SUMMER BUNDLE: 5 Activities: Escape Room, STEM challenge, Science, Color book

We have put together a range of Summer based activities to support distance learning as well as keeping your children and students occupied for hours. We have based the five selected activities on a wide range of curriculum subjects including math, technology, Science, Art and Technology. In doing so, we think this bundle is creative and embraces a wide range of learning styles and skills - whilst being fun to complete!

Products included are:

• Summer Funfair - ESCAPE ROOM - 9 challenges based on subjects across the curriculum. All resources, including Answer Key included.
• Shipwrecked - STEM - Build a shelter using limited resources available at home. Lesson plans, worksheets, research sheets, handy hints and certificate included for successful completion of the STEM challenge
• Separate to Survive - SCIENCE: How to make clean water by separating materials - 9 investigations to complete in order to separate materials. Includes 9 sheets to support each investigation, certificate for achievement, observation sheet.
• Summer coloring book - ART: 14 original seaside themed designs for children to print and color.
• Rainbow coloring book - ART: 10 original rainbow based designs for children to print and color.

Details of products are as follows:

Summer Funfair ESCAPE ROOM (9 Challenges)

The activity begins by the teacher reader the Initial Message received. It clearly tells the children that they are visiting a funfair which has an unusual sign on the front gate: “WARNING! Dare you enter the Summer Funfair?” The expectation is for the children to want to undertake the tasks in this Escape Room as all children love an Escape Room! The first challenge is a code breaking challenge which, once completed, tells the children what they must do in order to escape the room, as well as give them their first Code Key. After each challenge successfully completed, the children will have revealed a Code Key to move onto the next challenge. Only when they complete the challenge can they move on and finally escape the Fun Fair.

What follows are 9 activities:

The 9 activities are based on the following outcomes:

• Solving a secret message using a Coded Alphabet
• Coconut Shy: Math Problem Solving – finding ways to make the number 4 using limited digits and operations
• Haunted House: Making 12 words from limited letters
• Burger Stall: Sequencing Ingredients in different ways
• Fortune Teller: Magic Squares
• Hook a Duck: Sequencing numbers from math problems
• The Dodgems: Properties of numbers (multiples and prime)
• Fun Fair Maths: Problem solving algebra
• Ferris Wheel: Word Problems

When all 9 activities are completed, and the children have gained the correct Code Keys from each activity, the teacher can read the final communication detailing how the children have been successful and can therefore leave the Escape Room.

Separate to Survive (SCIENCE)

When you purchase and download this resource, you will receive an 18 page booklet. It includes all you need to achieve success in exploring separating materials within your classroom.

This project is aimed at developing both skills in STEM/SCIENCE learning alongside team work skills, problem solving, cooperation and communication skills, within a meaningful scenario.

The booklet includes:

• Cover Page
• Contents and resources
• Aims of the project and instructions for setting up the activities/rules for children to follow
• 9 Hands on investigations into Separating Materials
• Group Completion checklist and learning record
• Certificate to mark success, the end of the project and celebrating taking part.

The aims of the project have been identified as:

Social skills

Develop the skills of co-operation

Improve communication skills

To support one another to reach a shared goal

Problem Solving

Have fun in achieving the outcome

STEM/SCIENCE skills

• Know the stages of the water cycle and how those stages can be used to separate materials
• Be able to separate water from solids
• Be able to separate soluble materials from insoluble materials
• Be able to separate magnetic materials from non-magnetic materials
• Put science knowledge and skills into a meaningful context (survival)

Skills and knowledge in Separating Materials explored through the 9 activities are:

1. Separating salt and sand
2. Separating salt and water
3. Separating sand and water
4. Separating sand, salt and water
5. Separating iron filings from sand
6. Separating iron filings from sand and salt
7. Making clean water from dirty water
8. Separating sugar from water
9. Separating paint from water

The 9 activities each have their own activity card which includes the following:

• Activity number so that children can identify which they have completed and which they still need to complete
• Apparatus required to support organisation
• Aims of the activity
• Diagram (if required) to support completion
• Key learning questions: What did you achieve? Why?

Other resources in this product also include a checklist for children to check off when they have completed an activity, along with space for their learning, thinking and reflecting on the science behind what they have seen.

There is also a celebratory certificate for children to have once they have completed all 9 activities.

We think this is a great start to the topic of separating materials. It is fast paced and really keeps the children's interest in all of the short focused investigations. We found that our children learnt a lot in a short amount of time and this was then used to support further teaching and learning within the topic of materials.

Shipwrecked (STEM CHALLENGE)

When you purchase and download this resource, you will receive an 11 page booklet. It includes all you need to achieve success in teaching your children about structures using recycled materials and minimal resources.

This project is aimed at developing both skills in STEM learning alongside team work skills, problem solving, cooperation and communication skills, within a meaningful scenario.

The booklet includes:

• Cover Page
• Contents and resources
• Aims of the project
• Lesson Plans for teaching the project and hints as to when to let the children "fail" before intervening with support and "Handy Hints"
• Scenario to read to make the learning purposeful (how the children have become shipwrecked
• Research and Planning sheet along with 6 targeted questions to support research and preparation before making
• Handy Hints Sheet 1 (Making strong and rigid support poles from newspaper)
• Handy Hints Sheet 2 (Making stronger joints using struts)
• Certificate to mark success, the end of the project and celebrating taking part.

The aims of the project have been identified as:

Social skills

• Develop the skills of co-operation
• Improve communication skills
• To support one another to reach a shared goal
• To delegate tasks
• Discuss issues and solve problems as they arise
• Have fun in achieving the outcome and support the development of new friendships

STEM skills

• Research shelters appropriate for desert island resources
• Review shapes of shelters to support reflecting heat, allowing rain water to run off and further providing shade
• Use research to influence achievable design
• Use limited resources creatively to reach agreed outcome
• Use class based equipment to complete the project
• Strengthen joints using techniques – provided a sturdy structure
• Use measuring skills
• Produce a large scale structure which can fit at least two people within it

However, these are not exhaustive skills and the project is flexible and open enough for other skills to be developed.

The 6 Lesson Plans are detailed with session numbers, clear purpose to the lesson, detailed activity plans and outcome of the session. The plans clearly tell the teacher when to let the children experiment, when to allow them to fail in order to learn and problem solve, when to use the Handy Hints sheets and when to intervene with further skills teaching to move them onto the next stage of the project.

Resources are limited and inexpensive. To complete the project, each group will need:

1 copy per group of…

• Copies of Shelter Design Sheet
• Copies of Handy Hints Sheet 1
• Copies of Handy Hints Sheet 2
• 1 piece of rounded dowelling rod (5 mm diameter)
• Newspaper – as much as possible to allow for errors
• Sticky tape – 1 roll per group
• String – 1 meter per group
• General classroom resources: Scissors, measuring stick, pens, pencils etc.

Our children enjoyed this project, especially the fact that it used limited resources, as well as recycling resources that would normally be thrown away, making it a very inexpensive project to complete.

Summer Coloring Book - 14 different designs:

This product contains 14 Summer themes for coloring. A range of technical abilities will keep people coloring for hours. Everything we love about the Summer is included:

• Sun designs
• Beach scenes
• Sunsets
• Ice creams
• Hot dogs
• Beach balls
• Landscapes
• Pop Art designs of repeating patterns and themes.

If you love coloring, you will enjoy these designs to make the hours of summer drift away!

Rainbow Coloring Book - 10 different designs

This product includes 10 different rainbow designs for children to color and decorate. They are ideal for distance learning and can be used by children and families to show support for front line workers, as well as children to display and share, showing that they are learning at home due to school closure. The images are fun to color and can keep children of all ages occupied and engrossed due to the difference in challenge between the designs included.

The designs include:

• Rainbow
• Rainbow with message boxes
• Rainbow with clouds
• Multiple rainbows of a repeating pattern on the same pages
• Landscape image of a rainbow over fields with scattering clouds.

Best wishes to you all!

INSPIReducation