I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and I try to make my resources have real-world applications whenever possible. These resources will not only engage your learners, but they'll save you time, so that you can focus on doing what you do best.
I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and I try to make my resources have real-world applications whenever possible. These resources will not only engage your learners, but they'll save you time, so that you can focus on doing what you do best.
This is an engaging set of activities and PowerPoint presentation about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. The colorful, interactive PowerPoint slide deck introduces the key concepts of carnivores, omnivores and herbivores with lots of photos and is interspersed with “check what you know” slides to make sure that children have understood a concept before moving on to the next one.
The slideshow can be used as a whole-class presentation, or it can be assigned to students to work through on their own devices.
Over 30 slides are included covering:
Carnivores
Omnivores
Herbivores
Predators and prey
Scavengers
Different types of teeth and how these are used for eating different food
This can be followed up with a printable activity booklet or worksheets.
What’s included?
Key concepts gap fill or explanation depending on the version
Circle the animal that doesn’t belong to the animal group.
Connect the animal to its food by following the trails.
Draw an animal and write what it eats.
Circle the word predator or prey depending on the animal.
Draw missing teeth on the animals.
Quiz questions to check understanding.
Circle all the animals of one diet type.
Crossword with clues using diet type.
List five animals for each type.
Wordfind to find 10 herbivores.
Write about an animal they like.
Match animals to their food.
Animal jokes
Answer key is included, plus U.S. and U.K. versions.
I hope your children enjoy learning about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores with these activities.
Celebrate diversity and create an inclusive learning environment with this set of over 40 multicultural greeting signs that will help every child and their family to feel a sense of belonging in your classroom, by learning, sharing, and using greetings in their language.
These “hello” wall posters would be fantastic in a school entry or hallway, or in your classroom. Your class could learn how to say hello in a different language every week, with children who speak the language of the week getting to be the expert.
The designs include flags of all the countries in the world and the words are written in the script of the language.
These signs look great printed on photo paper, or print them and laminate them.
I’ve created 5 sets specifically tailored to the 38 most commonly spoken languages in the U.S, U.K, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, along with up to 7 of the most commonly spoken indigenous languages in each of those countries.
As it’s not possible to include signs for all languages, I have included an editable version, so that no child has to miss out.
2 per page and 4 per page options included.
If you prefer a different design, you may like this similar set and if you prefer this version but with the transliterations and no script, check out this set.
I hope you enjoy displaying these posters in your classroom or workplace.
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Celebrate diversity and create an inclusive learning environment with this set of over 40 multicultural greeting signs that will help every child and their family to feel a sense of belonging in your classroom, by learning, sharing, and using greetings in their language.
These “hello” wall posters would be fantastic in a school entry or hallway, or in your classroom. Your class could learn how to say hello in a different language every week, with children who speak the language of the week getting to be the expert.
There are four border designs: rainbows, pastels, neutrals, and ink saver.
The posters come 2 per page and 4 per page.
These signs look great printed on photo paper, or print them and laminate them.
I’ve created 5 sets specifically tailored to the 38 most commonly spoken languages in the U.S, U.K, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, along with up to 7 of the most commonly spoken indigenous languages in each of those countries.
As it’s not possible to include signs for all languages, I have included editable versions of the borders (2 per page), so that no child has to miss out - they’ll be happy to help you learn how to say “hello” in their language, and you will be able to get a sign made up quickly so they can feel proud of their language being displayed in your classroom. If you need a 4-per-page editable version, please email me with the border you need.
I also have this set with a border of flags of the world which you can find here for the transliterations and here for the script version.
You will receive five zip files with PDFs and PPTX files.
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Celebrate diversity and create an inclusive learning environment with this set of over 40 multicultural greeting signs that will help every child and their family to feel a sense of belonging in your classroom, by learning, sharing, and using greetings in their language.
These “hello” wall posters would be fantastic in a school entry or hallway, or in your classroom. Your class could learn how to say hello in a different language every week, with children who speak the language of the week getting to be the expert.
The designs include flags of all the countries in the world.
These signs look great printed on photo paper, or print them and laminate them.
I’ve created 5 sets specifically tailored to the 38 most commonly spoken languages in the U.S, U.K, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, along with up to 7 of the most commonly spoken indigenous languages in each of those countries.
As it’s not possible to include signs for all languages, I have included an editable version, so that no child has to miss out.
2 per page and 4 per page options included.
If you prefer a different design, you may like this similar set and if you like the flag design but want the script rather than the transliteration, check out this set here.
I hope you enjoy displaying these posters in your classroom or workplace.
You will receive 5 zip files with PDFs and an editable PPTX (text is editable, images/layout aren’t).
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Do you need some hands-on activities to bring your Ancient Greece unit to life? This pack has 5 hands-on activities that include writing the ancient Greek alphabet, making ancient Greek coins, making a miniature clay amphora (vase), sgraffito art inspired by ancient Greek art, and weaving. Many of these activities can meet the learning objectives of the art curriculum at the same time.
This pack comes with a PDF slideshow version of instructions, plus a student handout version for the art activities. There are also three pages of photos of real artefacts to use for inspiration.
What’s included?
Teacher’s guide
Photos for inspiration
Self-reflection
Artist statement
U.K and U.S versions
Student instructions for:
Make a clay amphora
Make clay or salt dough coins
Draw an aspect of ancient Greek life using the sgraffito technique with oil pastels
Write the ancient Greek alphabet
Try weaving using wool
You will need:
A4 paper
paint (poster or acrylic)
strong card
a variety of colourful wool
scissors
tape
pencils
oil pastels
air-drying clay and rolling/marking tools
52 pages included
You will receive a zip file with PDFs.
I hope you enjoy using this pack with your students.
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Ancient Greece Parthenon Craft
Ancient Egypt Activities
Ancient Egypt Hands-on Activities and Crafts
Ancient Egypt Pyramid Craft
Aztec Empire Activities
Aztec Empire Hands-on Activities and Crafts
Shang Dynasty Activities
Shang Dynasty Hands-on Activities and Crafts
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Your students will love this fun pack of easy-prep printable Halloween-themed activities which cover idioms, maths, science, writing, and design skills.
There are plenty of options to appeal to all learners with word searches, a number search, creative design activities, labelling the skeletal system, writing ideas, and more.
This pack is suitable for Year 3 and up.
What’s included?
U.S and U.K versions
Halloween word search
Create a Halloween word search
Design a board game
Design a new sweet
Design a Halloween costume
Design carved pumpkins
Halloween crossword
Name 5 Halloween-related words for different topics
Halloween A to Z
Cat idioms and Halloween idioms
Number search - multiplication
Fraction word problems
Label the skeletal system
Cut out and make the skeletal system
Writing prompts (colour and ink saver)
Answer keys for activities which aren’t open-ended
Ideas for use:
whole class
stations
early finishers
I hope your students enjoy this Halloween pack.
You will receive a PDF file.
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3D Haunted House Craft
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This pack is full of hands-on, engaging activities for learning about Australia’s neighbouring countries and is aligned to the HASS curriculum.
There are map activities and graphic organisers which your students can use to help them locate Australia and its neighbours, and to find similarities and differences in daily life, climate, natural, managed, and constructed features, schools, festivals and holidays, houses, plants and animals, climate, and types of settlement.
Students can choose one country to do an in-depth research project on and present their information in a travel brochure. These would make a great classroom display for children to read and learn about other countries.
Students can use globes, atlases and digital maps to find the information they need for the map work. They can use online sources and books for other research tasks.
What’s included:
Label a map of Australia and its neighbours.
Label a map of the Pacific Island nations.
Foldable activity to show the directions of different neighbours.
Label a climate map of Australia with a title, key and north point. (new)
Travel brochure for children to write about one country.
Compare their house and a house in Indonesia.
Compare several traditional houses. (new)
Compare built structures (Jakarta city scene and Candi Prambanan Temple in Indonesia to a built structure of their choice in Australia)
Compare rice growing in Australia and Indonesia.
Natural features of different neighbours (new)
Types of settlements (new)
Foldable similarities and differences shapes to write on
Foldable climate types activity (new)
Poster of Australia’s climate (new)
32 pages included
I hope your students enjoy learning about Australia and its neighbouring countries with these activities.
You will receive 8 PDFs and 3 editable PPTX files (text is editable, images/layout aren’t).
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This collection of 10 Fairytale Pattern Block mats and task cards will support your learners as they learn to identify, sort, flip, rotate and turn shapes. Great as part of a castle, medieval, or fairytale theme topic!
How challenging is it?
There are three levels of difficulty so you can tailor the activities to your learners:
full-size colour and ink saver version for practising matching
task cards for learners to put the shapes together without a mat
outline version for those that need an extra challenge
For a STEM challenge, there are also five sheets for students to design and build their own versions.
Develop creativity and problem-solving skills as they draw a design, build it and re-work it until it looks just like they want it to
What’s included in the zip file?
Mats (colour and ink saver)
castle
crown
princess hat
jester’s hat
knight’s helmet
long sword
short sword
drawbridge
shield
goblet
Design sheets
Can you make a castle?
Can you make a crown?
Can you make a princess hat?
Can you make a sword?
Can you make a shield?
Task cards (A5 size)
40 pages included
Ideas for use:
supplemental materials
morning tables
math centres
stations
early finishers
I hope you enjoy using them with your learners.
TIPS FOR PRINTING:
These are optimised to print on 8.5x11 paper.
Please ensure that you select actual size or set scaling to none depending on your print options so that the shapes will match with your classroom set.
You will receive zip files with PDFs.
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Camping Pattern Blocks
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The activities in this pack will help your students to learn about the history of boats, how boats use technology, and how the changes in technology over time have brought changes for how people meet their needs and made the world more connected.
There is a lot to choose from with worksheets, interactive notebook activities, PowerPoint™ and Google Slides™ for teaching, design activities, labelling activities, a S.T.E.M activity, and a word search. Plus, there are editable versions for some worksheets so you can write questions to tailor the resource to your needs.
What’s included?
18 PowerPoint™ and Google Slides™
Cut and paste activity to categorize different ship technology (sails, steam, diesel)
Spot the differences - identify differences between two photos of boats, one from the past and one from the present
Ask a grandparent (or older person) - compare changes in boat transport over time (plus editable version)
Interactive sailboat - write about how boats meet our needs (plus editable version)
Interactive world - write about how transport technology makes the world more connected (plus editable version)
Interactive ship’s wheel - practice writing cardinal directions
Two design activities to choose from (a new kind of boat and a boat you could live on)
STEM challenge to make a boat
Label the parts of a ship - cut and paste
Word search (two levels of difficulty)
U.K and U.S versions
I hope your students enjoy learning about the history of boats with these activities.
You will receive PDF and PPTX files.
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History of Flight Timeline
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This fun start-of-the-year pack of 11 “All About Me” and “Getting to Know You” activities will have your students making new friends, getting to know their teacher, and showing you a window into who they are.
In this pack you’ll find:
an “all about me” page that is a little more interesting than the usual “what’s your favorite colour?” type questions which make a great wall display
a page of questions to help you understand your learners, their strengths and weaknesses, and how you can help them to feel at home in the classroom
3 activities designed to help students get to know each other
3 team challenges because a little friendly competition can really help students to bond
a page for students to design their ideal classroom – add these to your wall display
a multiplication number search to get students back into math in a fun way
6 writing prompts about summer and the year ahead
U.K and U.S versions
Your children will love this fun camping craft activity. Children will be fully engaged as they make their own 3D camping scene with a tent and camping equipment. Plus, they’ll be super proud of their craft creations once they’re finished!
Just print, and add colouring pencils, scissors and glue sticks.
What’s included?
2 size options (smaller with tent on one page, and all items on one page, or larger with tent on two pages and items one per page)
7 items to make
tent
sleeping bag
lantern
campfire
backpack
map
display box to show off their creations and keep their items together
set up tips
example camp site to show your learners
U.K and U.S versions
4 pages included
Ideas for use:
Whole class
End of year activity
Camp-themed day
Summer camp
Early finishers
I hope you enjoy using these activities with your learners.
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
These timeline activities are a hands-on visual way for students to see the changes that have been made in the history of flight, land, and sea transport.
History of Flight Timeline
This timeline focuses on seven key developments in the history of planes from the first hot air balloon in 1783 to the modern Boeing 747 airliner in 1970.
History of Sea Transport Timeline
This timeline focuses on eight key developments in the history of boats, starting from the Pesse canoe dating back to 10,000BCE, to container ships in 1956.
History of Land Transport Timeline
This timeline focuses on eight key developments in the history of vehicles from the time when people first domesticated horses to the hybrid car.
What’s included?
Timeline and real photos to match up to the dates
Differentiated with simple or detailed captions, and the easiest version has the photos and captions already together so students need to match it to the date, and the most difficult level students need to match the photo to the caption and write in the date
Interactive foldable with visual step-by-step instructions
Clue cards to solve the order of the timeline
Answer key
I hope your students enjoy learning about the history of transport with these timelines.
If you’re studying Ancient Sumer or Ancient Mesopotamia, then your students will love these hands-on activities which get them making art, crafts, and writing from the earliest civilisations!
This pack has lots of activities you can pick and choose from, that will give students an insight into the crafts and technology that the first civilisations in Mesopotamia used.
Students can:
explore cuneiform script with two different scripts to try
practice weaving
make a woven basket
make a paper model of the Ishtar Gate
make a clay bowl
make a clay tablet and write cuneiform on it
The pack includes student hand-out instructions and a PDF slideshow version of the instructions, plus the template to make the Ishtar Gate.
You will need:
wool
thick card (for weaving)
paper cups
air-drying clay
paint (optional)
scissors, glue sticks, coloring pencils
wooden skewers
paper or light card (for the Ishtar Gate)
U.K. and U.S. versions included.
I hope your students enjoy making their Ancient Sumer crafts.
You will receive a zip file with PDFs. If you have any trouble downloading, just reach out to me at info@zigglelearning.com.
Have some fun this Halloween with this hands-on 3D haunted house model. Your students will love making their own haunted house, adding their own details to make the house unique.
This pack includes options for a single-level house made up of three rooms and a roof, or a two level house which has six rooms. The model is put together by making rooms and gluing them together, so students could make just one or two rooms, or they could make all six.
The haunted house can be made using paper or light card. White glue is the easiest to work with for this project, and tape can be used if needed.
What’s included?
Instructions
4 outline pages for a one-level house
6 outline pages for a two-level house
Display box template for a “garden”
Photo examples
U.S and U.K versions
Note: 3D crafts can be challenging for students so please consider if your students have the fine motor skills needed before purchasing.
I hope your students enjoy making a haunted house this Halloween!
You will receive a PDF file.
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Fun pack of Halloween activities
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The activities in this pack will help your students to learn about the history of boats, how boats use technology, and how the changes in technology over time have brought changes for how people meet their needs and made the world more connected.
There is a lot to choose from with worksheets, interactive notebook activities, a timeline, PowerPoint™ and Google Slides™ for teaching, design activities, labelling activities, a S.T.E.M activity, and a word search. Plus, there are editable versions for some worksheets so you can write questions to tailor the resource to your needs.
What’s included?
18 PowerPoint™ and Google Slides™
Cut and paste activity to categorize different ship technology (sails, steam, diesel)
Spot the differences - identify differences between two photos of boats, one from the past and one from the present
Ask a grandparent (or older person) - compare changes in boat transport over time (plus editable version)
Interactive sailboat - write about how boats meet our needs (plus editable version)
Interactive world - write about how transport technology makes the world more connected (plus editable version)
Interactive ship’s wheel - practice writing cardinal directions
Two design activities to choose from (a new kind of boat and a boat you could live on)
STEM challenge to make a boat
Label the parts of a ship - cut and paste
Word search (two levels of difficulty)
Timeline with four differentiated options plus a foldable option
U.K and U.S versions
I hope your students enjoy learning about the history of boats with these activities.
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
Do you need some hands-on activities to bring your Ancient Egypt unit to life? This pack has 6 hands-on activities that include carrying out an archaeological dig and five craft projects. Many of these activities can meet the learning objectives of the art curriculum at the same time.
What’s included?
Student instructions for:
Make an amulet
Make a canopic jar
Make papyrus
Make a pyramid model (two sizes, a smaller, easier size, and a larger, more challenging size)
Make a scarab beetle
Carry out an archaeological dig with a partner
You will need:
paper, coloured paper
scissors, glue/glue sticks
paint
pencils, markers, coloured pencils
air-drying clay and rolling/marking tools
containers, soil or sand, small objects
I hope your students enjoy making these activities.
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Ancient Greece Parthenon Craft
Ancient Greece Hands-on Activities and Crafts
Ancient Egypt Activities
Ancient Egypt Pyramid Craft
Aztec Empire Activities
Aztec Empire Hands-on Activities and Crafts
Shang Dynasty Activities
Shang Dynasty Hands-on Activities and Crafts
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
Do you need some hands-on activities to bring your Aztec Empire unit to life? This pack has 6 hands-on activities that include 3 art projects, roleplay, make a codex, and carry out an archaeological dig, plus ideas for more fun activities. Many of these activities can meet the learning objectives of different curriculum areas, so you could be covering history/social studies, art, and oral language/drama at the same time.
What’s included?
Student instructions for:
Mosaic artwork
Make a Sun Stone
Illustrate the legend of Tenochtitlan
Make a codex
Carry out an archaeological dig with a partner
Interview an archaeologist
You will need:
paper, coloured paper
scissors, glue/glue sticks
paint
pencils, markers, coloured pencils
air-drying clay and rolling/marking tools
containers, soil or sand, small objects
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com
Are you looking for a fun way to tie in some maths review for Easter? This pack includes 7 fun crafts to make, all with an Easter theme, and each shape is one of the 3D shapes students need to know.
This will be perfect for review, practice, centres, stations, free time, early finishers and math rotations.
What’s included?
Nets to make 7 crafts
Easter egg (sphere)
Easter Bunny (rectangular prism)
Carrot (cone)
Chick (square-based pyramid)
Nest (cylinder)
Mini Easter basket (cube)
Box of jellybeans (triangular prism)
Visual step-by-step instructions
Recording sheet of the properties of their 3D crafts covering faces, edges, and vertices/corners
Answer key
U.K and U.S versions
I hope your students enjoy making these for Easter maths practice.
You will receive a PDF file.
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This fun, hands-on Christmas craft pack ticks a lot of boxes. Your students will love making seven Christmas crafts, which could be turned into ornaments, and there’s an option to cover geometry maths skills at the same time.
The seven crafts include a Christmas tree (cone), present (cube), bauble (sphere), milk and biscuits (cylinders), Santa hat (pyramid), and gingerbread house (rectangular prism and triangular prism).
To turn the crafts into ornaments add string or ribbon, or use the paper handles included on each page.
To integrate this activity with maths, use the properties of 3D shapes for younger students, and the nets with measurements and recording sheets for finding the surface area of the nets. The net measurements are based on the actual sizes rounded to the nearest inch or cm and range in size from 2-6 inches/4-8cm.
What’s included?
U.K and U.S versions (spelling, letter and A4)
Christmas tree
Present
Bauble
Milk and biscuits
Santa hat
Gingerbread house
Example photo page
Properties of 3D shapes worksheet and answer key
Nets with measurements in inches and cm
Recording sheets for finding the surface area of the rectangular prism, triangular prism, cube, and pyramid
3D crafts can be challenging so please consider if your students have the fine motor skills needed before purchasing.
I hope your students enjoy making these Christmas crafts.
Inspire your students with this bundle of posters and graphic organisers about 10 amazing African Americans who were or are inventors, engineers, scientists, mathematicians, surgeons and computer scientists.
This pack includes:
Granville Woods - inventor and engineer
George Washington Carver – scientist and inventor
Madam C.J. Walker – an inventor and businesswoman
Katherine Johnson – mathematician
Garrett Morgan – inventor
Mae Jemison – the first African American women to go into space
George Carruthers – engineer and space scientist
Patricia E. Bath – surgeon and inventor
Annie Easley – mathematician and computer scientist
Warren Washington – scientist for climate change
Posters - in colour and come in two sizes - one per page or two per page.
These will great on a display, in your classroom, hallway, or office during Black History Month or all year round.
Graphic organisers
two options, one with a space for students to draw a picture of the person, and one with a portrait for students to colour.
three line sizes so you can choose the best one for your students.
*71 pages included
Students will need to research online, in books, or use a reading passage to find the information.
The topics include key facts, achievements, important moment and influences, and the option to draw an invention or other related picture, or to include a quote if one can be found.
If you like using this resource after your purchase, I’d love it if you could leave a quick review. To show my appreciation, you can choose any resource up to the same value for free. Simply email me after with the resource you’d like at info@zigglelearning.com