Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.
Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.
Explore the life and discoveries of fossil hunter Mary Anning with this slideshow and printable templates to use for notetaking/research.
What’s included in this resource?
1. 20-slide Mary Anning presentation
This is included as a PowerPoint and in Google Slides.
The presentation will introduce Mary Anning’s life to pupils, with a particular focus on her childhood, major discoveries (ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, winged reptiles, and fossil poop), her challenges, and her legacy.
The body text in the presentation is editable, but titles, images, and slide backgrounds are not.
Following the presentation, select from the list of printables below (note that they are similar, so choose the option(s) that work best for your learners).
2. Graphic Organiser pages (PDF)
Blank templates in 3 designs for students to show their learning about Mary Anning or take notes.
Alternatively, students could create a flip book. The flip book template is included with a cover and 3 titles (early life, her work, and discoveries).
3. Mary Anning timeline foldout (PDF)
Students sequence 6 important years and events from Mary Anning’s life. All dates are referenced in the presentation.
The PDFs are not editable.
Introduce your class to fascinating British scientist Charles Darwin and his work with this bright and fun PowerPoint presentation.
This 20 slide presentation takes a look at key points in Darwin’s life including:
His childhood and university studies
Travel on HMS Beagle
His theory of natural selection
His work
His legacy
Use this resource to support learning around evolution and inheritance, the history of science, explorers, or for Darwin Day in February.
The presentation is also included as a PDF should you need it.
Although images are fixed in place on each slide, the text boxes are editable should you want to make any changes to suit the needs of our pupils.
A fun and engaging story told in rhyme for KS1 pupils, exploring the true tale of the greatest fossil hunter who ever lived! Mary Anning was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent for finding fossils. Join her as she searches the beaches and cliffs around her seaside home and discovers clues about animals from long ago.
This resource is a 28 page PDF book which you could display on a screen for a whole class story time. Ideal to support a dinosaurs topic.
The paperback of this book is available on Amazon.
A set of science PowerPoint to complement evolution and inheritance in year 6.
There are 4 resources in this bundle:
Insect adaptations PowerPoint.
Discover the wonderful world of insect adaptations with this 22 slide presentation. This resource gives pupils the opportunity to identify adaptations on a variety of insects from around the world including the atlas moth, hissing cockroach, thorn bug and stag beetle.
At the end, pupils are set the challenge of designing their own insect for a named habitat, outlining its adaptations to survive there.
Who was Charles Darwin PowerPoint
A 20 slide presentation covering information about Darwin’s early life, Beagle voyage and theory of natural selection.
Mary Anning PowerPoint
Introduce your class to this remarkable British paleontologist with this 15 slide presentation detailing her life and major discoveries including ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and winged reptiles!
What can fossils tell us?
How can a chipped tooth reveal what a giant shark ate? Why are mammoth teeth found in the North Sea?
Find out how fossils can unlock the secrets of ancient creatures with this informative 25 slide presentation. Full of high quality images and questions to get your pupils thinking about what fossils can and can’t tell us about the past.
Inheritance PowerPoint and monster activity
26 slide PowerPoint presentation ntroducing inheritance and inherited characteristics.
Printable monster activity. Pupils meet the 3-eyed monsters and draw what their offspring might look like, with a focus on inherited physical traits.
Please note, it is not possible to edit the text or images in these resources.
Introduce fossils, how they are formed, what they look like, and what they can tell us with this bundle of printable resources and slide shows. Suitable for KS2 science, pupils will explore fossils through reading passages, sequencing activities, worksheets, and more!
What’s included?
How a fossil is formed activities. These include differentiated sequence and fold templates for an ammonite and a triceratops fossil, printable sequencing cards, and reading passages.
Slideshow: What can fossils tell us? PowerPoint presentation outlining some of the things fossils can tell us, using real photos.
Fossil photo matching cards. 15 colour photo cards of real fossils, with labels to match (plus answers).
Reading passages and worksheets covering the work of a palaeontologist, types of fossils, and palaeoart.
12 fossil example word wall cards.
Fossil wordsearch.
12 fossils task cards.
Slideshow: Mary Anning Fossil Hunter. PowerPoint covering the life and work of paleontologist Mary Anning. The slideshow is accompanied by 3 graphic organiser templates and a foldable timeline activity.
Is this resource editable?
No. However, both slide shows have editable text boxes.
Re-cap some of the key words/vocabulary associated with Charles Darwin’s life.
Words can be found going forward, backwards, vertically and diagonally.
As an extension, challenge pupils to explain the significance of each word.
Includes answers.
Also available:
Who was Charles Darwin PowerPoint presentation
Who was Charles Darwin Google Slides presentation
