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Elementary science
Magnetism Outdoor Activity: Does It Stick?
This activity gets your students looking at which materials are magnetic. They will go around outside equipped with a magnet to investigate which objects it sticks to.
They will go outside equipped with a magnet to investigate which items it sticks to, recording their results in the table. They can then answer the differentiated questions encouraging them to think about which kind of materials the magnet is attracted to.
**Equipment needed:
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Resource sheets
Magnets
**Contents: **
Teacher Guide
Activity Sheet - Diff. 1
Activity Sheet - Diff. 2
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British Woodland and Garden Birds ID Guide
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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North American Woodland Birds ID Guide
A guide for birds commonly found in the North American 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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Animal Adaptation Huge Bundle - PowerPoint, Activities, Investigations & Vocab
This fun, engaging, and practical PowerPoint, activities, and vocabulary cards bundle is perfect for your animal adaptations topic. It gets children to think about how animals have adapted to survive in different habitats, looking closely at camouflage and mimicry with a wide range of activities to suit different learning styles.
This pack contains a fun PowerPoint and quiz, a selection of practical indoor and outdoor activities, a science investigation, and a word search and cootie catcher which is great for filler work as well as a key term vocabulary card pack.
PowerPoint Contents:
Slides 1 – 8: Introduction
Slides 9 – 13: Physical Adaptions
Slides 14 – 19: Behavioural Adaptations
Slides 20 – 29: Quiz
Slide 30: Conclusion
Worksheets Contents:
1 x ‘Spot The Camouflage’ - Go outside on the hunt for camouflaged animals.
2 x ‘Masters of Disguise’’ - Find the hidden animals in the photos and explain how they are camouflaged.
3 x ‘Camouflage This Bug’ - Color in the bug to camouflage it against the background.
2 x ‘My Invisible Animal’ - Cut out the animal and think of somewhere to hide it. Colour it in to make it camouflage and see if another member of the class can find it.
1 x Word search
1 x Cootie catcher
Science Investigation Pack:
Children will investigate whether our physical appearances effect our ability to do different tasks, answering question such as ‘do people with longer legs run faster?’
6 x investigation cards
2 x differentiated investigation plan template
2 x differentiated results table
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Jungle Animals Student Research Booklet
This jungle animals student booklet is a great project for students to carry out research and record facts on all their favorite jungle animals. They’ll create a page for each animal with space for a picture along with a front and back cover page. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity if you’re doing a jungle topic.
This pack comes in both color and black and white as well as a blank template.
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.
Animals included:
DART FROG
ELEPHANT
GORILLA
GREEN ANACONDA
JAGUAR
ORAGUTAN
SCARLET MACAW
THREE-TOED SLOTH
TIGER
LEOPARD
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Microorganisms Student Booklet
This microorganisms student booklet is a great project for students to carry out research on algae, protozoa, bacteria, fungi, helminths, and viruses, creating a page for each with space for a diagram or picture along with a front and back cover page. It’s perfect as a personal project or extension activity project if you’re looking at microorganisms.
This pack comes in both color 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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Forces and Motion Word Search Activity
This forces and motion visual word search is a great way to reinforce or introduce your topics key vocabulary. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! Your class will learn the key terms in no time with the help of our fun visuals and word search.
Key Vocabulary:
Acceleration
Balanced Force
Deceleration
Energy
Force
Friction
Gravity
Joule
Kinetic Energy
Mass
Momentum
Motion
Newton
Potential Energy
Velocity
Weight
Check out our other science word searches:
- Animal Adaptations
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Animal Adaptations Word Search Activity
This animal adaptations visual word search is a great way to reinforce or introduce your topics key vocabulary. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! Your class will learn the key terms in no time with the help of our fun visuals and word search.
Key Terms:
Adaptation
Behavior
Camouflage
Conservation
Ecosystem
Environment
Endangered Species
Extinct
Habitat
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
Predator
Prey
Invertebrate
Vertebrate
A color and black and white copy are included in this pack.
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Science Murder Mystery - Materials and their Properties - States of Matter
Science Murder Mysteries are great fun for both you and the students. For this mystery students will use their knowledge of materials and their properties as well as their states of matter knowledge to investigate who poisoned Andrew Smith. They’ll look at the 5 suspects poisons both using their eyes and under a microscope and compare the poisons to the one found at the crime scene.
They’ll have to figure out how to separate the substances in the water (salt, sugar, etc.) to take a closer look and make their comparisons to figure out which suspect to put in jail!
Contents:
Teacher’s Guide
Bottle Labels
The Crime Brief
Investigation sheet part 1
Investigation sheet part 2
Conclusion questions
Equipment needed:
Resource pack
6 plastic bottles per group
Petri dishes
Pipet
Microscope (or magnifying glasses if not available)
Salt, sugar, & coffee
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Healthy Eating - Food Categories Cut and Stick
This cut and stick healthy eating activity looks at the different food categories, getting students to think about what makes a balanced diet. This pack contains three worksheets, one where they look at unhealthy and healthy foods, another where they compare carbohydrates and proteins, and another where they look at fats and sugars.
Check out our bundle for more activities that will fit in perfectly with your healthy eating and nutrition topic.
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Periodic Table Tarsia Puzzle Activity
A set of entertaining NO PREP periodic table puzzles for your students to practice recognising symbols in the periodic table. Each differentiated puzzle has a complete set and a muddled puzzle set. I have used these to great success over the last few months. These puzzles are a great extension or main activity to help revise this tricky topic in a fun and engaging way.
Contents:
2 x Complete Tarsia Puzzles
2 x Mixed Tarsia Puzzles
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Mini-Beast Identification Sheet
A useful resource that can be laminated and taken outside for your students to explore and identify different mini-beasts.
This resource fits in perfectly with our outdoor science activities.
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Living Things: The Bird Feed Investigation - Outdoor Science
Have you ever wondered what birds love to eat? This outdoor science investigation will look at exactly that and fits in perfectly with your living things, habitats, or animal’s topic. Your class will build their own bird feeder before making a different mix of bird treats to investigate which birds prefer which treats. They can then use this research to build bird feeders for your school grounds with the treats that the birds love the most.
This investigation is also great for your data-handling topic.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Bird Feeder Instructions
Differentiated Investigation Plan
Differentiated Results Table
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Plant Parts and Functions Vocabulary Cards
14 visual parts of a plant and functions vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They’re 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
14 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
Chlorophyll
Flower
Leaf
Ovary
Petal
Photosynthesis
Pistil
Pollen
Root
Seed
Stamen
Stem
Stigma
Style
**Check out our other Word Walls:
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- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- States of Matter
- Types of Energy
- Types of Pollution
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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Types of Energy Vocabulary Cards
14 visual types of energy 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 exciting 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
14 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
Absorption
Chemical Energy
Electrical Energy
Electromagnetic Energy
Energy
Heat
Heat / Thermal Energy
Kinetic Energy
Light Energy
Mechanical Energy
Nuclear Energy
Potential Energy
Solar Energy
Sound Energy
Check out our other Word Walls:
- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- States of Matter
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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States of Matter Vocabulary Cards
14 visual states of matter 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 exciting 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
14 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
State
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Viscosity
Temperature
Volume
Pressure
Change of State
Melting
Evaporation
Boiling
Check out our other Word Walls:
- Animal Adaptations
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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Animal Adaptations Vocabulary Cards
13 visual animal adaptations 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 exciting 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
13 X Key Vocabulary Cards
Display Title
2 X Blank Cards (for the children to create their own)
Vocabulary Included
Adaptation
Camouflage
Carnivore
Endangered Species
Extinct
Habitat
Herbivore
Instinct
Mimicry
Omnivore
Predator
Prey
Behaviour
Check out our other Word Walls:
- Forces and Motion
- The Rock Cycle
- Weather & The Water Cycle
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Healthy Eating & Nutrition: What's In Your Lunchbox?
This free activity is a great way to get your class thinking about which foods create a healthy balanced diet as part of your health and nutrition topic. They will take a look in their lunch box to see what goodies are waiting for them and investigate the sugar content of each item using our sugar sheet, food packages, and the internet for research.
They will then complete the results table and answer some simple questions getting them to think carefully about what’s in their lunchbox, if it’s healthy, and what they could do to make it even healthier.
Contents:
Teacher’s Guide
Sugar Sheet
Results Table & Questions
This activity also has great links to addition with decimals.
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Circulatory System Cootie Catcher Activity
This activity is a cootie catcher (or fortune teller) for learning or revising the circulatory system. The children must try to figure out which key vocabulary term is being described (or visa-versa). It’s a great way to have students review their knowledge of the circulatory system 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 includes a complete cootie catcher where they need to figure out the definition, another where they need to figure out the key vocabulary, and another where they must complete the definitions themselves before playing.
There is a black and white copy of each sheet included as well as a blank template for them to create their own.
Vocabulary included:
Aorta
Arteries
Capillaries
Left Ventricle
Plasma
Platelets
Pulmonary Artery
Red Blood Cells
Right Ventricle
Valves
Veins
White Blood Cells
Folding and playing directions are also included as well as a blank template for them to create their own.
Have fun!
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Outdoor STEM Activity - Stick Towers - Science, Math, & Financial Literacy
This fun STEM team building activity (with math and financial literacy links) is designed to get your students outside developing a variety of team learning skills as well as allowing them to enjoy using your outdoor space. It’s perfect on a sunny afternoon at the end of year. Their challenge is to create the highest tower using sticks and string, however there are a few rules they must follow in order to complete the challenge.
Contents:
Teacher Guide
Challenge Instructions
Design Sheet
Points Record Sheet
Science Evaluation Questions
Team Skills Evaluation Questions
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