Comparing Life Cycles full lesson - year 5. This lesson contains - Full smart board focusing on key vocabulary, including links to BBC videos and step by step instructions for the game and the lesson. Game cards for the life cycles activity the children will engage in. The children will need to match the cards and put the life cycles in the correct order. Includes: mammals, amphibians, insects, fish, birds and reptiles. Children will be able to see some differences straight away. A tick sheet for children to use to physically tick the similarities and differences between the life cycles. This lesson is a fun way to teach the differences of the life cycles, making the information clear and also engaging for the children.

This food chain game gets children to explore food chains in an interactive way. Simply cut the cards out, laminate if you like and then distribute them to the class. There are 32 cards in the set and they all match up to a specific food chain. Once they have found their food chain and put it together, children can then identify which are the producers, the prey and the predators. I have used this with year 4 and year 5 classes before and it’s a great way to visually show them how a food chain works. The cards are editable, so to make it trickier you could remove the text from the bottom of the cards so that the children have to find their own food chains using their previous knowledge of living things and their habitats.

I made this smart board and corresponding booklet unit of work for my year 4 class last year. I used it again this year and made some adjustments to it as needed. Electricity is such a fun topic for children and this booklet and smart allows them to combine their knowledge of electrical circuits with design elements. There are work sheets included for a whole term as well as a brief smart too. We used it to build their knowledge gradually of circuits, and then how to properly draw a circuit and add buzzers, motors and lights. It all culminated in a final design project where they needed to follow a specification of a house that needed a doorbell, light bulb and a switch! They absolutely loved this and it is also a National Curriculum requirement for this year group.

A set of 2 posters for collective nouns. 1 for animals and 1 for sea-creatures. The collective nouns are uncommon ones, and children love using them in their writing. They make great posters for any classroom or any space in school.

Includes a full breakdown of the curriculum as well as assessment materials. This interactive Power Point is a full year long term plan (coverage map) that is linked directly to the National Curriculum, with core knowledge for teachers to focus on. Each subject has a list of core knowledge (learning intentions) along with lesson ideas and how to work scientifically for all abilities. The Power Point is designed with a contents page that is interactive. As you click on a different item, for example “Assessments” it will take you directly to the page that explains how to asses each strand of the Science curriculum. Every strand of the Science curriculum is covered with a list of equipment, key websites to use for CPD and lesson content and has specific examples of how to teach the lessons. There is a key vocabulary slide for each strand, helping to keep it at the center of the teaching. The assessments are linked to the teaching within the coverage map ad appropriate to year 1. At the end of each strand children will complete a vocabulary assessment and a ‘What I know’ assessment. In the vocabulary section the children need to draw a line from the word to the correct image, and the ‘what I know’ section asks 2-3 questions based on their substantive and disciplinary knowledge of each topic.