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High interest learning resources for the Middle School student - fun, challenging and varied.
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High interest learning resources for the Middle School student - fun, challenging and varied.
How To Interview a School Visitor
From time to time a special visitor comes to the school and your class might be called on to ask them a question. How often is that question very ordinary, may be a bit embarrassing, and sometimes it may not really excite the visitor?
I have used these worksheets to prepare my students to come up with some more interesting questions to ask the visitor to the class or the school.
My students sometimes also need to visit a local politician or business person as part of a class project, and I use these worksheets to again prepare them for the visit.
I find these type of interpersonal communication skills so important for later life and that’s why my store is full of activities around public speaking, using humor and interviewing techniques.
I hope you find this pack useful to start the topic of interviewing.
Massive Google Maps Activity Book **UPDATED**
Great value Activity Book of worksheets and activities using Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Street View.
Covers a wide range of topics, subject areas and skills. All self-guiding, challenging and very original.
This is a combination of all my various Google Maps packs and bundles, compiled into an updated and attractive single book of activities with an answer key.
Invest in this book, download and just share or print off whatever you need, whenever you need it.
The Student's Storyteller's Activity Book
You know that storytelling is an important skill every student must master.
It is an important skill for work and in life.
The best business leaders are great storytellers. The best community leaders are great storytellers.
To sell, to persuade, to influence, to show, to tell, to entertain - you need to tell a story.
Stories make an emotional connection.
But where do they come from? How do you structure a story? Is there a template? Or even some story starters that people use?
The Student’s Storyteller’s Activity Book answers all of these questions.
This pack of 24 pages of activities will guide students on how to find, create and deliver great stories to any audience.
Table of Contents
Finding Great Stories
Personal Stories
Deeper Personal Stories
Structuring Your Story
Structuring Your Story
Stories with Messages
The Story Spine
Stories with Character
Two Must-Have Stories
Delivery
Story Analysis
29 Storytelling Tips
How to Zoom and Fly on Google Earth
Google Earth is one of the great online educational tools and has so many features to learn. 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.
21 slides
Note that sample slides only shown here, but full presentation of 21 interactive slides will be downloadable once purchase has been made.
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The Famous Comedy Fun Bundle **VALUE**
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.
What Makes You Laugh? **SLIDE DECK**
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.
Political Cartoons **Powerpoint Slide Pack**
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.
Story Telling with Google Earth Placemarks (MAC)
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.
Google Street View Worksheets
24 pages of worksheets for upper primary/lower secondary students using Google's fabulous Street View, newly updated with Answer Key and further instructions for Agent Pegman.
Activities include:
- looking for animals on safari
- looking for unusual landmarks
- perform some exemplary spy work
- visit some very obscure locations
- stand right in the middle of Stonehenge, Legoland, Warwick Castle gardens and travel the slopes of Whistler
32 pages
Answer key included
Duration 3 weeks
Note that only sample pages are shown here and the full 32 pages will be available for download once a purchase has been confirmed
Longitude and Latitude with Google Earth
Lesson Plan with worksheets for the Middle School 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.
There are also links to short videos further explaining the activities. Just click on the links in the worksheets
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.
20 pages of things to do.
Note that sample pages only shown here. Full pack of 20 pages will be downloadable once purchase has been made.
Duration of activity is 1 week
The Political Cartoon - Interactive Notebook
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
The Mechanics of Talking **High Interest**
Something original!
Calling all budding linguists - this pack of 25 worksheets(including answer key) will challenge the Middle School student looking for something original.
The theme of the worksheets is how sounds are articulated in the mouth, and how each point of articulation changes the sound that is made. The pack covers how all sounds of the alphabet are made and requires the student to closely analyse how sounds in words are constructed.
Topics include:
points of articulation
manner of articulation
phonetic analysis
The pack will enhance language learners and provide them with an understanding of how different languages are spoken.
Speechwriting ****Tip Sheet****
Single A3 pdf Tip Sheet for students to assist with their Speechwriting.
Includes:
13 tips when writing a speech
25 plus personal speechwriting ideas
The two main speech structures
Essential techniques that make speeches effective, with examples
The three main speech types
… all on a single page for easy reference
Easter with Google Maps - **Not Just for Easter**
Great worksheets for Middle School students based around the story of Easter and everything connected with Easter (Easter Eggs - chocolate and non-chocolate!, Easter Island, the Easter sites of significance, and more.)
Use Google Maps to complete the worksheets
Learning objectives include:
• Ability to calculate distances in Google Maps
• Able to load a database to Google Maps
• Ability to insert Placemarker information in Google Maps
• Ability to use creativity and imagination in developing a fantasy island
• Ability to construct a map with all key features
• Ability to locate information in Google Maps using coordinates
• Ability to apply some simple knowledge of Excel.
All the activities were great fun in my classroom, and the students could progress through them at their own pace and without too much direction.
26 pages
Answer key included
Duration 1-2 weeks
Note: Sample pages only shown here, full pack of 26 pages of worksheets will be available for download after purchase
Yeah Right! - Sarcasm
"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
All About Satire!
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 Google Earth Worksheets
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
What Makes You Laugh **POSTER SERIES**
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.
The Indigenous Way - My Scrapbook
I had worked as teacher in a remote Aboriginal community in the north west region of Australia, and here I have collected by photos and stories to show students how life is the same and different to their own.
Topics covered:
Our Camp
The Terrain
Weather & Climate
Children’s Games
School
Two Schools
Food
Seasonal food
Food
The Babysitter
Health and Medecine
Medicine
Trip to the Great Sandy Desert
Pilbara Lizards
New Cyclone Shelter
Employment
Whitefella Work in the Pilbara
In my class the scrapbook is used as part of our Indigenous Study Unit and is used in combination with The Indigenous Way - A Case Study
Storyteller's Activity Book For Teachers
Telling stories with a purpose is just about the most important skill an educational leader needs.
Stories create an emotional connection with the audience.
This activity book is for teachers or education leaders in any setting. It guides you through the steps to structure stories with a message.
The activity book also includes a bonus page of tips for teachers on how to improve their storytelling to kids.
If you have any aspirations to enhance your educational leadership aspirations then improving your storytelling skills will make a difference.
The 22 pages in this Activity Book will help you make that difference.