I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
Lesson PowerPoint, planning and activity resources.
The third in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'States of Matter,' for the 2014 primary curriculum. Links to coverage of the curriculum are explicit in the planning (for both States of Matter and Working Scientifically)
We are learning to investigate freezing and melting.
We are learning to conduct a fair test.
An interesting mastery question for a starter - 'What weights more, a tonne of rocks or a tonne of feathers?'
Recaps children's prior knowledge from previous lessons.
Develop's children's scientific knowledge about what freezing and melting means.
Children explore the freezing and melting points of water.
Fun investigation to explore the melting point of water. Opportunity for everyone to be involved.
Encourages children to consider what a fair test is.
Step by step recording of the experiment modeled on the PowerPoint.
Further 'mastery' thinking required for deepening and mastering learning, through thought provoking questions etc.
3 differentiated activities (one is provided, one is supported by the PowerPoint, one is an independent task- tasks and is on the PowerPoint. Tasks can link with writing in literacy)
6 lesson plans for the Y4 science topic, living things and their habitats, including:
Grouping living things - plant and animal kingdoms.
Identifying and naming living things.
Vertebrates and invertebrates.
The 5 vertebrate groups.
Invertebrate groups.
Environmental changes.
Clear teaching points and questions to extend thinking.
3 differentiated tasks and ideas for activities.
Lesson PowerPoint, planning and activity resources.
The first in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'States of Matter,' for the 2014 primary curriculum.
We are learning to compare and group materials.
Children begin by working in groups and making their own decisions on how to group a range of materials and reason their choice to the class.
Opportunity for children to consider what the states of matter are and identify these within their own environment to make their learning meaningful.
Children start to explore the properties of materials.
Some 'mastery' thinking required for deepening and mastering learning.
3 differentiated activities (2 of these are provided, one is an independent task and is on the PowerPoint)
Lesson PowerPoint, easy to follow, explicit planning and activity resources.
The second in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'States of Matter,' for the 2014 primary curriculum.
We are learning to identify states of matter and their properties.
An interesting mastery question for a starter - 'If sand can be poured from one container to another, does this mean that it is a liquid?'
Recaps children's prior knowledge.
Develop's children's knowledge of the states of matter and their properties - specifically around particles.
Links to Ancient Greek topic as covers the Ancient Greek who first suggested particles.
Further 'mastery' thinking required for deepening and mastering learning, through thought provoking questions etc.
3 differentiated activities (2 of these are provided, one is an independent task and is on the PowerPoint. It has strong links to literacy)
End of unit science assessment for Y4 'Living things and their habitats' topic .
A range of questions from basic recall to data analysis and reasoning/explanations, to suit all abilities of learner.
22 questions over 4 pages. Total marks - 43
Mark scheme provided for answers.
Ideal for finishing off the series of 'Living things and their habitats' lessons.
Ideal practise for if children later do the KS2 science sampling SATs.
7 lesson plans for the Y4 states of matter science topic, covering:
Comparing and classifying materials.
Properties of solids, liquids and gases.
Melting and freezing.
Changing states.
Reversible and irreversible materials.
Condensation and evaporation.
Water cycle.
Clear teaching points and questions for extension.
3 differentiated activity ideas and ideas for experiments.
Two end of unit tests, each with a mark scheme.
One is for the Y4 topic, States of Matter.
The other is for the Y4 topic, Living Thing and their Habitats.
End of unit science assessment for Y4 'States of Matter' topic .
3 pages of a range of questions to suit different abilities.
Answer paper provided.
Ideal for finishing off the series of States of Matter lessons.
