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.
Here’s a great way to practice maths skills for Matariki: Children complete fact families or times tables on whetū/stars, cut them out, and make a kete to store them in.
There are lots of options to choose from:
Make a kete with a string handle or paper handle
Addition/Subtraction fact families – partially filled, all gaps, or student choice
Multiplication/Division fact families - partially filled, all gaps, or student choice
Times tables – 1/2/5/10x, 1-4x/5-8x/9-12x, or a mixture
Children complete three stars (1 page), four stars (1 page), or seven stars (2 pages).
This activity is ideal for the whole class, small groups, early finishers, or rotating stations.
I hope your children enjoy working on their fact fluency and making their kete of whetū/stars!
You will receive 5 PDF files.
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Matariki weaving kete
Matariki hāngi reading and writing craft
Matariki maths
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If you’re after an easy way for your students to find out about the achievements of 21 iconic Indigenous Australians who’ve shaped history, this set of PowerPoint and Google™ slides that highlight their contributions to arts, science, culture, politics will be ideal.
The people in this set to show a broad range of contributions across various fields, from young and old, and from the past and present, to honour each person and to inspire our young people.
The text on the slides is editable and you can delete any slides you don’t need. I’ve also included a couple of blank slides so you can add your own photo/text for people you wish to include.
The slideshow can be used as a whole class at the start or end of the day, or during social studies/inquiry. Alternatively, it can be used independently, and can be accompanied by the banners, so students can write about a person for a class display. These can be attached to the wall or hung over string (and stapled or glued together).
Who’s included?
Neville Bonner - politician
Cathy Freeman - athlete
David Unaipon - inventor and writer
Pat Dudgeon - first Indigenous psychologist
Sir Douglas Nicholls - Governor of South Australia
Tom Calma - professor and activist
Marcia Langton - professor and activist
Sally Morgan - author
Michael-Shawn Fletcher - geographer
Faith Bandler - activist
Madeleine Madden - actress
Kyah Simon - football player
Nova Peris - politician and athlete
Jessica Mauboy - singer
Noel Pearson - lawyer
Linda Burney - politician
Lionel Rose - boxer
Evonne Goolagong Cawley - tennis player
Albert Namatjira - artist
Adam Goodes - AFL footballer
Archie Roach - singer
You will receive an editable PPT file (text is editable, images/layout aren’t), a link to the Google Slides version, and a PDF of printable banners.
I hope your students enjoy finding out more about the achievements of these amazing Aboriginal Australians!
If you’re after pre-made banners for a display, you may like this set of iconic Indigenous Australians.
If you’re after fun games and activities to help your learners understand the concept of carnivores, omnivores and herbivores and to be able to confidently identify and name animals for each type, then you’ll love this pack of printable and digital games.
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.
U.K. and U.S. versions are included.
I hope your children enjoy using these games to learn more about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
This is an engaging set of activities about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores, that come in either booklet format or worksheet format, depending on your preference. There is also a version which includes the key facts about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores (great as a source of information followed by practice activities) and a version for children that understand the basics and are ready to show what they know.
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
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.
This is an engaging set of activities and PowerPoint presentation about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. The colorful, interactive PowerPoint slide deck 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
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.
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.
If you’re looking for a fun way for children to show what they know about the geography of Australia’s neighbouring countries, these sketch note graphic organisers will be ideal.
There are 14 research organisers packed full of the main aspects of geography for Year 3, including natural, managed and built features, different types of houses and settlement, population, and climate. Children could complete one for Australia and one for another country in order to make comparisons, or they could complete just one.
These would look great on a wall display!
Countries include:
Australia
Cook Islands
Fiji
Hawaii
Indonesia
Kiribati
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Timor Leste
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
An editable version is included (text is editable, images/layout aren’t), so that you can adapt the text as needed for your class.
Children can use online sources and books for their research. This activity is also a great opportunity to use Google Earth™, so there is a PowerPoint/PDF on what to look for in satellite images to help your students get started.
I hope your children enjoy working on their country research organisers!
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Do you need some hands-on activities to bring your Aztec Empire unit to life? This pack has 6 hands-on activities that include 3 art projects, roleplay, make a codex, and carry out an archaeological dig, plus ideas for more fun activities. Many of these activities can meet the learning objectives of different curriculum areas, so you could be covering history/social studies, art, and oral language/drama at the same time.
What’s included?
Student instructions for:
Mosaic artwork
Make a Sun Stone
Illustrate the legend of Tenochtitlan
Make a codex
Carry out an archaeological dig with a partner
Interview an archaeologist
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
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This pack of activities on the Aztec empire is full of engaging activities including a timeline, primary source activity, causes and consequences, codex symbols, map work, colouring cover pages, research organisers and more!
Your students will love learning about the Aztec empire. There is everything from incredible ruins that still exist, fierce warriors, clever methods of farming, pictorial symbols for writing, an impressive empire, human sacrifice, and a belief that their world was going to end very soon! There’s a lot to get your students hooked on history.
What’s included?
timeline cut and paste
colouring pages (great for covers)
map work
informational reading passage (editable text, images/layout aren’t editable)
comparison activities of the students’ lives with Aztec life
codices
achievements
reporter-style research page
archaeological dig research booklet
primary source activity
structure of society
adapting to the environment interactive notebook
cause and consequence cut and paste
fortune teller of key social studies concepts
photos and word wall cards
Line sizes are included for year 3-4, and year 5-6.
This pack is available in U.S and U.K versions. (letter/A4, spelling)
I hope you enjoy using these activities with your children, as much as I enjoyed making them!
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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.
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 writing crafts or art to make a beautiful display to commemorate Remembrance Day, then you and your students will enjoy all the options inside this craft and display pack.
There are four crafts to choose from - a poppy, wreath, bugle, and medal, and you can either use these to write about the meaning of Remembrance Day or to write a poem. Alternatively, using just the front of each craft, these can become an art project.
What’s included?
Four writing crafts with lines
Four designs for colouring, adding crayon/dye, tissue paper, or paint
Three line sizes (1.3cm, 2cm, and 2.5cm)
Poppies to colour or use the pre-coloured ones for a border or to fill in smaller spaces
Display phrases - 2 letters per page, letter size paper, and A3 paper
I hope you and your students enjoy making this display for Remembrance Day.
If your students enjoy learning about writing systems from ancient civilizations, then you’ll be able to save money with this bundle of Mesopotamian cuneiform and Ancient China oracle bone writing activities.
Ancient China:
In activity one, students can choose from these options:
Write the script in the boxes on the page given or on their own paper to practice, and then write a message on the oracle bone.
Copy over the script.
In activity two, students:
Search for the symbols on the oracle bone, then circle and label them.
Mesopotamia:
In activity one (Sumerian), students can:
Write the script next to the symbols, in the boxes given, or on their own paper.
Copy over the symbols.
In activity two (old Persian), students can:
Write their name and decode “Cradle of Civilization”.
Write their name and decode “Pottery Wheel”.
Extension – students can use the symbols to write their own word or message.
I hope your students enjoy learning about these fascinating early writing systems.
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If you’re after an engaging activity for your Ancient China unit, then your students will love this early Chinese oracle bone writing activity from the Shang Dynasty period.
Trying out ancient writing is so interesting, especially when it’s a pictorial script like the oracle bone script.
In activity one, students can choose from these options:
Write the script in the boxes on the page given or on their own paper to practice, and then write a message on the oracle bone.
Copy over the script.
In activity two, students:
Search for the symbols on the oracle bone, then circle and label them.
I hope your students enjoy this activity.
If you’re after a fun way to practise measuring at Christmas time, that will have students engaged and decorate your classroom at the same time, then you’ll love this Christmas presents measuring craft!
Students make a stack of presents in any height or width they like, and then estimate and measure the height/width of individual presents and the entire stack.
You can choose whether your students use centimetres or inches.
What’s included?
Presents in two size options (60cm/22in and 1m/3ft maximum possible height)
Recording sheet with questions about estimation, measuring, and comparing two objects
Editable recording sheet
Two phrases to go with your display
I hope your students love making and measuring their Christmas presents!
Hieroglyphics are so much fun to learn about. In this resource pack, there are three activities for students to write and read hieroglyphics.
Activity One (two options):
Write the hieroglyphics for the alphabet in English (excluding letters that have no equivalent, such as “C” and “E”) on their own paper or on the two options given.
Trace over the hieroglyphics.
Activity Two:
Find hieroglyphics in three lines from a primary source.
Find the cartouche and symbols inside it.
Identify where to start reading.
Identify a wheat symbol.
Activity Three:
Apply what they’ve learned by writing their name in hieroglyphics.
Decode hieroglyphics to find four inventions. This will be a fun challenge as they have to remember how to convert sounds back to English letters and work out which side they need to start reading from.
U.K. and U.S. versions included.
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This is such a cute winter craft to make, and it’s going to make learning fact families snow much fun! With this activity, students make a penguin, complete the fact families on the fish, and fill the penguin’s bucket.
There are lots of options to cater to your needs:
Practise addition/subtraction
Practise multiplication/division
Partially-filled or fill-all-gaps
Student choice of fact family
Editable version so you can choose the fact families (text is editable, images/layout aren’t)
I hope your students enjoy making their penguins!
Your students will love practising their fact families when they get to make this fun gingerbread house!
Students write four fact families on the gumdrops and behind two windows then color and cut out the pieces to make a gingerbread house.
These would also look fantastic on your wall.
There’s even a gingerbread character to go behind the door.
There are lots of options to cater to your needs:
Practise addition/subtraction (within 10/within 20)
Practise multiplication/division (1-12x)
Partially-filled or fill-all-gaps
Student choice of fact family
Editable version so you can choose the fact families
Comes with a display phrase “These smart cookies know their facts!” (one word per page)
The finished house is just bigger than an A4-sized piece of paper.
I hope your students enjoy making their gingerbread houses!