Sustain the Student resources are the work of an experienced teacher, Head of English, educational consultant for a leading children's charity and parent.
Sustain the Student resources are the work of an experienced teacher, Head of English, educational consultant for a leading children's charity and parent.
These Earth Day Cut and Color I can... statements are a great resource for using with young students who are learning to become sustainable students.
Simply cut and color the statements after an Earth Week activity and paste onto the I can... poster.
The students take pride in completing an activity and being able to complete the 'I can...' statement. The poster adds a visual/ non-formal assessment element to the learning.
The statements provided include the familiar: I can recycle, I can re-use, I can reduce; the interesting: I can repair, I can rot; the exciting: I can walk or cycle, I can make a compost. In total there are 14 statements and blank templates to make your own.
Also included is an A3-sized poster template for the pupils to attach up to 12 of their statements during the Earth Day/ Earth Week celebrations.
This resource develops the standard '3 Rs' of sustainability by introducing the students to the '6 Rs' and more concepts for looking after 'Mother' Earth.
Two differentiated versions - younger and older Pupils.
Pupils become responsible environmental citizens and improve their Geo-literacy skills at the same time with this Earth Day weekly Diary!
The booklet has been designed to be used by pupils as a part of their Earth Day celebrations. Encourage your pupils to continue the Earth Day activities away from school and take vital messages home. Importantly, this will allow your pupils to take their Earth Day learning home to share with siblings and parents.
Younger pupils: requires the students to draw their daily exercises and, if required, write a few lines to accompany their illustrations.
Older pupils: contains 'I can...' statements for the pupils to work towards, section to write daily experience, section to write how they helped the environment that day, section to list what contributions they made towards the 3Rs.
This diary can also be used as part of your classroom work - afternoon activity, reflection time, informal assessment, as a daily 5-minute filler or a week-long Earth Day homework project
The document currently contains pages for 7 daily entries, however, just print more pages for a bigger diary.
Print the diary '2-sided' on the 'short edge' - or simply print and staple together.
Start the fun on Earth Day/ Week by having your pupils make a pledge.
This Earth Day activity allows your pupils to take ownership of their targets for the week and become responsible global citizens.
This colorful and exciting pledge can be used as a place mat or displayed on the wall during Earth Week.
Two variants include Earth Day and Earth Week for whichever event you are celebrating this year.
Looking for a manageable way to display your pupils targets?
Display these skills WANTED posters in your classroom so your students can have their learning targets visible at all times.
The PowerPoint file currently has space for a target in: Reading, Writing, Maths and Behaviour for Learning (BfL). These can be easily changed to suit your class needs.
The file also contains blank slips for writing the targets, these can be glued on top of achieved targets so the students can take pride in seeing how many targets they have achieved in the key subjects.
Students respond to the famous Dog and the Bone fable by writing a character sketch. Contains extension challenge for the higher ability students.
Includes the story text.
Ideal as a fables homework or worksheet.
Ideal when studying: skeletons, animal skeletons, animal biology and the body. Use this worksheet in the classroom or as homework to get your students thinking about science keywords and making visual observations.
I created this worksheet for use during UK National Curriculum Science Units in Key Stage Two, Animal Skeletons. I used this as a homework to extend students' learning after lessons on the function and appearance of the human skeleton.
This download contains 3 variants to provide suitable differentiation across the class. File exists in Word format so can also be easily altered to suit your teaching needs and expectations.
These flashcards contain the following:
Numbers flashcards (numbers and words)
Colours flashcards (colours and words)
Shapes flashcards (shapes and words)
Classroom objects (stationary and words)
These are great flashcards for young learners and EAL, ESL students. The colourful cards can be cut out, stuck back to back and laminated to make an excellent set of flashcards. I always keep a set in my pocket so that I can help my foreign language students on the spot!
River worksheet that encourages the student to investigate the negative effects of using river water in unsustainable ways. A great resource when teaching about rivers, water, sustainability and environment issues.
Ideal as a class or homework sheet.
This information sheet (supplied as both pdf and Word in this download) suggests many ways in which a students can learn to spell words.
Ideal for the students who struggle to learn words for their weekly spelling tests - can also be used to help learn spellings and material in other languages.
Not every brain is the same, so not all students can learn through seeing and repeating. This information sheet lists contrasting methods that target the VAK - visual, audio and anesthetic (movement).
This could be displayed as a poster in a bedroom, at a work desk or in a classroom. Could be used as part of spelling or handwriting lessons.
Excellent for introducing when studying the Brainwaves unit of work.
If you're trying to learn something then give some of these methods a try and you'll find the results speak for themselves.
This comprehensive 5-week unit of study focuses on the Tudor monarchy’s reign of England. Each lesson follows the criteria set out by the UK National Curriculum. Students generate and ask questions, this forms a part of the opportunities for assessment that each lesson provides. PPT slideshows become animated to stimulate the students and work is respectfully challenging and target-achieving. All the resources required to teach these lessons are included in the download.
Each lesson plan states the UK National Curriculum learning objectives covered, the learning outcomes, skills being taught, and learning attributes that the students will take from each lesson (e.g. risk-taking, confidence, collaborators). Lesson plans also include teaching activity, key questions that the teacher should try to elicit from the students, key vocabulary that may need introducing to the students beforehand and criteria for assessing student attainment (can be adopted as either AfL or AoL depending on your policy towards assessing in Humanities/ History)
Lesson 1 (ppt, lesson plan, activity worksheet): Tudor Introduction.
Students are encouraged to think about what they know about history. They are shown how events can be illustrated on visual representations and this allows them to see how one event is often the starter for another event. At this point a class timeline can be displayed.
Students are introduced to the Tudor’s history with the story of the battle of Bosworth and are set an activity to visually log the key dates and events of the Tudor family.
Lesson 2 (ppt, lesson plan, wives portraits): Wives and family.
The second lesson begins with a reminder about the previous lesson. Students are encouraged to think about marriage and how Henry VIII is famous for his wives. An animated family tree is shown and the students are challenged to independently research a character from the studied timeline. Extension material is provided for this lesson.
Lesson 3 (ppt, lesson plan, Henry VIII profile, website list): Compare Henrys.
Starts with a review of the previous lesson and the students are reminded about Henry VII and Henry VIII. From there the students are required to research Henry VIII using a variety of resources and present their findings to the class. The plenary exercise explores the differences between some aspects that the students would have discovered. Finally a link is provided to a well-known television rendition of Henry VIII’s life.
Lesson 4 (ppt, lesson plan, Mary facts): Queen Mary I.
From the previous lesson ‘refresher’ the students are reminded about the Tudor timeline and family tree and find the place of Mary I. Students are encouraged to generate and record questions as part of this fun, student-led lesson’s activity.
Lesson 5 (ppt, lesson plan): Tudor Exploration.
Review of previous lesson.
I created this resource when I realised that several of my students struggled to infer when reading.
This is an independent activity in my Guided Reading carousel. Some minor input from me on the difference between comprehending and inferring was all the children needed before getting started. I encourage the students to find more ‘infer’ answers than ‘comprehended’ answers.
What I love about this activity is that it has allowed my students to develop their inferential skills when reading worded texts, as well as analysing pictures. The absence of words means it is ideal for numerous reading abilities.
This reading inferential resource contains 25 activities.
This is great as part of a Guided Reading session or carousel of activities, it could also be used as a lesson starter, morning activity or library session activity.
Billionaire Boy Book Study
This David Walliams’ book is great to use for group reading, guided reading, book study sessions. 124 pages of almost 100 reading comprehension activities.
Inspired in the classroom, I created this PowerPoint to provide my students with opportunities to explore every chapter. Each chapter’s activities includes vocabulary and summarising activities, as well as a range of predicting, inferring, retrieving, creative writing and short drama activities.
I have also updated a PDF version of the slides in this file.
Book study activities for ‘Toro! Toro!’ by Michael Morpurgo. This comprehensive book study contains more than 20 creative writing, drama, visible thinking and discussion activities.
Ideal for an English class book study or Book Week activities.
This book study has also been delivered during online learning as guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. The book study comes in both ppt and pdf files.
Similar book study resources:
The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610
Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992
Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960
Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies)
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430
Reflections and Translations assessment is ideal for Key Stage 2 assessment of learning or reflection and translation SATS practise.
Can also be used as an assessment for learning/ pre-assessment reflections and translations tool.
This reflections and translations test paper comes with marking scheme and question objectives:
Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left / right and up / down (+/- y/x)
Identify and solve problems involving rotations, reflections and translations
Identify the position of a shape following a reflection or translation
Describe position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed
Describe position using coordinates in all four quadrants
Draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes
Predict missing coordinates of quadrilaterals by using the properties of shapes
You may also like:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/numbers-colours-shapes-classroom-objects-flashcards-11477401
Key Stage 2 reflections and translations
Ideal for both KS1 and KS2 (the Thinking Activities are also useful KS3 study aids and exam preparation material) the Earth Day activity bundle provides you with everything you with resources for a whole week's worth of fun and learning.
This Earth Day bundle includes:
'I can...' statements (14 cards 'I can...' cards with printable wall chart, additional editable templates so you can add/ change your own ideas) - suitable for KS1 & KS2
Sustainable student activities (Thinking Cards and Self-Organised Learning) - suitable for upper KS2 & KS3
Earth Day Bingo (The difficulty of the games ranges from: the reading of key words and showing of flash card illustrations (younger students) through to the reading of scientific and geographic terminology and definitions (older students).
Bingo game cards range for 9 boxes to 16 boxes.
For the older students to requirements of the game can be:
recognition of key words from definition (easier game) or
recognition of definitions from key words (harder game)) - suitable all age groups
Earth Day Bookmarks - suitable all age groups
Earth Day Pledge (encourage your pupils to set personal goals and make pledges during the week) - suitable all age groups
Earth Week Daily Targets (setting targets is a great way to start the week with your class or form) - suitable all age groups
Forward Thinking 5 Activities - suitable upper KS2 & KS3
Gardening Activities x6 - suitable KS1 & KS2
Acrostic Poems - suitable KS1 & KS2
Earth Day Wordsearch (x4 differentiated) - levels of difficulty appropriate for KS1, 2 & 3
Earth Day Certificates (in ppt format for easy edit) - suitable all age groups
Earth Week Diary - suitable all age groups
This comprehensive Earth Day/ Earth Week activity pack comprises of 11 beautifully presented and thought-provoking sustainable-themed activities and an editable set of class Earth Day certificates.
The differentiated activities mean this bundle is a suitable Earth Day activity for all age ranges.
Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching.
Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons.
The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform.
Betsy Byars’ Midnight Fox Book Study is ideal as a unit of work when the students are reading the fantastic book and as a Book Week case study. The pages of this presentation are dedicated to chapters of the book so you can have visuals on the board as the students read along, followed by clear thinking exercises and instructions for writing, drawing and group work activities.
The download includes both Active Inspire and PDF versions. Each version contains 15 activities over 29 pages.
Similar book study resources:
The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610
Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992
Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960
Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies)
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430
Peer review is an excellent end of lesson plenary activity for writing lessons.
In my class I have these posters doubled-sided-printed and laminated and readily available around the room as well as featuring on my English display board.
The first two students to have adequately finished their work then peer review each others' by offering a compliment, suggestion and correction. Having completed the activity a couple of times the students really understand what makes constructive feedback (the guidance also helps with this).
A great writing plenary.
5 complete lessons on the Ancient Greek civilization.
1. Locate Greece
2. Understand and order dates
3. City states and democracy
4. City state research
5. Retelling myths
Lessons include: detailed lesson plan (introduction, activity, plenary, learning expectations, key vocabulary and questions, skills being taught and learning objectives) a PowerPoint presentation, activity resources, Greek myths.
This unit of work was made to be taught following the guidelines of the UK National Curriculum for Geography and History. It can also be modified to suit other learning outcomes.
Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching.
Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons.
The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform.
An excellent multi-skilled approached to studying a classic children’s text, this book study provides activities for the exploration and development of key and supplementary reading skills:
Predicting
Comprehending
Inferring
Summarising
Creative Writing
Drawing
Drama
Ideal as a book week book study. Slides can be followed as a book study lesson plan.
This book study contains over 30 activities in pdf and Powerpoint formats - allowing for easy amendment to the activities.
Ideal as a Iron Man Key Stage 2 book study - I have used this resource with Year 3, 4 and 5 students/ 7, 8, 9 and 10-year olds.
Similar book study resources:
Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992
Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685
Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960
Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies)
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430
Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching.
Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons.
The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform.
Ideal for Book Week or when reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr as a class.
This comprehensive book study contains more than 20 creative writing, drama, poetry, drawing and discussion activities.
This resource will work in English class as a lesson strand or as a stand-alone book study.
Book Week lesson plan.
Book Week activities.
Similar book study resources:
Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992
Billionaire Boy (David Walliams) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/billionaire-boy-book-study-12323752
The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610
Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685