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.
What are the IDEAS, INVENTIONS and INNOVATIONS that shaped our world?
How did they come to be? Who made them? How have they changed? And how did they revolutionize our lives?
This project examines the history of TIME KEEPING since the dawn of time itself, and the invention of THE CLOCK. A device that continues to reinvent itself for thousands of other purposes than just telling the time.
This WEEK LONG Digital Interactive Project draws upon LITERACY, READING, WRITING, (ELA) SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS (STEM) THE ARTS AND HISTORY. in a highly engaing independent PROJECT BASED LEARNING task that has been purpose built to operate in a DIGITAL, BYOD or ONE TO ONE classroom.
You can use platforms such as GOOGLE CLASSROOM, MICROSOFT OFFICE, ONENOTE and any other digital learning platform to distribute and manage this project. ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED & EVERYTHING IS COMPLETELY EDITABLE.
Your students will have the opportunity to engage with a vast array of DIGITAL TOOLS and ONLINE RESOURCES to create a project which connects with wants and needs as 21st CENTURY THINKERS AND LEARNERS.
THIS PROJECT HAS 10 ACTIVITIES INCLUDING
- Digital Text Response Tasks
- Digital Interactive Timelines
- Digital Cause and Effect
- Digital literacies and writing graphic organizers and templates
- Interactive video response task
- Podcast audio response tasks
- A variety of interactive Writing planners and templates
- Digital Biography Response Tasks
- Digital Data representation and graphing task
- A range of open ended English tasks
- Digital Self assessment tools
** Plus much more
PERFECT AS AN ENGLISH, LITERACY, STEM or HISTORY PROJECT
This is a deep unit of work guaranteed to both inform and showcase your students understanding of some of the great innovations that changed our world.
This is the type of resource which validates and proves the worth of all that technology in your classrooms.
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Following the success of the DIGITAL GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS BUNDLE comes the ultimate movie response tool for Digital teachers, 1:1 and BYOD Classrooms.
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MAKE MOVIES MEANINGFUL wth this HUGE bundle of DIGITAL GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS.
This collection of 21 INDEPENDENT TASKS takes students beyond the special effects and trailers to look at films from a number of perspectives as a powerful form of VISUAL LITERACY.
Students can respond to any film using these highly engaging activities to to explore the following aspects of a film.
- IDENTIFYING THE CONFLICT & RESOLUTION WITHIN YOPUR FILM
- STORYBOARDING AND VISUALISING YOUR FILM
- BREAKING DOWN VOCABULARY AND JARGON FROM YOUR FILM
- WHAT ROLE DOES SOUND PLAY IN YOUR FILM?
- UNLOCK THE BACKGROUND OF YOUR FILM AT IMDB
- WRITING A CONSIDERED MOVIE REVIEW WITHOUT SPOILERS
- WHAT DOES THE CAMERA PORTRAY IN THIS FILM?
- WHAT CONNECTIONS CAN I MAKE TO THIS FILM?
- BREAKING DOWN MY FAVOURITE SCENE
- COMPARE AND CONTRAST BOOKS AND FILMS
- DISCOVER AND CREATE TAGLINES FOR YOUR FILM
- WRITING AN ALTERNATE ENDING TO YOUR FILM
- KEY PROPS AND OBJECTS FROM THE FILM
- IDENTIFYING THE FILM'S CLIMAX AND LOWS
- ACTOR BIOGRAPHY'S
- "AND THE AWARD GOES TO..."
- CREATING A WORTHY TRAILER
- CREATING AN EFFECTIVE MOVIE POSTER
- WRITE YOUR OWN MOVIE QUIZ
This activity will allow students to identify information in a story that is important for understanding the text. This can include story elements such as character, setting, plot, conflict, and theme from a book as well as beginning, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Students will be using the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl to create a book report that will be the first step in preparing for an oral presentation.
With over forty images worked into a highly engaging graphic organizers your students will be begging you each week to do some journalistic / Newspaper reporting.
These templates take students through a proven four step process to create quality writing around some amazing images.
1: Analyze the Photo
2: Identifying your Audience and Purpose
3: Communicating the facts.
4: Planning and creating a structured journalistic report.
This planner has been used in numerous classes with students aged 10 - 16 with excellent results.
Best of all this version is completely editable so you can insert your own images and customize any element to your exact needs.
Take the leap in to the CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE and ditch your paper based reading logs or journals FOREVER.
This dynamic BUNDLE OF RESOURCES allows you to track and assess your students reading with far more efficiency and effectiveness than ever before.
What you get:
- A dynamic DIGITAL READING SURVEY which AUTOMATICALLY ADAPTS based upon the genre of book your students are reading and what point of the text they are up to
- A pre-written LETTER FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS explaining how it all works and the clear benefits it offers teachers, students and parents.
- A set of POSTRS AND BOOKMARKS matched to your class reading log so you kids can access this ANYTIME, ANYWHERE on ANY DEVICE
- A VIDEO TUTORIALexplaining how to edit, customize and deliver this to parents and students with ease, as well as how to sort, filter and manage your student data.
EVERY ELEMENT OF THIS RESOURCE IS COMPLETELY EDITABLE. ---
IT IS READY TO GO NO PREP REQUIRED OR YOU CAN TAILOR IT EXACTLY TO YOUR NEEDS BY FOLLOWING OUR SIMPLE TUTORIAL VIDEO.
This activity will allow students to develop an understanding of how the Venn Diagram can help organize events and other story elements by comparing and contrasting. Students will discuss comparing and contrasting
This quiz will access students’ understanding of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl. Students will read closely to determine what the text says explicitly as well as make logical inferences about characters and events from the story. Students will also answer questions about key ideas, theme, and other literary elements. This quiz will include questions from knowledge and reasoning standards.
You are getting the 25 MOST COMMON VERBS constructed into beautiful caterpillar CLASSROOM DISPLAY / WORD WALL or a really fun IRREGULAR VERB MATCHING GAME You could use it for both..
The game is a simple matching game (Construct a verb Catepillar - TAKE- TAKES - TAKING - TOOK - TAKEN ) or a classroom display.
Each caterpillar is made up of
- The Root Verb ie: TAKE
- Plural Form ie: TAKES
- Past Tense form ie: TOOK
- Past Participle ie: TAKEN
AS WELL AS A BLANK TO CREATE YOUR OWN VERB.
This resource is can also be downloaded as a completely editable package you can adapt for any type of classroom
This bright and beautiful caterpillar classroom display offers you numerous learning opportunities across all curriculum areas.
You are getting a FULLY EDITABLE POWERPOINT caterpillar display in a variety of presentation options.
These can be used for
WORD WALLS
SIGHT WORDS
MATH DISPLAYS
GENERAL CLASSROOM DISPLAYS
ANYTHING YOU WANT It's editable remember!!
It's all here - Just download and print.
Teaching students to write instructions manuals, recipes and science experiments can be a tough ask for the creative writer and teacher… ⭐UNTIL NOW⭐ Because the PERFECT PROCEDURAL WRITING UNIT offers a complete solution to teaching all styles of procedural writing including,
✅ Recipes
✅ Instructions for games
✅ Directions
✅ Science Experiments
✅ Walk Throughs
✅ Tutorials - Including videos
✅ Life Hack’s
✅ Self Help Guides
⭐ And much more NO PREP REQUIRED
Perfect for Google Classroom, Office 365, SeeSaw or other digital platfoms. Also includes a Print version.
Massive Update for 2019 - Another 40 pages of content added
An entire unit of INFORMATION REPORT WRITING awaits you. Absolutely no prep required.
This editable PowerPoint bundle will allow you to teach your students how to write excellent Information reports using a proven model based on research skills, writing strategies and engaging content.
The bundle includes 96 PAGES of:
Lesson plans,
Teaching materials
Visual writing prompts
Assessment rubrics
Writing Checklists
Graphic Organizers
Research Tools
Plus much more
All presented in a great looking presentation targeted at students in years 3 - 6.that you can either DISPLAY ON SCREEN, PRINT or use via GOOGLE CLASSROOM
You are getting 101 WACKY WORD PUZZLES. These are an excellent NO PREP activity that can be used in ENGLISH, as an ICEBREAKER, a test of CRITICAL THINKING or just a FUN ACTIVITY for students and teachers of all ages.
These puzzles will challenge your critical thinking and logic to determine common phrases. Some are really simple and straightforward others will challenge you.
These are an excellent resource for students in grade 5 and up, and can be done INDEPENDENTLY as a silent test, or as a COLLABORATIVE problem solving task for the whole class.
We have bundled together the webs most complete collection of Wacky Word challenges and HERE'S WHAT YOU GET.
- 202 Beautifully presented Wacky Wordies PowerPoint Slides with questions and answers.
- A paper based test of 101 Wacky Wordies for a silent test scenario
- Wacky wordies flash cards that can be cut out and used as a game or any literacy activity.
15 January themed writing activities hyperlinked to guides for students so they can work independently with a clear understanding of the genre and task at hand.
Including
Narratives
Explanation Texts
Information Reports
Recounts
Expository Essays
Persuasive Texts
Opinion Essays
Arguments and Discussions
Letter Writing
AND MORE
15 innovative February themed writing activities hyperlinked to guides for students so they can work independently with a clear understanding of the genre and task at hand.
Including
Narratives
Explanation Texts
Information Reports
Recounts
Expository Essays
Persuasive Texts
Opinion Essays
Arguments and Discussions
Letter Writing
AND MORE
15 innovative MARCH themed writing activities hyperlinked to guides for students so they can work independently with a clear understanding of the genre and task at hand.
Including
Narratives
Explanation Texts
Information Reports
Recounts
Expository Essays
Persuasive Texts
Opinion Essays
Arguments and Discussions
Letter Writing
AND MORE
15 innovative APRIL themed writing activities hyperlinked to guides for students so they can work independently with a clear understanding of the genre and task at hand.
Including
Narratives
Explanation Texts
Information Reports
Recounts
Expository Essays
Persuasive Texts
Opinion Essays
Arguments and Discussions
Letter Writing
AND MORE