Welcome to The Curiosity Crows!
I’m an autistic explorer with a passion for natural sciences and the planet. I create hand-drawn, minimalist, black and white coloring pages—ideal for early finishers, students who need a brain break, or as top-up pages and wet break time fillers.
You’ll also find photo bundles of images taken in the days of camera film rolls, perfect for bringing a touch of exploration and nostalgia into your lessons. And paper dolls for top-up activities for your class.
Welcome to The Curiosity Crows!
I’m an autistic explorer with a passion for natural sciences and the planet. I create hand-drawn, minimalist, black and white coloring pages—ideal for early finishers, students who need a brain break, or as top-up pages and wet break time fillers.
You’ll also find photo bundles of images taken in the days of camera film rolls, perfect for bringing a touch of exploration and nostalgia into your lessons. And paper dolls for top-up activities for your class.
I created this 'flexible' colouring page for my class as part of our module on materials and their properties. Many of my students have English as a foreign language.
Please leave me a review and I will send you any other resource of your choice for free (contact me: office@oceansproject.com). Check out my other resources at my shop: /teaching-resources/shop/sarah277
Let me know if you have any resource requests and I will tailor make a resource for you.
A collection of food themed resources that can be used as part of a KS1 unit on changes within living memory.
Includes food origins, seasonal foods, treats, WW2 rationing, cooking, recipes, and shopping.
A colouring page that I drew for my geography students as part of a module on coastal defence. Based on the coastal defences of Alderney in the British Channel Islands.
“Braye Harbour (also known as Alderney Harbour) is the main harbour on the north side of the Island of Alderney, in the Channel Islands, a dependency of the British Crown. A 3,000 feet (910 m) break-water built by the Admiralty to protect the Navy in the 19th century shelters Braye Harbour.[1][2][3] It is an artificial harbour created by building a pier or jetty. The harbour faces out onto the Swinge, which is part of the English Channel. It is here that most of the island’s freight comes in. It is more or less a suburb of St Anne, which is a large settlement in Alderney that juts out on a rocky promontory on the west side, approximately 1 mile from the harbour”. (Wikipedia)
A colouring page that I created for my students as part of a geography lesson on coastal defences. This is part of the Braye Harbour wall on the British Channel Island of Alderney.
“Braye Harbour (also known as Alderney Harbour) is the main harbour on the north side of the Island of Alderney, in the Channel Islands, a dependency of the British Crown. A 3,000 feet (910 m) break-water built by the Admiralty to protect the Navy in the 19th century shelters Braye Harbour.[1][2][3] It is an artificial harbour created by building a pier or jetty. The harbour faces out onto the Swinge, which is part of the English Channel. It is here that most of the island’s freight comes in. It is more or less a suburb of St Anne, which is a large settlement in Alderney that juts out on a rocky promontory on the west side, approximately 1 mile from the harbour”. (Wikipedia)
A colouring page that I created for my class as part of a module on coastal defence in Britain. The page shows the bricks on the harbour wall in Alderney, British Channel Islands. Could also be used for a lesson on materials and properties or engineering.
“Braye Harbour (also known as Alderney Harbour) is the main harbour on the north side of the Island of Alderney, in the Channel Islands, a dependency of the British Crown. A 3,000 feet (910 m) break-water built by the Admiralty to protect the Navy in the 19th century shelters Braye Harbour.[1][2][3] It is an artificial harbour created by building a pier or jetty. The harbour faces out onto the Swinge, which is part of the English Channel. It is here that most of the island’s freight comes in. It is more or less a suburb of St Anne, which is a large settlement in Alderney that juts out on a rocky promontory on the west side, approximately 1 mile from the harbour”. (Wikipedia)
A collection of photos and hand drawn colouring pages of the World War Two bunkers on the British Channel Island of Alderney, which was evacuated and became the base for four prisoner of war camps, and a large fortified wall. Photos are taken at Bibette Head and across the island, including the Anti Aircraft bunker known as ‘The Odeon’.
The bundle would also be relevant for discussions about materials such as concrete and metal, sea water corrosion of metal, architecture and design, engineering, and the human impacts of the war. The local children were evacuated first, and Jewish labourers were brought to the camps. Today on the island you will find older generations and families where the labourers married the soldiers and the soldiers remained after the war to help clear up the 30,000 or more land mines. Why was the island part of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall? Was there a strategy in place? How was the concrete brought to the island by ship? How did they use concrete to camouflage the bunkers to look like rocks? Why did the soldiers take wood from the houses to burn?
A colouring page that I created for my class when we were learning about World War Two. I drew this after visiting the ‘Odeon’ concrete bunker on the British Channel Island of Alderney’.
WW2 bunker ‘The Odeon’ in Alderney. This is about 3 or 4 storeys high and has an anti-aircraft emplacement at the back. Alderney is said to have been the most heavily fortified of the Channel Islands. At one time the allies contemplated landing there as a rehearsal for D-Day". (Wikipedia)
Each year the islanders on the British Channel Island of Alderney take part in an arts and crafts competition to see who can grow the best vegetables, make the best cake, paint the best pictures, or make the nicest jams. It is all part of being in a community and raises money for local causes. A small collection of photos from my time in and around coastlines of Britain (Alderney, Channel Islands). Please note that some of these were taken with slide film before the arrival of digital cameras.
A quirky themed worksheet which could be used for a variety of lessons. Based on the nautical origins of the ‘Thunderbox’ toilet. Especially of use for topics on euphemisms, World War II, undersea exploration, biology lessons on digestion and bowels (why we fart), and to demonstrate the important role that engineers have in preventing loss of lives.
This lesson has been created by real life explorer
Learning Objectives:
1. Students should write for different purposes (KS2 English)
2. Students should plan, draft, edit and proof-read (KS3-4 English)
3. Students should be taught to develop their creativity and ideas, and increase proficiency in their execution. (KS3 Art and Design).
4. Students should consider diverse national, regional, religious and ethnic identities in the United Kingdom and the need for mutual respect and understanding (KS4 Citizenship).
5. Students should recognise common uses of information technology beyond school (KS1 Computer Science).
6. Students should be taught to develop their capability, creativity and knowledge in computer science, digital media and information technology (KS4 Computer Science).
7. Students should be taught to design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria (KS1 Design and Technology).
A colouring activity to help students learn about the colour brown. Ideal for primary school students, and students learning English as a foreign language. Could be used to show a range of shades of the colour.
A materials, properties, characteristics, and actions themed colouring activity to inspire students to think about the world around them. Ideal for primary school students, and students learning English as a foreign language.
A materials, properties, characteristics, and actions themed colouring activity to inspire students to think about the world around them. Ideal for primary school students, and students learning English as a foreign language.
A materials, properties, characteristics, and actions themed colouring activity to inspire students to think about the world around them. Ideal for primary school students, and students learning English as a foreign language.
A collection of photos taken in and around the World War Two bunkers on the British Channel Island of Alderney, which was evacuated and became the base for four prisoner of war camps, and a large fortified wall.
Photos are taken at Bibette Head and across the island, including the Anti Aircraft bunker known as ‘The Odeon’.
An environment, materials and recycling themed colouring activity to inspire students to think about the materials we use to make things, and how we dispose of them after we use them. Ideal for primary school students, and students learning English as a foreign language.
A materials, properties, characteristics, and actions themed colouring activity to inspire students to think about the world around them. Ideal for primary school students, and students learning English as a foreign language.
A materials, properties, characteristics, and actions themed colouring activity to inspire students to think about the world around them. Ideal for primary school students, and students learning English as a foreign language.
