We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
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
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This global warming reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your humans and the environment topic. This is a basic text that goes through what global warming is, what impacts global warming, and why they it is an important issue that we need to be aware of. Once they’ve read the passage they will use the text to complete the comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
Reading passage
Differentiated Comprehension Questions
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
Check out our ‘Sea-Level Rise Reading Comprehension’.
Check out our ‘Solar Energy Reading Comprehension’.
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This foldable activity consists of 2 cootie catchers (or fortune tellers) for learning or revising the water cycle key terms. The children must try to figure out which part of the water cycle is being described. It’s a great way to have students review their knowledge and not even realise that they’re learning! They’ll be engaged and excited with this addictive activity (as I am sure you will be too!).
This pack contains two Cootie Catchers, each with a second copy included if you would like your students to write their own definitions for each key term themselves. There are visuals included to meet different learning styles.
Key Terms included:
- Water Cycle
- Condensation
- Transpiration
- Groundwater
- Cloud
- Evaporation
- Surface Runoff
- Water Vapor
- Precipitation
- Humidity
- Dew Point
- Perspiration
Folding and playing directions are also included.
Have fun!
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Check out our other science cootie catchers:
The Rock Cycle
Plant Structure
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These two worksheets will get your students considering the pros and cons of landfill and incineration as part of your humans and the environment topic. They’re perfect if you’re looking at pollution, waste management or environmental issues.
This resource contains two worksheets.
Worksheet 1 - They must decide whether the statement is a pro or con and which waste management strategy it is regarding.
Worksheet 2 - They must do their own research to find out the pros and cons of landfills and incineration plants.
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This differentiated activity is perfect for your sustainability topic as it gets students to think about which energy sources are renewable or not as well as the positives and negatives of each.
Worksheet 1: Students must cut out the images and decided whether it’s a renewable energy source or a fossil fuel, sticking them into the correct column.
Worksheet 2: Students must decide whether the pictures are a renewable energy source or not and think about the positives and negatives for each.
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An interactive PowerPoint and Quiz on recycling which is perfect for your sustainability / eco-friendly topic. It encourages the children to think about what happens to trash when it’s not recycled, the problems with recycling, and what we can do that’s even better for the environment than recycling.
Contents
Slides 1 – 5: Introduction to Recycling
Slides 6 – 8: Incineration and Landfill
Slides 9 – 19: Game - How long does it take to decompose?
Slides 20 – 24: What’s better than recycling?
Slides 25 - 29: Scary Facts
Slides 30 - 35: Quiz
Slide 36: Activity Ideas
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This STEM activity is all about the negative effects that plastic pollution in our oceans is having on humans and the environment. Students will be challenged to design and create their very own invention to help save our ocean plastic crisis.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Invention Example
Differentiated Design Sheets
Differentiated Final Idea Pan
Differentiated Evaluation Questions
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This pack contains 14 fact cards all about ocean plastics and the problems it’s having on animals and the environment. They’re great to be used as a display or research cards if you’re looking at plastic pollution or sustainability.
We love using fact cards for starter or plenary activities where you give each student a fact card. They must learn and remember the fact before going off, pairing up, and teaching each other the fact they learned.
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Packed with fun and interesting facts about our oceans, this fill-in-the-blank worksheet is a great way to introduce your oceans topic! As your children complete the sentences, they’ll learn about the importance of our oceans and the vital role they play. It’s also perfect as a filler or extension activity.
You may also be interested in our Ocean Facts Reading Comprehension.
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This reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your sustainability topic. This is a basic text that goes through what wind turbines are, how they work, and why they are an important energy source. Once they’ve read the passage they will use the text to complete the comprehension questions.
This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work.
Included:
Reading passage
Differentiated Comprehension Questions
Answer key
This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning.
Check out our ‘Renewable Energy Reading Comprehension’.
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A highly visual and interactive PowerPoint and quiz on earthquakes as part of your natural disasters geography unit. It’s perfect for introducing this topic or as a quick lesson recap.
Contents
Slides 1 - 9: Introduction
Slides 10 - 23: Vocabulary Quiz
Slides 14 - 27: Types of Earthquakes
Slides 28 - 29: Richter Scale
Slides 30 - 33: Case Study
Slides 34 - 43: Type of Earthquake Quiz
Slide 44: The Challenge
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A highly visual and interactive 40 slide PowerPoint and quiz on global warming as part of your science or geography unit. The PPT focuses the issues facing our planet caused by greenhouse gases, looking at how it’s damaging nature as well as what we can do to help and be more sustainable. It’s perfect for introducing this topic or as a quick lesson recap.
Contents:
Slides 1 – 4: What is global warming?
Slides 5 – 8: The causes
Slides 9 – 16: The problems
Slides 17 – 20: What we can do to help
Slides 21 – 26: Facts
Slides 27 – 39: Quiz
Slide 40: Activity Ideas
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18 visual types of pollution vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They are a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this relevant and engaging topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language or spelling difficulties. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid.
Contents
18 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
**Vocabulary Included
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Acid Rain
Air Pollution
Biodegradable
Chemical Pollution
Ecosystems
Fossil Fuels
Greenhouse Effect
Groundwater
Light Pollution
Natural Resources
Noise Pollution
Non-Renewable Resources
Pollution
Recycle
Renewable Resources
Thermal Pollution
Toxic Pollution
Water Pollution
Check out our other Word Walls:
- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- States of Matter
- Types of Energy
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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This natural disaster student booklet is a great project for students to carry out research on hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, and volcanoes, creating a page for each with space for a diagram or picture along with a front and back cover page. There is also a blank template so your students can add another natural disaster if they have finished. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity project if you’re looking at natural disasters.
This pack comes in both colour and black and white.
To create the booklet, cut each A4 page in half, hole punch the top corner, and use some string or treasury tags to hold them together.
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This interactive PowerPoint and quiz is a great overview when looking at how people celebrate Christmas Holidays in different countries around the world. It contains 2 – 3 slides for each of the 7 countries covered with fun facts and information about their different traditions. Along with this there is a fun quiz at the end to test their memory and knowledge!
Countries Covered
- Ethiopia
- France
- Greece
- Greenland
- India
- Puerto Rico
- Ukraine
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This recycling bundle is perfect for your sustainability topic. It gets students looking at the recycling process, helping them to become more aware of the issues facing our world. This pack contains a PowerPoint, Quiz, along with lots of fun cross-curricular activities that’ll keep them engaging for hours.
PowerPoint & Quiz: A 36 slide PowerPoint and quiz which looks at both the positives and negatives of recycling.
How long does the trash last?: A cut and stick activity where students match objects with the time it takes for them to decompose.
Funky flowers: Students will make flowers of given heights and specifications using old newspapers, magazines, etc.
Poster Template: A template for students to make a poster about the importance of recycling, explaining why and how.
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These activities are intended to get students thinking about what we do that can damage the environment as well as what we can do to help the environment and live more sustainably. There are three differentiated worksheets in this pack that are perfect for your ‘Humans and the Environment’ topic.
**Sheet 1: **This is a cut and stick activity where students will look at a group of pictures and decide which are bad and which are good for the environment.
**Sheet 2: **Students will look at pictures, decided if they are good or bad for the environment and write down their reasoning.
**Sheet 3: **Students will think about their day-to-day lives, considering what they do that may be damaging to the environment and what they do that may help the environment.
There are black and white copies of all the worksheets included is this pack.
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This free scavenger hunt template lets children develop their creativity by designing their own hunt for friends. They can fill in each box with an item of their choice, sending their friends on a mission to collect them all! Perfect for indoor or outdoor adventures.
Check out our Walking To School Scavenger Hunt!
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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’.
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A set of 10 weather symbols perfect for your weather or changing seasons topic. These cards can be used in a variety of ways in your classroom and are a great visual way to describe the weather conditions.
These symbol cards work perfectly with our ‘My Weather Diary’ resource.
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