TES links 16 December 2011
TES 16 December 2011
Links to resources, events, reviews and forum posts featured in TES this week
For your ease of use, all the links to items featured in the Resources section of the magazine are now accessible from this web page. Either use the links below to access subject areas or scroll down the page.
- Hanukah (page 36)
- Maths (page 38)
- English (page 38)
- Science (page 40)
- Geography (page 40)
- ICT/ Arts (page 41)
- Modern Foreign Languages (page 41)
Hanukah
20 - 28 December
For fun Hanukah classroom activities
- Judaism - Hannukah from allenk
- Hannukah assembly from Gboorman
- Lights and celebrations from Janeyrobbo
- Or encourage pupils to visit the recently reopened Jewish Museum, London where they can participate in free Hanukah lantern workshops whilst learning about Jewish culture.
12 Games for Christmas - Free for TES members
Maths
My Dream lesson
What else?
- Introducing timetables - Craig Barton's students may have budgeted well, but what if they couldn't understand timetables? Tomwatt20's PowerPoint game introduces this topic.
- Money sense for schools - NatWest's "Money Sense for Schools" is a free resource for developing budgets and understanding finance.
- Money and time Try CIMT's"Money and Time" resource collection for worksheets, lesson plans and activities covering travel, currency, time zones and timetables
See what the TES Community have to say
- In the maths forums teachers ask 'what's the protocol on correcting a colleague's maths?' and debate the plan to ban calculators in primary.
Science
Scientific questions
What else?
- For more on the ice spikes experience check out James Williams' website
- Investigating Snow – from stap1987
- Explore the causes and effects of Climate Change in the TES environmental collection.
Recommended
- Water Cycle from Wordy William
See what the TES Community have to say
- A teacher asks " what would you have in your ideal science lab?" in the science forum, while another is looking for inspirational quotes about science that they can use as classroom displays.
English
Victorian times
See what the TES Community have to say
- Hot topics in the English forum include a debate about whether everyone really needs an English Lit GCSE and one teacher's dismay at the lack of basic punctuation skills in year 10
What else?
- Handwriting/ Motor control skills from trogfoot's - Make sure those letters to Santa are clear.
- Look back at festive Victorian England, whilst developing student's writing with TES English's Christmas Carol booklet
- Martin Rosen's lively Teacher's TV introduction to Dickens.
- The Charles Dicken's museum
- Charles Dickens resources
Modern Foreign Languages
Paris
What else?
- Amelie Poulain workbook - Explore the magical, romanticism of Paris through Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001).
- Future holidays - Practice future tense by talking about holiday plans from klembo
- Activity to practice the future tense from mathildesavary
- Cut and Match Past and Future Holidays from slaughtj
- Learner talk scheme - Spanish from Rhawkes
See what the TES Community have to say
- Join the discussion on behaviour management in MFL – do you tell pupils off in the language you're teaching.
- Can you offer any advice to a teacher dealing with a lethargic year 11 class?
ICT / ARTS
Dreaming of a personalised future…..
- Films for learning - is a file-sharing website for teachers who can upload and download films created for learning.
- For more resources on control, computing and programming to try with your pupils visit the Virtual Worlds - from Mike Adams
- 5 step guide to making films for learning in school
See what the TES Community have to say
- How can I-Pads be used as learning tools. Share your ideas on the TES forums.
- Teachers are debating the best programming language to use to teach their pupils
- Chat around the need to reform the way ICT is taught.
Previous TES links
Featured links from previous editions
- TES 16 September
- TES 23 September
- TES 30 September
- TES 7 October
- TES 14 October
- TES 21 October
- TES 28 October
- TES 4 November
- TES 11 November
- TES 18 November
- TES 25 November
- TES 2 December
- TES 9 December
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Geography
- You can't leave year 6 on a desert island for 2 weeks, but try Teacher's TV 'On Location' resources for lesson ideas on orienteering, map skills in your local area.
History
- How have global populations changed? Try the TES Movement and Settlement collection for a range of history resources
RE
- Leading a small community on a desert island is one thing, but what about leading a global religion? Explore the challenges faced by the Pope in CAFOD'S Pope for a day resource pack.
Find fun and games and seasonal assemblies in the TES Christmas collection
