Black History Month: Research Activities for Teens Are you looking for some fun independent research activities for your students to do when learning about Black History? This resource is really easy to use in your classroom – there are 16 printable worksheets which have the name and picture of some of the heroes of Black History: some are well-known and others are unsung heroes. Students can then undertake their own research (at home or in lessons) to find out more about these people, and then reflect on why they think they are so inspirational and have made such a positive impact on Black History. There is also a blank version at the end for students to research their own hero! Resource includes: • Martin Luther King Jr. • Frederick Douglass • Harriet Tubman • Mary Seacole • George Washington Carver • Booker T. Washington • Rosa Parks • Muhammad Ali • Malcolm X • William H. Hastie • Maya Angelou • Thurgood Marshall • Nelson Mandela • James Meredith • Ruby Bridges • Elijah McCoy This is great way for students to do some background research on some of the heroes that have shaped Black History and can be completed at home or during a lesson - there are plenty to choose from! These worksheets would also look great displayed on a wall display or stapled into a booklet for students to keep!

Emoji Exit Tickets - Editable! We are living in an ‘emoji generation’ where emoticons have actually become a language used worldwide, especially by young people! What better than to bring emojis into your classroom and allow students to communicate through these adorable expression filled pictures (hand drawn by me)! These ‘Emoji Exit Tickets’ are a great way for students to summarise what they have learnt during your lesson in a fun and relatable way! They also provide you with great feedback to assess student progression and understanding. I have also included self-reflection activities on skills, group work and effort within lessons as well! There are 9 different exit tickets in total. On each page you will get 2 exit tickets and they come in both colour and black and white for your convenience. I have now also included a separate pack of editable exit tickets too! I believe your students will definitely think you are the most awesome teacher ever when you pull these out in your lesson! ☺

Design your own visually appealing seating plan! Frustrated by the dull look of seating plans and uninspired shapes we have to work with, I decided to make my own “build your own interactive seating plan” that is realistic, very cute and can be customised to ANY classroom! I have created a range of unique clip art of different classroom furniture as seen from a bird’s eye view so that you can move and resize any image to suit your classroom layout! If there are any furniture pieces you would like me to include in this set, email me at teachersresourceforce@yahoo.com and I may just toss them in the set for free! :D Check out the preview to see more detail of what is included! You will really enjoy making your own very cute seating plan for your classroom, and as it is on a PowerPoint you can move the furniture and students’ names around effortlessly, perfect for a quick change! You could even have it displayed on the whiteboard to show your class so they know where to sit when you introduce a new seating chart or to give to a supply teacher so your students can’t get one up on them (you know they’re gonna try…!) Images include: • High school single desk • Chair • Stool • Swivel chair • Double desk • Semi circle desk • Round desk • Square desk • Rug / carpet • Teacher’s desk • Computer • Girl • Boy All images come in color and black line, 300dpi png with transparent backgrounds and closely cropped: great for layering and enlarging whilst still remaining crisp! Seating plans are crucial for behaviour management and are excellent to show during lesson observations as they are fantastic for targeting special needs and target grades as well, which have all been considered in this interactive seating plan! So have fun making your own cute seating plans for your classroom!

This resource is a great way of getting your students excited and involved in the UEFA Euro 2016 in France this June, whilst still teaching them about different cultures and developing their literacy skills - perfect for your tutor group or PSHE lessons! I have designed this resource with an attractive Wall Chart to display in your classroom where your students can get really excited about the matches and record scores as they happen and even win prizes! Full details are included in the pack. The activities included make great end of year tasks which will educate students about Geography and different cultures of the countries taking part in the games and details about famous footballers taking part in the Euro 2016, all whilst helping develop their literacy skills in researching, writing and presenting to their peers in unique and creative ways. These activities can work with a range of age groups, but they are especially superb for your teenagers! This special event only happens once every 4 years, so make sure your students remember it and get excited with the activities in this pack!

A great resource to use as an ice breaker; ideal for a new tutor group. This encourages students to get up and about communicating with others to extract information and find things in common, breaking the ice and begin bonding with one another! Find more here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/getting-to-know-you-ice-breakers-11095014

This resource pack contains everything you need to help break the ice with your students. This would be ideal for any new class whether they are just new to you or even new to each other! Although it is great for the start of the academic year, many of us deal with casual admissions and students who join late in the year. These resources will be great for helping you get to know them better and for them to integrate into the group. You will find physical activities to get them up and about, moving and talking to one another and finding things in common, helping the group to improve their social skills in talking, bonding and making new friends. Enjoy getting your group of students to begin bonding and making friends!

So, you’re sick? Off on a course? Out on a school trip? Or maybe you are the supply teacher and no cover work has been set, or the students finish the work far too early. Either way, there is always the hassle of setting inspiring cover work to keep the students on task and interested while still making the lesson worthwhile. Fear not, as in this quality, compelling resource there are over 50 lesson ideas that can conveniently be used for any subject; the best part is, they don’t need any preparation on your part! Included are extra black line worksheets (ideal for saving you money on printing) to accompany the lesson plans if you want to use them, with clear step by step directions for what students need to do on each. Product Includes over 50 different lesson activities including: • Creative writing • Character analysis • Comic strip • Website designing • Debating • Design own theme park • Robot designing • Superhero designing • Creating jingles • Sentence starters and endings • A day in the life of • Design own sport …and more! Remember, these activities have been uniquely designed in a way that they can be appropriate for any subject area without needing to adapt the resource! Each lesson plan actually contains a variety of different options as well, offering so many alternatives and extension ideas! They are so simple, easy and ready to use for any subject with no preparation needed. So next time you’re panicking about what to set your students, ensure you download this resource and save yourself loads of stress and time! Simply hand to the cover teacher and be on your way, no other work from you is required! Minimal preparation for maximum fun!

These days, students seem to be under so much pressure from exams and modern life, that it is crucial to teach them management techniques to give them the skills they require in order to handle stress. This resource which will encourage your students to explore all about modern stressors and how to handle stress in a healthy way. Your students will learn all about what stress is: why we need it, how we respond to it in the modern world, causes and effects, what we can control and what we can’t, and actions to help relieve stress. Students will get to role play and analyse different teen appropriate stressful scenarios. Your students will also be taught 3 different breathing exercises to control the physical signs of stress that are very powerful in stressful situations. Product includes a 23 slide PowerPoint with inbuilt activities and feedback opportunities to encourage discussion and 6 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint to demonstrate students’ understanding.

Remembrance Day: Presentation and Activities for teens! This resource includes a high quality PowerPoint presentation which can be delivered to your class/tutor group or in an assembly. There is also an activities pack which contains some no-prep required printable worksheets, ideal for teenage students to do during tutor time or in Citizenship lessons. These activities give students the opportunity to reflect on their knowledge about Remembrance Day, consider important key words to do with the day in the form of a word search and anagrams, and also get creative in designing poppy merchandise to raise more money for the Royal British Legion.

This values unit on Resilience is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our teenage students have a growth mindset and can bounce back from adversity so that they can succeed and reach their goals! Product includes: • Resilience PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed! • Resilience Printables - graphic organisers go perfectly with the PowerPoint if you want your students to record their thoughts as you discuss. There is also a fun bonus homework included! • Discussion point cards to develop speaking and listening skills. In order to ensure these important skills can be integrated into our busy timetables, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! It includes a structured PowerPoint that guides the class through discussions about resilience and effective skills on how to bounce back from challenges. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required! On top of this, the PowerPoint text is editable so you can modify the content to suit your students’ needs, should you wish. Also included are bonus graphic organisers which are supplementary to the PowerPoint: they work as a helpful tool for students to record their thoughts in an aesthetically pleasing way that can then be used for bulletin board displays etc. You will also find a set of discussion task cards to spark conversation and thoughts on resilience: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion – it is up to you! So help build your students' resilience and encourage them to be all that you know they can be! Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.

Are you looking for some gripping ways to settle your students really quickly at the start of your lesson? Here are 99 of the best riddles out there that you can use as starter activities! I have done all the hard work for you and gathered the best riddles into one neat PowerPoint that you can pull up whenever you need. These 99 riddles have passed my strict screening process to ensure they provide the right challenge and humour to suit that tough teenage market! Having these riddles all neatly packaged in this PowerPoint means no preparation or resources are required - simply pull up this document and have it ready on the board for your students when they enter the room - also great for tutor periods! These create an immediate buzz and settles the class at rapid speed! You can have students jot down their responses on personal whiteboards, on paper, or even have them discussing answers in pairs!

These exit tickets are a great way for students to summarise what they have learned during your lesson in a fun and relatable way! They also provide you with great feedback to assess student progression in your lesson. There are 6 types of tickets which come 2 on a page. Each ticket comes with clear instructions on what students need to do all based on the lesson objective. You can use these to just collect in as a snap shot to check understanding and progress, but they will also look fantastic in students’ workbooks and as keepsakes to demonstrate their learning over time! I hope you enjoy using them!

Character Education Morning Meeting / Tutor Time Printable Journal on RESILIENCE. This is 1 of a 10 part series that includes: resilience, courage, self-confidence, self-respect, tolerance, leadership, respect, empathy, honesty and compassion. I’m so glad you are looking to teach Character Education! Character development and socio-emotional skills are the critical foundation needed for our students to succeed in school and in life. This morning meeting printable journal pack is a powerful and easy way to help strengthen your core curriculum for a responsive classroom. It ensures your students get the opportunity to learn how to be resilient and never give up by repetition and deep discussion. In order to ensure Character Education can be integrated into your busy timetable, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! This resource is a structured printable journal with 20 powerful quotes and 60 thought provoking writing prompts. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required to teach it. If you choose, you can also download the Resilience Digital Whiteboard pack to go with it if you want to encourage group discussion or go paperless instead. Product includes: • 21 pages of Resilience Morning Meeting Journal • Mindful Coloring page front cover for the journal • 60 thought provoking writing prompts that go far beyond “what do you think this quote means” and instead encourage deep personal reflection on their own lives and the world. • 20 powerfully themed quotes based solely on Resilience. That’s enough for every working day of the month, allowing you to do different Character themed months all year long if you get the whole set of 10 (coming soon). So help build your students’ resilience in 5 minutes every day, and encourage them to be all that you know they can be! Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.

Do you want to educate your students about the dangers of Cyber Bullying? It is a rising problem among teenagers and young people in this age of social media, so this resource will offer your students the opportunity to consider the dangers and effects of cyber bullying by encouraging them to discuss and reflect on realistic scenarios. I have used this resource on different groups of students from year 7-10 and it has proven effective for all ages. It’s interesting that each age group has brought out its own conversations from this resource. I find it shocking how many young people (especially those below the required age of 13 to even have a social media account) are suffering from cyber bullying online and don’t yet have the skills to handle it. This resource has made a significant difference to my students and I can only hope they go on to spread the word to others! I hope that my resources save you hours and hours of time: something we always sacrifice so much of as teachers. ❤

End of Year Activities for Teens: no preparation needed, just print and go! This resource is a great way for students to wrap up, reflect on life, dream of the future and remain entertained while us teachers are using all our energy just trying to claw our way to the finish line! If you want some fun and quality activities to use with your students at tutor time that they will enjoy and relate to, then this is the resource for you! It comes with attractive, enjoyable and creative memory book style activities that will last weeks running up to the much anticipated end of the school year! This resource will encourage students to reflect on their year at school in fun and engaging ways and get them look ahead to the future too. The activities also come with quality teenage appropriate graphics which your students will love! Product includes: • My Super Memories • My Best Day • The Blues • Dear Future Me • Top Things I’ve Learned • What’s to Come • My Dream Board • What A Tune! • What A Great Book! • #ThrowbackThursday • My Proudest Moments • Autographs • Acrostic Poetry • End of School Plans • My Legacy • My Pearls of Wisdom & 4 more pages! These end of year activities can be used for a variety of age groups and abilities and require no preparation from you at all! Instructions are on each worksheet and students can be as thorough as they like depending on their ability. Simply pick and choose some or all of the activities for your classes, or even set some for homework if you like! These are not only fun to do but they make wonderful keepsakes for students to look back on when they are older - these could even be used with the same group of students each year to see how they have developed over time! Enjoy!

Performance Management: Teachers’ Standards Evidence Binder With Performance Related Pay now in full swing for teachers, it is more important than ever to document the evidence to prove that you are meeting the standard requirements which enable you to earn a pay rise, or at least remain at the top of the scale. Oftentimes during the appraisal meeting season in September, we are reflecting on our achievements from the previous academic year but it can be difficult to remember everything we have done if we rely only on our memory! It is also often confusing to know where we can find evidence to prove we have met the standards; this is why I created this resource. Tired of being less than inspired by dull blankets of text and confusing layouts of these standards, I decided to design something a little more aesthetically pleasing and easier to navigate and organise evidence with. With this 20 page binder, you can clearly see each of the standards and you have a simple and efficient system of both making quick notes and recording hard evidence of how you are meeting the standards. So get organised with your performance management and ensure you get the pay you deserve as a teacher!

Are you looking for some unique teen activities for Women’s History month? Women have invented some incredible things to make our world a better place, but so many of these are unknown! This resource highlights some of our amazing women inventors, to show our young students that anyone can achieve great things, regardless of gender. There are 2 parts to the resource: a PowerPoint presentation with information to teach them about the inventors and what inspired them to invent their products. The second part comes with worksheets that students can use to summarise their learning and reflect on the achievements of these women. Alternatively, students could also do their own research to complete these sheets for homework. These would look great on a display board or stapled into a booklet for students to keep. So go on, inspire your girls and educate your young boys on the power of women!

Classrooom Decor Pennants: Growth Mindset, Motivating and Inspiring Colouring Pages about education and learning. I’m a big advocate for colouring therapy for students and adults, and I already have quite an extensive collection of different quote colouring pages available in my store! They are wonderfully relaxing and especially effective for growth mindset as all quotes are inspirational and positive! In this unique set, you will get a selection of doodle colouring pennants to help decorate your classroom with some positive quotes about education to keep your students inspired all year long! There are 10 different colouring pennants to choose from. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also some white space available for students to add their own doodles too! So take a few minutes at the start of the year to get students in the right frame of mind by colouring in positive quotes about education, then tie string through the pennants and decorate your classroom!

Test knowledge and understanding with these Entry Tickets Your students will really enjoy reflecting on their previous learning with these entry tickets into your lesson! It also allows you to quickly assess students and find any areas where students might need further assistance. These work for any class and any subject and they are so simple to use! You will receive 2 different sized tickets for your convenience. Some come with ready made prompts for you and some are plain so you can provide your own prompts. You can use these to test their knowledge of the previous lesson or topic, recap keywords, check understanding of a homework assignment, see what questions they still have on a particular topic - or whatever else you would like to review! You can also use these entry tickets to target specific students to do individual or group work to differentiate and help them progress (see front cover of resource!)

Come November and December, it can be a tough time to keep students (and yourself!) motivated in the run up to the holiday season. If you want some fun and quality Christmas and New Year activities to use with your tutor groups that they will enjoy and relate to, then this is the resource for you! It comes with attractive, enjoyable and creative activities that will last weeks running up to the Christmas holidays and even when they return in the New Year too! This resource will encourage students to look at Christmas over the world, show kindness, reflect on the end of one year and start of another. These can be used for a variety of age groups and abilities and require no preparation from you at all. Instructions are on each worksheet and students can be as thorough as they like depending on their ability. These are fun to do and they make wonderful keepsakes for students to look back on when they are older!

Students love comics and this resource is a fun and unique set of printable comic themed emoji exit tickets that enable students to reflect on their learning in a fun and modern way! They also provide you with great feedback to assess student progression in your lesson that you can then use to plan differentiated lessons to suit their needs. There are 8 types of comic themed exit tickets all prompting something different for students to reflect on in their learning. On each page you will get 2 exit tickets and they come in both colour and black and white for your convenience. I know your students will definitely think you are the most super awesome teacher ever when you pull these out in your lesson; this is a great way of getting them excited and enthused in your lessons - plus, they look fantastic up on display in your classroom!