Eccentric Earth Learning

Bring Christmas to life with Kuwi the Kiwi! Explore gratitude, appreciation, and the joy of giving through heart-warming reading and writing activities. Children will reflect on gifts they’ve received, imagine gifts they could give, and practise using kind words to show thanks. Add festive fun with a Christmas Cloze challenge, playful alliteration animals, and a ready-to-use learning wall packed with sentence starters and vocabulary. The unit flows perfectly into meaningful Christmas crafts

Not Your Typical Matariki LessonIt’s time to go beyond just colouring in star pictures! Let’s explore different sides of Matariki with the creative story Flit the Fantail and the Matariki Map. This lesson plan blends the Māori New Year with a range of curriculum topics for a richer, more dynamic learning experience: Reading and Appreciating the Story: Deepen understanding through comprehension and analysis, connecting the themes of Matariki to the narrative. Alliteration Adventure: Create you

All the letters that misbehave and make words nearly impossible to pronounce.This resource pack is the perfect accompaniment to the book P is for Pterodactyl, but you don’t need the book to use it! Use this as a valuable part of your class literacy focus, or as a fantastic resource to keep on hand for supply teachers! Reading Task:Play Popcorn Pronunciation to collect as many words as you can by pronouncing them correctly. Writing:Roll-a-Plot to create a quirky story using eccentric English. M

Hey! Ho! What a show! Look at what we’ve made! Let’s see if we can find more friends for the Easter Hat Parade. Begin by reading the book together as a class. Explore the unique characters and their hats through rich discussion of the vocabulary, illustrations, and the deeper messages within the text. Core Lessons: Reading: Forget Easter eggs - Australia has its own amazing egg-laying native animals! Students will explore short texts that highlight these unique creatures and how they live in the

This resource, based on the Bluey book Cricket, offers an engaging way to teach young learners essential life skills through fun and interactive activities. The story of Rusty and his love for cricket highlights perseverance, resilience, teamwork, and family values. Rusty faces challenges on the cricket field, learning to handle failure and grow with the support of his family and team. Core Lessons: Perseverance: Rusty shows the importance of sticking with challenges and not giving up.Resilien

Protecting Vultures: Nature's Cleanup CrewThis engaging text teaches readers about the vital role vultures play in keeping the environment clean and healthy. As scavengers, vultures feed on dead animals, speeding up decomposition and preventing the spread of disease. The text highlights their unique adaptations and also explores the dangers vultures face. A creative thinking task challenges students to come up with innovative ideas for protecting vultures. This text is perfect for teaching stude

Explore Nature's Cleanup CrewThis captivating reading text introduces young readers to the fascinating process of decomposition and how nature recycles life. Perfect for teaching the concepts of recycling, the food chain, and environmental balance, this text includes a creative task where students can write their own first-person story as an atom traveling through the cycle of life.

Unlock the power of digraphs with this short decodable text!Perfect for early readers, this decodable book focuses on the /ea/ and /ee/ digraphs while reinforcing essential phonics skills. Designed for students who already know single consonant and short vowel sounds, this text also offers a great revision of the floss rule, open syllables, and initial and final blends. This decodable opens the world of hydrothermal vent creatures to young children, starting with the fascinating Yeti Crab. It’

Cute task cards to help children stay on track with their learning.

Learn about the vent octopus and then bring children's creativity into reading to truly showcase their comprehension. Use 'the creator' to make connections to our world by designing a new sea creature that could thrive around hydrothermal vents. Use the vent octopus as inspiration for your design.

The Earth's crust is cracking and spreading apart. Minerals build up and form hydrothermal vent chimneys. These vents are home to creatures that don't rely on sunlight for energy. Explore hydrothermal vents and some of the creatures that live around them! Dig deeper into the reading through 'the understander' by skimming, scanning and answering explicit knowledge questions.

Cooperative role cards are designed to support student-led guided reading lessons. These role cards ensure that every child in the reading group has an active role to play. They are ideal for all levels, including mixed-ability groups, as they don't rely solely on the children's reading skills and abilities. A director's script empowers the group leader to effectively run the lesson. Roles include: The Director The Understander The Detective The Inferencer The Inventor The Creator These role car

Here's the problem: The scaly-foot snail is in danger because the big machines used in seabed mining are destroying its home. However, the metals extracted are important. Your challenge: Invent a new way for people to collect valuable metals from the ocean floor that keeps sea animals, like the snaily-foot snail, safe. Get children thinking outside the box with 'the inventor' reading task by taking ideas from the text even further. How could we extract deep sea metals without harming the magneti

Hydrothermal vent tube worms can live for hundreds of years and are not eaten by predators because their blood is toxic. They are known as hyperthermophiles meaning they love extreme heat. Dig deeper into the reading through 'the detective' and explore vocabulary and language features.

Yeti crabs have a "garden" of bacteria on the setae of their arms. These bacteria make energy through a process called chemosynthesis. The crabs can eat the bacteria they farm between meals of decomposing matter. Read between the lines to find the deeper meaning with 'the inferencer'.

Crochet your own hydrothermal vent tube worm with this easy-to-follow pattern! Fully customisable, you can create an entire classroom colony. Perfect for props and classroom displays that complement the corresponding reading material.

Crochet your own hydrothermal vent tube worm with this easy-to-follow pattern! Perfect for props and classroom displays that complement the corresponding reading material.