I have to be honest, this is my favourite lesson in my shop. I have taught it numerous times and it has always been fun for pupils and staff! This lesson allows pupils to help the Captain get as much treasure as possible to the ship by designing a boat which will hold lots of gold (or marbles to you and I). Once you’ve explained the task, pupils draw designs for a new, weight bearing boat and explain how they’re going to test the boat to show the Captain (the teacher) how good their design is. After that, they build their model out of plasticine, test their boats in water and record the results. The winning team always gets treasure in the form of golden chocolate coins!

This full resourced lesson describes to younger pupils what the 2017 general election is they can understand. It introduces them to key vocabulary such as ‘voting’, ‘Member of Parliament’, ‘House of Commons’ and ‘ballot box’. All you need to do is slice up 30 pieces of paper and a cardboard box for your class to use to vote! During this interactive lesson, pupils will learn how people vote, who they vote for and what MPs do. They then vote for a class MP / student councillor to give voting a try themselves!

This resource can be found for a cheaper price at https://lessonplanned.co.uk/downloads/week-fully-resourced-literacy-lessons-greek-myths-uks2/ This week of Literacy lessons focuses on developing children's understanding of Greek myths and gives them an opportunity to write a description of their own mythological creature. All of the classes who have been taught this week of Literacy have really enjoyed it, especially the boys! Day 1: Reading and analysing examples of Greek myths. Day 2: Creating word banks to describe mythological creatures. Day 3: Using expanded noun phrases to describe mythological creatures. Day 4: Creating and planning their own mythological creature (with a bit of drawing included to keep them interested). Day 5: Children write a written description of their mythical creatures using the skills taught during the week. Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

This week of Literacy focuses on writing persuasive letters. It includes an opportunity to read good examples, look at the skills involved in writing persuasive letters, planning the letter and an opportunity to write one. Five, fully resourced lessons all for under £1 a lesson! Day 1: Reading good examples of persuasive letters and looking at the features of persuasive writing. Day 2: Skills lesson focusing on using strong sentence openers. Day 3: Lesson about Fair Trade to generate an argument for buying Fair Trade produce. This lesson includes information about Fair Trade for pupils to record and discuss - all the research has been done for you! Day 4: Planning their persuasive letter on differentiated planning grids. Day 5: An opportunity to go through a good example of a persuasive letter on the board to remind children of the success criteria and a chance for the class to write their own persuasive letters to the headteacher.

This is the second lesson of two which enables children to design and make their own packaging for a product. My classes designed packaging for their chocolate products but it is very easy to adapt these lessons for a different product. Needless to say, my classes really enjoyed making the packaging and got to recap nets for 3D shapes at the same time! I've included links in the planning which take you to the paper resources to save you having to find them. Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.

This lesson introduces pupils to using nets to create packages for food products. This pack includes the lesson plan and notebook slides. I have also included a link in the planning to the website where I found the paper resources to save you creating your own. In the next lesson, we used the net templates to create boxes for our own brand of chocolate bar. This can be found under 'Food Packaging Lesson 2' in my shop. My classes really enjoyed these lessons and I'm sure yours will too! Do you want more great resources which save you precious time? Visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Klein100 to find more high-quality lessons.