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Science Sign Picture Cards - Full Set

This set contains all 9 packs of sign picture cards. Each pack contains 35 cards on the following subjects:

Ourselves

Materials

Plants

Light and Dark

Forces

Animals and Habitats

Electricity, Circuits and Sound

Solids, Liquids and Gases

Investigations

These Sign Picture Cards have been created for any child who requires a visual representation in order to support their language development. This is part of a series of support materials for teaching the ‘curriculum language’ throughout the primary years.

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These cards support a wide range of visual learners including children who have:

Language delays / dyslexia

English as a second language

Difficulty learning new concepts

Difficulty remembering and using keywords in their writing

Or who are deaf...........and many more.

The cards are also designed to help:

Head teachers to develop an inclusive school

Teachers to develop inclusive classrooms

Differentiation

Explicit language teaching and learning

How to use them:

Stick the Sign Picture Cards on the white-board and highlight the key words/signs/ concepts that you will be focusing on during the lesson.

During group work or ‘write up’ time, select and give each group a selection of words that they need to include.

Cover part of the Sign Picture Card and ask the children to guess what the English word or Sign could be.

Quiz the whole class on the Sign, spelling and meaning of the cards.

Give the selected cards to the support teacher and child before the lesson so that they can prepare.

Compare the different lip patterns on the cards.

Point to the key word as you use the language during the lesson. This can be very useful during the plenary stage.

Parents/Guardians can learn the same sign and key words as their child in school.

Parents/Guardians can use these cards as a starting point when finding out and discussing what their child learnt in school.

'Ourselves' contains the following cards:
Arm Blood Contract Dead Exercise Eye Feed Feel Fruit	Grow Healthy Heart beat Human Leg Living Lungs Medicine Move	Muscle Nose Ourselves Pulse Relax Ribs Safety See Senses	Skull Smell Sugar Teeth Thin Touch Unhealthy Young

'Materials' contains the following cards:
Absorb Bend Boil Break Clay Cool Degrees Elastic Fabric	Freeze Glass Group Hard Heat Leave Magnetic Manufactured Material	Melt Metal Natural Paper Plastic Rock Rough Sand Shiny	Smooth Soft Squash Strong Transparent Twist Waterproof Wood

'Plants' contains the following cards:
Animal-dispersal Branch Characteristics Chlorophyll Cold Earth Explosion-dispersal Flower Germinate Grow Leaf	Life cycle Move Ovary Petal Petal tracks Photosynthesis Plant Pollen Pollinate Reproduce Roots Seed	Sepal Stamen Stem Stigma Style Tree Vegetable Warm Water Water-dispersal Weed Wind-dispersal

'Light and Dark' contains the following cards:
Autumn Axis Black Block Bright Candle Day Dim Direction	Earth East Lantern Light Light bulb Moon Night North Opaque	Orbit Reflection Rotate Shadow South Sphere Spin (Earth) Spring Summer	Sun Sunrise Sunset Torch Transparent Travel West Winter

'Forces' contains the following cards:
Attract (poles) Magnetic (objects) Buoyancy Careful Copper Danger Distance Fast (quick) Fast (travel) Float Force	Force meter Friction Gravity Hop Iron Jump Magnet Non magnetic-(objects) Parachute Pull Push	Repel (poles) Run Sink Slide Slow Spin Spring Stretch Surface area Swing Upward thrust Weight

'Animals and Habitats' contains the following cards:
Adaptation Animal Bacteria Beak Bird Canine Condition (animal) Consumer Desert	Dog Dry Feathers Fish Food chain Forest Fur Habitat Incisor	Interdependence Key Meat Molar Nutrition Organism Pond Predator Prey Producer	Rain Shell Snow Tortoise Virus Wet Wings

'Electricity, Circuits and Sound' contains the following cards:
Bang Battery Break Bulb Bulb holder Buzzer Circuit Conductor Connection Degrees Celsius Ear Electricity	Hearing High pitch Insulator Listen Loud Low pitch Mains Motor Muffle Music Parallel circuit Pluck	Quiet Rattle Ring Series circuit Shake Shout Silence Sound Talk Vibration Wire

'Solids, Liquids and Gases' contains the following cards:
Air Beaker Burn Cold Condensation Condition-(weather) Dissolve Evaporate Filter Filtration Gas	Hazard Hot Ice Insoluble Irreversible Kettle Liquid Match Measuring-cylinder Mixture Oxygen Reversible	Scales Solid Solidify Solution Steam Stir Temperature Test tube Thermometer Tongs Water Water cycle

'Investigations' contains the following cards:
Accurate After Approximately Ask Average Bar graph Compare Conclude Describe	Different Discuss Divide Evidence Examine Fair Group Investigate Line graph	Most Next Plot Question Results Same Science Separate Similar	Summarise Table chart Test Think Under When Why Within

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