Here it is! The OFFICIAL activity pack released by Angela Maiers (www.angelamaiers.com) who helped launch Genius Hour! Genius Hour, is based on Google's 20% policy and gives students designated time to work on their own Passion Projects, exploring and investigating topics that fascinate them. Albert Einstein said, "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge," When you launch Genius Hour in your classroom, you'll see just that! In this packet, you'll find everything you need to implement Genius Hour in your own classroom: - Parent Letter - Student Introduction Pages - Brainstorming Worksheet - Project Proposal - Genius Notebook Cover - Passion Project Cover - Note-taking Sheet - Daily Reflection Page - Resource Recording Sheet - Student Conferencing Page - Presentation Invitations - Einstein Quote

Here it is! The OFFICIAL activity pack released by Angela Maiers (www.angelamaiers.com) who helped launch Genius Hour! Genius Hour, is based on Google's 20% policy and gives students designated time to work on their own Passion Projects, exploring and investigating topics that fascinate them. Tired of hearing, "Fine," or "Nothing," when you ask your child how her day was? Or what he learned in school? This packet of open-ended questions goes beyond, "How was your day?" and provides parents and caregivers an abundance of questions to engage children in conversation. How do they really feel about school? Who do they spend the most time with? What do they worry about? Keep the lines of communication open.

#ukedchat session '124 – Could Google’s 20% project/self-directed time work in schools and how could we support it?' on Thursday 15th November 2012 hosted by Martin Burrett (@ICTmagic). Join #ukedchat each Thursday evening between 8-9pm to discuss the latest educational issues via twitter. See live at http://tweetchat.com/room/ukedchat Information and details at www.ukedchat.com

Discounts - What's My Discount? Percentage Worksheet. Real world math finding percentages. Using their knowledge of percents, students figure out how much they would have to pay for various items if a furniture store was having a percent off sale. This is practice for a real world situation that they can relate to. Useful for test preparation. Key included.

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Mat to encourage year 9 beginners to speak from day 1. Is designed to be folded to A5 for cheaper laminating ;-)

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

Halloween word problems including percentages, range, mode, median, multiplication and fractions. With scary pictures too! This can be adapted and made easier/harder.

Students study a variety of speeches: (Braveheart's 'Freedom' speech; St Crispin's Day speech from Henry V; Churchill's 'Their Finest Hour' and 'Fight on the Beaches' speeches; Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, and Sojourner Truth's 'Ain't I A Woman?') Video clips of the speeches are accompanied by full texts. Materials for differentiation ensure that students of different abilities will be able to access the work. The classroom activity is accompanied by an integral VLE homework activity that reminds students of the main learning points of the scheme before setting a homework task. Contents: (Full 5-7 lesson scheme of work, resources and lesson plans) Classroom presentations 7 page workbook Differentiation materials VLE presentation Homework resource booklet Lesson plans All images free to use commercially.

Everything you need for a lesson (or two) on creating, reading and interpreting histograms. Starter activity on PowerPoint on finding the areas of rectangles drawn on a co-ordinate grid, and finding missing lengths; a presentation in PowerPoint on creating, reading and interpreting a histogram with three examples, with equal class intervals and unequal class intervals; learner activities, with questions in Word or PDF; a plenary presentation in PowerPoint to check learning; and a lesson plan to make the whole thing complete. Suitable for high achievers at KS3, or Higher Tier at GCSE now and for the 2015 specs. Can be uploaded to a VLE for the learners to follow themselves.

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 earth.google.com. Activities require minimum teacher direction and provide maximum learning for the student. _______________________________________________________ Contents: • 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 50 plus pages 3 weeks duration

How to Write a Research Report - 6 Steps to Writing a Research Report Poster and Handout. Desribes the basic steps of how to write a research paper. This handout introduces students to writing a research report, and is a useful reference sheet for writing notebooks. The poster can be printed out and hung in your writing center as a reminder of the writing process. The six steps to writing a research report are explained in simple terms, from prewriting to publishing. Students can apply this writing process information to writing their own research report. Also includes step by step report drafting pages, a research paper rubric, a peer review sheet, and a sample research paper for students to see how one is written. Research is a key skill in the common core state standards. Students can keep this handy in their notebooks for a quick reference. Note - some of these items may be difficult for 3 grade, but there are still some useful items in the packet which may be helpful for that level - HappyEdugator

Another y11 lesson with the AQA syllabus. I also have the starter video but it takes too long to upload onto TES. Email me @ gemma_since82@hotmail.com if you require it.

MASSIVE UPDATE APRIL 2019 I have added a massive amount of content to this resource. Newspaper Articles, worksheets a great pack of resources. Ideally suited and adaptable for years 3-5. -Includes a Powerpoint on ‘Headlines’ that gained outstanding in an observation, with lesson plan -Weekly Unit plan -Additional worksheets As a bonus I have included a Newspaper article and comprehension I wrote based on ‘Back to the Future.’

Stand alone lesson (part of series also available for download individually or as a set at reduced price). This lesson uses ‘Marathon’ as a hook and shares various facts about Greek warfare with the Persians, with links and leads on to the task - writing a news report about the Battle of Marathon. Includes a lesson plan and a notebook file for leading the pupils through the learning. The whole series is tested and written by an experienced teacher with experience of leading teaching and learning in numerous schools, as an advisor and judged outstanding over many years. Still a practicing classroom teacher! :) Sharing resources to help reduce planning time for those who still want good quality resources that support the New Curriculum, literacy skills and all levels of learners.

A two week maths unit for Year 2 covering shape & symmetry. The unit of work includes high quality planning, differentiated resources and smart notebook files.

Summarizing is one of the key Reading Comprehension and Writing Strategies. If students can use the summarizing strategies of identifying keywords, recognizing the big idea and then writing a summary of what they have read, then that enables you to see how well the student comprehends the written text. This is an important research strategy as well, so at the same time you will be teaching your students valuable research skills. This activity pack is designed to help students to make sense of the summarizing strategy through informative posters and interesting activities. The Summarizing Reading Strategy Activity pack can be printed out, posters and some of the worksheets can be laminated, and worksheets printed and shared with students. As an added bonus, teachers and students who have (Google Apps for Education) Google accounts can click on the shared links and use the worksheets and Graphic Organizers in Google Slides.

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. 28 pages

This 56 minute documentary on Netflix is the best thing I have seen this year for either a Spanish or Social Studies. 4 college students spend 56 days in a remote Guatemalan village on 1 dollar a day budget, while exploring effects of living in extreme poverty and some innovative solutions people have come up with to survive. Excellent for any Spanish class where you have been studying immigration and reasons people leave their home countries to risk their lives traveling to the US, or for a Social Studies class looking at underdeveloped countries and what it means to live in extreme poverty. My students loved this film bc it was created by four college students and used their observations and connections as narrative between interviews with people in the village. (Interviews are in Spanish with subtitles, narrative in English. ) Suitable for any level middle, high school, available on Netflix, this film was such a gem you will want to own a copy. Movie guide contains 29 questions.

This resources is tailored to teach people of any age group some pivotal principles in preparing for an academic excellent of any sort. Key things to take note of and guides in anticipating and answering questions.

Covers every topic in C1. These google forms are designed to allow you to either print or mail direct to you students and they can self assess what they know against the required specification. When completed either within the email or in an internet browser (works perfectly on mobile devices) the evaluation from the class is sent directly back to you where a breakdown of the responses is built into the form. (responses - summary of responses). **UPDATE** Google form versions can be accessed through the word document. Each form only takes pupils a few minutes to fill out and are much quicker than traditional Red/amber/green self assessments. Ideally complete after the lesson is taught, at the beginning of any revision period and at the end of a revision session.