Awarded an OBE for Services to Education, Clive Davies has designed and built these schemes around progression and enquiry. Focus Education resources are of the highest educational quality.

Focus Education

Pzaz is a specialist, primary science provider, with schemes written for the non-specialist primary teacher. Created by a science education expert, Pzaz covers every statement of the National Curriculum for Reception to Year 6.

Reception - Year 6, Science

Pzaz

VotesforSchools provides award-winning PSHE resources to prompt discussion on challenging issues. Young people learn about everything from politics to climate change to ensure they have an informed opinion of the world, and are equipped with all they need to know when they leave school.

Years 1-6, PSHE

Votes For Schools

Created by primary specialists, Teacher of Primary offers a bank of in-depth, highly specialised lessons so that schools and teachers can focus on the particular learning goals of their setting.

EYFS-Year 6, Maths, English & Science

Teacher of Primary

PE Resources Bank firmly believes in the power of Physical Education and transforming young people’s lives. PE Resources Bank aims to provide high quality teaching materials for staff to use and promote a genuine love for learning. 

PE Resources Bank

Master The Curriculum

Striver

KS2 Gems

Guinea Pig Education

Livello is a specialist literary provider, they offer half-termly units built around highly engaging and exciting books that will inspire a love of reading while teaching comprehension, grammar and composition. Start from the books they love, succeed with strategies from Livello.

Years 1-6, English

Livello

Learning Mole uses fun and engaging animations to capture childrenâ€™s imagination and inspire curiosity. Use Learning Moleâ€™s videos as a perfect jumping off point to start great discussions and stimulate learning.

EYFS-Year 6, Maths, English, Topic & PSHE

Learning Mole

Music Playtime has been created by a Key Stage 1 and Early Years Music education specialist. The schemes are built in recognition of the fact that most primary teachers are not music specialists. Access the knowledge and the ideas you need to feel confident teaching music.

Music Playtime

1Decision

Active Music Digital

All Aboard Learning

Flashcards to add to your GCSE and A-Level revision lessons.

Years 10-13, Various

Quizlet

Sir Linkalot is the award-winning future of spelling. Students learn to spell any word they want from 'was' to 'onomatopoeia' by watching short, funny animations. Never fail a spelling test again!

Sir Linkalot

Get The Buzz! is a specialist in Maths Games for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Engaging maths games can help to build an enjoyment for maths and can consolidate learning so that all students are benefitting.

Years 1-6, Maths

Get The Buzz

All students can enjoy and improve their achievement in mathematics. It is no longer acceptable to say that only certain types of people can learn mathematics. Can Do Maths provides resources to support teachers and parents to help children and students believe they 'Can Do Maths'.

CanDo Maths

PlanBee is the hive of ready-to-use primary resources for KS1 and KS2, with time-saving resources for busy teachers!

KS1 & KS2

PlanBee

Max Maths is a specialist primary school maths provider that uses the Singapore Mastery Approach to follow the Cambridge Primary maths curriculum framework.

Max Maths

Everyone can do maths: Everyone can! White Rose is used in most UK Primary schools and is the most trusted primary maths provider in the UK. Everything White Rose offers is created by maths experts and directed at teachers using a mastery approach to teaching maths.

White Rose

Models of the Solar System - 4th Grade     4th Grade science programme of study - Earth and space     In this teaching resource, pupils will learn how ideas about the solar system have changed over time and look at the geocentric and heliocentric models.     Content includes:   Class discussion about what they think geocentric and heliocentric mean   The geocentric model of the solar system explanation   The heliocentric model of the solar system explanation   External links to explanatory videos   Models of the solar system quiz with an accompanying worksheet   Models of the solar system research worksheet 

Earth and Space

Models of the Solar System

The Solar System - 4th Grade     4th Grade science programme of study - Earth and space     In this science teaching resource, pupils are introduced to the Solar System. It is an ideal teaching aid to use in a lesson introducing the 4th Grade science curriculum topic listed above. Content includes:   An introduction to the Solar System with a video link   An explanation of the Sun   The order of the 8 planets in our Solar System and a mnemonic activity with an accompanying worksheet   Facts about each planet with 3-D models of each one (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)   An ordering the planets class activity with flashcards   An explanation of rings, Pluto, moons, asteroids and comets with accompanying video links   A Solar System quiz with an accompanying worksheet   A research task with an accompanying worksheet 

The Solar System - Worksheet

4th Grade Science lesson from the unit Space. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'How can you demonstrate how night and day are created?'

How can you demonstrate how night and day are created?

'Cops and robbers - What do you know about the planets?' is a resource for assessing pupil knowledge at the end of the 4th Grade unit, Space

Cops and robbers - What do you know about the planets?

4th Grade Science lesson from the unit Space. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'How can you explain the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the sun?'

How can you explain the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the sun?

4th Grade Science lesson from the unit Space. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'How can you explain the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth?'

How can you explain the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth?

4th Grade Science lesson from the unit Space. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'What do we know about the dimensions associated with the Sun, Earth and Moon?'

What do we know about the dimensions associated with the Sun, Earth and Moon?

4th Grade Science lesson from the unit Space. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'What do you know about the planets?'

What do you know about the planets?

'The Moon fact file - Worksheet' is a resource from 'How can you demonstrate how night and day are created?', a 4th Grade Science lesson from the unit Space. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'How can you demonstrate how night and day are created?'

The Moon fact file - Worksheet

The Solar System - Presentation is part of the lesson The Solar System    Students will learn about the solar system as part of their learning about space, as specified by the national curriculum in England: science programmes of study.

The Solar System - Presentation

The Knowledge organiser for the unit Space from Focus Education

Knowledge organiser - Space - 4th Grade

Day and Night - 4th Grade     4th Grade science programme of study - Earth and space: use the idea of the Earth's rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky     In this science teaching resource pupils discover why the Earth has day and night and why it appears that the Sun moves across the sky. It is an ideal resource to use when delivering a lesson covering the year 5 curriculum objective above.     Content includes:   An explanation of the rotation of the Earth   An explanation of why the rotation of the Earth causes day and night   A suggested science activity to illustrate the causes of day and night   An explanation of how the rotation of the Earth causes the sun to appear to move across the sky with activity worksheet   A link to an explanatory video   Day and night quiz   1 worksheet 

Day and Night

'Mini quiz - Space' is a resource for assessing pupil knowledge at the end of the 4th Grade unit, Space

Mini quiz - Space

'Picture match - The planets' is a resource for assessing pupil knowledge at the end of the 4th Grade unit, Space

Picture match - The planets

'Time trial - Name all the planets' is a resource for assessing pupil knowledge at the end of the 4th Grade unit, Space

Time trial - Name all the planets

'Noughts and Crosses - Space' is a resource for assessing pupil knowledge at the end of the 4th Grade unit, Space

Noughts and Crosses - Space

'Mini quiz - Earth, Moon and Sun' is a resource for assessing pupil knowledge at the end of the 4th Grade unit, Space

Mini quiz - Earth, Moon and Sun

'Saturn fact file' is a resource from 'What do we know about the dimensions associated with the Sun, Earth and Moon?', a 4th Grade Science lesson from the unit Space. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'What do we know about the dimensions associated with the Sun, Earth and Moon?'

Saturn fact file

'Know it! - Space - 4th Grade' is a resource for assessing pupil knowledge at the end of the 4th Grade unit, Space

Know it! - Space - 4th Grade

The Long-term overview for the unit Space from Focus Education

Long-term overview - Space - 4th Grade

The Progression pedagogy for the unit Space from Focus Education

Progression pedagogy - Space - 4th Grade

Link it! Prior knowledge is the set of initial activities that should be used to introduce the unit Space from Focus Education,  it will allow pupils to link the upcoming learning to their existing skills and knowledge

Link it! Prior knowledge - Space - 4th Grade

Show it! Group presentation is a group task that should be used to solidify student learning and should be run after the teaching of the lessons contained in the unit Space from Focus Education

Show it! Group presentation - Space - 4th Grade

The Solar System

Elementary School Science Teaching Resources ; The Moon - 4th Grade     4th Grade science programme of study - Earth and space: describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth.    In this science teaching resource, pupils will learn about the Moon and how it moves around the Earth. It is an ideal teaching aid to use in a lesson covering the year 5 science curriculum objective listed above. 'The Moon - 4th Grade' is an animated and engaging 39 slide PowerPoint presentation that includes:   A link to an introductory video about the Moon   Moon facts   A link to a Moon landing video   An explanation of the Moon phases and link to an accompanying video   A Moon phases activity with an accompanying worksheet   A Moon quiz and an accompanying worksheet   A suggestion for a Moon phase activity 

The Moon - PowerPoint

Check it! is a set of assessment for learning tasks and assessments that should be used to check pupils' understanding of the learning during the course of the unit Space from Focus Education.

Check it! - Space - 4th Grade

Day and Night - Worksheet

<p>In this lesson, pupils will learn about the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the Sun in the solar system. The students will classify planets as either rocky or gas giants and describe the orbits of the planets as elliptical. </p> <h2>Previous Learning</h2> <p>students in Pre-K and Elementary School may not have prior knowledge of Space in the National Curriculum, but they may know the names of some of the planets and that an asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. In Yr. 3, students have learned about light and forces, and in Yr. 6, they learned about how light travels in straight lines to explain shadows. </p> <h2>Cross-Curricular Links</h2> <ul> <li>RE: students could find out about the creation myths of different cultures</li> <li>math: students will draw a graph of distance v surface temperature of the planets</li> <li>Art: students will make a model of planets and the solar system</li> <li>English: students could come up with their own mnemonic to remember the order of the planets</li> </ul> <h2>Misconceptions and Corrections</h2> <ul> <li>The Earth is not the center of the solar system, but the Sun is.</li> <li>The Sun does not move across the sky, it remains in the same place and it is the Earth's movement that makes the Sun appear to move.</li> <li>Planets orbit the Sun in an elliptical shape, not a circular one.</li> <li>Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also have ring systems, not just Saturn.</li> </ul> <p>The lesson will cover influential scientists such as Galileo Galilei, Nicolas Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and others. students will also participate in activities like the Orbits of Planets and Planet Top Trumps. They will also complete a table to find the relationship between distance from the Sun and surface temperature of the planet. </p>

<p>This lesson focuses on understanding the relationship between the Earth, Sun, and Moon, as well as the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky and the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth. The lesson begins with a review of the previous learning in early years foundation stage and Key Stage 1, as well as Key Stage 2 (Elementary School) curriculum links in year 3 light and year 3 forces, year 6 light. The lesson also has cross-curricular links to History, English, math, and Geography.</p> <p>The misconceptions associated with the topic are also highlighted, such as the idea that the Sun is yellow, the Moon doesn’t spin, the shadow of the Earth causes phases of the Moon, and the Moon shines. Some influential scientists in this field are also mentioned, such as Aristarchos of Samos, Eratosthenes, Ptolemy, Carolyn Porco, Tycho Brahe, and Nancy Grace Norman.</p> <h2>Activities</h2> <h3>Day and Night</h3> <p>In this activity, students use a torch and a globe to observe the change in light and shadow as the globe rotates. The objective is to understand why we have day and night on Earth and why this is cyclical.</p> <h3>The Sun’s Movement Across the Sky</h3> <p>In this activity, students use learning pads to compare the geocentric and heliocentric theories and explain the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky.</p> <h3>The Orbiting Moon Model</h3> <p>In this activity, students use the orbits card from a previous lesson, a large marble, a small marble, and a ruler to make a model of the Earth and Moon’s orbit.</p> <p>Possible questions that students may encounter include: why is the Earth slightly on its side, what direction does the Earth spin, and why is sunrise at different times in different locations.</p>

The Earth and the Moon

'Rotation and revolution - Notes sheet' is a resource from 'How has the science related to irreversible changes helped with crime work?', a 4th Grade Science lesson from the unit Reversible and Irreversible Changes. This lesson uses an enquiry-approach method, and will facilitate students answering the question 'How has the science related to irreversible changes helped with crime work?'

Rotation and revolution - Notes sheet

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Earth And Space