This pack is full of hands-on, printable engaging activities for learning about Australia’s neighbouring countries and comes with an interactive PowerPoint™ and Google Slide™ digital resource about climates which covers asking questions, identifying climate types, their features and impact on the environment, climatic maps, and interpreting data in graphs and tables. 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 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 in the printable pack: 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 Foldable similarities and differences shapes to write on Foldable climate types activity (new) Poster of Australia’s climate (new) Types of settlement with Google Maps™ activity (new) What’s included in the digital resource: 48 slides for PowerPoint™ or Google Slides™ Printable climate type activity Printable table and graph activity Printable climatic map of Australia Each mini lesson has the learning objective at the start. You can use the slides that are most useful for your students and delete any you don’t need, and the text is editable so you can adapt it if needed. Mini Lessons: Ask questions to inquire and probe deeper. Identify different climate types. Identify the features of different climate types. Construct a climatic map. Interpret climate data to describe temperature and rainfall. Create a table and bar graph in Excel or Google Sheets™ I hope your students enjoy learning about climate and Australia’s neighbouring countries.

If you’re looking for engaging activities for learning about carnivores, omnivores and herbivores, this is the pack! There’s a colorful, interactive PowerPoint slide deck which introduces the key concepts of carnivores, omnivores and herbivores with lots of photos and is interspersed with “check what you know” slides to make sure that children have understood a concept before moving on to the next one. The slideshow can be used as a whole-class presentation, or it can be assigned to students to work through on their own devices. Over 30 slides are included covering: Carnivores Omnivores Herbivores Predators and prey Scavengers Different types of teeth and how these are used for eating different food This can be followed up with a printable activity booklet or worksheets. What’s included? Key concepts gap fill or explanation depending on the version Circle the animal that doesn’t belong to the animal group. Connect the animal to its food by following the trails. Draw an animal and write what it eats. Circle the word predator or prey depending on the animal. Draw missing teeth on the animals. Quiz questions to check understanding. Circle all the animals of one diet type. Crossword with clues using diet type. List five animals for each type. Wordfind to find 10 herbivores. Write about an animal they like. Match animals to their food. Animal jokes And add a little fun with these games and activities: Printable activities: Card sort – children match the pictures to the animal types. Board game – children answer a variety of questions as they make their way around the board. Scavenger hunt/write the room – a great way to get children moving around the classroom to find and write animals in the matching column on their worksheet. This is a great introductory activity and comes with two levels of difficulty. Spinner game – children race to cover the animals on their boards to match the animal type on the spinner. Two levels of difficulty are included. Digital activities (PowerPoint games): Guess the animal based on the picture and diet type. This is great for an introductory whole-class activity. Guess the diet type (carnivore, omnivore or herbivore) of each animal. This is great for an end-of-topic whole-class activity and can be as competitive as you like. You could upload these to Google classroom if you use Google classroom instead of PowerPoint. Answer key is included, plus U.S. and U.K. versions. I hope your children enjoy learning about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores with these activities.

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. You may also like: Ancient Egypt Activities Ancient Egypt Hands-on Activities and Crafts Ancient Egypt Pyramid Craft Aztec Empire Activities Aztec Empire Hands-on Activities and Crafts Shang Dynasty Activities Shang Dynasty Hands-on Activities and Crafts 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

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. -----------LEAVE A REVIEW AND GET A FREEBIE---------  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.

This pack is full of hands-on, printable engaging activities for learning about Australia’s neighbouring countries and comes with an interactive PowerPoint™ and Google Slide™ digital resource about climates which covers asking questions, identifying climate types, their features and impact on the environment, climatic maps, and interpreting data in graphs and tables. There are map activities and 14 sketch note 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 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 in the printable pack: 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. (updated) Natural features of different neighbours (updated) Types of settlement (new) Foldable similarities and differences shapes to write on Foldable climate types activity (new) Poster of Australia’s climate (new) Types of settlement with Google Maps™ activity (new)* What’s included in the sketch note pack: 14 sketch note graphic organisers for Pacific region countries 11-slide PowerPoint for using satellite images to identify natural, managed and built features What’s included in the digital resource: 48 slides for PowerPoint™ or Google Slides™ Printable climate type activity Printable table and graph activity Printable climatic map of Australia Each mini lesson has the learning objective at the start. You can use the slides that are most useful for your students and delete any you don’t need, and the text is editable so you can adapt it if needed. Mini Lessons: Ask questions to inquire and probe deeper. Identify different climate types. Identify the features of different climate types. Construct a climatic map. Interpret climate data to describe temperature and rainfall. Create a table and bar graph in Excel or Google Sheets™** I hope your students enjoy learning about Australia’s neighbouring countries with this pack.

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. 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