A lesson aimed at students learning about the main long term causes of the First World War, looking at Militarism, Alliance, Imperialism and Nationalism. Students build up their knowledge and then practice a GCSE describe question about each. There are sentence starters and key words for each question for the lower ability and challenge tasks for each activity to stretch your top end.

Created for a revision task where students roll dice to decide upon an emoji and must then link it in someway to something we have learnt about the topic e.g Ship = Spanish Armada or baby = succession crisis . It worked well with by lower ability students having something to visualize we then began explaining and describing in more detail. Students take it in turns rolling the dice if they land on the same one as someone else they need to think of a different connection. I have also used this in lesson in conjunction with some of my other revision board games

Created for a revision task where students roll dice to decide upon an emoji and must then link it in someway to something we have learnt about the topic e.g House = Model villages such as Bournville and Port Sunlight or fire = cauterization. It worked well with by lower ability students having something to visualize we then began explaining and describing in more detail. Students take it in turns rolling the dice if they land on the someone as someone else they need to think of a different connection. I have also used this in lesson in conjunction with some of my other revision board games

This activity is designed to aid student writing and build up literacy. Students roll a pair of dice and find the emoji that corresponds to this, they then have to use the emoji in their first sentence e.g. If they landed on the crown it could be “The King’s barons stormed into the village collecting men for his army.” They then repeat to find out their next topic to include. This works well as a way of building literacy into a lesson or I usually print these out and set this as a homework task. Setting a maximum and minimum amount of rolls, and setting a competition to create the most creative story.

This activity is designed to aid student writing and build up literacy. Students roll a pair of dice and find the emoji that corresponds to this, they then have to use the emoji in their first sentence e.g. If they landed in the rain it could be “My first day on duty and rain was crashing around me, turn the trench into a bog.” They then repeat to find out their next topic to include. This works well as away of building literacy into a lesson or I usually print these out and set this as a homework task. Setting a maximum and minimum amount of rolls, and setting a competition to create the most creative story.

A group of resources inspired by the game Zelda. Includes a takeaway homework, a connectives word mat and a interactive plenary game. Where two teams compete to out answer questions to attack the opposing team’s character.

A group of resources inspired by the Game Mario. Include a word mat and themed takeaway homework. Also includes two interactive plenaries one is a question battle where the class is divided and aim to attack the other group’s character by answering question. The other one is a timed how many questions can you answer before the bullet reaches Mario, and score points by clicking on the boxes each time you answer. The plenaries are animated and have sound effects to keep students engaged.

A group of resources inspired by Pokemon, it includes a word mat and two versions of a takeaway homework sheet. There is also three interactive plenary activities, two question battles and another plenary activity.

This includes a Takeaway Homework, two interactive Plenary activities, where students are divided as a class and compete to answer questions to defeat the opponent. There is also a hero inspired connectives word mat. All the PowerPoints have animation and sound effects to engage students.

This includes a Takeaway Homework, two interactive Plenary activities, one is a plenary battle where students are divided as a class and compete to answer questions to defeat the opponent. The other is a potions themed plenary, students have to avoid drinking deadly potions. There is also a magic inspired connectives word mat. All the PowerPoints have animation and sound effects to engage students.

This includes a Takeaway Homework, two interactive Plenary Battle activity where students are divided as a class and compete to answer questions to defeat the opponent. There is also a Star Wars inspired connectives word mat, which can be matched with a power point to introduce a DIRT activity. PowerPoints have animation and sound effects to engage students.

This is from a T&L Breakfast that I did on some approaches to stretch and challenge. It aims to give some ideas that work on challenging all students not just the most able. If you try any of the ideas would be good to get some feedback on them. What works in some classes doesn’t necessarily work in others.

A quick revision lesson activity. Print on A3 laminate. Students can then write their own questions on the sheet and then have a go at answering them. Questions get harder based around Bloom’s Taxonomy.

These cards are simple, print and laminate. All you need to do is buy scratch card stickers, easy to find on the internet, and place them on the cards over the reward words. Or you can mix silver paint and fairy liquid and paint on them and this can be scratched off. These work well as prizes in lessons as students are excited to see what they have won. Used them for rewards for good lesson work and homework

These sheets are handed out when setting homework and students choose one that they are going to complete. Each version of takeaway homework has some different tasks so I use different ones every so often to give students a range. I have a homework loyalty card so students know if they just the harder choices they get more stamps, with a completed card earning them a reward e.g phone call home. This worked really well to push students to challenge themselves. For the Pizza one I print out all the slices cut and laminate. I then went to local pizza chain and asked for a clean empty box and then placed them all in there. When setting homework students took a slice to do. The Starbooks version has a downloaded font so might not appear on the word document so a PDF is included which will have the chalk text effect.

A great revision activity that I’ve done in lesson and in revision sessions. Students given score cards and rules and off they go. I recommenced laminating the score cards so they can be written on and wiped off. Add questions to the question cards cut them up and place them in cups. This idea may take some preparation and set up time You will need to get yourself some large cups and ping pong balls, recommend your local pound shop. This really worked for getting Low attainment boys to voluntary come to revision after school. Would then get some exam skills and practice in afterwards.

A plenary task inspired by GET ME OUT OF HERE. Students choose a plate and if its a creepy crawly they answer a question if its a star they choose another person to answer.

There is two different version for this recap lesson with very different tasks. Choose which one would best fit your class A lesson that recaps the methods William used to keep control, culminating in students answering a GCSE style question about which method was the most important to William’s reign over England. A writing frame is included to help with less able students. Students look at the problems William faced and try and work out which method would have solved it. There are help sheets to prompt students.

Split the class into groups. Students must pick the key words that they think are the hardest as these are worth most marks. Students take turns going through the key words the team with the highest score wins.

Students press the spin button and what ever it lands on students have to write down as much as they can remember about that topic. Words can be changed as class learns more. Every time the button is pressed it will land on a different word.