I am a teacher, blogger, and teacher trainer with more than 30 years of experience in education. I like to explore new possibilities to engage learners and enhance their learning experiences. I am the author of the blog, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century http://aysinalp.edublogs.org / where I share my reflections and insights on learning and technology.
I am a teacher, blogger, and teacher trainer with more than 30 years of experience in education. I like to explore new possibilities to engage learners and enhance their learning experiences. I am the author of the blog, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century http://aysinalp.edublogs.org / where I share my reflections and insights on learning and technology.
This 15-page resource pack includes fun game-based activities and games for your students to learn or recycle addition with numbers 1-20 . The pack includes games and activities to understand and use addition and equal signs, mental math, to solve and create one-step addition problems. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 to review year 1 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL .
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This 21-page resource pack includes fun game-based activities and games for your students to recycle reading and writing numbers 1-20, count forwards and backwards up to 100, skip counting in multiples of 2, 5, and 10, count more or less from a number and place value (1-20). My students loved the games and the math superhero mouse that assisted them in some of the activities. You can use the pack to review numbers in class or assign it during the term break or the summer break. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL.
If you are not allowed to use dice in the games, you can use number cubes. You can find a copy of a number cube in the pack that your students can cut and paste to play the games. Thank you for visiting my shop.
This 21-page resource pack includes fun game-based activities and games for your students to recycle reading and writing numbers 1-20, count forwards and backwards up to 100, skip counting in multiples of 2, 5, and 10, count more or less from a number and place value (1-20). My students loved the games and the math superhero mouse that assisted them in some of the activities. You can use the pack to review numbers in class or assign it during the term break or the summer break. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL.
If you are not allowed to use dice in the games, you can use number cubes. You can find a copy of a number cube in the pack that your students can cut and paste to play the games. Thank you for visiting my shop.
This 11-page Christmas themed pack includes game-based resources and activities on representing numbers 1-100 creatively, skip counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s, comparing and ordering numbers 1-100 and place value in 2-digit numbers. You can use it to review the Numbers unit in class or assign it during the holiday break. My students loved the Christmas images and enjyed the games. I hope your students will love them, too.
This 11-page Christmas themed pack includes game-based resources and activities on representing numbers 1-100 creatively, skip counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s, comparing and ordering numbers 1-100 and place value in 2-digit numbers. You can use it to review the Numbers unit in class or assign it during the holiday break. My students loved the Christmas images and enjyed the games. I hope your students will love them, too.
This 12-page resource pack includes fun game-based activities and games for your students to learn or recycle subtraction with numbers 1-20 . It includes games and activities to understand and use minus and equal signs, add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers up to 20, mental math, solve and create one-step and missing number subtraction problems. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 to review year 1 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL .
If you liked this resource, please visit my shop to see the packs about numbers and addition for year 1. Thank you.
This 24-page Christmas themed pack includes game-based resources and activities on representing numbers 1-100 creatively, skip counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s, comparing and ordering numbers 1-100, place value, addition, and subtraction with 2-digit numbers. You can use it to review these topics in class or assign it during the holiday break. My students loved the Christmas images and enjyed the games. I hope your students will love them, too.
This 48-page resource pack includes fun games and game-based activities about numbers and place value, addition and subtraction for year 1. My students loved the games and the math superhero mouse that assisted them in some of the activities. You can use the pack to review numbers, addition, and subtraction in class or assign it during the term break or the summer break. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL.
This resource can be used with learners at all ages including ESL and ELL . It includes two videos and a lyrics listening and gap filling activity. The writing activities will enhance both critical thinking and language skills of the learners. The journal writing activity is great for character education and teaching values. There is also a Google slides version with more detailed activities.
By using this comprehensive inquiry-based guide, you can analyze any novel or short story using Harvard Project Zero Visible Thinking Routines and reading strategies. It includes 3 projects with rubrics, 3 writing tasks, and 20 different activities, most of which include Visible Thinking Routines. Other than Visible Thinking Routines, there are cooperative learning activities such as expert groups, gallery walk, Socratic discussions. There are also formative assessment tasks at the end of each project.
I used Trudy Ludwig’s short novel, Just Kidding but you can use them with any text on bullying with the exception of one activity: Reading response journal. The questions in this activity are about the novel. You can use similar questions about the text you are using.
It will take you one month to complete all the tasks and projects in the guide, but if you do not have enough time, you can omit some of them. You can also differentiate them by assigning them to different groups of students. You can use it either digitally as there is a Google Drive link in Notes to the Teacher section or as a hard copy if your students do not have devices. Please do not start using the guide before you read Notes to the Teacher.
Thank you for buying this resource. If you liked it, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 .
By using this comprehensive inquiry-based guide, you can analyze any novel or short story using Harvard Project Zero Visible Thinking Routines and reading strategies. It includes 3 projects with rubrics, 3 writing tasks, and 20 different activities, most of which include Visible Thinking Routines. Other than Visible Thinking Routines, there are cooperative learning activities such as expert groups, gallery walk, Socratic discussions. There are also formative assessment tasks at the end of each project.
I used Trudy Ludwig’s short novel, Just Kidding but you can use them with any text on bullying with the exception of one activity: Reading response journal. The questions in this activity are about the novel. You can use similar questions about the text you are using.
It will take you one month to complete all the tasks and projects in the guide, but if you do not have enough time, you can omit some of them. You can also differentiate them by assigning them to different groups of students. You can use it either digitally as there is a Google Drive link in Notes to the Teacher section or as a hard copy if your students do not have devices. Please do not start using the guide before you read Notes to the Teacher.
Thank you for buying this resource. If you liked it, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 .
This 32-slide lesson on how to spot fake news to become critical consumers of media includes 3 mini projects, a game, videos, infographics, activities and reflection questions at the end of the lesson. The activities are scaffolded, and step-by-step the students are introduced to the tips, tools, and websites on how to spot fake news and images on both print and digital.
There is a PowerPoint version in the attachment and a Google Drive link in Notes for the Teacher section. You can edit both of them to make adjustments according to the needs of your students.
Please do not start using the guide before you read Notes for the Teacher.
Thank you for buying this resource. If you liked it, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 .
Improve your students’ reading and writing skills with this fun and engaging bundle. The activities in the bundle are ideal for mixed ability classes and many of them are differentiated.
Here is a free resource for you to teach global literacy in your classroom creatively addressing the key issues. This 48-page pack will help you teach your students Global Goals for Sustainable Development published by the UN in 2016 to raise their awareness on global issues with a focus on Global Citizenship, Diversity, Freedom, Poverty, Hunger, and Environmental Issues. While learning many things about global issues and becoming a global citizen, the students will analyze a poem, read two non-fiction texts by Jane Goodall and Nelson Mandela and do the activities about them, write a bio-poem and a biography, an essay and a journal entry, analyze a cartoon and design their own, and prepare a presentation. The activities in the pack will enable you to differentiate learning naturally.
HyperDocs are digital lessons with links to a variety of media on a given topic/unit for students to explore and create information. They provide opportunities for exploration of a topic (in an inquiry based way) both individually and collaboratively, and include multiple parts of a lesson plan all packaged in one place. They include one or more opportunities for students to connect beyond the classroom, collaborate, create (and show what they know), share and reflect. The activities are self-paced or delivered in a flexible blended learning environment, often flipped and differentiated with extensions to meet the needs of all students. This allows the teachers to offload their lectures and reimagine various ways to redefine the student learning experience while having more face time with students by moving around and conferring with them.
This HyperDocs on Genius Hour will enable your students to explore their passions and design projects to invent, create and make new products or improved ideas to have a positive impact toward others. Your students will learn what creativity is and how to apply it while using their critical thinking and problem solving skills.
You can find 45 creative writing tasks with picture prompts in these ppts. Unlike technical, academic, and other forms of writing, creative writing fosters imagination and allows students to have a voice. Therefore, it is one of the most effective ways to enhance creativity in the classroom. I share this ppt with the students at the beginning of the year and they choose one topic each month. It is one of their favorite tasks.
You can share this presentation on Covid-19 with your students by using the PowerPoint in the attachment or the Google slides in this link. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BULlRRE_Ee6pEXbvARkcwZnumIEbk3biR6f1gltEKIY/edit?usp=sharing Your students can write can write into the slides version and send it back to you if you post it as an assignment in Google Classroom and choose ‘Make a copy for each student.’
HyperDocs are 21st century lesson design templates where all components of a learning cycle have been pulled together into one central hub. They shift the focus from teacher-led lectures to student-driven inquiry-based learning through the exploration of concepts purposely crafted and packaged on a Google Doc or Slide, making room for more interactive and personalized learning. They include one or more opportunities for students to connect beyond the classroom, collaborate, create (and show what they know), share and reflect.
If your students have devices in the classroom, they will find HyperDocs more engaging than the traditional teaching style. They will also find that they have a better pace in which they can learn because they can go faster through the content they know, and review the material in which they struggle. Upload your HyperDoc on Google Classroom so that absent students have the same package of information the students in class had access to as well.
Using HyperDocs in any course at any level will allow you to offload your lectures and re-imagine various ways to redefine the student learning experience while having more face time with students by moving around and conferring with them. This HyperDoc on Simple Present vs Present Continuous Tense has been prepared for Beginner, pre-intermediate and intermediate ESL and ELL students. You can easily use it in a mixed ability class by differentiating content and pace. You can even delete or change some of the content for some students. I uploaded my slide presentation on PowerPoint (show the PowerPoint in the slide show mode so that your students can watch the videos) but you can access my Google slides in this link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1S5WtPo5W-AfIghfLMslHsGXxvpYiNvhP6C6qCZIYlFM/edit?usp=sharing . Click File on the top right and click Make a Copy so that you can edit the slides. Please note that the links on the last two slides are for early finishers or for students who need extra practice. I deleted the Padlet (slide 28) and Flipgrid codes (slide 31) for students in the presentation as each teacher has to create their own Padlet and Flipgrid https://flipgrid.com/ links for their classes.
Because growth mindset is a critical element of success in school, I strongly believe that it should be taught to students. This is the lesson I prepared for my students. If you have time, at the end of this lesson you can ask your students to prepare a leaflet or a video for younger students to teach them growth mindset. For more information on growth mindset, you can vist my Pinterest board. https://tr.pinterest.com/shine58/growth-mindset/