Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.
Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.
Have you ever seen kids actually beg for more writing? It’s really possible, and you can make it happen with this bundle, the best no-prep narrative planning tool you can get online!
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This bundle contains our Emoji Writing Pack and Emoji Writing Generator.
The Writing Pack will quickly become one of your easiest quick writing drill tools. With 150 fully prepared writing prompts and over 600 emoji, all you have to do is print, cut, and hand out. Your students will have a blast coming up with creative ways to integrate the emoji into the fundamental story elements of character, setting, and plot.
With over 200 real Emoji, the Writing Generator provides more detailed activities and works with students of all ages and abilities – as long as they’ve used phones or Facebook, they’ll know what to do. As a set of narrative planning tools, you can use this pack for a range of writing activities, from sharp warm-up writing practice to immersive narratives covering multiple class sessions. Many teachers have run this on their classroom’s interactive whiteboards or edited the handouts to create a multitude of open-ended literacy tasks. We designed this to offer you nearly unlimited flexibility: your students will be able to create over two million emoji combinations for a virtually limitless source of writing inspiration.
We’ve broken the emoji into the following sets for quick access:
Emotions and Feelings
Animals and Nature
People
Activities and Events
People and Places
Objects and Items
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This is a series of lessons intended to teach grades 3 - 6 students about the metric system of measurement. No prep required
It is a completely editable PowerPoint file that can be altered to suit your needs.
It explores the metric system through exploring measurement and mass. It also has some elements of ratio that are important for students to understand.
It consists of 40 pages of activities and lesson content that has been designed to be visually appealing and engaging.
All challenges and tasks have answers included so that you can work along with your students without lacking confidence.
This unit is incredibly useful for not only maths, but also science students who will need a clear understanding of the metric system and working across multiple units of measurement.
It also contains a free classroom poster reinforcing key concepts of the metric system.
Teaching suggestions are provided along with all answer keys.
This lesson should take 2-3 class periods. An extension involving hands-on measurements is explained in the teaching suggestions which would extend the lesson another day.
In my years of teaching, this fascinating project is consistently the most popular among my students. This dynamic PBL unit needs no prep from you and will actually make your kids excited about homework!
Why do students, parents, and teachers alike love this project so much? As an 8-12 week undertaking, kids get to explore in depth something they love, learn through both research and getting their hands dirty, and feel a sense of accomplishment through leading others. While it targets grades 4-9, it is editable and easily adaptable to any age group.
The process goes like this:
1.) Students select a new task or skill they want to learn about. Some examples of past choices include dressmaking, creating a video game, learning an instrument, cooking a 3-course meal for their family, and building a cubby house.
2.) Students research and complete the task within a specified time frame.
3.) As they progress, they keep an online diary of their learning journey outlining their successes and failures.
4.) When they have sufficiently learned their new skill, students then teach it family member or friend to show them what they have learned.
5.) At the conclusion of the project, students put together a presentation outlining their learning journey. This includes videos, photos, and feedback from family members and friends. They will also assess each other in accordance with a peer assessment rubric.
While this makes a great introduction to project management, time management, and presentation skills, students will come away from this with much more. This project also teaches grit, builds confidence, and encourages students to learn from and push through failure instead of fearing it. Indeed, success and failure are unimportant with this task. The true value lies in recording and learning from their successes and failures while sharing that knowledge with others.
Everything you need is included and completely editable. In this download, you will get:
Letters to Parents
Detailed descriptions for teachers, students, and parents
Summary Descriptions
Teaching Resources
Graphic Organizers
and much more
I guarantee this will be one of the most rewarding teaching and learning opportunities for both you and your students and one you can use for years to come and make your own.
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Following the wild popularity of the Visual Writing Prompts Bundle comes **HYPOTHETICAL VISUAL ICE BREAKERS AND OPINION PROMPTS.**
Another evergreen and versatile resource with proven success with struggling or reluctant writers as well as being an excellent icebreaker for students and staff.
Everything is completely editable and absolutely ""NO PREP REQUIRED""
What you get
- Over 101 amazing photos each accompanied by a highly engaging hypothetical question for you to ponder.
- Advice and resources for students and teachers about maximising the bundles use in literacy other areas fo the curriculum.
- Teaching and assessment resources tailored to hypothetical questions.
The resource is broken into 5 unique areas
- What If?
- Icebreakers
- Would you rather?
- Hmmm??? That's a tough one
- Tough questions for young adults.
This resource is ever expanding, and as such you will receive all future upgrade for free.
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Categorizing words doesn’t come naturally to kids, but this cute, high-resolution poster set will help them properly use and make sense of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech.
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If kids can make good grammar second nature, they will be well prepared for junior high writing. Help them get a head start by adding this useful, easy to comprehend poster set to your wall. The nine posters cover:
Nouns
Verbs
Pronouns
Adjectives
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
Adverbs
This set works best with children ten and up. If you’re working with younger learners, we also have a junior edition available in our store. We are giving you these PDF images in high-resolution so you can scale them to any size with no pixilation or quality loss.
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Do you need to teach a group of teachers or students about the SAMR Model of technology implementation is the classroom? And don't know where to start? No Prep required.
Well look no further... This bundle contains everything you need to for a one hour professional development session about the SAMR model including word documents, handouts, videos, PowerPoint slides and professional reading.
Whilst this bundle is designed to work 'straight out of the box' it is also COMPLETELY EDITABLE so if you want to place your own touch on it you can.
This presentation has been used by numerous teachers in a number of schools and universities and is very well received by audiences of all ages.
You have found THE TITANIC resource you have been searching for!! 105 years in the making...
If your have a one to one or BYOD program this independent unit on Titanic is unlike any other. Offering deep, personalized learning experiences incorporating proven learning technologies and quality teaching and learning. A meaningful use of technology within the classroom.
Whether you use Google Classroom, Drive, Office or even an iPad you are good to go. No Prep required and it is all Completely Editable.
This 40 slide digital interactive notebook is an unit of work on the world's most famous ship. The people, events, ingenuity and oversights which captured the worlds' imagination and and then changed history forever.
It will engage your students through a huge collection of Editable Digital Graphic and Text Organizers, multimedia, resources and interactive tasks all themed around Titanic.
Perfect as an English, literacy or history project.
Activities Include
- Digital Text Response Tasks
- Digital Titanic Timelines
- Digital Fact Vs. Opinion
- Digital Newspaper text / graphic organizers and templates
- Interactive Titanic video response task
- Create your own Titanic Google Map task
- Podcast audio response tasks
- A variety of interactive Titanic Writing planners and templates
- Digital Titanic Biography Response Tasks
- Digital Data representation and graphing based upon Titanic
- A range of open ended Titanic assessment tasks
- Digital Self assessment tools
** Plus much more
This is a deep unit of work guaranteed to both inform and showcase your students understanding of one the greatest achievements and disasters.
This is the type of resource which validates and proves the worth of all that technology in your classrooms.
A ten question quiz about 'Fake News' and the Post-Truth media cycle we live within.
Highly relevant and engaging to students.
This quiz also includes an answer sheet.
Following the success of the DIGITAL GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS BUNDLE comes the ultimate movie response tool for Digital teachers, 1:1 and BYOD Classrooms.
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MAKE MOVIES MEANINGFUL wth this HUGE bundle of DIGITAL GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS.
This collection of 21 INDEPENDENT TASKS takes students beyond the special effects and trailers to look at films from a number of perspectives as a powerful form of VISUAL LITERACY.
Students can respond to any film using these highly engaging activities to to explore the following aspects of a film.
- IDENTIFYING THE CONFLICT & RESOLUTION WITHIN YOPUR FILM
- STORYBOARDING AND VISUALISING YOUR FILM
- BREAKING DOWN VOCABULARY AND JARGON FROM YOUR FILM
- WHAT ROLE DOES SOUND PLAY IN YOUR FILM?
- UNLOCK THE BACKGROUND OF YOUR FILM AT IMDB
- WRITING A CONSIDERED MOVIE REVIEW WITHOUT SPOILERS
- WHAT DOES THE CAMERA PORTRAY IN THIS FILM?
- WHAT CONNECTIONS CAN I MAKE TO THIS FILM?
- BREAKING DOWN MY FAVOURITE SCENE
- COMPARE AND CONTRAST BOOKS AND FILMS
- DISCOVER AND CREATE TAGLINES FOR YOUR FILM
- WRITING AN ALTERNATE ENDING TO YOUR FILM
- KEY PROPS AND OBJECTS FROM THE FILM
- IDENTIFYING THE FILM'S CLIMAX AND LOWS
- ACTOR BIOGRAPHY'S
- "AND THE AWARD GOES TO..."
- CREATING A WORTHY TRAILER
- CREATING AN EFFECTIVE MOVIE POSTER
- WRITE YOUR OWN MOVIE QUIZ
GRADE BOOK SHEET BUNDLE - It's all here.. And it's all editable
What you get:
For the technically minded:
Grade book sheet in Excel Spreadsheet Format US LETTER SIZE
Grade book sheet in Excel Spreadsheet Format A4 INTERNATIONAL SIZE
So you can keep everything organised in a spreadsheet - nice and easy and if you want you can even apply formulas to take your grade book to the next level.
Grade book in Word Document: Exactly the same as the Excel versions but you can edit it directly in Microsoft Word.
Grade Book Sheet in PDF Format. - For those who want to use good ol' pen and paper. Just print, grab a pen and away you go.
If you are a GOOGLE SHEETS / DOCS user. Don't despair. You can simply upload these to your Google Drive and they will be instantly converted into collaborative Google Versions without fault or compromise. It has been tested. And yes.. It works.
✨ Teach your students the basic elements of coordinates, pixels and how a television screen works with these simple to follow coordinate color in worksheets.
This quiz will access students’ understanding of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl. Students will read closely to determine what the text says explicitly as well as make logical inferences about characters and events from the story. Students will also answer questions about key ideas, theme, and other literary elements. This quiz will include questions from knowledge and reasoning standards.
This 12 poster series will educate your students how to use technology in a respectful and informed manner and look amazing.
They are built on the ISTE (iste.org) student standards which are in place to ensure the following...
- Practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology
- Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity
- Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning
- Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship
They are an essential resource for a computer lab or any classroom to prompt a discussion around technology, ethics and respect.
They come in three variations and are super high resolution so you can print them out at any size. (Check the preview images)
The text for the 12 posters are.
- All in one - On a single poster
- What makes a good digital citizen?
- When encountering something inappropriate online they discuss it with a teacher or adult
- They understand their digital footprint is a reflection who they are, and others may judge them on it.
- They credit other peoples work and ideas, and respect their ownership.
- They know their actions can greatly impact others.
- They know posting anything online means losing control of it because the internet is a public space.
- They understand passwords protect their online identity. They create strong passwords and don't share them.
- They know people can pretend to be anyone online, and are cautious sharing information with others.
- They treat others with respect in the hope that others will treat them the same way.
-They feel safe and secure online most of the time, but know total security and privacy on the internet is never guaranteed.
- They understand excessive time and interaction with others through technology alone is unhealthy and value time in the real world also.
These fun visual activity cards can be used for a variety of activities such as snap, find a match, sequencing and ordering.
Students work with number symbols, names, and collection which are all vital in helping students build number knowledge.
Students practice reading, recognising, ordering, and matching numbers 0-5.
Fun Card Games
Ordering Numbers
Matching Collections
Grouping - Number Namers, Symbols, & Collections
Similar to many of our products this is completely editable and you will receive the PDF and Original PowerPoint File to customize as you wish.
Teach your students about technologies that changed the world.
What made them so successful? How did some become completely superseded or obsolete? And what will replace them in the future based upon what we know about history and the wants and needs of our society?
This collection of 20 beautiful past and present technology cards are accompanied with 4 easy to follow activities and lesson plans to get your students thinking like a STEM designer, entrepreneur and innovator.
You are getting 101 WACKY WORD PUZZLES. These are an excellent NO PREP activity that can be used in ENGLISH, as an ICEBREAKER, a test of CRITICAL THINKING or just a FUN ACTIVITY for students and teachers of all ages.
These puzzles will challenge your critical thinking and logic to determine common phrases. Some are really simple and straightforward others will challenge you.
These are an excellent resource for students in grade 5 and up, and can be done INDEPENDENTLY as a silent test, or as a COLLABORATIVE problem solving task for the whole class.
We have bundled together the webs most complete collection of Wacky Word challenges and HERE'S WHAT YOU GET.
- 202 Beautifully presented Wacky Wordies PowerPoint Slides with questions and answers.
- A paper based test of 101 Wacky Wordies for a silent test scenario
- Wacky wordies flash cards that can be cut out and used as a game or any literacy activity.
Use these templates to teach young writers how to write a basic letter or recount. Your students will learn about addresses and can get creative in decorating the front picture and creating a stamp of their own in the process
Roman numerals were the accepted numerical system of the ancient world for a longer period of time than our current 0 - 9 Hindu Arabic numerical system has been.
As a maths teacher, Roman Numerals open the door to discussing the evolution of mathematics and society by telling the rise and fall of empires, great minds of the past and evolving our thought processes as the world became a larger community.
This free poster not only explains how the Roman Numeral system works, so that your students can identify the production years at the end of movies, but also offers a great collection of historical facts about it's stories past. Did I also mention it looks great too.
Use this editable tool with a text such as a newspaper article or to research something. Simply read your selected text and record the keywords or phrases that answer the questions below. The final step is to summarise the article in 25 words of your own in the table below.