I am a qualified teacher turned education consultant with more than a decade of classroom teaching experience and 3 years of home education experience.
These ocean zone slides are perfect for a fun and engaging ocean class adventure. Start by handing out the fact file worksheet. Every student can have one sheet, 5 sheets or break up your class into groups and each group can cover its own ocean zone! Your class can learn all about the different zones and some of the animals that dwell in them. The PowerPoint includes a fun animation that accompanies you as you descend through the zones. Vocabulary for 6-8 year olds includes: Sunlight Zone, Twil
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 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 lesson/lab includes a 9 slide power point, an age differentiated lesson plan and an 11 page handout. In the preview you can see the age differentiated lesson plan as well as the instructions for the experiment/lab. Start the power point and perform the experiment. Discuss the results as a class. They can fill out the lab and present their results during the same class or as a homework assignment. Depending on your students' ages you might have to do most of the heavy lifting. TpT rewards f
This resource is part of my Ocean Adventures series and includes a 7 slide PowerPoint and a two page critical thinking printable. The PowerPoint is perfect for a single lesson. The printable can be used in conjunction with the lesson or assigned as homework. The PowerPoint includes information on deep seas such as pressure and discusses how different animals have adapted to that environment. Two slides as well as the printable can be seen in the thumbnails and preview. TpT rewards free credits
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
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
These ocean slides are perfect for a fun and engaging ocean class adventure. Start by using the blank map and elicit if anyone knows the name and locations of any of the oceans. It doesn't matter if they are wrong or do not know them. Hand out a copy of the blank map to each student. Then read and discuss the individual oceans and place them on the map. Once the map is full, try breaking up into groups for the quiz questions. Finish off by learning about and discussing the different animals for
This resource is part of my Ocean Adventure series. It includes an 11 slide PowerPoint and a 4 page follow-up activity. You can preview both the follow-up activity as well as some of the slides. This lesson should cover one class period. Start the lesson by going over the oceans on the map. Elicit their names and locations from your students. It doesn't matter if they don't know any. Sometimes even the older students don't know where they are and it's never too late to learn. From there label th
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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