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Various subject areas and age groups from health and social care, childcare to forest school. www.coursedetective.co.uk

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Various subject areas and age groups from health and social care, childcare to forest school. www.coursedetective.co.uk
'Find me...find a fact' Scavenger hunt. Play, learning, science and nature, key stage, outdoor
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'Find me...find a fact' Scavenger hunt. Play, learning, science and nature, key stage, outdoor

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A flexible activity to promote exploration, thinking skills and research skills, great for both the outdoor environment and carrying out further research from books or the internet. There are pictures of nature in the left column, children can interpret these pictures as they wish. Then in the other column boxes there are prompts to write, draw and find out a fact about something the child does not know yet about what they have found. Extra sheets are included for children to add their own pictures or write up extra facts and so on. Supports play, learning, science and nature, key stage one and two, eyfs/ eyfp, outdoor, also a useful teaching tool for child development, e.g. CACHE, BA Honours Early childhood studies and more, students could test it out and evaluate how children learn etc
Teaching about play to childcare/ early years students; mix 2
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Teaching about play to childcare/ early years students; mix 2

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Students can take part in or study the activities and consider the types of play promoted by them, they can write down notes and use the Maslow game and Montessori workshop to explore different concepts and the need for play in children's development. To explore the importance of play and consider and evaluate types, stages and theorists, also relate self identity to children’s. This can be used and adapted to suit the needs of your class. Pick and choose either the whole plans or aspects to suit your specification. Ideal for CACHE, HND, BA Honours in childhood studies 63%saving!
Try me box; Fun Easter edition 1, Childrens Easter activity
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Try me box; Fun Easter edition 1, Childrens Easter activity

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A fun selection of Easter activity prompts to set out in your outdoor area/ forest school area or a family activity! Children can take it in their own direction! Simply print out, laminate and place in a box ready for children to choose from. (A waterproof plastic box would be ideal)
Early years/ Foundation Stage/ Phase play and learning selection. Maths, transition, exploration. KS1/Early years
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Early years/ Foundation Stage/ Phase play and learning selection. Maths, transition, exploration. KS1/Early years

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BANG POW TELLING THE TIME game and day of the week with super heroes. This is a fun and active game ideal for hands on, kinaesthetic, learning through action learners. Could be used an end of term activity/ game. Can be differentiated depending on ability and could be played individually or as a group working together. Mixed ability groups could be ideal to learn from their peers. Suitable for early years, key stage one curriculum, for private tutors and home education/ schooling. TRANSITION PACK All about me transition pack for Nursery/ Reception introduction/ first school day A 9 page ‘All about me’ pack to help transition from one setting to another. You can either use the PowerPoint document and insert your own logo or the PDF. It is suitable for Nursery/ Reception children starting school SQUIDGEBOBS These quirky characters can help with ideas to Play games in Early Years, create activities and challenges for the outdoors and forest school, spark ideas for writing stories in key stage 1 and 2, make rhymes, match to meet and develop curriculum outcomes, learning about ‘ourselves’, likes, dislikes and much more, take it the way you and your children wish to meet their learning needs! Guess which animals they are made up of! 29% Saving!
NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce (Early Years Educator) Criteria 1.1 to 1.3
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NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce (Early Years Educator) Criteria 1.1 to 1.3

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Support healthy lifestyles for children through the provision of food and nutrition. Understand the impact of food and nutrition on children’s health and development. 1.1. Explain what is meant by healthy eating. 1.2. Evaluate national and local initiatives which promote healthy eating. 1.3. Describe food and drink requirements in relation to current frameworks This resource can be used to teach the below criteria within your childcare classroom
Nutritionopoly, health and social care, child care, unit 6, level2, level 3, health, well being.
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Nutritionopoly, health and social care, child care, unit 6, level2, level 3, health, well being.

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NUTRITIONOPOLY! An interactive, engaging game inspired by monopoly, perfect for many Health and social care/ childcare units- ideal for Level 2, unit 6 but would also fit in well to level 3. BTEC, CCLD, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CACHE, AQA, DEGREE, EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES and more. The hearts can be printed out numerous times and the property cards are to be printed out twice- once for each player to keep hold of if they buy a property and printed out together with the question card for each player to read out when it’s their turn. Nutrition Child Nutrition Health Well being Game rules Aim of the game. Race your way around the Nutritionopoly board as your favourite character. Earn points by collecting Hearts, buying property and answering questions. The player with the highest score wins. Contents; Gameboard, 4 character pieces, 22 property cards, 22 question cards with a Learning Point on. Each player chooses a character and places on GO. Each player starts the game with 6 hearts- 5 at 1 point and 1 worth 5 points, totaling 10 points. On your go- roll the dice and move character forward, collecting any coins along the way but not the space where you start. When you land on or pass GO, collect 2 tokens each time. Properties- on your turn you can buy the property that you land on and charge rent for each person that lands on it. If you have a full set then charge double the rent. For each property you land on, find the corresponding question card and complete to either earn extra points or allow other players to. If you go to jail- either use your turns to roll a 6 before being released or pay 3 points to get out sooner
Campfire fun
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Campfire fun

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Campfire fun can be carried out by parents or in settings with the children. Outdoor play, physical skills, problem solving, social play, knowledge and understanding of the world and lots more!
Diet and Exercise
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Diet and Exercise

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This power point can be used to introduce pupils/ students to diet and exercise, it's visual and asks questions, adapt to meet your classes needs.
Digital Presentation; How the outdoor aspect of Knowledge and Understanding of the world can be supp
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Digital Presentation; How the outdoor aspect of Knowledge and Understanding of the world can be supp

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This is a Masters level presentation containing 24 slides. This is an editable power point presentation. It explores perceptions of technology, debates, internet safety, developmentally appropriate technology outdoors, Integrating technology into the outdoor elements of the national curriculum (within knowledge and understanding of the world) theorists views, information about devices and how they can be used in the outdoors and a reference list. This could be utilised on CPD training sessions, could assist with assignment study towards a an early years qualification and more. Practitioners could feedback to others in order to develop settings in this area.
Supporting Teaching and Learning in schools, STLS childcare pack
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Supporting Teaching and Learning in schools, STLS childcare pack

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Excellent range of resources to support STLS teaching and learning in schools, can also cross reference to childcare and health and social care. Included are eye catching power points such as equality and diversity, a values activity, introduction to the role of a teaching assistant, hand out on how to review, session plans and more. These can be used to support CACHE/ City and Guilds/ and so on. Whether you teach/ train/ assess or a student looking for study help, these resources are great!
Cootie catcher revision tool for btec Unit 9 Healthy living exam/ external assessment
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Cootie catcher revision tool for btec Unit 9 Healthy living exam/ external assessment

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These Cootie Catchers are a super fun revision tool. Including a cootie catcher with a range of questions to promote revision and knowledge of the healthy living Unit 9 in Btec level 2 health and social care (exam/ external assessment). Contains pictures. Also another cootie catcher which has extra pictures added, this supports differentiation and provides extra prompts. Select to suit each individual student! How to play; Once the cootie catcher is made, one player picks an image from healthy eating, water, running or sleeping, which ever they pick from these, the other player spells out, for example; H E A L T H Y E A T I N G, THEN IT WILL LAND SHOWING 4 OF THE 8 IMAGES; These are to represent a colour, for example there is a PINK trainer and a PURPLE bed and Black berries etc. The player then spells out the colour of the image. This will land on 4 of the 8 images again, the player picks an image to open at this point. The question is read out by the other player and an answer is attempted, it can be discussed in pairs if required as it all helps with exam revision. Text books, internet, class notes can assist with the answers and revision. A blank template has been included for students to create their own. There is an answer sheet, in some questions there may be more answers available than are on the answer sheet Good luck and have fun!
Cootie catcher/ chatter box- revision game for Health and social care- sexual practice
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Cootie catcher/ chatter box- revision game for Health and social care- sexual practice

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These Cootie Catchers are a super fun revision tool. Including a cootie catcher with a range of questions to promote revision and knowledge of the healthy living Unit 9 in Btec level 2 health and social care. Contains pictures. Also another cootie catcher which has extra pictures added, this supports differentiation and provides extra prompts. Select to suit each individual student! Cootie catcher/ chatter box- revision game for Health and social care- sexual practice- external assessment, exam. Btec Health and Social Care
Outdoor/ forest school activity bumper pack extravaganza!
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Outdoor/ forest school activity bumper pack extravaganza!

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This is a super opportunity to download and use these resources, all in one great bundle! Included is a lovely campfire activity guide with learning opportunity ideas and a nutritious diet coke chicken curry recipe. A counting activity while den building! forest school plans that ideas can be drawn from to suit your own practice, a pack containing a scavenger hunt, safety triangles and more, nature star quotes that can be laminated and placed in your outdoor area. On top of all that, a Magazine based on utilising technology outdoors! Have great fun! 67% SAVING!
Portable mud kitchen for outdoor play
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Portable mud kitchen for outdoor play

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Portable mud kitchen for outdoor play This resource has been designed to encourage children to be creative, direct their own learning, have fun and spend time using and developing their skills outdoors. The wood cookies are the kitchen cooker hobs! The aim of this resource is to enable your child to create their own unique mud kitchen that can be transported to a setting of your choice, for example; the local park, your garden, back yard, a woodland, forest, river, lake, beach, anywhere you like! All you need to do is find an empty plastic box (cracker box)/ biscuit tin and so on as long as they are approximately the size of a shoe box, can be bigger if needed and have a lid to pop the kitchen equipment in. Your child can have fun choosing which images to use and place onto the box, they can either cut out one of the pre designed kitchens or select images from the other pages. Choosing which images they would like as the hob/ hob buttons etc. Children could search for natural objects such as pine cones to place on and use as their buttons if they wish. It may be a good idea to laminate before sticking or find a see through material that could be stuck around the finished box to protect from the rain and to enable to be wiped clean. Fill the mud kitchen box with equipment such as; small measuring pans, spoons, small bowls, dishes and have fun! This resource could also be use to support the teaching of childcare and development, the students could have a go at creating one to assist them with how a child could learn and develop from this activity- suitable for studying degrees, CACHE, AQA child development.
A MASSIVE Childcare and H and SC bundle! Btec, CACHE, Degrees, Hnc's etc
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A MASSIVE Childcare and H and SC bundle! Btec, CACHE, Degrees, Hnc's etc

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A MASSIVE Childcare and H and SC bundle! Btec, CACHE, Degrees, Hnc's etc This is our biggest bumper pack for Childcare/ development and Hand SC so far! This is very good value! Whether you are teaching childcare/ development and Health and social care, this will equip you with a range of power points; Play and UN convention Montessori workshop starter activity Routines Balanced diet Supporting teaching and learning in schools starter activity Nutrition Also a range of fun games and activities! All tried and tested in the classroom by a lecturer! Could tie in with training sessions and Degree qualifications too! If you are a student, these are useful revision/ study tools! A 67% SAVING when purchasing as a bundle Saved so much time on planning!
Play and the UN Convention; CACHE/ BTEC/ CHILDCARE
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Play and the UN Convention; CACHE/ BTEC/ CHILDCARE

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Play and the UN convention, mix and match activities. Mix and match, 2nd edition Students can either take part in the activities or research how children might take part. Then could make links to how the activities support the rights to play. CACHE, BTEC, CHILDCARE, EARLY YEARS EDUCATOR, Childcare, learning and development.