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.
Teach your children about electricity through our Electricity Task Cards. This is a fantastic hands on activity that will teach your children to construct series and parallel circuits. They will love creating the circuits from the differentiated task cards.
This can be done using electrical components or our symbol cards provided.
Contents:
- x 14 Electricity circuit diagram cards
- Electrical components symbol cards
We hope you enjoy!
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This coordinate activity pack contains two different sets of activities and is designed to help children master coordinates in a fun and engaging way.
One of the activities contains 8 differentiated (4 quadrant and 1 quadrant) worksheets where the children need to crack the code by finding the hidden animal name in the coordinates gird.
The second is an outdoor activity where the children must hide words that make up a secret message at the correct coordinates around your school. This activity was a real hit with my class and now they do it for fun! It is also great for improving map reading skills.
Contents
- 8 differentiated ‘Hidden Animal’ worksheets
- 2 differentiated worksheets for the outdoor activity with a ‘How To Use’ explanation sheet
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Capacity, Volume, and Measurement Activity: This outdoor lesson helps students explore the concepts of capacity and volume through an engaging scavenger hunt. Students identify containers in their surroundings, estimate their capacities, and use measuring tools to verify their predictions…
What’s Included:
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Detailed teacher guide for the activity.
Differentiated worksheets for varied abilities.
Practical tips for estimating and measuring.
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Activity Highlights:
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Real-World Learning: Connect math concepts to everyday objects.
Hands-On Exploration: Students actively search, estimate, and measure.
Critical Thinking: Encourages analysis of estimates versus actual results.
Ideal for teaching measurement in a practical and interactive way, this activity works well in any outdoor setting and supports a range of learning levels.
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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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Your class are sure to love this fun coloring activity where they will get tons of practise looking at 1 more or less and 10 more or less. They will color a 1-100 grid by answering questions to reveal the secret picture. It’s a great visual way for children to practise this adding and taking away ones and tens.
There are two sheets, one for 1 more or less and one for 10 more or less.
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise long multiplication without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with differentiated long multiplication problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to teach multiplication.
Contents:
Diff. 1: 1 digit x 2 digit numbers
Diff. 2: 1 digit x 3 digit numbers
Diff. 3: 2 digit x 2 digit numbers
Diff. 4: 2 digit x 3 digit numbers
Check out our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
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Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000
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This math board game is a great way for students to practise multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with differentiated multiplication and division problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to teach addition.
Contents:
Diff. 1: Whole numbers
Diff. 2: Larger whole numbers
Diff. 3: Includes decimals
Diff. 4: Includes decimals (more challenging)
Check out our Other Board Games:
Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game
Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals
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A set of entertaining NO PREP long multiplication puzzles for your students to practice one, two, and three digit numbers. Each differentiated puzzle has a complete set and a muddled puzzle set. I have used these to great success over the last few months. My children have loved them as a way to reinforce or learn long multiplication.
This pack includes puzzles for:
- 1 digit x 2 or 3 digit
- 2 digit x 2 or 1 digit
- 3 digit x 3 or 2 digit
Check out our other Math Tarsia Puzzles
Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, and 1000
Fractions of Numbers
Equivalent Fractions
Times Tables Tarsia Puzzle Activity
Number Bond Tarsia Puzzles: 100, 500, and 1000
Measurement Conversion Tarsia Puzzles: MM, CM, and Meters
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These 7 differentiated electricity worksheets and activities will teach your children about complete circuits, symbols, and conductors and insulators in a fun and practical way. They work perfectly with your electricity and magnetism topic along with our other ‘Exciting Electricity’ products.
Contents:
- x 2 ‘Know Your Symbols’ (Cut and stick)
- x 3 ‘Will It Light?’ (Working out if the circuit is complete)
- x 1 ‘Will It Conduct?’ (Testing materials to see if they conduct
electricity)
- x 1 ‘Conductor Or Insulator?’ (Cut and stick)
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Playground Battleships is a great way to learn about, or recap finding coordinates on a one quadrant grid.
In pairs your class will play a large scale version of Battleships by drawing a grid using chalk and then using natural objects or chalk to keep track of when and where their ships have been hit.
Resources needed:
Chalk
Natural objects (stones, sticks, leaves, etc.) – optional
Resource sheet
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The students have been trapped in a magic classroom by a mischievous wizard who has hidden the key to unlock the door in a series of algebraic equations. They must work together to solve the equations and find the key before time runs out! This escape room is a great end to your algebra topic or perfect start to see what they already know! This resource has 8 clue cards each with an algebra equation they must solve.
This resource comes with two sets of 8 clue cards. The green ones are slightly easier and the blue ones are a little trickier.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
2 Sets of 8 Clue Cards (green = easier & blue = more complex)
Answer Sheet
Congratulation Card
Check out our Algebra Task Cards
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This pack contains three differentiated science investigation plan templates. They are a great way to help students organize their thoughts and ideas before carrying out the investigation.
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This cross-curricular math / science activity is designed to get your class thinking about how much sugar is in the food that they’re eating as part of your healthy eating topic. They will look at how many cubes of sugar different foods contains and use that information to figure out how many grams of sugar each food kind contains (using their 4x table).
This pack included 3 differentiated sheets.
LA: Only using whole numbers
HA: Using decimals
Blank sheet where they find out their own foods using the internet for research.
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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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Encourage students to explore biodiversity with this engaging outdoor lesson! In this activity, students will place a hula hoop in a chosen outdoor area and carefully observe the plants and animals within its boundary. Using the included activity sheet, they will record all the different species they find. After completing their survey, they will reflect on their findings by answering evaluation questions on a separate worksheet.
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This hands-on activity helps develop observation skills, introduces key ecology concepts, and encourages discussion about habitats and biodiversity. Perfect for science lessons, outdoor learning, and cross-curricular links with geography and environmental studies.
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Includes:
Hula Hoop Habitat Survey activity sheet
Evaluation questions worksheet
Teacher’s guide with instructions
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Get your class outdoors and investigating nature with this simple but effective biodiversity survey!
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This plant growth diary is a great tool for helping children build their science and observation skills while taking care of their own plant. Each week, they’ll fill in the diary sheet, noting key updates on their plant’s development as they track its growth and any changes they observe.
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Contents:
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Teacher’s Guide
Plant Research Sheet
2 Differentiated Plant Diaries
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We think you’ll also love our Living Things Task Cards!
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It’s time to get messy writing instructions for and making potions! This fun activity is sure it be a hit with your class while the learn about the key features in instruction writing such as imperative verbs and time connectives. At the end of it all they will have their own set of instructions for their very own magic potion using natural materials.
Our teaching structure:
1: Show examples of instructions and highlight the features
2: Get the children to go outside to think about which natural resources they may want to use.
3: Fill in the planning sheet
4: Write the instructions
5: Swap the instructions and make the potions!
Contents
- Teacher’s Guide
- Instructions Checklist
- Potion Instructions Example
- Planning Sheet
- Differentiated Instructions Template
We hope you have as much fun as our class did!
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A guide for birds commonly found in the British woodlands & gardens. Laminate these sheets and take them with you when heading outside or keep a set accessible for students to use as they wish.
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This is a great literacy game to send home with your children that is easy to prepare. Each child must go on a journey to try and find things that they can see, smell and touch for each letter of the alphabet.
Depending on ability, you may want to get children to write, draw, or write and draw the answers. Their journeys can be anything from their trip to school to a walk up a mountain! There are loads of fun challenges you can set with this activity.
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Whether it’s blowing a gale, raining or bright sunshine this is the perfect lesson to encourage descriptive writing through the use of figurative language. The weather is such a powerful learning tool that can spark worlds of imagination. For this activity you will take the students outside in a variety of different conditions and allow them to use their senses to come up with similes, metaphors, and alliteration to describe the conditions.
This is a great activity to do before writing a story when thinking about setting descriptions.
We have loads more weather themed resources to check out!
- Weather Diary
- Weather Investigation
- Weather Word Wall
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