Sustain the Student resources are the work of an experienced teacher, Head of English, educational consultant for a leading children's charity and parent.
Sustain the Student resources are the work of an experienced teacher, Head of English, educational consultant for a leading children's charity and parent.
This Mars: Roman God of War worksheet allows the student to explore and write about one of ancient Rome's most famous and influential Gods. This Roman Gods worksheet is ideal for homework or classwork when studying the Roman Empire.
For use with National Geographic Kids Atlas. This fun atlas scavenger hunt worksheet can be easily amended for a variety atlases or online research. Students love to race against the clock and compete as individuals or in small teams against each other.
This is an Aesop's fables writing and creative thinking exercise in which students are encouraged to think about animal characteristics in fables. Ideally used if students are studying Aesop's fables.
Looking for some green-fingered activities for Earth Day?
This download contains six easy to run gardening activities. Ideal for an Earth Day or Earth Week activity.
Let your pupils get green fingers and become young gardeners during your Earth Day celebrations.
Mini themes can include: learning about the growth of seeds, the role insects play in our environment and farming, and how household materials can be re-used in the garden.
My young gardener's club, who were 5-6 years old, loved these activities. Older students will also appreciate the opportunity to get their hands dirty and seek out bugs on the school grounds.
What do you want to achieve from Earth Day?
When starting a new area of learning or project I find that it is a great idea to have the class set themselves personal and individual targets.
This file contains two sheets. The first contains the sub-headings for the days of the week, the second is blank for the student to add their own entries.
Forward Thinking: For Tomorrow's World is a set of critical thinking exercises that challenge pupils to apply knowledge and skills to 5 geographical scenarios.
Ideal for a lesson starter, warm-up to a skills lesson or exam preparation, these activities encourage the pupils to 1) apply knowledge, 2) communicate, 3) discuss and collaborate, to come with potential solutions to real-world problems
Looking for activities to compliment your Earth Day celebrations.
Eight acrostic poem writing frames with additional 'hands around the world' creative and displayable poster.
Files are editable so you can create your own writing frames.
Great fun during Earth Day or Earth Week Activities.
Colourful and differentiated word search activities. Number of words hidden in the puzzles ranges from 8-42! Therefore this resource is suitable for many classes during Earth Day/ Earth Week or when studying Geography/ Environmental Studies, sustainability, pollution, renewable resources.
The first level word search focuses on 8 important words that the students will be introduced to throughout Earth Day celebrations.
The hardest word search sheet would be ideal for KS2 and 3 students who want the challenge of finding 42 words and understanding all the technical vocabulary.
These Earth Day Cut and Color I can... statements are a great resource for using with young students who are learning to become sustainable students.
Simply cut and color the statements after an Earth Week activity and paste onto the I can... poster.
The students take pride in completing an activity and being able to complete the 'I can...' statement. The poster adds a visual/ non-formal assessment element to the learning.
The statements provided include the familiar: I can recycle, I can re-use, I can reduce; the interesting: I can repair, I can rot; the exciting: I can walk or cycle, I can make a compost. In total there are 14 statements and blank templates to make your own.
Also included is an A3-sized poster template for the pupils to attach up to 12 of their statements during the Earth Day/ Earth Week celebrations.
This resource develops the standard '3 Rs' of sustainability by introducing the students to the '6 Rs' and more concepts for looking after 'Mother' Earth.
Two differentiated versions - younger and older Pupils.
Pupils become responsible environmental citizens and improve their Geo-literacy skills at the same time with this Earth Day weekly Diary!
The booklet has been designed to be used by pupils as a part of their Earth Day celebrations. Encourage your pupils to continue the Earth Day activities away from school and take vital messages home. Importantly, this will allow your pupils to take their Earth Day learning home to share with siblings and parents.
Younger pupils: requires the students to draw their daily exercises and, if required, write a few lines to accompany their illustrations.
Older pupils: contains 'I can...' statements for the pupils to work towards, section to write daily experience, section to write how they helped the environment that day, section to list what contributions they made towards the 3Rs.
This diary can also be used as part of your classroom work - afternoon activity, reflection time, informal assessment, as a daily 5-minute filler or a week-long Earth Day homework project
The document currently contains pages for 7 daily entries, however, just print more pages for a bigger diary.
Print the diary '2-sided' on the 'short edge' - or simply print and staple together.
Start the fun on Earth Day/ Week by having your pupils make a pledge.
This Earth Day activity allows your pupils to take ownership of their targets for the week and become responsible global citizens.
This colorful and exciting pledge can be used as a place mat or displayed on the wall during Earth Week.
Two variants include Earth Day and Earth Week for whichever event you are celebrating this year.
Looking for a manageable way to display your pupils targets?
Display these skills WANTED posters in your classroom so your students can have their learning targets visible at all times.
The PowerPoint file currently has space for a target in: Reading, Writing, Maths and Behaviour for Learning (BfL). These can be easily changed to suit your class needs.
The file also contains blank slips for writing the targets, these can be glued on top of achieved targets so the students can take pride in seeing how many targets they have achieved in the key subjects.
Students respond to the famous Dog and the Bone fable by writing a character sketch. Contains extension challenge for the higher ability students.
Includes the story text.
Ideal as a fables homework or worksheet.
These flashcards contain the following:
Numbers flashcards (numbers and words)
Colours flashcards (colours and words)
Shapes flashcards (shapes and words)
Classroom objects (stationary and words)
These are great flashcards for young learners and EAL, ESL students. The colourful cards can be cut out, stuck back to back and laminated to make an excellent set of flashcards. I always keep a set in my pocket so that I can help my foreign language students on the spot!
River worksheet that encourages the student to investigate the negative effects of using river water in unsustainable ways. A great resource when teaching about rivers, water, sustainability and environment issues.
Ideal as a class or homework sheet.
This information sheet (supplied as both pdf and Word in this download) suggests many ways in which a students can learn to spell words.
Ideal for the students who struggle to learn words for their weekly spelling tests - can also be used to help learn spellings and material in other languages.
Not every brain is the same, so not all students can learn through seeing and repeating. This information sheet lists contrasting methods that target the VAK - visual, audio and anesthetic (movement).
This could be displayed as a poster in a bedroom, at a work desk or in a classroom. Could be used as part of spelling or handwriting lessons.
Excellent for introducing when studying the Brainwaves unit of work.
If you're trying to learn something then give some of these methods a try and you'll find the results speak for themselves.
Maths and Geography investigations based on the book Around the World in 80 days. Students are encouraged to use the Internet to research distances, flight costs and durations.
Similar book study resources:
The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610
Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992
Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685
Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies)
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430
I created this resource when I realised that several of my students struggled to infer when reading.
This is an independent activity in my Guided Reading carousel. Some minor input from me on the difference between comprehending and inferring was all the children needed before getting started. I encourage the students to find more ‘infer’ answers than ‘comprehended’ answers.
What I love about this activity is that it has allowed my students to develop their inferential skills when reading worded texts, as well as analysing pictures. The absence of words means it is ideal for numerous reading abilities.
This reading inferential resource contains 25 activities.
This is great as part of a Guided Reading session or carousel of activities, it could also be used as a lesson starter, morning activity or library session activity.
Ideal for both KS1 and KS2 (the Thinking Activities are also useful KS3 study aids and exam preparation material) the Earth Day activity bundle provides you with everything you with resources for a whole week's worth of fun and learning.
This Earth Day bundle includes:
'I can...' statements (14 cards 'I can...' cards with printable wall chart, additional editable templates so you can add/ change your own ideas) - suitable for KS1 & KS2
Sustainable student activities (Thinking Cards and Self-Organised Learning) - suitable for upper KS2 & KS3
Earth Day Bingo (The difficulty of the games ranges from: the reading of key words and showing of flash card illustrations (younger students) through to the reading of scientific and geographic terminology and definitions (older students).
Bingo game cards range for 9 boxes to 16 boxes.
For the older students to requirements of the game can be:
recognition of key words from definition (easier game) or
recognition of definitions from key words (harder game)) - suitable all age groups
Earth Day Bookmarks - suitable all age groups
Earth Day Pledge (encourage your pupils to set personal goals and make pledges during the week) - suitable all age groups
Earth Week Daily Targets (setting targets is a great way to start the week with your class or form) - suitable all age groups
Forward Thinking 5 Activities - suitable upper KS2 & KS3
Gardening Activities x6 - suitable KS1 & KS2
Acrostic Poems - suitable KS1 & KS2
Earth Day Wordsearch (x4 differentiated) - levels of difficulty appropriate for KS1, 2 & 3
Earth Day Certificates (in ppt format for easy edit) - suitable all age groups
Earth Week Diary - suitable all age groups
This comprehensive Earth Day/ Earth Week activity pack comprises of 11 beautifully presented and thought-provoking sustainable-themed activities and an editable set of class Earth Day certificates.
The differentiated activities mean this bundle is a suitable Earth Day activity for all age ranges.
Peer review is an excellent end of lesson plenary activity for writing lessons.
In my class I have these posters doubled-sided-printed and laminated and readily available around the room as well as featuring on my English display board.
The first two students to have adequately finished their work then peer review each others' by offering a compliment, suggestion and correction. Having completed the activity a couple of times the students really understand what makes constructive feedback (the guidance also helps with this).
A great writing plenary.