I am a qualified teacher turned education consultant with more than a decade of classroom teaching experience and 3 years of home education experience.
This Ocean Zone "project" includes everything you need to make a fun and engaging unit on ocean zones for 5-8 year olds. It can be split up in many ways but I recommend spending one class covering the 5 ocean zones and their respective animals, the next class making ocean zone density jars and a third class making ocean zone paintings. You can assign the ocean zone fact file sheet and ocean zone dioramas as fun homework between the classes. This unit includes: -An ocean zone chart -Descriptions
This resource comes with all the information, instructions, and vocabulary to help your students create a to-scale model of our solar system and to learn more about our Solar System. Depending on your students' age this project can be done in class with a teacher leading or at home individually! The following elements are included in this resource: -An age differentiated plan -2 different planet scales (one which includes pictures that are already to-scale) -Step by step instructional photos to
This activity pack is perfect for the classroom. It covers seven different countries/cultures and their respective Christmas traditions! These countries are: -France -Germany -Iceland -Japan -Kenya -Spain -Ukraine The activities include an info sheet and reading comprehension activity, essential Christmas vocab in their respective languages, and unique activities that match the countries. Please note that Ukraine does not have a Christmas vocab sheet but includes an additional Christmas story in
This cloud viewer includes 9 types of clouds your students can match to what they see. Younger children can enjoy pointing to and finding the matching clouds even if they can't read their names. Older students can learn the different types of clouds and take it as a vocabulary lesson as well. Not only will it satisfy their intellectual curiosity but clouds will always be around and it's kind of nice to look up and recognize what type they are. Students will look back and fondly remember this ex
This crafting bundle includes 29 different crafts that are ideal for elementary school children and cover decorating, animals, science, the environment, and more: -Create a beach and shoreline model (Use to explore beach erosion) -Cotton candy/candy floss puffy pain craft (Looks tasty but not for consumption) -Simple card designing and making craft -Pop-up card making craft -Easy crafts: Bunting and Paper Chains -A Recycled Tiger Craft -Making a Miniature Pond -An Ocean Zone Painting -An Ocean Z
This bundle includes my complete Ocean Adventures Series and a special bonus! Check out the individual previews and descriptions. I've used these lessons countless times over the years and they've always been a hit whether teaching in person or online. This bundle is ideal for homeschool but can also be great in the classroom. It can be difficult to fully explore all of these lessons in the limited time teachers have to go through their entire syllabus. As such, I have found that these lessons c
This paleontology unit can be broken down into two lessons. In the first you will cover the different rock layers. In the following lesson you can create a mini dig site for your students and have them find different "fossils" or objects you've placed. Talk about how everything we would find is from the Cenozoic age. Then have them figure out how deep they would have to dig to reach the older time periods. This lesson also includes worksheets to record dig findings and artifacts. The next lesson
This thematic Mayan pyramid unit can be broken down into 2 to 4 lessons. For the first lesson you will explore the different pyramids through the info/fact sheets. Here are some lesson ideas: -Break the class down into groups. Give each group a different pyramid and get them to teach the class about that pyramid. -You could also put pictures of the pyramids on the walls of the classroom. Each member of the group goes to an individual pyramid, takes notes on the different features then when t
Market research is all about understanding your product and your audience. Who is your target audience and who would be your ideal customer? In this activity your students will imagine they run a theme park. They will ask a host of questions through surveys and tallies in order to properly understand their target audience. This activity can be done individually at home, in groups, or all together in the classroom. I suggest your students fill out who their target audience would be twice: once b
These great, informational cards have everything your students will ever need to know about the 10 major types of clouds. You can print multiple of these to a page and laminate them to make cute information cloud cards or go the other way and blow them up for classroom posters. Included are 10 different types of clouds: stratus, cumulus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus, altocumulus, altostratus, cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, and cumulonimbus. This Montessori style "3 part cards" lesson can be
This activity pack is perfect for the classroom. It covers six different countries/cultures and their respective Christmas traditions! These countries are: -Australia -Egypt -Finland -Italy -South Korea -United Arab Emirates (Specifically Dubai) The activities include an info sheet and reading comprehension activity, essential Christmas vocab in their respective languages, and unique activities that match the countries. TpT rewards free credits to you for leaving a review so don't forget to
This resource can be broken down into multiple lessons, homework assignments or a mix of both. The following lessons can be done in groups or individually: -For the first lesson use the map and research the distances between the theme parks and your school. Then order them by distance. -For the next lesson you can either use the pack a bag page as a quick class discussion/ class warmup, or break up the class into groups. Each group needs to come up with the 3 items they need to pack the most. Th
I create sensory poems, stories and rhymes to benefit all children in Pre-k and kindergarten, and any elementary school children with SEN. Whether in a classroom with multiple students or in a 1 to 1 situation, these stories can be a life saver. They allow you to meet the sensory needs of children in a way that many people don't know about. These sensory experiences can be fun and even beautiful experiences for children and adults alike. This specific sensory story is called Rainforest Sensory
My tropical rainforest layers resources are perfect for your rainforest unit study. They are created as a complete project ideal for PBL but can be equally fulfilling individually in the classroom. Some of the activities are perfect for group work such a creating a rainforest terrarium or adventuring down a rainforest layer sensory path. Whereas others are ideal for individual classwork or even homework, such as: a rainforest layer flipbook, handwriting and colouring sheets and animal and plant
These beach themed activities can be used in classroom lessons, outdoor lessons or even fun homework assignments. This lesson bundle includes printables on: -Beach Geography -Beach Alliteration -Descriptive Writing about Beaches -Making a Sand Art Jar -Making a Beach and Shoreline Model -Beach Erosion -A Tidal Chart -A Beach Survey With my own students I would spend the first class on beach geography. You can give half your students pictures, and the other half words. Leave it to them to match
I am a qualified teacher turned education consultant with more than a decade of classroom teaching experience and 3 years of home education experience.
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Cross-curricular thematic learning.
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Hello, I hope you'll love my resources. I work as a qualified teacher and have run a home education business, so I create printables and projects with both types of learning in mind!
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