Create messages for your students written in alien code and print them out instantly.
Alien message decoding can be a fantastic activity to engage students with a topic, or to introduce a task. This tool will allow you to type in any message in any (roman alphabet) language, and print out the message in alien code, along with a key.
I love to leave these messages for students to find and watch the children's excitement as they try and decode.
A 60 page pack of communicative activities for ESL/EAL/EFL teachers. Print off the relevant lesson and go. Loads of activities with communication built in, scaffolded activities, word recognition activities as well as reading and writing activities. Also links to videos.
Topics covered:
Introductions
Countries and Nationalities
Numbers
Classroom instructions
Parts of the body
Colours
Classroom objects
Clothes
Shapes and sizes
Actions – Present Continuous
Daily routines – present simple
Emotions
Jobs
Animals
Family
Prepositions of place
Food and drink
Communicative or individual activity including 3 different sheets of Alien code, the answer key, and a key to help students with the decoding.
3 sets of Alien code with a key. Leave the code or messages in a 'space ship' for students to find and let them find the other part elsewhere or simply explain that you 'found these strange messages at home'. Students either communicate to decode the messages or work individually, depending what you want them to do the activity for.
Sheet 1 are motivational 'fortune cookie' style messages.
Sheet 2 include a treasure hunt based on 5 clues. Sufficiently generic to work in any school.
Sheet 3 is a letter from the aliens requesting help. Students decode the message and then the teacher produces a list of whatever the students need to do in order to help them (for example, complete their maths homework, or find the answer to a difficult question.).
The children (grades 2-8) I've done this activity with have loved it!
Newly Updated - further updates coming soon.
This 18 slide presentation breaks down the language surrounding racism with definitions, examples and talking points.
Students will learn what the various terms mean, see examples and give their own examples, before seeing examples from the real world, with photographs in the last few slides.
This is an excellent resource for opening up conversations about race and racism and get students to really think about the different types of racism and how they potentially are contributors to racism themselves through their choice of language.
A carefully prepared unit on Rosa Parks and the bus boycott, a great part of a wider civil rights or black history unit. The sequence takes students through the bus boycott story to the writing of a diary from the perspective of Rosa and/or James Blake.
Lesson step outline included, story sequencing cards, Images, 3 different levels of text, 2 different scaffolding sheets on perspectives and 2 diary writing pages.
3 different versions of this popular classic with a twist. Communication, competition, maths and fun all rolled into one. Just print and go.
Students get a board/grid. Draw the ships onto it and then do sums to fire on their target. If they are wrong, their turn is wasted (they have to debate this with their partner). If correct, they hit or miss.
Three versions to allow speedy mathematicians to continue to play while the slower ones just continue with their game.
A line graphs class to teach interpreting and creation of line graphs. Resources for the whole line graphs lesson.
This is a whole lesson for teaching interpretation and making of line charts/graphs.
It begins with an introduction to the key parts of a line graph and examples of independent/dependent variables, gives students a few questions to answer to show understanding and to think about WHY the graph may show what it shows. There is an activity at the end differentiated into 3 groups, with a self checklist for students and an explanation of the answers.
The 60 page Tigerlearn resource pack for beginners, packed full of worksheets/
A pack of controlled practice cards for a whole load of vocabulary
A 6 tense error correction PPT
A possessives review PPT
TWO editable game PPTs including
-AGENT LUCY AND THE ALIEN INVASION, gamify your semester simply by adding your own weekly challenges
-An editable multichoice PPT, just add your own questions
A PPT which breaks down word problems to create simple algebraic equations before solving them.
Funny stories make the questions, so I'd suggest you update the PPT with your students' names.
After you've done this as a class, you can then use the last slides on the PPT to let students have a try, and give them a 2 question worksheet to try alone.
Create worksheets, work books and exams at the click of a button with this fantastic worksheet generator tool.
Instantly randomise all sums with the click of a button and print out the worksheet you need, complete with answer sheets.
Contains worksheet templates to practise a whole host of skills including long and short multiplication and division, column addition and subtraction and a range of mental maths skills.
This tool will save you hours of your time, so you can focus on teaching.
If you are a head of department, you assess a lot of teachers and you need to save some time providing your feedback.
Use this tool to save you hours. Simply add in the most common comments that you make (eg ' This was a very teacher oriented class. I'd like to see some more student-student interaction'), add the names of the teachers and assign which comments you want to appear in the appraisal for which teachers.
Then, print. Job done!
This tool works up to a maximum of 30 teachers and 30 of your comments. If you need more teachers or more comments, simply save a second version of the tool.
Aliens have landed on Earth and Agent Lucy from the British Alien Invasion Team (BAIT) needs your help.
Your students need to defeat the Aliens by taking over the school, one room at a time using only their brains.
This is a delightful PPT introducing a long running game for your students. It explains the idea behind the game and has one example challenge (Create a team logo, following the specifications)
This is a great way to keep kids motivated. Spend the week teaching them and then finish off the week with a challenge based on what they've learned. Excellent for formative assessment.
Easily update the powerpoint with your own challenges and photos of the winning team.
A colleague observation programme that will be a very popular and simple addition to your school professional development programme.
Resource includes;
A peer observation form for teachers. Just watch the class and fill in the gaps. Give face to face feedback based on the patterns you see or the discussion questions at the bottom. [ designed for language teachers. Editable for other subjects]
A simple planner for the programme administrator, choose how many teachers you want to run the programme for, open the relevant spreadsheet (15, 30 or 50 teachers) and input the names into the first column. The spreadsheet updates and you have the teacher observation programme built into your school's PDP for the year.
** Now also includes a staff appraisal report tool **
A short course designed to get primary students confident in their public speaking, specifically in reading stories they have written in another class.
Pack includes a simple PPT identifying voice, body language, language, content and eye contact as the important features of public speaking. Students use this to fill in the blank rubric (included) in the first class.
From then on, students come to the class with a piece to perform and Prepare, perform and do a group reflection based on their notes and rubrics.
Six posters breaking down how to use 6 tenses in English - Present simple, Present continuous, Past simple, Past continuous, Future with ‘will’ and Future with ‘Going to’.
Colourful displays to print out and stick up on the wall or into student notebooks (A3 or A4 for the wall, A4 or A5 for the notebooks). The structures allow students to check their own sentence structures and to get their sentences right while they are learning.
This is a spelling and vocabulary review game generator. it works with any words, so use it to review your weekly spelling lists in game form.
A very straight forward tool. Simply type 20 words which you want students to review into a list, choose whether you want a snakes 'n ladders format or a more generic board game and print onto A4 or A3 paper. Words are placed randomly over the board. If you want to re-order the words, press F9 for a refresh and the games will regenerate.
The games work as follows. Students roll a die, move a counter and spell or define the word they land on (variations would be simple, too - give a synonym/antonym etc).
Playing small review games often is a much more effective system to get students to remember vocabulary than simply giving them a list of words. The game itself will work in any language. Try English, French, German, even Chinese. The kids will love it, too!
A ready to go speaking competition for English language learners. Describe one of ten pictures, take part in a role play and give a short speech. Divided into 3 rounds. Use this as a whole school competition (10 competitors) or simply as a class activity.
In the first round, up to ten competitors will describe a picture. Judges will choose up to eight competitors to continue to round 2.
In round two, competitors will participate in a role play with a partner, based on a given scenario. Judges will choose up to 3 competitors for the final round.
In the final round, each competitor will give a talk on the chosen topic. Judges will choose a winner.
Bullying / Anti-bullying PPT that explains what bullying is in simple terms for children before leading them through some suggestions of how to deal with people bullying both themselves and others and finally an opportunity for children to agree behaviour in their class.
The PPT defines bullying and gets children to think of examples and reflect on the feelings generated. They’ll think about and see some techniques to prevent bullying.
They’ll then think of and be presented with what to do when they see others being bullied.
Finally, they’ll come up with some agreements of how they as a class can prevent bullying.
I have put some suggested agreements which can be edited and there is a space on a slide where you as a class can add your own, before printing off the slide and asking all students to sign the agreements.
A very simple PPT introducing simile.
It starts with a link to a video (song) on Youtube/Youku, then defines simile before giving examples, highlighting the structure and asking students to try to make their own similes with varying support.