This writing activity is a final piece of work after children have researched and read about children from the past. Excellent for assessment.

This is an ideal way to mark student written work at the Year 3-6 level. Can be placed in student portfolio. Follows English curriculum standards and has been used in an international school setting.

Various versions of the Three Little Pigs to use for Literacy.

This is one sheet with all subtraction and addition facts on one page. Great for partner revision and a handy thing for students to take home and have parents practice.

A basic plan that can be used with all SEN students.

Students are individually given seeds to plant. Students plant their seeds in sand, others in sand and dirt, dirt or pebbles. Some plants are watered once a week, some two times a week, or everyday; the exact same amount. Each student can keep another plant with the same conditions but change the amount of sunlight they get. For example, some in a cupboard with no sun, some in the middle of the class and others by the window, with lots of sun.

This is a class activity where we compared the basic bird's eye views from the unit: globe, map, sattelite photo and aerial photo. You could have students first do this activity in groups and then bring ideas together as a group. Students decided that ideas that were the same should be written near the centre where the lines joined.

A way to organise pictures, photos and postcards of homes you and children have collected and divide them into groups.

From the IPC unit, Active Earth. Students are given information about what a seismograph is and then in partners, groups or own their own; make own. It is important to collect recycled materials well in advance to do this activity and make sure to have glue or a hot glue gun that you can glue their pieces togther for them...

Lesson plan explains the lesson. Ticket agent tickets are also needed. Ticket agent wears hat. You can roll dice or simply give them the questions as you go along. Students subtract from 5 or 10 to get to the circus tent. Used as a review/ group work with a lesson where the Ticket Agent hands out tickets and student must decide how many more they need. I lamintaed one game to 5 and another to 10 on the other side. Student need a dice to 5 or 10 and counters to play.

Children can draw about their favourite fairy tale and summarise the plot.

Pictures, photos and drawings of early homes made by hunters and gathers, as well as historical homes to help with the HABITATS unit in the IPC.

I use this with EAL students currently but these are the CVC words that children learn in Canada when they first start to read.

Facts about sunflowers to place along side sunflower pictures and/or collage sunflowers children have made. Part of IPC Food and Farming unit.

Students are given various pictures from houses from around the world and then are asked to compare them. You can also look here to find some: http://www.shelterpub.com/_wonderful_houses/WH_p2-5.html

A sheet to help students organise what they have seen after having a walk around the school. They first have to walk around and look with magnifying glasses to find different creatures and habitats that they live in. Then they come back to the class, write them out and then make a map of where they found them in the school yard.

A planning sheet and investigation sheet to go a insulating design activity. Students first plan how they will make an insulator, then collect materials from home (or from ones collected by teacher). The next session, they create their insulator and test its abiliaty to keep an ice cube from melting. Hot water could also be used and a thermometer but is potentially a hazard if someone would spill it. Excellent end of topic HABITATS assessment.

A graphic organiser to be used by whole class, groups, partners or individuals to collect information about a habiait. Books, atlases, internet and pictures can be used.

This is an overall assessment of vocabulary and concepts presented in the unit. On the first page, I had an Escher black and white artwork pasted on the quiz to ask for children to describe. You could any artwork or photo and that is why I have left it blank!

A simple self-assessment for students to fill after completing the unit. The bottom of the second sheet, can be changed as to what actvities you may done with the students, that they need to evalaute.

One student gives their opinion and ideas about a piece of art that the teacher or children have chosen. The children then exchange papers with a partner and write their opinion of the same artwork. Children are asked not to read what their partner has written before writing. Questuion to help chuldren include: What do I see? feel? think about the piece of artwork? Do I like it or not and why or why not?