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.
This timeline activity is a hands-on visual way for students to put the events of the Great Fire of London in order. I’ve included the actions of Samuel Pepys in the timeline because it’s interesting, such as his priority to bury wine and cheese (which seems odd to us now, but they would have been very expensive items back then), and because he was a significant figure at the time who left a valuable primary source detailing the event.
There are two options to choose from:
Worksheet timeline cut and paste – either glue events next to the dates (easier option) or write dates and glue events on (harder version).
Foldable timeline – glue events below the dates and pictures.
I’ve included a set of clues to help children put the events in order, if needed. These can be cut up or left as is.
You will receive 4 PDFs and 3 editable PPTX files (text is editable, images/layout aren’t).
More timelines you may like:
History of land transport
History of boats and ships
History of flight
The Titanic
Ancient Egypt
The Benin Empire
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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.
You may also like:
Matariki weaving kete
Matariki hāngi reading and writing craft
Matariki maths
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This set of banners highlights the achievements of Indigenous Australians who’ve shaped history and contributed to the arts, science, culture, politics, and sports. Perfect for NAIDOC Week or all year round!
The people in this set 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.
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
Each banner is one page and in colour. There are also some optional phrases that can be mixed and matched to go with the display.
I hope you and your students find these banners inspiring!
If you’re after a PowerPoint or Google Slides version that comes with banners for students to fill in, you may like this set of famous Indigenous Australians.
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This timeline activity is a hands-on visual way for students to put the events of the Benin Empire in order, so that they can see the changes that took place over time, from the first settlements of the Edo people to modern-day Nigeria.
There are two options to choose from:
worksheet timeline cut and paste – either glue pictures onto the dates (easier option), or write dates and glue pictures on (harder version)
foldable timeline – glue events below the dates and pictures
I’ve included a set of clues to help children put the events in order, if needed. These can be cut up or left as is.
You will receive three PDFs and two editable PPXT files (text is editable, images and layout aren’t).
More timelines you may like:
History of land transport
History of flight
History of boats and ships
The Great Fire of London
The Titanic
Ancient Egypt
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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.
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.
Travel brochure for children to write about one country.
Compare their house and a house in Indonesia.
Compare several traditional houses.
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.
Foldable demographics activity.
Research the natural features of different neighbours.
Foldable similarities and differences shapes to write on**
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 colourful, interactive PowerPoint lesson 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 slides are editable, and you can delete any you don’t need. The end slides are an opportunity to assess children’s understanding and give you the flexibility to assess this verbally, either with partners or yourself, or in written form by having students write sentences in their books.
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
A one-page printable assessment activity is included for children to name and identify carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
I hope your children enjoy learning about carnivores, omnivores and herbivores with these slides.
U.K. and U.S. versions included.
If you’d like an activity book or worksheets to go with this, you can save money with the bundle here.
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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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.
Travel brochure for children to write about one country.
Compare their house and a house in Indonesia.
Compare several traditional houses.
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.
Foldable demographics activity.
Research the natural features of different neighbours.
Foldable similarities and differences shapes to write on
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 after an engaging lesson about climate for Australia and its neighbouring countries, this interactive PowerPoint™ and Google Slide™ pack has you covered, with a series of mini-lessons about asking questions, identifying climate types, their features and impact on the environment, climatic maps, and interpreting data in graphs and tables.
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.
You can go all digital with 48 slides, or use a combination of digital and printable activities.
What’s included?
48 slides for PowerPoint™ or Google Slides™
Printable climate type activity
Printable table and graph activity
Printable climatic map of Australia
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 types with this lesson!
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Inspire your students with this pack of 6 posters about Martin Luther King Jr., who was a man of great character and an exceptional orator whose words inspired many during his lifetime and continue to be a source of inspiration for us today.
I chose the quotes on these posters because they have the potential to motivate our students to have good character and to do good in the world. As such, they would make a great starting point for a discussion around ways to make the world a better place, small acts of kindness that make a difference, or dreams they might have for their future.
These would look great in the hallway or on a classroom or office door.
What’s included?
One portrait poster
Five posters with quotes
Color (bright, boho, neutrals, 70s vibe) and ink saver versions (“I have a dream” poster is ink saver only)
1 per page, and 2 per page so you can choose the size you like best
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If your students love "Guess Who"™, then they’ll love this “Guess It!” game of equivalent fractions! It’s a fun partner activity where students race to give the equivalent fraction and be the first to find their partner’s hidden “Gerald” character.
Students have their own game board which also shows their partner’s problems in the bottom right corner so they can check if their partner is right. It’s interactive and it’s reinforcing fluency with equivalent fractions at the same time.
The fractions are all common doubles, halves, wholes, and quarters with denominators of 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10.
The game has instructions included in the slide deck, plus there’s an mp4 file with a video explanation.
I hope your children enjoy playing “Guess It! Equivalent Fractions”!
You will receive:
a PDF information pack
a blue board game PPTX file
a red board game PPTX file
a “How to Play” video mp4 file
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This grammar game to practise “a” and “an” is so much fun, and children love that they’re the expert on the card they’re holding, and they love teaching others when they don’t know the answer. And they love trading!
This pack comes with 28 cards that children use to quiz each other.
How to play:
Cut out the cards, fold in half, and give each child one card.
Children move about the room with the question “a or an” facing other students. A child (Child A) shows their question to another child (Child B) who answers using “a/an + noun”. If they’re not sure, child A can tell the answer, because it’s all about learning. Child B then quizzes child A. After guessing, child A and child B swap cards and each move on to someone new to quiz.
You could use this activity at the start of your lesson to get children eager to learn more, or use it as an energizer, a fun finisher, or review activity.
I hope your children have fun playing and learning at the same time!
If you love getting kids up and moving, this game will be ideal to practise their grammar and have fun at the same time!
Children play in teams, just like a relay, taking turns to correctly complete a card, racing to complete all 10 questions.
This pack comes with five different sets of 10 questions for children to answer.
Game 1 – write “a” or “an” for each noun
Game 2 – write “a” or “an” for each noun phrase
Game 3 – write “a” or “an” for the three nouns on the card
Game 4 – challenge level which includes words where the beginning letter is a vowel but makes a consonant sound, or a consonant which is silent and makes a vowel sound
Game 5 – right or wrong (if it’s correct, children write “right” and if it’s wrong, children correct the sentence)
This game is a great energiser, a fun finisher or an exciting review activity. However you choose to use it, your students will love you for it!
Quizzes are so much fun, so let’s do one for grammar with “a” and “an”!
With this PowerPoint slide deck there are 25 editable questions.
The first five (1-5) are fill-in-the-gap with “a” or “an”.
With the next five (6-10), children decide if the sentence is correct and write “right” if it is, or correct it if it’s wrong.
Questions 11-15 are true or false questions.
Questions 16-20 are a challenge as children think of a word that goes after “a” or “an” depending on the category.
Questions 21-25 are harder gap fill questions (hour, unicorn, etc.)
Slides 27-28 are blank slides if you’d like to add your own questions. Slides 29-55 are the answers.
You will receive a PPTX file (text is editable, images aren’t).
You may also like these other “a” and “an” games.
“A” or “An” Relay Race
“A” or “An” Quiz and Trade Game
“A” or “An” Scavenger Hunt
Here is a super fun game that gets children excited about practising grammar!
The resource includes a digital slide and a printable version of two characters with the words “a” and “an”. These get displayed on the board.
There is a word list of over 60 nouns and noun phrases, including harder ones (with “h” and “u”).
Divide the class into two (or more) teams and give each team a scrunched paper ball or soft ball to throw.
Call out a noun or noun phrase and the first child to throw the ball at the correct character, wins a point for their team.
I guarantee your class will love it!
You will receive a PPTX slide and two PDFs (not editable).
If you love making grammar fun with games, movement, and a little friendly competition, then you’ll love this pack of games to practise the articles “a” and “an”.
There are five fun class games:
Ball Toss - children race to toss the ball at the correct character showing “a” or “an”
Relay Race - teams race to complete the questions
Quiz Questions - teams compete to get the most correct answers, or to answer first - depending on how you play it.
Quiz and Trade - children mingle quizzing each other on the cards they’re holding, before trading and moving on to a new person to quiz.
Scavenger Hunt - children roam the room to find the animals and objects that go with “a” and “an”.
There are lots to choose from and your children will love you for making grammar so much fun!
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It’s fun to spice grammar up with some movement, so this scavenger hunt game will be ideal for getting children out of their seats and learning at the same time!
This pack comes with 16 photos that can be displayed around the room and two options for recording sheets – with space for either 12 or 16 words, so you can differentiate with your students.
Children roam the room and record each animal or object in the correct column.
You could use this activity at the start of your lesson to get children eager to learn more, or you could use it as a fun finisher or review activity.