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. -----------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.

These timeline activities are a hands-on visual way for students to see the changes that have been made in the history of flight, land, and sea transport. History of Flight Timeline This timeline focuses on seven key developments in the history of planes from the first hot air balloon in 1783 to the modern Boeing 747 airliner in 1970. History of Sea Transport Timeline This timeline focuses on eight key developments in the history of boats, starting from the Pesse canoe dating back to 10,000BCE, to container ships in 1956. History of Land Transport Timeline This timeline focuses on eight key developments in the history of vehicles from the time when people first domesticated horses to the hybrid car. What’s included? Timeline and real photos to match up to the dates Differentiated with simple or detailed captions, and the easiest version has the photos and captions already together so students need to match it to the date, and the most difficult level students need to match the photo to the caption and write in the date Interactive foldable with visual step-by-step instructions Clue cards to solve the order of the timeline Answer key I hope your students enjoy learning about the history of transport with these timelines.

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 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.

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.