"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx
“The problem with common sense is that most people are morons.” - The Sarcasm Society
Sarcasm can be witty, but in the school environment it can be hurting. Teach your students to recognise sarcasm and to be careful with its use.
This bundle includes a great introductory Full Quality narrated slidedeck that introduces the topic of sarcasm.
The slidedeck includes:
- samples from Groucho Marx,
- how sarcasm can hurt others,
- some samples for students to test their sarcasm detector, and
- some examples for sarcastic body language.
The bundle also includes a starter pack of humour worksheets centred around the topic of Sarcasm.
Topics include:
- Irony v Sarcasm
- Sarcasm Detector
- Sarcasm as Verbal Bullying
- Groucho Marx and his form of Sarcasm
- Comparing Sarcasm with being Sincere
- Plotting types of Sarcasm on the Nasty v Nice scale, and the Funny v not Funny scale
… and more
Great fun for the classroom, but this pack also relates to the topic of emotional bullying and how some words that seem funny to others can impact a victim’s feelings.
Create fun storyboards that students then place on to geographic locations on Google Earth. The storyboards can be used to walk through a story showing each step of the plot on Google Earth - using images and descriptions - but they can also be used to create a tour of anything that you can think of.
This pack shows students how to create their own simple Tour on Google Earth, by creating a storyboard(Word template included), setting up Placemarks, inserting images and description as well some activities at each location, then recording the tour for others to view.
Very motivating.
Also includes an assessment Rubric, answer key, 12 worksheets, and a Word document Storyboard template.
Note that there are some very minor steps included that apply to Mac users only.
Great fun pack that investigates the types of Pranks, Hoaxes and Scams that are carried out in a variety of circumstances - on the web, in the classroom, in the news and so on.
Students identify the differences and get an understanding that this is not a new thing - it all started with Jonathon Swift (Gulliver Travels).
These pen and paper worksheets explore this type of humor and discusses the impact it might have on the victim. I really enjoy teaching about humor in the classroom and this is another of my packs that my classes have been working on.
I also use the topic to cover off some ‘bullying’ issues and make sure that all students understand that a prank can often have a negative effect on someone else - and so needs to be avoided.
The pack is also great for introducing the topic of email scams and how they can impact people who are not wary.
28 pages including a comprehensive Answer Key
I’d be really disappointed if anyone is not happy with these packs, so if that’s you, please get back to me and your money will be very happily refunded. I’d really like some feedback too, so all comments most welcome.
100 plus pages of self-directing activities for the Middle School students.
Google Earth Worksheets
More than 50 pages of Blackline Masters for upper primary/lower secondary students.
All worksheet activities are completed with the fabulous Google Earth application which is free to download on to your PC or Mac from http://earth.google.com/. Activities require minimum teacher direction and provide maximum learning for the student.
• Constellation conundrum
• Landmarks
• Cruise around the world
• Help!! Endangered species
• The Galapagos Islands
• Continents
• Google Moon
• The Earth's Grid System
• Make the World a Better Place
• Mission to Mars
• Majestic Mountains
• My Google Earth Autobiography
• Mysterious Locations
• National Parks
• Ocean Explorer
• Ocean Investigations
• The Olympics
• The ABCs of Google Earth
• Bonjour, Mon Ami
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Layers Reference and Activity Booklet
Google Earth has over 50 layers of information and all are explained in this booklet, along with student activities designed to allow the student to explore each of the layers and track down the type of fascinating information that can be found on each layer.
Layers are also given a value rating so that teachers can go directly to the most valuable layer with the most educational information.
The booklet includes definitions and activities around the following Google Earth layers:
• Borders and Labels
• Photos
• 3D Buildings
• Ocean
• Weather
• Gallery
• Global Awareness
• and more
Key points of interest are highlighted and quirky little tips are included.
This is a true reference book for any student or teacher who works with Google Earth.
_______________________________________________________How to Zoom and Fly
A slide show that instructs users on how to use these basic functions of Zooming and Flying around Google Earth.
Download this Powerpoint slide set to show your students how to use and practice the zooming and flying functions. Easy to follow - students could review them at their own pace.
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Longitude and Latitude Worksheets
Lesson Plan with worksheets for the Secondary classroom that teaches the principles of Longitude and Latitude using the popular Google Earth.
The worksheets are simple and self-guiding. There is an answer sheet at the end of the booklet.
The lesson takes about 3 weeks to complete and there are additional worksheets that the early finishers can work on to further extend their knowledge. Objectives included.
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More Google Earth Worksheets
32 pages of printable worksheets for the Upper Primary student. Clear instructions, clear print and totally self-guiding
Use Google Earth to complete these self-directed worksheets. Easy to use and very educational.
A wide range of topics covered, including:
- Religions of the world
- Capital cities
- Deserts
- Trip planning and more
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Google Earth Task Cards
46 Task Cards with 46 activities for students to explore Google Earth.
Activities include:
- measuring distance with ruler function
- calculating area
- using longitude and latitude
- mastering Google Earth tools and applications
- understanding continents, countries
- exploring Google Sky, Moon and Mars
- zooming in to significant landmarks
- investigative work on the ground
- and much more.
Comprehensive Answer Key included.
Print out cards on to firm board - easy two-cut template to create four cards per page.
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Teach Your Kids How to LOL .... Right Here!
You start with Slapstick, then Sarcasm, then move on to Satire, and finish with some Puns. You won't be able to stop your kids from all their wisecracking. But who cares when everyone is enjoying the work?
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This bundle of humor activities will start the comedy craze in your school. Who know where it will lead?
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Comedy is so much fun in the classroom and to learn how to understand and recreate the main comedic devices is a great advantage for any student.
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The activities are fun and relevant. They cross a range of disciplines. This bundle is a combination of four packs that can be bought separately. But with this fun bundle you get four packs for the price of three.
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I'd be really disappointed if anyone is not happy with these packs, so if that's you, please get back to me and your money will be very happily refunded. I'd really like some feedback too, so all comments most welcome.
12 humor types are illustrated in this slide deck. The slides can be used to identify each of the humor types that are typically used.
Identify which humor type is being used in conversation, in literature, or by the scallywag in your class.
The slides identify the name of the humor type, includes a definition and an example along with an original illustration.
12 humor types are illustrated in this poster series. The posters are A3 size and can be used to identify each of the humor types that are typically used.
Refer to the posters to identify which humor type is being used in conversation, in literature, or by the scallywag in your class.
The posters identify the name of the humor type, includes a definition and an example along with an original illustration.
12 A3 posters - samples are shown here.
Some great investigative worksheets on the cross-curriculum topic of Graffiti. Here I have used student interest in the topic to explore various cross-curriculum areas such as math, social science, debate, visual arts, and history.
I find the cross curriculum nature of these units provide so many learning opportunities.
The packs covers the following topics:
- Street Artists such as Banksy
- School policy on dealing with graffiti
- Investigation on graffiti removal products - reading a chart
- Experimenting in Street Art
- Art v Vandalism arguments
- Creating a Tag
- History of Graffiti
- Graffiti Poetry Response
This is NOT a course in Graffiti, but rather a stimulus pack of activities that uses various skills to investigate the topic of Graffiti. Suitable to Middle Schools Students in both interest and ability level.
23 pages in total
Answer key included.
Using exaggeration or hyperbole can be one of easiest ways of getting a laugh from your audience.
These simple but challenging worksheets help the Middle School student identify humourous exaggeration techniques and develop some strategies to write their own comedy lines.
Great fun and yet another part of my humour series.
About 1 week's duration - answer key included - total of 24 pages in all.
Use Google Earth to complete these self-directed worksheets. Easy to use and very educational.
A wide range of topics covered, including:
- Religions of the world
- Capital cities
- Deserts
- Trip planning
- Cryptic Clues to solve
- Volcanoes
- Rivers
- The Roman Empire
- Around the World in 80 Days
and more
Enjoy
30 pages
Note that only sample worksheets shown here, but full pack of 30 pages will be available for download once purchased.
Duration - 1 week
The School Uniform is always a matter of conversation and debate in schools and this thematic unit explores various aspects of the School Uniform discussion.
As a thematic unit it covers a variety of topic starters including colour charts, infographics, budgetting, design, debate, SWOT analysis and more.
A thematic study is always great for the creative teacher who can use these study starters to explore different directions around a them.
The package is attractively presented and provides two pages of teachers notes to assist in further study explorations.
My kids thoroughly enjoyed working through the topic - as expected, there was much debate!
25 pages
(The pages shown here are samples only)
1 week duration
A slapstick was originally a harmless paddle composed of two pieces of wood that slapped together to produce a resounding whack when the paddle struck someone. It was soon used by jesters to playfully smack others in a play and soon came to be the descriptor of similar type of physical comedy.
Great printables around the theme of Clowns and the comedy method of slapstick. Research how slapstick is created, the principles of clowning and the history of both.
These printables are challenging and varied and all centred around the comedy of slapstick. Humour is a great way to engage students in the classroom and this Middle School Resource was great fun in my classes.
15 great worksheets that students can complete on their own, and teachers can use to build on with other activities and interests.
17 pages
Duration 1 week
Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.” - Gary Larson
“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.” - George Orwell, Animal Farm
Another of my humour units, to go with Slapstick and Sarcasm.
Anything to do with humour in the classroom is fun for the students and the teacher.
Analyse The Simpsons, South Pack, The Onion, Borat and more with the directions in this pack.
Pack includes activities, explanations, tips, hints, and self-directed activities.
Enjoy - we all did!
18 pages
Duration 3 weeks
More humour to use in your English class.
Puns are painful, I know, but this unit is so much fun and a great test for understanding the use of language in different settings.
Table of Contents:
Definitions of Puns
Posters that are Puns
Word List
Knock Knock Jokes
I'm Confused!
Knock Knock! Rules
Punny Business
Local Punny Business
Types of Puns
Puns in Art
Get it Right
Tearable Puns
There are more units that I have developed on Humour that are just as energising. Hope you have as much fun as we did in our class!
21 pages
Answer Key included
1 week duration
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx
“The problem with common sense is that most people are morons.” - The Sarcasm Society
Sarcasm can be witty, but in the school environment it can be hurting. Teach your students to recognise sarcasm and to be careful with its use.
This is a great interactive Powerpoint set of slides that cover the different types of sarcasm that can occur. The slides includes
- samples from Groucho Marx,
- how sarcasm can hurt others,
- a short video of how sarcasm was used in a 'Friends' episode, and
- some interactive tests for students to test their sarcasm detector.
41 slides
Answer key included
90 minute activity
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx
“The problem with common sense is that most people are morons.” - The Sarcasm Society
Sarcasm can be witty, but in the school environment it can be hurting. Teach your students to recognise sarcasm and to be careful with its use.
This is a starter pack of humour worksheets centred around the topic of Sarcasm.
Topics include:
- Irony v Sarcasm
- Sarcasm Detector
- Sarcasm as Verbal Bullying
- Groucho Marx and his form of Sarcasm
- Comparing Sarcasm with being Sincere
- Plotting types of Sarcasm on the Nasty v Nice scale, and the Funny v not Funny scale
... and more
15 pages, 1 week duration
The Interactive Notebook is a fun, creative and engaging learning experience for each student, and this pack encourages students to acquire the skills to view and analyse the political or editorial cartoon.
The various strategies and techniques used in political cartoons are explained and learned by completing tasks that show how cartoonists:
- use analogy
- use irony
- use exaggeration
- labelling, and
- symbols
..... to comment on the issue of the day
The final activities in the pack provides students with a template and practice to analyse political cartoons and make sense of their meanings and subtleties.
48 pages with Answer key included
Great introduction into interpreting Political Cartoons, explaining and illustrating the main strategies used by cartoonists:
- labelling
- use of symbols
- analogy
- irony
- exaggeration.
The slide deck supports the Interactive Notebook Political Cartoons - An Interactive Notebook
The interactive slide deck is very expertly made and is another part of the humour and comedy series that I use in my Middle School classes.
Downloading this Powerpoint pack also provides you with a very flash template to develop your own great slide presentation.
What's a Malaprop?
"It is the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, “dance a flamingo ” (instead of flamenco )."
This pack has more than 170 Malaprops that are fun, challenging and great for learning about correct English. Many of the Malaprops include common mistakes that English speakers make.
Translating what the speaker was meaning needs some hard thinking in some cases.
An answer key is provided at the end.