Lesson asks students to write a letter to their younger selves giving advice etc.Ideal for Identity units. I asked them to bring in pictures of themselves when toddlers and scanned them in for an additional starter.

Lesson asks this question and challenges students to define the word. Mind stretching.

Lesson looks at how students can tell the difference between the two and earn more marks. You will need about 15 or so small ads from a local shop or simply make up your own.

Do you know your students' preferred learning styles? Do they? Improve lesson planning with this easy to use test. all included on the slideshow.

Discussion class. Students examine the importance of names and language. Includes an experiment in guessing foreign words and homework task. Designed to get students reflecting .

Sequel to Weird Trees and similes. Adaptable and, hopefully inspirational. Worksheet not included but would be useful. Extension activities?

Series of slides which ask students to write a tweet for a real historical character. Clearly transferable to fictional. Works well with all age groups and could be tweeted to a class hash tag ?

Lesson takes students through the decision making process using a classic dilemma. Individual/pair and class work. Plenty of discussion will occur....

A variation on hot-seating where ALL students can take part! Students have a chance to talk to Hamlet just before he kills Polonius. Adaptable to ANYTHING.

Slides show how you can incorporate BLOOMS into anything you teach. just adapt the questions to the scale and decide where your lesson is going.

Lesson examines the purpose of toys and offers a number of different tasks designed to get students to reflect on why we have toys. Adaptable and certainly relevant for the coming festival on Dec. 25 (UK). worksheet could be added.

Lesson aims to make students decide if they're ready to answer questions on the novel. Pics included and part two on its way.

Students revisit popular lesson and comment on the need to think carefully before writing. Adaptable to lots of themes, but also useful for Tutor Time or Assemblies.

Students work through another dilemma involving a wallet full of money which has been left on a bus. See Dilemmas..what would you do. More to come....

Useful for revision or introduction to the poem.

Lesson focussed on the problems of keeping medicine cool in Africa and the solutions available. Students construct a solar oven using Pringle's can. celebrates the ingenuity of a Sixth form inventor.

KS3 / GCSE PowerPoint activity to use as starters. Questions for starters or homework/tutor time. Answers included.

Slide show of poem -convenient for revision and introduction.

students hear an interview with a survivor of the Titanic sinking. They create their own notes which will form the basis of the rest of the lesson/subsequent lesson. The bare bones are here.

I wrote this myself after spending lunch time duty watching crowds of students enjoying fights. Grim though it was, the poem asks a few questions. Students can then write their own version of a poem/story connected with bullying/fighting/crowd behaviour. Link with the brilliant film on youtube - Pictures now added !