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Short PowerPoint about chromatography; what it is, and how and why it works.

Pet cards and skin texture boards. Children to sort the cards onto the correct board, depending on which skin type they have. Can provoke discussion around why animals have certain skins (temperature regulation, protection, sensory needs). Could also introduce camouflage.

What is fire, how does it start and how can you put it out? 3 demonstrations on the fire triangle - taking away heat, air and fuel.

Worksheet inspired by Pinterest to complete a simple experiment on a worm. Observe, question, predict, make a plan and follow it, record the results, make a conclusion.

A simple minibeast riddle powerpoint. Print out 2 or 4 to a page as reading and matching cards. Spider, frog, butterfly, slug, snail, bee, millipede, ladybird.

A labelled picture of a germinated bean plant, as well as an unlabelled picture with labels to match.

A variety of activities taken from different (mainly American) websites on beans. 1. Maths ideas (sorting, matching, counting, capacity and pouring, estimation, time and change, measuring, direction) 2. Growing beans and bean sprouts 3. Collages, songs and music 4. Drama Great ideas to go alongside Jack and the Beanstalk

A PowerPoint plan covering 5 lessons on New Life. Specifically looking at new life in Spring and working towards understanding the Easter story. 1. Giving and receiving love 2. Loving and trusting 3. New life 4. Jesus as loving 5. Easter as a Christian festival You will need the books Dogger by Shirley Hughes and Badger's Parting Gifts by Susan Varley.

An adult assistance sheet to help lead and support a Weather studio/presenter role-play

Spaced themed mindmap for EYFS staff. All areas of learning have been covered, although some in more depth than others. Covering space, astronauts/spacemen, solar system, aliens, rockets etc. Thanks to everyone who have contributed their ideas into this.

5 sentences containing pictures to sequence to create a recount about the Moon landing.

Poem focusing on leaves and colours.

Designed to be used as homework or classwork. A large image of the solar system which could be stuck in the centre of an A3 piece of paper. Second page contains a table where children could type or write facts about the different elements of the solar system. Easily amendable to your needs!

A graphic organiser for children to plan their design for a lunchbox that keeps food cool. Space to make notes or write reasons as well as areas to sketch the inside of the lunchbox and also provide a diagram of how the insulation works. Storage could be how the lunchbox will be stored - thinking about the shape of the lunchbox. Pupils could also consider the eco friendliness of the materials used.

Non-fiction book on (pet) rabbits. Designed either to be viewed on the interactive whiteboard or printed and made into a book for shared reading sessions. Could be used as a topic introduction or independent reading.

A PowerPoint written for Reception to cover the Mesozoic era - triassic, jurassic and cretaceous periods. Looking at basic evolution of animals and the changes in the landscape.

Graphemes and pictures related to items seen at Thornton Reservoir in Leicestershire. Grapheme prompts to assist children in the use of digraphs and trigraphs when writing. Also an editable Word version, easily adaptable for your own local country parks and reservoirs.

A simple print, cut, match and stick jigsaw on the internal organs of the body. Two versions - one labelled with some of the organs inside the main torso (lungs, heart, liver, stomach and intestines) , and one without labels.

A set of statements to be cut up for children to read and sort into fact and fiction. A second set has been provided with the tricky words written in red for ease of newer readers. Also, a simple Fact or Fiction table to be enlarged to A3 for the statements to be put/stuck onto.

A writing frame to create an information poster on the growth cycle of a bean.