I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and I try to make my resources have real-world applications whenever possible. These resources will not only engage your learners, but they'll save you time, so that you can focus on doing what you do best.
I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and I try to make my resources have real-world applications whenever possible. These resources will not only engage your learners, but they'll save you time, so that you can focus on doing what you do best.
This 3D model ziggurat is a great hands-on craft to make if you are studying Mesopotamia or Ancient Sumer. The craft is differentiated with two versions so you can use what suits your students best.
The finished size is about 4in x 5in (10cm x 12cm).
The simpler version has two main pieces to join, plus steps. The more complex version has four main pieces that make the four layers of the ziggurat, plus steps.
If you’re after more hands-on Ancient Sumer activities, you may like the pack which includes this writing activity, or the bundle which includes this writing activity and a 3D ziggurat model.
You will receive a zip file with PDFs (not editable). If you have any trouble with downloading, please email me at info@zigglelearning.com.
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Get your students making and creating beautiful arts and crafts from Japan with this pack of 5 hands-on activities. Creating multicultural art is a great way to celebrate the diversity within our classrooms and around the world.
In this pack you’ll find five activities that include origami, ceramics, printing, writing Japanese kanji, and watercolour with markers.
Visual step-by-step instructions are included so even if you’re not confident teaching art, students will be able to create something they can be proud of. You can either use these to outline the process, or the easiest option is to print copies for each table (or display them in plastic stands if you have them), for students to follow the instructions themselves. You could set these up as stations for students to rotate around, or do one activity per day.
What’s included?
U.K and U.S versions optimised for A4/Letter paper, spelling and vocabulary
Origami box
Kimono using origami, watercolor, and markers
Printing a landscape or koi fish
Fortune cat
Write Japanese kanji
Self-reflection form
11 pages included
What materials are used:
Air-drying clay
Paper about 6in x 6in / 15cm x 15cm
Cartridge paper A4-A3 size, coloured paper
Scissors
Watercolours or dye
Markers
Paints and brushes
Pens or pencils
Craft foam
Printing ink (or paint)
I hope your students enjoy creating Japanese art and feel super proud of what they make!
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Art Around the World Mexico
Art Around the World Australia
Art Around the World Spain
African Animals Art Projects
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Your students will love this fun pack of easy-prep printable Halloween-themed activities which cover idioms, maths, science, writing, and design skills.
There are plenty of options to appeal to all learners with word searches, a number search, creative design activities, labelling the skeletal system, writing ideas, and more.
This pack is suitable for Year 3 and up.
What’s included?
U.S and U.K versions
Halloween word search
Create a Halloween word search
Design a board game
Design a new sweet
Design a Halloween costume
Design carved pumpkins
Halloween crossword
Name 5 Halloween-related words for different topics
Halloween A to Z
Cat idioms and Halloween idioms
Number search - multiplication
Fraction word problems
Label the skeletal system
Cut out and make the skeletal system
Writing prompts (colour and ink saver)
Answer keys for activities which aren’t open-ended
Ideas for use:
whole class
stations
early finishers
I hope your students enjoy this Halloween pack.
You will receive a PDF file.
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3D Haunted House Craft
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Are you looking for engaging ways for your students to learn about modal verbs and adverbs for possibility? This digital and printable resource includes a quiz to introduce the language, an interactive notebook to apply and organise learning in a visual way, six engaging worksheets, and a board game for pairs or small groups.
These activities cater to different learning styles to make learning more memorable, and encourage creativity, draw on general knowledge, and meet social needs through playing together, all while using modal verbs.
What’s covered?
can, may (not), might (not), could, must, should/ought to, can’t, won’t
negatives
adverbs of possibility
What’s included?
6 worksheets (printable and digital)
Interactive notebook ranking the modal verbs in order of probability (and visual instructions) - printable and digital drag and drop version
Board game for pairs or small groups
Answer keys
Reference sheet for modal verbs
U.S and U.K versions
I hope your students enjoy using these activities.
You will receive:
A PDF version, an editable PPTX (text is editable, not images or layout), and a link to the Google Slides™ version.
Updated March 19 2024 to add digital versions.
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SAVE MONEY with this complete hands-on unit bundle on ancient Shang dynasty history packed with fun activities including research organisers, a timeline, developments, leadership analysis, a fortune teller, and more to help your students learn about the first ancient Chinese civilization with a written record.
This pack contains lots of interesting learning activities that you can pick and choose from:
timeline cut and paste
colouring page (great for covers)
map work
comparison activities of the students’ lives with Shang life
social structure
reporter-style research page
archaeological dig research booklet
informational reading passage (text is editable, images/layout aren’t)
adapting to the environment interactive notebook
analysing leadership cut and paste
fortune teller of key social studies concepts
starting the inquiry process (KWL)
U.S and U.K versions included.
I hope your students love learning about the Shang Dynasty!
Hands-on activities:
Student instructions for:
Roleplay as archaeologists
Make a model Shang chariot
Carry out an archaeological dig with a partner
Make a soap “jade” carving
Make a clay bronze “ding”
Write oracle symbols - the first Chinese writing system on paper, but if you have clay students can make an oracle bone to write symbols on.
I hope you enjoy using this unit with your children, as much as I enjoyed making it!
You will receive a zip file with PDFs and a PPTX file.
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Do you need some hands-on activities to bring your Ancient Egypt unit to life? This pack has 6 hands-on activities that include carrying out an archaeological dig and five craft projects. Many of these activities can meet the learning objectives of the art curriculum at the same time.
What’s included?
Student instructions for:
Make an amulet
Make a canopic jar
Make papyrus
Make a pyramid model (two sizes, a smaller, easier size, and a larger, more challenging size)
Make a scarab beetle
Carry out an archaeological dig with a partner
You will need:
paper, coloured paper
scissors, glue/glue sticks
paint
pencils, markers, coloured pencils
air-drying clay and rolling/marking tools
containers, soil or sand, small objects
I hope your students enjoy making these activities.
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Ancient Egypt Pyramid Craft
Aztec Empire Activities
Aztec Empire Hands-on Activities and Crafts
Shang Dynasty Activities
Shang Dynasty Hands-on Activities and Crafts
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This Titanic timeline activity is a hands-on way to trace the story of the Titanic from when it was being built, through to the detailed events of the sinking, up to the time the wreck was discovered.
There are three options, with more options within each.
1. Cut and paste worksheet
Option one – match the pictures and descriptions to the dates and times.
Option two – write the missing date or time and match the pictures and descriptions.
Answer key is included
2. Foldable timeline
Children colour in the Titanic halves or use the pre-coloured version of the Titanic halves.
Option one – match the pictures to the descriptions, dates, and times.
Option two – match the descriptions to the pictures, dates, and times.
Option three – write the dates and times and match the pictures to the descriptions.
3. Digital Google™ Slide
Drag and drop the events onto the timeline.
Children will be able to work out the order of the events through logic and by using some of the clues given to help them.
I hope your students enjoy learning about the Titanic as they make their timelines.
U.K. and U.S. versions are included.
You will receive PDFs (not editable) and a link to the Google slide version.
If you need something editable, please reach out to me via email.
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Titanic PowerPoint and Google Slides presentation with comprehension questions
Titanic graphic organizer
More timelines you may like:
History of land transport
History of flight
History of boats and ships
The Great Fire of London
Ancient Egypt
The Benin Empire
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This pack of six digital and printable worksheets, teaching notes, and assessment will have your students feeling confident with recognising and correcting inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.
The worksheets explain the key concepts and give opportunities to practise:
identifying active and passive voice
identifying if a verb voice shift has occurred
keeping the verb voice consistent
identifying verb moods (indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive)
identifying if a verb mood shift has occurred
keeping the verb mood consistent
An assessment (or informal quiz) is included to assess if students have a thorough understanding of recognizing and correcting inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.
Answer keys are provided for the worksheets and the assessment page.
Teaching notes can be used to put concepts on the board.
What’s included?
3 worksheets covering inappropriate shifts in verb voice
3 worksheets covering inappropriate shifts in verb mood
Answer keys
Teaching points
Editable PPT version
PowerPoint version
Link to Google Slides™ version
I hope you enjoy using this pack with your students.
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Verb Moods Boardgame
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Passive Voice Boardgame
Shift in Verb Voice and Mood Cut and Paste Activity
Shift in Verb Voice and Mood Boardgame
Idiom Worksheet, Station Activities, and Posters
Wordiness and Redundancy Worksheets
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This pack is full of hands-on, engaging activities for learning about Australia’s neighbouring countries and is aligned to the HASS curriculum.
There are map activities and graphic organisers which your students can use to help them locate Australia and its neighbours, and to find similarities and differences in daily life, climate, natural, managed, and constructed features, schools, festivals and holidays, houses, plants and animals, climate, and types of settlement.
Students can choose one country to do an in-depth research project on and present their information in a travel brochure. These would make a great classroom display for children to read and learn about other countries.
Students can use globes, atlases and digital maps to find the information they need for the map work. They can use online sources and books for other research tasks.
What’s included:
Label a map of Australia and its neighbours.
Label a map of the Pacific Island nations.
Foldable activity to show the directions of different neighbours.
Label a climate map of Australia with a title, key and north point. (new)
Travel brochure for children to write about one country.
Compare their house and a house in Indonesia.
Compare several traditional houses. (new)
Compare built structures (Jakarta city scene and Candi Prambanan Temple in Indonesia to a built structure of their choice in Australia)
Compare rice growing in Australia and Indonesia.
Natural features of different neighbours (new)
Types of settlements (new)
Foldable similarities and differences shapes to write on
Foldable climate types activity (new)
Poster of Australia’s climate (new)
32 pages included
I hope your students enjoy learning about Australia and its neighbouring countries with these activities.
You will receive 8 PDFs and 3 editable PPTX files (text is editable, images/layout aren’t).
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Have some fun this Halloween with this hands-on 3D haunted house model. Your students will love making their own haunted house, adding their own details to make the house unique.
This pack includes options for a single-level house made up of three rooms and a roof, or a two level house which has six rooms. The model is put together by making rooms and gluing them together, so students could make just one or two rooms, or they could make all six.
The haunted house can be made using paper or light card. White glue is the easiest to work with for this project, and tape can be used if needed.
What’s included?
Instructions
4 outline pages for a one-level house
6 outline pages for a two-level house
Display box template for a “garden”
Photo examples
U.S and U.K versions
Note: 3D crafts can be challenging for students so please consider if your students have the fine motor skills needed before purchasing.
I hope your students enjoy making a haunted house this Halloween!
You will receive a PDF file.
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Fun pack of Halloween activities
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If you’re studying Ancient Sumer, then your students will love these hands-on activities which get them making art, crafts, and writing from the earliest civilisations!
This pack has lots of activities you can pick and choose from, that will give students an insight into the crafts and technology that the first civilisations in Mesopotamia used.
Students can:
explore cuneiform script with two different scripts to try (Sumerian and old Persian)
practice weaving
make a woven basket
make a paper model of the Ishtar Gate
make a clay bowl
make a clay tablet and write cuneiform on it
make a paper ziggurat model (differentiated with two options)
The pack includes student hand-out instructions and a PDF slideshow version of the instructions, plus templates to make the Ishtar Gate and ziggurat.
You will need:
wool
thick card (for weaving)
paper cups
air-drying clay
paint (optional)
scissors, glue sticks, coloring pencils
wooden skewers
paper or light card (for models)
U.K. and U.S. versions included.
I hope your students enjoy making their Ancient Sumer crafts.
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Do you need some hands-on activities to bring your Ancient Greece unit to life? This pack has 6 hands-on activities that include writing the ancient Greek alphabet, making ancient Greek coins, making a miniature clay amphora (vase), sgraffito art inspired by ancient Greek art, weaving, and making a 3D model of the Parthenon. Many of these activities can meet the learning objectives of the art curriculum at the same time.
This pack comes with a PDF slideshow version of instructions, plus a student handout version for the art activities. There are also three pages of photos of real artefacts to use for inspiration.
What’s included?
Teacher’s guide
Photos for inspiration
Self-reflection
Artist statement
Student instructions for:
Make a 3D Parthenon model - with steps (for more capable students) and without (for an easier version)
Make a clay amphora
Make clay or salt dough coins
Draw an aspect of ancient Greek life using the sgraffito technique with oil pastels
Write the ancient Greek alphabet
Try weaving using wool
You will need:
A4 paper
scissors, glue/glue sticks
paint (poster or acrylic)
strong card
a variety of colourful wool
tape
pencils, colouring pencils
oil pastels
air-drying clay and rolling/marking tools
Please note the Parthenon model is not to scale and is an artistic representation, not a realistic representation.
*60 pages included
You will receive a zip file with PDFs.
I hope you enjoy using this pack with your students.
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Ancient Egypt Hands-on Activities and Crafts
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Aztec Empire Activities
Aztec Empire Hands-on Activities and Crafts
Shang Dynasty Activities
Shang Dynasty Hands-on Activities and Crafts
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The activities in this pack will help your students to learn about the history of boats, how boats use technology, and how the changes in technology over time have brought changes for how people meet their needs and made the world more connected.
There is a lot to choose from with worksheets, interactive notebook activities, PowerPoint™ and Google Slides™ for teaching, design activities, labelling activities, a S.T.E.M activity, and a word search. Plus, there are editable versions for some worksheets so you can write questions to tailor the resource to your needs.
What’s included?
18 PowerPoint™ and Google Slides™
Cut and paste activity to categorize different ship technology (sails, steam, diesel)
Spot the differences - identify differences between two photos of boats, one from the past and one from the present
Ask a grandparent (or older person) - compare changes in boat transport over time (plus editable version)
Interactive sailboat - write about how boats meet our needs (plus editable version)
Interactive world - write about how transport technology makes the world more connected (plus editable version)
Interactive ship’s wheel - practice writing cardinal directions
Two design activities to choose from (a new kind of boat and a boat you could live on)
STEM challenge to make a boat
Label the parts of a ship - cut and paste
Word search (two levels of difficulty)
U.K and U.S versions
I hope your students enjoy learning about the history of boats with these activities.
You will receive PDF and PPTX files.
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History of Flight Timeline
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Learning to weave a kete is a fun activity that enriches children’s learning about traditional Māori crafts. It can be used during Matariki to celebrate this special time of year or at any time of the year to teach children the skills of weaving. It is also a great way to build fine motor skills.
There are three differentiated versions to choose from:
The easiest level uses three strips of coloured paper and is ideal for young learners and those with limited fine motor skills.
The medium level also uses three strips of paper, but the number of under/over movements has increased.
The hardest level is great for older children and uses five strips of paper.
This activity is ideal for the whole class, small groups, early finishers, rotating stations, and library sessions.
I hope you and your children enjoy weaving their kete!
You will receive:
2 PDF files
If you have any trouble downloading, just reach out to me via email and I’ll help get these to you.
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Support your students with this pack of 2 Zen Zone area posters, 3 affirming wall posters, 7 activities, and 2 breathing exercises designed for students in upper primary and above.
Whether you can dedicate a space for a Zen Zone or just a basket of activities, this pack will give you ideas on how to set up a Zen Zone and the kinds of activities that build strategies, refocus attention, change perspective to a more positive one, and give an anxious mind something to do.
What’s included?
U.K and U.S Versions
2 Zen Zone area posters in peaceful watercolour and ink saver versions
3 wall posters with reassuring affirmations
7 activities that include grounding techniques, planning, drawing, and making lists
2 breathing exercises
Tips for setting up a Zen Zone
22 pages included
This set is ideal for students who experience anxiety or get overwhelmed at times.
I hope you find this pack helpful for your students.
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
Get your students making and creating beautiful arts and crafts from Mexico with this pack of 6 hands-on activities. Creating multicultural art is a great way to celebrate the diversity within our classrooms and around the world.
In this pack you’ll find six activities that include papier mache, papercraft, clay, weaving, drawing, and painting.
Visual step-by-step instructions are included so even if you’re not confident teaching art, students will be able to create something they can be proud of. You can either use these to outline the process, or the easiest option is to print copies for each table (or display them in plastic stands if you have them), for students to follow the instructions themselves. You could set these up as stations for students to rotate around, or do one activity per day.
What’s included?
U.K and U.S versions optimised for A4/Letter paper, spelling and vocabulary
Student instructions and notes for the teacher
Weaving
Papier mache cactus
Class mural inspired by Diego Rivera
Alebrijes (fantasy animals) mixed media
Talavera bowls using clay
Papercraft decorations
PDF slideshow version of the instructions
Self-reflection form
Artist’s statement
11 pages included
What materials are used:
Air-drying clay
Cartridge paper A4-A3 size, coloured paper
Oil pastels
Markers, colouring pencils
Paint
Cardboard
Yarn/Wool
Newspaper/newsprint
I hope your students enjoy creating Mexican art and feel super proud of what they make!
Art Around the World Japan
Art Around the World Australia
Art Around the World Spain
African Animals Art Projects
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This collection of 10 Fairytale Pattern Block mats and task cards will support your learners as they learn to identify, sort, flip, rotate and turn shapes. Great as part of a castle, medieval, or fairytale theme topic!
How challenging is it?
There are three levels of difficulty so you can tailor the activities to your learners:
full-size colour and ink saver version for practising matching
task cards for learners to put the shapes together without a mat
outline version for those that need an extra challenge
For a STEM challenge, there are also five sheets for students to design and build their own versions.
Develop creativity and problem-solving skills as they draw a design, build it and re-work it until it looks just like they want it to
What’s included in the zip file?
Mats (colour and ink saver)
castle
crown
princess hat
jester’s hat
knight’s helmet
long sword
short sword
drawbridge
shield
goblet
Design sheets
Can you make a castle?
Can you make a crown?
Can you make a princess hat?
Can you make a sword?
Can you make a shield?
Task cards (A5 size)
40 pages included
Ideas for use:
supplemental materials
morning tables
math centres
stations
early finishers
I hope you enjoy using them with your learners.
TIPS FOR PRINTING:
These are optimised to print on 8.5x11 paper.
Please ensure that you select actual size or set scaling to none depending on your print options so that the shapes will match with your classroom set.
You will receive zip files with PDFs.
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This one-page biography research organiser gives your students an interesting way to present their learning about Amelia Earhart.
There are two options, one with a space for students to draw a picture, and one with a portrait for students to colour. The widest lines come with the option of her Lockheed Vega 5B plane or an interesting fact. The narrower lines use cursive script.
The organiser comes with the option of three line sizes so you can choose the best one for your students.
Students will need to research online, in books, or use a reading passage to find the information.
The topics include key facts, achievements, important moment and influences, and an interesting fact.
U.S and U.K versions available.
You will receive a PDF.
If you’d like more Amelia Earhart activities, you may like this pack which includes the graphic organiser.
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This is a handy reference sheet for irregular verbs.
The English language has so many irregular past verbs, so here’s a handy list of the past simple forms and past participles.
This will be a great reference sheet for both teachers and students and can be displayed on the wall or glued into books.
Here is a handy reference sheet for forming plural nouns.
There are lots of rules for forming the plural of nouns in English, even with words that follow rules, there is inconsistency.
This printable outlines the different rules for “regular” plurals which follow rules, including their exceptions, irregular plurals, plus Latin and Greek root plurals.