This resource is an April Assortment with a quiz for Earth Day, Queen's Birthday, Shakespeare Day, Saint George's Day and World Book Day and a bookmark template with a bookmark for each day.
KS2 and above.
BREXIT- on June 23rd 2016 thousands of young people will vote for the first time in their lives. This vote will also perhaps be THE most important vote in their lives. Some of your students will vote. Some will be brothers and sisters of those who are voting. Either way, this day will have an impact- use this PowerPoint presentation to educate, discuss, debate and conclude the European 'issue'.
Suitable for KS3 and KS4 students and perfect for IGCSE English Speaking , ESL , British Values, Citizenship, History or PSHE.
Resource contains 34 slides:
2 worksheet templates
9 task discussion cards
1 poster
22 slides for discussion ( History of the EE and EU / world leaders and key players / pros and cons of BREXIT )
This is the second in a series of BREXIT/BREMAIN resources in the lead up to the big vote on June 23rd this year.
Who? What? Why? When? Where? Why should I be bothered?
Discuss this hot topic with your students, get some debate going and let them share their opinion.
Resource is in the form of a PowerPoint presentation (info, discussion and quiz) and has an additional three worksheets at the end.
Great for KS3 upwards, ESL and SEN students at home and abroad.
This 22 slide resource has a series of non-fiction texts for KS1/KS2 ( suitable for ESL/SEN also). The resource covers the topics of :
Polar Bears
Penguins
Rivers
Rainforests
Deserts
There are also fact file templates included.
Each topic contains three worksheets - match the vocabulary, answer the question and here is the answer, write the question.
Ideal for end of term comprehension revision.
This is a mixed bag resource for Spring. Mostly suitable for KS2 / ESL.
It contains
• task cards : including St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Passover, Earth Day and First Day of Spring, board game
• worksheets: including word search, Earth acrostic poem template, map completion, life cycle of a butterfly template
• crafts: two templates for bookmarks and one Easter card
• Wordsworth’s Daffodils poem plus worksheets
These could be great activity fillers through Spring- perhaps a Friday afternoon or as a lead in to a topic/ plenary. They could also be used in a literacy centre for self-access.
Alternatively, you could turn the resource into a homework booklet for Spring.
This PowerPoint presentation is a short five slide discussion of the European Union vote on June 23rd followed by an All About Britain Quiz with 52 questions ( four questions per slide).
Test your students and see how much they really know about the UK!
KS2 upwards.
This is part one of a series of Learners' Labyrinth Mini Guides to War and Revolution.
There is a PowerPoint presentation giving a brief overview of the French Revolution 1789- information, discussion topics about the 1700s. It has three worksheets covering Roman Numerals, King Louis' diary and Queen Marie Antoinette's diary.
This is an excellent intro to European history for year Six or Seven and possibly a good one off lesson in the run up to the European 'in or out' vote and French Bastille Day on July 14th.
Vive la revolution!
This set of language worksheets accompanies Ciaran Carson's 'Belfast Confetti'.
It includes a basic comprehension, gapfill biography, diary entry and templates for acrostic poems/ diaries.
This will be useful for less able students ( and ESL) and may also serve as a base for research into life in a conflict zone.
This double resource whole lesson, is aimed at KS2 students, to enable them to talk about and understand the upcoming 'in' or 'out' referendum on June 23rd. The PowerPoint follows Maddie as she asks Gary for some help understanding 'Brexit'. In addition there are 6 worksheets with discussion questions, acrostic poem and two word searches.
Help your younger students get their heads around the issue!
This resource is ideal for the first week back at school in September:
All About Me •What I Have •School Words Match •Word Search •Class Rules •My Summer Holidays •My Favourite Food •Getting to Know You •My First Day in Grade/ Year….
Make a workbook, give for homework or to early finishers.
A set of fifteen sporting word searches to celebrate a summer of sport- Euro 2016, Rio Olympics, Wimbledon, plus one acrostic poem template.
Perfect for fillers and fun homework. (KS2 upwards)
This PowerPoint remembers WW1 and the 100th anniversary of The Battle of the Somme. It discusses cause of war, propaganda,conscription, one young hero and day one of The Somme.
This is a suitable tribute to our fallen heroes- useful for assembly, homeroom, PSHE or British Values classes.
KS2 upwards.
This WWI poetry resource may also be useful for English teachers -
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/world-war-one-poetry-we-will-remember-them-11150987
Over 30 slides covering this summer's Olympics 2016 in Rio and the Euro 2016 meet in France in June 2016.
The resource has three files- two pdf worksheets including comprehensions, gapfills, discussion questions, word searches, maths calculations and acrostic poems, and a PowerPoint with Olympic quiz questions.
This is ideal end of term fun work for KS2- touches on general knowledge, PE, English and Maths.
Good PSHE lesson too!
This is a resource to accompany the reading of 'The Secret Garden'. It comprises a mini 7 slide PowerPoint for discussion on secrets and 20 further slides with short author bio + gap fill, activity cards on quotations, character analysis,story sequence of events, flower fact file template, study questions and two templates (colour and black and white) for cut out bookmarks.
Suitable for ELA and KS2 literacy reading.
This is a simple PowerPoint presentation discussing the immediate result and issues following the Brexit vote.
It is accompanied by worksheet discussion and writing templates.
Suitable for KS2/KS3
(Updated)
International Baccalaureate resource for primary (KS2)- cross curricular. This resource contains:
Definitions of emigration and immigration
Pictures for discussion
A twelve page diary of an Irish immigrant
girl travelling to America in the 1800’s.
10 writing activities. (Print out and use as task cards.)
Suitable for IBPYP trans-disciplinary theme
‘Where we are in place and time’.
Another resource for the International Baccalaureate Primary curriculum (IBPYP).
This resource discusses how we can share resources such as water with
other people and with other living things. It talks about the water cycle and conserving water.
The resource contains:
A PowerPoint presentation on the water cycle and saving water.
Worksheets on the water cycle, conserving water.
Suitable for primary (KS2/3).