The smell hunt is a great activity to get students exploring the wonderful smells nature has to offer. It's perfect if you're looking at our senses as...
This activity gets students to use their imagination to change things they can find outside into weird and wonderful creations. It can be used really effectively...
This outdoor poetry activity gets students writing a simple poem about your outdoor space using their senses.
Teaching Structure:
Take the students into...
This is a fun and active way to get students thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions as part of your non-fiction texts topic....
This outdoor ‘facts and opinions’ activity is great as a starter or main activity for your non-fiction texts lesson. It will encourage them to think...
Exploring the outdoors and rhyming go together perfectly. Your class will learn about word structures and rhyming while talking part in this fun physical...
This outdoor verbs lesson is a great way to get students recognizing and using verbs. The activity works nicely as a starter or plenary to your verbs lesson...
All about adjectives is an activity where students will find something interesting outside, draw it, and think of some adjectives to describe it using...
This creative activity gets students using their senses to describe the setting around them using a mixture of descriptive writing and drawing as they...
This outdoor writing activity is great fun and a nice way to teach adjectives as well as introduce the idea of personification.
Students will create their...
This poetry and description activity is designed to get students thinking creatively about trees, looking at their features closely and starting to personify...
This activity gets students listening to the sounds of nature as well as creating their own sounds as they explore the world of onomatopoeias before creating...
For this 'instructions' writing activity students will create a treasure hunt for their partner to follow. They will hide an object (name tag, stone with...
This activity is designed to get students thinking about instruction writing while appreciating the world around them. It can easily be adapted to suite...
For this activity students will create a map of your outdoor space imagining they are an animal that lives there. It is great if you’re looking at habitats,...
Inventing an outdoor game is a great way for your class to develop their instruction writing skills. They will first look at an example game, studying...
Encourage your students to use all of their senses to help develop their descriptive writing. For this activity your class need to be in pairs, where one...
Introduce your class to reports by getting them to observe nature in the world around them. They will head outside to find an animal to produce a report...
A great activity for Halloween, a literacy topic (instruction writing fits in well with this), or just something fun to do outdoors. This activity is sure...
Outdoor learning does not always have to be directly subject linked. These 20 activities are about enjoying and exploring outdoors. Take some time to head...
This poetry booklet is the perfect way to get your class exploring outdoors while being creative with poetry. Each student gets their own personal booklet...
Literacy, Age 7-9
The Smell Hunt - Our Five Senses
The smell hunt is a great activity to get students exploring the wonderful smells nature has to offer. It's perfect if you're looking at our senses as...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Magical Nature Characters: Ages 7 - 12
This activity gets students to use their imagination to change things they can find outside into weird and wonderful creations. It can be used really effectively...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Senses Poetry
This outdoor poetry activity gets students writing a simple poem about your outdoor space using their senses. Teaching Structure: Take the students into...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9, 10-12
Fact and Opinion Race Cards
This is a fun and active way to get students thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions as part of your non-fiction texts topic....
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Facts and Opinions Outdoor Writing Activity
This outdoor ‘facts and opinions’ activity is great as a starter or main activity for your non-fiction texts lesson. It will encourage them to think...
Free Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Nature Rhymes & Poetry
Exploring the outdoors and rhyming go together perfectly. Your class will learn about word structures and rhyming while talking part in this fun physical...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Verbs In Action - Verbs Task Cards
This outdoor verbs lesson is a great way to get students recognizing and using verbs. The activity works nicely as a starter or plenary to your verbs lesson...
Premium Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
All About Adjectives
All about adjectives is an activity where students will find something interesting outside, draw it, and think of some adjectives to describe it using...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Nature Journal
This creative activity gets students using their senses to describe the setting around them using a mixture of descriptive writing and drawing as they...
Premium Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Tree Adjectives
This outdoor writing activity is great fun and a nice way to teach adjectives as well as introduce the idea of personification. Students will create their...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Tree Poetry
This poetry and description activity is designed to get students thinking creatively about trees, looking at their features closely and starting to personify...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Onomatopoeia Poetry
This activity gets students listening to the sounds of nature as well as creating their own sounds as they explore the world of onomatopoeias before creating...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Treasure Hunt - Instruction Writing
For this 'instructions' writing activity students will create a treasure hunt for their partner to follow. They will hide an object (name tag, stone with...
Free Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Recipe For A Woodland
This activity is designed to get students thinking about instruction writing while appreciating the world around them. It can easily be adapted to suite...
Premium Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Animal Mapping
For this activity students will create a map of your outdoor space imagining they are an animal that lives there. It is great if you’re looking at habitats,...
Free Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Instruction Writing - Invent A Game
Inventing an outdoor game is a great way for your class to develop their instruction writing skills. They will first look at an example game, studying...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Where Am I?: Setting Description Game
Encourage your students to use all of their senses to help develop their descriptive writing. For this activity your class need to be in pairs, where one...
Free Downloadages 7-9
My Nature Report: Ages 7 - 9
Introduce your class to reports by getting them to observe nature in the world around them. They will head outside to find an animal to produce a report...
Free Downloadages 7-9
My Magic Potion
A great activity for Halloween, a literacy topic (instruction writing fits in well with this), or just something fun to do outdoors. This activity is sure...
Premium Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Outdoor Learning Activity Cards
Outdoor learning does not always have to be directly subject linked. These 20 activities are about enjoying and exploring outdoors. Take some time to head...
Premium Downloadages 4-6, 7-9, 10-12
Poetry: My Poetry Booklet
This poetry booklet is the perfect way to get your class exploring outdoors while being creative with poetry. Each student gets their own personal booklet...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12