This is an introduction to Mindfulness for teenagers and adults with special educational needs. It is a full course and includes student worksheets and teaching slides.
The resource is intended to introduce students to mindfulness, including:
An introduction to mindfulness
Mindfulness practice
Guided meditations (transcripts available)
Breathing techniques
Avoidance
Flight, fright or freeze
Practising acceptance
Health benefits of mindfulness
Thoughts are not facts
Taking care of yourself
Course evaluation
Topics include:
The automatic pilot
Present-moment focus
Doing everyday activities mindfully
Ways to reduce stress
Facing challenges
Mental health
Happier life
Avoiding negative thinking and judgement
Practising mindfulness techniques
Finding focus
Time for ‘technology-free’
Life balance
Can this resource be used online?
This resource is designed to be used in person. If you have purchased this resource and would like to use it for online teaching, you have permission to do so. These worksheets are best printed, although teachers can use also them for whole-class teaching using a projector or interactive whiteboard.
What additional materials are needed?
None, all of the components are available in the zipped folder, i.e. student worksheets, teaching slides and guided meditation transcripts.
Student Worksheets: 122 Pages
Teaching Slides: 139
This is an introduction to Data Handling for teenagers and adults with special educational needs. It is a full course and includes student worksheets and teaching slides.
The resource is intended to introduce students to the concept of data, including:
Introduction to data handling
Describing data
Constructing graphs
Data handling project
These worksheets are designed to cover the following learning outcomes:
(1) Identify uses of data in everyday life, e.g. price comparisons, surveys
(2) Identify basic approaches to data collection, e.g. record sheets, tally system, audio-visual records
(3) Interpret basic data of two criteria, e.g. more/less of one class than another, bigger/smaller etc.
(4) Construct basic representations to communicate data with two criteria, e.g. pictograms, bar charts, tally records
(5) Interpret basic representations, e.g. pictograms/bar-charts
Topics include:
Data in everyday life
Ways to collect data
Types of data
Sorting data
Parts of a graph
Reading graphs, e.g. pictographs, bar and pie graphs, tally marks
What the data reveals
Completing graphs
Collecting information
Presenting information gained
Can this resource be used online?
Yes, it is a digital resource. However, it is not currently fillable online. This resource is designed to be used in person. If you have purchased this resource and would like to use it for online teaching, you have permission to do so. These worksheets are best printed, although teachers can use also them for whole-class teaching using a projector or interactive whiteboard.
What is included?
All components are available in the zipped folder, i.e. student worksheets and teaching slides.
Student Worksheets: 122 Pages
Teaching Slides: 101
This is an introduction to Health-Related Exercise for teenagers and adults with special educational needs. It is a full course and includes student worksheets, teacher notes and teaching slides.
The resource is intended to introduce students to developing and using a basic fitness plan, including:
An introduction to different sports, e.g. vocabulary, equipment, clothing
The benefits of exercise – physical and mental
Exercise and healthy eating
Preparing to exercise
Exercise plan
Taking part in exercises and fitness activities
Evaluation
These worksheets are designed to cover the following learning outcomes:
(1) Identify various forms of exercise
(2) Identify appropriate dress for exercise
(3) Participate in a small range of physical activities
(4) Demonstrate safe exercise practice
(5) Identify some benefits of exercise
Topics include:
Learning about various sports, e.g. walking, cycling, surfing, swimming, winter sports, football, tennis
Sports equipment
Why exercise is good for you
Energy in – Energy out
Exercise and stress
Tips for safe exercising
Warming up and cooling down
Health and safety
Examples of basic exercise activities, including the benefits, instructions and evaluation of exercises
Can this resource be used online?
Yes, it is a digital resource. If you have purchased this resource and would like to use it for online teaching, you have permission to do so. A fillable and printable version is included. Students can type in their answers online, or worksheets can be printed. Teachers can also use the resources for whole-class teaching using a projector or interactive whiteboard.
What is included?
All components are available in the zipped folder, i.e. student worksheets, teacher notes and teaching slides.
Student Worksheets: 132 Pages
Teaching Slides: 95
Teacher Notes: 43 Pages
These are free thinking puzzles for mainstream students and those with special educational needs. There are 50 questions and answers.
These puzzles can:
Get students thinking in a relaxed environment where they can share ideas and participate more fully in the class
Encourage critical and creative thinking
Develop problem-solving skills
Encourage students to share ownership for the learning environment of the class
Build rapport among students and foster a productive learning environment
Prepare students for collaborative group work
Make learning fun!
Q&A Slides: 114
This is an introduction to Writing for teenagers and adults with special educational needs.
The resource is intended to introduce students to the concepts of writing, including:
Pre-writing practice
Letters of the alphabet
Letter sounds
Numbers
Writing familiar words, e.g. name, place names, telephone numbers, personal information, dates, CVC words and sight words
Everyday writing activities, e.g. notes, lists, sentences , likes and dislikes, greeting card, timetable, email, abbreviations, text message, signs, forms, reviews, etc.
These worksheets are designed to cover the following learning outcomes:
(1) Write some familiar words for different purposes, e.g. own name and address
(2) Transcribe simple information in specific order, e.g. phone number, days of the week
(3) Write for different personal and socially relevant audiences, e.g. personal shopping list/reminder, sending a card/postcard, sending a text message
(4) Use some rules of writing appropriately, e.g. use of capital letters to start a sentence, write a sentence correctly
Can this resource be used online?
This resource is designed to be used in person. If you have purchased this resource and would like to use it for online teaching, you have permission to do so. These worksheets are best printed, although teachers can use also them for whole-class teaching using a projector or interactive whiteboard.
Student Worksheets: 311 Pages
Extra Writing Tasks
This is an introduction to Problem Solving for teenagers and adults with special educational needs. It is a full course and includes student worksheets and teaching slides.
The resource is intended to introduce students to concepts of problem solving, including:
Sorting information, e.g. colours, shapes, direction, design, type, size and shadows
Patterns and sequence
Shapes
Numbers, e.g. recognition of numbers 1 to 10, writing numbers and counting
Basic addition and subtraction to 10
Making choices, e.g. choosing appropriate clothes, recognising signs, healthy eating and going out
Using problem-solving concepts, e.g. grouping, matching, size, round and square, more and less than, odd one out, differences, ordering tasks, left and right, top and bottom, position words, cost, etc.
Following instructions
These worksheets are designed to cover the following learning outcomes:
(1) Organise information in an everyday problem.
(2) Identify choices and results in a problem.
(3) Solve a problem with support.
Topics include:
Colours
Shapes
Numbers
Food and drink
Home
Animals
Work
Going out
In class
Can this resource be used online?
Yes, it is a digital resource. However, it is not currently fillable online. This resource is designed to be used in person. If you have purchased this resource and would like to use it for online teaching, you have permission to do so. These worksheets are best printed, although teachers can use also them for whole-class teaching using a projector or interactive whiteboard.
What is included?
All components are available in the zipped folder, i.e. student worksheets and teaching slides.
Student Worksheets: 204 Pages
Teaching Slides: 122
Reading Questions for teenagers and adults with special education needs. The assessments can be used as initial assessment to develop an understanding of the learners’ needs, or they can be used for inclusion in the learners’ portfolios.
The exercises have been divided into the following categories:
Word focus
Text focus
Sentence focus
Reading comprehension
Vocabulary
66 Pages
This is an introduction to Drama for teenagers and adults with special educational needs. It is a full course and includes worksheets, teacher notes and extras.
The resource is intended to introduce students to some elements of drama such as character, setting and self-expression. The focus is on gaining confidence and improving communication skills through drama games and activities.
These worksheets are designed to cover the following learning outcomes:
(1) Explore elementary movement, e.g. travelling, stretching, bending
(2) Make sounds to create different effects, e.g. to create a soundscape, dawn chorus
(3) Respond to instruction in the context of theatre/drama, e.g. through games
(4) Engage in a simple embodiment as an individual/pair, e.g. mirroring an image, simple replications of text/image
(5) Present a short dramatic idea, e.g. strike a pose, mirror an expression, short skit
(6) Be part of an audience, e.g. being quiet, clapping
AND
Show an awareness of being part of an audience
Explore and react to props, costumes, actions and sensory stimuli in a dramatic context
Participate in the re/telling of contemporary/historical/cultural events or stories through interactive games and/or dramatic activities
Show an awareness of being part of an acting group
Co-operate or work alongside/in parallel with others in making, choosing and using props, costumes and sets
Work independently or collaboratively to produce a rehearsed piece of drama for an audience
Express and/or identify emotions in a dramatic context
Topics include:
Being Part of an Audience
Types of Drama
An Acting Space
Costumes and Props
What is Creative Drama
Movement
Sound
Drama games and activities
Can this resource be used online?
Yes, it is a digital resource. However, it is not currently fillable online. If you have purchased this resource and would like to use it for online teaching, you have permission to do so. Most of the activities are practical and printing the worksheets is optional.
What is included?
All components are available in the zipped folder, i.e. student worksheets, teacher notes and extras.
Student Worksheets: 45 Pages
Teacher Notes: 150 Pages