Short and sweet intro to fairy tales - excellent to use to introduce the topic. Have children guess the name of the 5 fairy tales before answers revealed. Good to start discussions about fairy tales - especially when teaching children from overseas who often have their own versions of or endings to famous fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood.

A great song from the legend that is Nina Simone. This could be used as a simple listening activity, ideal for music class or practising English listening skills. This comes with an answer sheet for your convenience. The themes covered in the song - racial prejudice, the fight for racial equality, US history, the civil rights movement, the change in language, etc - mean it would be a greater starter to deeper discussions. #blackhistory #civilrights #genderequality #racism #racialequality #socialjustice #blm

One of the most powerful protest songs ever written! More remarkable that Nina wrote this in barely an hour! A great listening activity on its own before leading into deeper discussions about: Social justice Prejudice Discrimination Racism Civil rights US history Protest songs The power of music/words #socialjustice #blackhistory #civilrights #protest

A simple website research/inquiring challenge - students use the Ducksters website to help answer the questions. First I introduced the topic of the Industrial Revolution (Our unit of study is on Technology so I felt this is an era of history that needs to be taught as it changed our World). I had my class (Grade 3) do this using one Chrome book between 2 but it would work just as well as an individual research activity. The questions were written to not only improve reading skills, but also encourage some deeper thinking of the impact of this significant era in history.

A great maths resource that includes 10 different challenges/lessons based on exploring our world. Students get to learn about our World while practicing maths skills including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, number, negative numbers, calculating averages and data handling. Special lessons/challenges include work on the continents of the World, famous explorers, the World’s highest mountains, the World’s largest lakes, the World’s longest rivers, the whales of Antarctica, Africa’s deadliest animals and even a lesson on the creature with the most painful sting - the bullet ant! The resource includes several videos to accompany some of the lessons.

This is a complete play/show I wrote from scratch that could be used for an assembly or end of year stage performance. It connects the themes of Earth and the Solar System/Space with the performing arts and includes an originally written song based on Nina Simone’s - Ain’t Got No. I have made a video with lyrics and the karaoke version of the song to make it easier for the children to learn. The moral of the play is about being ‘yourself’. It is therefore as much about social and emotional health as science. My children performed it last summer and it got rave reviews - to quote the head of school - “It was the best assembly I’ve seen in my decade as a school head”. The children made the roles their own and added a lot of the ideas during class discussions (e.g. using a hula hoop for Saturn, or doing a cartwheel for Uranus). For the song, the children also improvised the actions for the different lyrics - again this was a big part of the learning (we were doing a performing arts unit so working on improvising moves to words/choreography was part of this). While my students were Grade 3 (8-9), this play would definitely work with older children too. After all, the play is just the idea - it is the actors that bring it to life and make it their own!

Simple maths lesson used when learning about mountaineering as part of my PYP Unit on Exploration. The questions challenge all and include questions that practice many different maths skills: Comparison and ordering of 4-digit numbers Adding two 4-digit numbers together Adding five 2-digit numbers together Subtracting 4-digit numbers from one another Finding averages (using a calculator) As an extension I had the children round numbers to the nearest 100m and 1000m.