Landscape painting in the Van Gogh style.

Explore the use of shape - namely circles - in pictures. It follows the work of artists like Kandinsky

This resource pack is designed to teach the differences and similarities in working life between the past and the present over several lessons, or when needed. The pack is a visual stimulus to promote discussion and illustrates why jobs were different in the past. Clothing and tools are covered in more detail. In this pack pupils should learn to: * make comparisons about the way we live today and lived in the past * discuss what life must have been like in past times * describe the jobs needed in the past, and today

The aim of this resource pack is to introduce pupils to ways of travelling to school now and in the past. Pupils complete graphs on how they travel to school, how their parents travelled to school and how their grandparents travelled to school. They answer questions about what they have found out and compare the different ways of travelling. Pupils should learn to distinguish between aspects of their lives and past times, sequence modes of transport correctly and sequence three drawings relating to their own lives.

A term's lesson plans that includes photograph resources worksheets and interactive white-board activities for Early Years and for Key Stage 1. Activities that support children in comparing and contrasting places and features beyond their local area ,namely Wales and Lesotho. Both units of work address several elements of the Global Dimension themes and Foundation Phase Learning Aims.

A series of project packs for 5-11 created by 6 Cardiff Primary Schools to initiate project work with their partner schools in Somaliland. These resources focus particularly on ESDGC themes and the new Skills Framework and could be easily adapted to fit short or long term partnership projects with schools in any country.

This resource will allow children to compare andcontrast twocountries (Ecuador and Wales).The countriesare compared using the following topics: rainforest / woodland, houses and lifestyles and recycling. This resource covers many aspects across the seven ESDGC themes

Each pack consists of teacher notes, activities for use in the classroom, information cards and posters to help teachers introduce and study the concept of renewable energy sources

PowerPoint presentation ‘Making a Puppet’, with accompanying teachers’ notes and worksheets

PowerPoint presentation ‘Moving Vehicle’, with accompanying teachers’ notes and worksheets

PowerPoint presentation ‘Making a Swing’, with accompanying teachers’ notes and worksheets

An interactive resource that allows children to identify the main features of structures by disassembling and building a house and a hinge.

An interactive whiteboard resource that teaches the names of basic 2D shapes and allows the child to create shape pictures.

My Square Mile was initiated by the Design Commission for Wales to encourage the use of the local built environment as an educational resource. * It explores relationships between buildings, space and people to develop design awareness. * It helps children understand how the environment is shaped and managed. * It celebrates local distinctiveness and local identity. * It nurtures emotional attachments and belonging-a sense of place. * It raises issues about what the environment might be like in the future.

A series of interactive activities that develop number through Science, focusing on Night and Day.

This resource looks at writing a legend. There are 4 parts which look at : Beginnings : What should be included at the start of a legend, setting the scene, looking at words and phrases to describe it. Characters: Looking at the words and phrases to describe an extraordinary character and what features pupils can reproduce for their own character. Problems and Resolutions: Looking at the problems that could be encountered, and how, in an exciting way, these can be resolved.

This resource pack revises the use of a thesaurus to choose appropriate synonyms and demonstrates how the choice of words can change the shade of meaning in poetry. Pupils can use the interactive activity to create their own concrete poem using a typical Welsh image as a background to build their poem upon and then print out the completed version. Alternatively the activity could be used for whole class demonstration before printing out backgrounds for the children to write their poem on.

This unit introduces children to the conventions of a myth through the story of Dwynwen. They are then challenged to write their own Welsh myth by choosing character and problem cards as stimulus for their writing.

This unit focuses on the opening of a suspense story. The children read the opening then identify the different forms of figurative speech that have been used to add effect. Personification, metaphors and similes are explained and examples shown. Children then go on to write the opening of their own suspense story using a picture of haunted house as stimulus.

This resources pack introduces pupils to the idea of repeating patterns of an ABAB design, and then to an AABAAB design. Pupils look at colour patterns, shape patterns and picture patterns using Welsh emblems. They have the opportunity to finish off patterns which have been started using colours, shapes and pictures. Pupils create their own colour patterns using a worksheet of different shapes. Desirable outcomes: recognise and recreate simple patterns, recognise and name colours and recognise and name simple shapes.