A Year 1 PE unit of work based around the topic of the circus, focusing on fun and simple activities to aid in gross motor development. Easy to use and simple to follow, comes complete with unit over view and accompanying lesson plans.
Learning Intention:
To understand what life is like for animals in the circus.
To discuss human and animal rights, and share our opinion about animals being used in the circus.
A IDL topic focusing on the circus. This lesson looks at the use of animals in the circus, video clips, pictures, stories of animals, animals rights looking at this compared to UNCRC. What can we do to help?
Follow up written task on word document. This was originally created on comic life so is simply a picture copy on word.
Cards that can be used as part of an energy circus. They include the equipment required and cloze sentences to help students work out the energy transfers.
An opportunity to hear ( embedded files ) the barrel organ playing melodies we associate with the circus.
Plenty of opportunity to move to the music.
The file lends itself to adaptation but you will lose sound if you delete the slide with sound on.
The modern version of Nelly the elephant-is included
The PowerPoint is a stimulus to creating music and moving. Elephant poem and a worksheet for an information text about the circus.
Would appreciate feed back. The Moscow state circus PPT contains maps, information and images from a geographical point of view.
Feedback appreciated
11 cards - I have a laminated copy that I put around the classroom with the relevant object
Each car has instructions and questions to answer with an extension activity at the bottom.
Cards included:
1. Lamp
2. Radio
3. Rubber band
4. Toy car
5. Electric bell
6. Wind up toy
7. Hair dryer
8. Kettle
9. Bunsen burner
10. Water bath
11. Extension mystery object
Energy stores and transfers activity (new GCSE 9-1). Get a FREE resource! Details below. This is a high quality, differentiated, easy to use and ready to use practical activity.
ENERGY - THE LANGUAGE HAS CHANGED:
Tes is littered with energy resources teaching to the old spec. it would be wrong to use these to teach with today (some even say they are new spec. 9-1 – but they not). Please don’t risk teaching your classes incorrectly ! This resource is an engaging energy circus practical experiment for students. It allows students to learn the subject properly and clearly with differentiated and unique activity sheets you cannot get anywhere else.
WHY BUY THIS ?
Many many hours of effort went in to writing these unique and accurate resources
Tried and trusted, differentiated and complete. You can rely on this activity to give an accurate and superior learning experience.
WHAT DO I GET?
High ability activity sheet – for use during the circus practical.
Medium/lower ability activity sheet – for use during the circus practical.
Answer sheet.
Equipment list (to give to your technicians)
HOW DO I USE IT?
Teach the students about the 8 stores and the 4 transfers and then let them do the highly engaging and accurate to 9-1 spec activities as the main part of your lesson.
Then self or peer mark the sheets (answers provided).
OR, FIND A FULLY COMPLETE AND READY TO GO LESSON HERE:
Energy stores and transfers 9-1 spec
AGES
Activity for ages 11 to 16 where ever you live (so KS3/KS4 and USA grades 6 to 10).
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This is a great SPAG lesson for KS1 children that are learning about syllables. The idea of the Syllable circus lesson is that it includes 5 carousel activities and a plenary that will help children learn about syllables.
The five activities are;
Strongman Pegging
Juggling buckets
Tightrope syllables
Half time food fun
Syllable applause
The cards for strong man pegs can be downloaded from ‘themeasuredmum.com’ , I cannot upload these due to copy-write however these are a free download.
Have lots of fun at the Syllable Circus!
A fully resourced scheme of work walking students through AQA Language Paper 1 Section A, using ‘The Night Circus’ source. Contains materials for at least 6 comprehensive lessons, covering:
Mark schemes
Indicative answers
Planning materials
Indicative content
Aims to familiarise pupils with the paper itself, and equip them with the knowledge to produce high quality answers.
A non-chronological report on the history of the Circus
Alongside the report is 3 differentiated retrieval comprehension tasks ranging in difficulty.
Aimed at KS2
Can be used as a stand alone comprehension or as part of wider reading/ whole class reading around the topic of the circus and historical entertainment.
Animal Sampling Lesson. The resource contains a power point to guide students through the lesson, and a task sheet for the students to complete during the activity.
Circus activity instructions:
You will need to print double sided and then laminate slides 5-16. This will become your sampling circus activity. It forms 6 stations, which you should place around the class room and tape down with the station number and questions facing upwards and the information facing downwards. In addition to these sheets, at each of the 6 stations you should put a tray with the corresponding piece of equipment on it. The students go around the room and study the item and think about what it may be used for an how. They fill in their thoughts on task one of their worksheet.
After they have completed this, they then re-visit each station, turning the sheets over to reveal what they are used for and how, and complete task 2 of their task sheets.
Five questions to get pupils drawing Sankey Diagrams. Good for a higher ability group, or one that has had a lot of practice already.
Have the pupils move around the room to complete the questions - makes it more interesting than just completing sheets of questions!
Fabulous Oil pastel project which is part of my ‘All the Fun’ theme. This is an engaging 2 lesson artwork which builds drawing and colouring skills. Pupils practice oil pastel skills using white and black overlay to achieve highlights and shadows. This would be a great lesson for Yrs 1-4.
Circus of activities where students go around and investigate the different properties of metals then look at the arrangement of ions and electrons to help explain the properties
This sensory story is one that my class and other classes have enjoyed. It is aimed at SEND but could also be used within EYFS and KS1.
This pack includes:
Box contents.
Powerpoint
Support sheet for Adults
This is a lesson adapted to powerpoint from an existing SoW with a few ideas of my own thrown in for good measure.
I'm not a drama specialist but I really enjoyed teaching this topic and the powerpoints work really well alongside level descriptors and the areas of:
?Making and exploring
?Performing and presenting
?Responding and evaluating
Question Reference: IGCSE First Language English Workbook
Descriptive Writing: Write a story with a title <>
Excellent example of descriptive writing that uses imagery, literary devices, and other elements.
Could be printed and distributed to class to analyse and identify the elements that make it a good descriptive piece and also the elements that are missing.
