Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.
Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.
Adjectives are words that describe nouns. Adverbs are words that describe verbs. This activity will practice identifying and locating adjectives and adverbs by describing parts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Adjectives and adverbs can be part of word skills that incorporate vocabulary that is important in helping students form mental images about scenes and settings in a story. Forming these metal pictures assists students in understanding what they are reading.
Can you make the ultimate paper helicopter? Do you understand the principles of flight and gravity? How will you design, enhance, “tinker” and most importantly record your data and evidence of your findings?
All these essential questions will be answered through these excellent HANDS ON STEM activities. Everything is here for you NO PREP REQUIRED
The only materials required are paper, paper clips and scissors.
This project can be distributed individually via Google Classroom, OneNote or a similar platform or you can teach it to the entire class. All content and materials are easy to follow and fully prepared.
Become an engineer today and have some great fun learning about the basic principles of flight and gravity.
Spelling = frustration for a lot of kids, but it doesn’t have to! This editable Bloom's Spelling Activity Matrix, PowerPoint, and task card set means no prep for you and fun, fast learning for your students.
We have aligned this matrix to Bloom’s Taxonomy as well as Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. By following the matrix, students take control of their own learning and decide which activities they will do. It addresses all aspects of spelling in language that students of all ages can understand, so it’s not just for kids - ESL teachers can just as easily make this a go-to resource.
This matrix will help your students discover how to use their spelling words effectively and creatively. This download contains a PDF version and an editable Word document that you can modify for any age or audience.
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In my years of teaching, this fascinating project is consistently the most popular among my students. This dynamic PBL unit needs no prep from you and will actually make your kids excited about homework!
Why do students, parents, and teachers alike love this project so much? As an 8-12 week undertaking, kids get to explore in depth something they love, learn through both research and getting their hands dirty, and feel a sense of accomplishment through leading others. While it targets grades 4-9, it is editable and easily adaptable to any age group.
The process goes like this:
1.) Students select a new task or skill they want to learn about. Some examples of past choices include dressmaking, creating a video game, learning an instrument, cooking a 3-course meal for their family, and building a cubby house.
2.) Students research and complete the task within a specified time frame.
3.) As they progress, they keep an online diary of their learning journey outlining their successes and failures.
4.) When they have sufficiently learned their new skill, students then teach it family member or friend to show them what they have learned.
5.) At the conclusion of the project, students put together a presentation outlining their learning journey. This includes videos, photos, and feedback from family members and friends. They will also assess each other in accordance with a peer assessment rubric.
While this makes a great introduction to project management, time management, and presentation skills, students will come away from this with much more. This project also teaches grit, builds confidence, and encourages students to learn from and push through failure instead of fearing it. Indeed, success and failure are unimportant with this task. The true value lies in recording and learning from their successes and failures while sharing that knowledge with others.
Everything you need is included and completely editable. In this download, you will get:
Letters to Parents
Detailed descriptions for teachers, students, and parents
Summary Descriptions
Teaching Resources
Graphic Organizers
and much more
I guarantee this will be one of the most rewarding teaching and learning opportunities for both you and your students and one you can use for years to come.
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Teach your students about technologies that changed the world.
What made them so successful? How did some become completely superseded or obsolete? And what will replace them in the future based upon what we know about history and the wants and needs of our society?
This collection of 20 beautiful past and present technology cards are accompanied with 4 easy to follow activities and lesson plans to get your students thinking like a STEM designer, entrepreneur and innovator.
Capitalize on the Pokémon craze with this fun, engaging icebreaker! This is a no prep required activity - just print, hand it out, and give your kids a great back to school activity to kick off the year.
In this task, your students will create a custom Pokémon card that is all about THEM. This will give them the opportunity to tell you about their special talents, goals, and favourite things in life, all while developing their public speaking confidence and creative skills.
If you’re familiar with Pokémon, then you know what the cards look like. This activity gives you two options based on these cards: a back-to-back card, or a one page sheet with key details.
Full instructions come attached, including instructions on how to download the free 'Pokémon' font. This activity is also bundled as both a PDF and a completely editable version that you can modify to suit any group.
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Never worry about your wall again! With over 120 high-resolution, vibrant posters covering every major English concept from grades K-7, you will have a valuable reference for your students to refer to all year.
We created these easy-to-understand, attractive posters to work with any elementary through junior high curriculum worldwide, and can be a go-to tool for keeping on track with Common Core standards. As a resource that will be front and center in your classroom, we knew it was important for them to capture students’ attention. So, we hired professional graphic artists to put these together. It was worth it – they look amazing. And they aren’t just for kids, either; ESL teachers love them.
For a complete table of contents, check the preview file. Some of our major topics include:
8 Elements of Effective Writing (2 Variations)
Parts of Speech Including: Nouns, Adverbs, Interjections, Conjunctions,
Prepositions, Pronouns, and Verbs,
26 Letters of the Alphabet in Victorian Modern Cursive Handwriting
24 Synonyms for Commonly Used Words
8 Poster Set Outlining the Key Elements of Writing Narratives
10 Poster Set Covering Colours (Colors for those of you in the U.S. )
8 Poster Set - Homonyms, Homographs and Homophones
The Writing Process Diagram
Months of the Year, Seasons, and Days of the Week for Young Writers
Visual: Let's Learn the Alphabet
Parts of a Paragraph
Alternate Parts of Speech Posters
Sounding out Words Chart
First 100 Most Commonly Used Words
Second 100 Most Commonly Used Words
Understanding Punctuation
Understanding Vowels
And much more!
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Contains 24 different Emoji used as writing prompts to spark some excellent story writing in you classroom.
Just simply print out the emoji included and present them to you students.
Each strip includes a Written Prompt and Emoji Prompts based on characters, setting and plot.
You can alter this task in a multitude of ways as you see fit.
Teach your students to independently check their own narrative / story writing with these beautiful checklists and rubric.
These editable checklists are specifically for narratives or story writing. We will be creating more for other writing genres in the near future.
There are three age variations in the bundle for Junior (Ages 5 - 7), Middle (7 - 11) and Senior (11 - 15). Each bundle contains both a student checklist for independent assessment and a student / teacher rubric for conferencing. Check the preview for a visual example.
Each age group has been stylised and written to appeal to different age groups.
With six to a page you can easily print these out and distribute to students an re use them over and over.
Best of all they are completely editable if you wish to change any element of it.
Give your students the tools they need for writing great stories.
Have you ever seen kids actually beg for more writing? It’s really possible, and you can make it happen with this bundle, the best no-prep narrative planning tool you can get online!
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This bundle contains our Emoji Writing Pack and Emoji Writing Generator.
The Writing Pack will quickly become one of your easiest quick writing drill tools. With 150 fully prepared writing prompts and over 600 emoji, all you have to do is print, cut, and hand out. Your students will have a blast coming up with creative ways to integrate the emoji into the fundamental story elements of character, setting, and plot.
With over 200 real Emoji, the Writing Generator provides more detailed activities and works with students of all ages and abilities – as long as they’ve used phones or Facebook, they’ll know what to do. As a set of narrative planning tools, you can use this pack for a range of writing activities, from sharp warm-up writing practice to immersive narratives covering multiple class sessions. Many teachers have run this on their classroom’s interactive whiteboards or edited the handouts to create a multitude of open-ended literacy tasks. We designed this to offer you nearly unlimited flexibility: your students will be able to create over two million emoji combinations for a virtually limitless source of writing inspiration.
We’ve broken the emoji into the following sets for quick access:
Emotions and Feelings
Animals and Nature
People
Activities and Events
People and Places
Objects and Items
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Make math relevant and engaging for kids with this elementary stats and data project. This no prep, hands-on project will keep your class busy for a full week.
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This insightful project makes a great, lively introduction to graphs, charts, tables, and data collection for kids. For complex tasks, we’ve included video tutorials to help your students easily grasp new concepts. When you purchase this PBL pack, you will cover:
How to ask and survey an “essential question”
Data collection methods
Drawing mathematical conclusions from data
Presenting data in graphs and tables
Presenting data and conclusions to peers
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This is a series of lessons intended to teach grades 3 - 6 students about the metric system of measurement. No prep required
It is a completely editable PowerPoint file that can be altered to suit your needs.
It explores the metric system through exploring measurement and mass. It also has some elements of ratio that are important for students to understand.
It consists of 40 pages of activities and lesson content that has been designed to be visually appealing and engaging.
All challenges and tasks have answers included so that you can work along with your students without lacking confidence.
This unit is incredibly useful for not only maths, but also science students who will need a clear understanding of the metric system and working across multiple units of measurement.
It also contains a free classroom poster reinforcing key concepts of the metric system.
Teaching suggestions are provided along with all answer keys.
This lesson should take 2-3 class periods. An extension involving hands-on measurements is explained in the teaching suggestions which would extend the lesson another day.
