Make a wormery Cross-curricular Unit

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1 Read and write True or False.
Why are worms useful? soil tunnel worm plant root

Worms live in the leaf litter and the soil. They are
very useful insects. They eat dead plants and
animals and they make new soil. They move around
the soil and make tunnels. The air in the tunnels
gives oxygen to plant roots. Worms mix the soil too.
They are fantastic creatures.

1 Worms live in soil. True 3 Plant roots need oxygen.

2 Worms eat soil. 4 Worms are good for the soil.

2 Read and match.

1 box apple peelings 2 3

lid worms

sand
4 5
jar

dead leaves soil

6 7 8 9
Two weeks later …

a She’s putting some worms in the jar.

b She’s putting the lid on the jar. Now the worms can’t escape.
c She’s putting layers of sand and soil in the jar.
d Worms need air. Ellie’s mum is making holes in the lid.
e 1 Ellie is making a wormery.
f She’s looking at her wormery. She can’t see the food. She can see
some tunnels. The soil and the sand are mixed.
g She’s washing the jar.
h Now the wormery is in a cool place. She’s covering it with a box so it’s dark.
i She’s giving the worms some food. They like fruit, vegetables and dead leaves.

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 Make a bar chart Cross-curricular Unit 2
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1 Read the instructions and make a bar chart.
1 Choose a title for your bar chart. Tally chart
❋  Favourite sports in my class.  Answers Number of children
❋  Favourite sports personalities in my class. 
❋  Favourite football teams in my class.
2 Choose one question to ask your classmates.
❋  What sports do you play? 
❋  Who’s your favourite sports personality? 
❋  What’s your favourite team?
3 Ask your question and complete the tally chart.
4 Write the answers at the bottom of the bar chart.
5 Use a different colour for each answer and
complete the bar chart.

Bar chart  Title:

20

18

16

14
Number of children

12

10

Answers

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Drawing a horse Cross-curricular Unit 3
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How to draw a horse
ear
mane
head
neck
shoulder tail
body

knee oval bean

legs

hooves
line rub out

1 Look and match.

Draw around the shape of the head and
1 2 neck and draw the ears.
1 Draw a circle and an oval for the head and
a line for the neck. Then draw a bigger
oval for the body and some more lines for
the legs.
Draw a tail, a mane, the horse’s face and
the hooves.
Horses have ears, shoulders, knees and
3 4 hooves. Draw circles to show where
these are.
When you are happy with the shape of
your horse, rub out any lines you
don’t need.
Draw around the circles of the legs to give
the legs some shape. Do the same for the
hooves. Make the body the shape of
5 6 a bean.

2 Draw a horse using the instructions.

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An experiment with eggs Cross-curricular Unit 4
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1 Read and answer. breaking an egg shell a dome shape

How strong is an egg?

It’s easy to break an egg shell. Egg shell is
not very strong. But, a mother bird can
sit on her eggs and they don’t break. Why not?
It’s the shape of the egg that makes it strong – it’s a dome shape. Dome shapes are very strong.
1 Is egg shell strong? 3 What shape is an egg?
2 Are eggs strong? 4 Are dome shapes strong?

2 Read the instructions. Choose ✓ the correct picture. Guess the answer to number 6.
1 You need four eggs, sticky a ✓ b
tape, scissors and some
telephone books.

2 Break the egg and use the a b

larger part of the egg shell.
Throw away the yolk and
the white.

3 Put some sticky tape round a b

the centre of the eggshell.

4 Cut round the centre of the a b

eggshell. Make four domes
from the eggshells.

5 Put the eggshells on the a b

table, one at each corner of
a square.

6 Put some telephone books a b

on the eggshells. How
many telephone books do
you use before the
eggshells break?

3 Now try the experiment yourself.

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 Treasure hunt Cross-curricular Unit 5
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1 Read the clues and follow on the map. Then write the letters.
1 Go 60 m north and 70 m east. Where are you? l i b r a r y
2 Then go 30 m west and 40 m north. Where are you?
3 Then go 20 m north and 30 m east. Where are you?
4 Then go 110 m west. Where are you?
5 Then go 10 m east and 40 m south. Where are you?
6 Then go 20 m south and 10 m east. Where are you?
7 Then go 90 m east and 20 m south. Where are you?
8 Then go 40 m south and 30 m west. Where are you?
9 Then go 80 m west. Where are you?
10 Then go 40 m east and 30 m north. Where are you?

2 Answer the question. Look at the grey squares in activity 1 and rearrange the letters
to find the location.
Where is the treasure?
7 2 9 3 1 8 5 6 10 4

north

west east

south

Key
hotel

supermarket
cinema

park

library

café

bank

shop

church

theatre

restaurant
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= 10 m Start here

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