guidance also helps with this). A great writing plenary.

Reflections and Translations assessment is ideal for Key Stage 2 assessment of learning or reflection and translation SATS practise. Can also be used as an assessment for learning/ pre-assessment reflections and translations tool. This reflections and translations test paper comes with marking scheme and question objectives: Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left / right and up / down (+/- y/x) Identify and solve problems involving rotations, reflections and translations Identify the position of a shape following a reflection or translation Describe position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed Describe position using coordinates in all four quadrants Draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes Predict missing coordinates of quadrilaterals by using the properties of shapes You may also like: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/numbers-colours-shapes-classroom-objects-flashcards-11477401 Key Stage 2 reflections and translations

This National Curriculum KS2 Maths 4-lesson unit of unit reinforces the pupils' understanding of reflection, introduces translation and then combines the two concepts. Each lesson contains warm-up exercises and resources - everything is ready for print and learning! The original file is a flip chart, and I have also created a PDF version which is also located in this download. Do you want to assess your students' understanding of reflection and translation? This reflection and translation assessment was created to directly follow this unit of work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reflections-and-translations-assessment-11534928

Book study activities for ‘Toro! Toro!’ by Michael Morpurgo. This comprehensive book study contains more than 20 creative writing, drama, visible thinking and discussion activities. Ideal for an English class book study or Book Week activities. This book study has also been delivered during online learning as guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. The book study comes in both ppt and pdf files. Similar book study resources: The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430

Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching. Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. Ideal for Book Week or when reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr as a class. This comprehensive book study contains more than 20 creative writing, drama, poetry, drawing and discussion activities. This resource will work in English class as a lesson strand or as a stand-alone book study. Book Week lesson plan. Book Week activities. Similar book study resources: Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Billionaire Boy (David Walliams) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/billionaire-boy-book-study-12323752 The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685

Looking for a manageable way to display your pupils targets? Display these skills WANTED posters in your classroom so your students can have their learning targets visible at all times. The PowerPoint file currently has space for a target in: Reading, Writing, Maths and Behaviour for Learning (BfL). These can be easily changed to suit your class needs. The file also contains blank slips for writing the targets, these can be glued on top of achieved targets so the students can take pride in seeing how many targets they have achieved in the key subjects.

Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching. Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. Ideal for Book Week or when reading Kensuke’s Kingdom as a class. Resource is provided in 3 file types: Word, PDF and flipchart. This comprehensive book study contains more than 15 activities and dozens of comprehension questions. Also provides students with the opportunity to stop at intervals to discuss and think about the text so far. Activities include: newspaper article writing, poetry, group discussion, illustration work, persuasive writing and information writing among many others. This resource will work in English class as a lesson strand or as a stand alone book study. Similar book study resources: The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430 Book Week lesson plan. Book Week activities. Kensuke’s Kingdom activities. Kensuke’s Kingdom lesson plan.

Ideal for both KS1 and KS2 (the Thinking Activities are also useful KS3 study aids and exam preparation material) the Earth Day activity bundle provides you with everything you with resources for a whole week's worth of fun and learning. This Earth Day bundle includes: 'I can...' statements (14 cards 'I can...' cards with printable wall chart, additional editable templates so you can add/ change your own ideas) - suitable for KS1 & KS2 Sustainable student activities (Thinking Cards and Self-Organised Learning) - suitable for upper KS2 & KS3 Earth Day Bingo (The difficulty of the games ranges from: the reading of key words and showing of flash card illustrations (younger students) through to the reading of scientific and geographic terminology and definitions (older students). Bingo game cards range for 9 boxes to 16 boxes. For the older students to requirements of the game can be: recognition of key words from definition (easier game) or recognition of definitions from key words (harder game)) - suitable all age groups Earth Day Bookmarks - suitable all age groups Earth Day Pledge (encourage your pupils to set personal goals and make pledges during the week) - suitable all age groups Earth Week Daily Targets (setting targets is a great way to start the week with your class or form) - suitable all age groups Forward Thinking 5 Activities - suitable upper KS2 & KS3 Gardening Activities x6 - suitable KS1 & KS2 Acrostic Poems - suitable KS1 & KS2 Earth Day Wordsearch (x4 differentiated) - levels of difficulty appropriate for KS1, 2 & 3 Earth Day Certificates (in ppt format for easy edit) - suitable all age groups Earth Week Diary - suitable all age groups This comprehensive Earth Day/ Earth Week activity pack comprises of 11 beautifully presented and thought-provoking sustainable-themed activities and an editable set of class Earth Day certificates. The differentiated activities mean this bundle is a suitable Earth Day activity for all age ranges.