I've been teaching for over 15 years now and have loved every minute of it. I always love being creative and combining as many subjects into themed learning adventures. I've uploaded plenty of the resources I have created over the years and I'm constantly developing new ones as I go.
Follow me on Twitter @chriswaterworth
Read my blog: http://videoformyclassroom.blogspot.co.uk/
I've been teaching for over 15 years now and have loved every minute of it. I always love being creative and combining as many subjects into themed learning adventures. I've uploaded plenty of the resources I have created over the years and I'm constantly developing new ones as I go.
Follow me on Twitter @chriswaterworth
Read my blog: http://videoformyclassroom.blogspot.co.uk/
Mortal Engines: Topic Overview
This is a hand drawn topic overview designed for the book Mortal Engines. Although it is English based, it covers ALL areas of the curriculum for Key Stage 2.
This would be very suitable for secondary school learners too.
Clockwork Comprehension - Questions to be used, Guided Reading, Speaking and Listening
11 sessions - just questions from various chapters from the book.
Hug a Bear Day - Assembly or Class Presentation
Here you will find a whole school assembly or class presentation based around Hug a Bear Day.
The assembly includes:
- Introduction to Hug a Bear Day
- History of the Teddy Bear
- Egyptians
- Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
- How to celebrate Hug a Bear Day
This presentation is fully editable.
Clockwork Web: 11 Sessions of Comprehension
Here you will find 11 sessions of comprehension questions. Each session has three questions for each child ready to be cut up once printed.
Millions: A Topic Overview
Here you will find a topic overview based around the book Millions by Frank Cotteril Boyce. It covers all areas of the national curriculum from Key Stage 2.
Pause, Rewind My Teacher: A Flipped Classroom
What is Flipped Learning - Is it really a new concept?
Have you watched a YouTube video to learn a new skill and then fixed your car, sketched a portrait or baked a cake? How many times did you pause and rewind different parts of the clip? The biggest advantage of flipped learning is that 'You can pause and rewind your teacher.'
Flipped learning is not a new concept, nor is it about filming every lesson and publishing it online for the children to view prior to coming to class. Believe it or not we have been flipping our classrooms for years - sending home a passage of text to read, researching a point in history or practising multiplication tables. This is all learning outside the classroom - at home, on the bus, before a dance class or football practise.
Flipped learning enables children to complete the knowledge and understanding aspects of a learning journey OUTSIDE of class time. They are then ready to apply, analyse and evaluate the concepts INSIDE the classroom. The traditional method of ‘chalk and talk’ and the perception of the teacher as a ‘font of all knowledge’ is removed completely. The teacher’s role is to engage the children in higher-order thinking. Let’s flip Blooms Taxonomy.
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark - Comprehension, Guided Reading, Speaking and Listening
12 sessions based on different chapters from the book.
Ready to cut and use.
Here we have a fully editable assembly based around how chocolate is made
- Harvesting
- Fermenting
- Drying
- Roasting
- Cracking and Winnowing
- Grinding and Conching
- Tempering
- Moulding
- Wrapping
Writing Character Descriptions: A Presentation
A presentation on how to write a good character description, including discussion on Similes, Metaphors, Adjectives etc