This bundle contains the ‘Classifying Animals’ lesson, and also the fun and interactive Animal Classes Pointless Game! The detailed and engaging lesson enables students to gain an understanding of what animal classes are, and which animals belong to the different categories. Furthermore, they learn to categorise animals themselves, using scientific knowledge of the features of each animal class. Students justify their choices using critical thinking skills. Students learn through a number of fun and interactive tasks, which enable them to: - Define each animal class and understand its features; - Exemplify each animal class, justifying their choices; - Use research and investigative skills to categorise animals for whom the class is not immediately obvious; - Evaluate the learning and understanding of themselves and their peers. The resources include: -Visually engaging and comprehensive whole-lesson presentation; -Resources for the card-sorting activity; -A categorising and justifying worksheet (and answer sheet for teacher); -An investigation log; -Step-by-step lesson plan. To help their investigation write-ups, I’ve also thrown in the literacy writing mat for free! All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final page of the slide.

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of ten war/conflict poems. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Each of the poems are widely studied, with many being from the Literary Heritage bank, and most being fixtures in examination board anthologies. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

This huge resource pack contains highly stimulating, detailed, and informative whole-lesson resources for 18 different poems - each of the poems feature on the new GCSE poetry lists for the vast majority of examining boards. In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! The poems included are largely from the Relationships and War/Conflict poetry lists. Individually, these resources are worth more than double the price of the bundle, meaning that you can make a considerable saving! Each lesson employs a wide range of teaching and learning strategies, with a large variety of interesting tasks and ideas. This pack contains a whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation for each poem, in addition to all of the worksheets, task resources, and lesson plans that you need to teach. Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen In Paris with You - James Fenton Love's Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley Mametz Wood - Owen Sheers Mother, Any Distance - Simon Armitage Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy next to of course god america i - E.E. Cummings Out of the Blue - Simon Armitage Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poppies - Jane Weir Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Falling Leaves - Margaret Postgate Cole War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov When We Two Parted - Lord Byron Comparing Poems! All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the presentations.

These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Simon Armitage's 9/11 vivid and harrowing contemporary conflict poem. Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet's ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Armitage's language devices. The bundle contains: - The comprehensive and engaging lesson, - The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat, - A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems. The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.