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!

Blogging is very much a part of students’ lives in this day and age. Use this to your advantage to engage them further in your lessons, by getting them to write information on any topic using these awesome and realistic looking blog templates! In this pack you will get 2 blog planning iPad/tablets: one to plan designing their blog, and another to plan their blog post. You will also get 3 blog templates on a computer monitor, one with headings, one with just guidelines and one completely blank for maximum creativity potential! Your students will really enjoy planning and writing their own blog posts on any topic with these. These will work for any class and any subject and they are so simple to use. Use them for cover lessons, homework or classwork! These would look fantastic on display boards too. Your students will definitely think you are the most awesome teacher ever when you pull these out in your lesson! Get yours now!

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.

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!

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.

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!)

Loony Laws: A Year’s supply of weekly weird laws from around the world! Whether you are teaching about laws or just want something fun to start/end your lessons with, this resource is guaranteed to give you and your students a laugh! You’d be amazed at the weird, dumb and strange laws there are around the world and your students will love learning these new weird and wonderful facts! They are encouraged to reflect on why they think these laws came to pass in the first place as the answers are NOT included! I did try and find the origins but some are just a mystery it seems! Some are so bizarre, it is bound to stir up some creative writing and class discussions! This resource includes over 40 different laughable laws and can be shown on the whiteboard, enough for one a week (Weird Wednesdays, maybe?!) for a whole school year! Enjoy bringing some laughter and learning into your room with these weird and wonderful laws from around the world!

Christmas Colouring Pages: fun and relaxing for teens! These Christmas colouring pages are a relaxing and fun resource for your students to colour and maybe even decorate the classroom with for the Christmas season! They work well for tutor time or early finishers. You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do for young peoples’ well-being just by giving them some time to colour for a while – no matter what their age, it is something that is very therapeutic and inspiring. There are 6 different Christmas colouring pages to choose from. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also white space available for students to add their own doodles too if they choose! So give your students the opportunity to relax and have fun decorating their classroom or lockers etc. with these unique Christmas quotes colouring pages!

This values unit on Respect is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our students are able to show respect towards others to develop strong relationships and a positive reputation. This would be especially useful to use as a one-off lesson or top up reminder if you are finding your class are starting to lack respect, perhaps towards one another or even to staff. Product includes: • 18 slides of Respect PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed! • 9 pages of Respect 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! They are in a PowerPoint format so they can easily be converted to Google Slides for paperless activities if preferred. • 24 unique discussion cards to develop speaking and listening skills. Your students will learn: • how to define respect • how to analyse their own and others' level of respect • where they might need to demonstrate respect • signs of being respectful • signs of being disrespectful • what can affect respect • self-awareness of their own respect • actionable steps to build respect 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 respect and effective skills on how to show respect towards others and the impact this has on their relationships and reputation. 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 wall displays etc. You will also find a set of discussion task cards to spark conversation and thoughts on respect: 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' respect and encourage them to be all that you know they can be! Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills, Tutor Time Activities and PSHE (Physical, Social, Health, Education) lessons.

Character Education Morning Meeting / Tutor Time Paperless Digital Whiteboard PowerPoint 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 digital whiteboard 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 PowerPoint suitable for any whiteboard, with 20 powerful quotes and 60 thought provoking discussion prompts. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required to teach it. If you choose, you can also download the Resilience Printable Journal to go with it if you also want your students to practise their writing and keep a record of their reflections. Product includes: • 20 slides of Resilience Morning Meeting PowerPoint • 60 thought provoking discussion 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, Tutor Time, Form Time, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.

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 prepare your teenage students on the skills section of their C.V. in a fun and self-reflective way? Then this PowerPoint and matching worksheet resource is for you, and will leave your students saying “those skills though…!”. (To explain the title, I like to keep my resources current to the world students are growing up in, making the title of this resource very fitting with current teen lingo!) Product includes: • 7 slide PowerPoint presentation with guided activities, both individual and peer included. • 5 attractive and self-reflective worksheets relating to the PowerPoint. This resource is great for C.V. preparation and guides students through the process of: • identifying the skills employers are looking for • which skills they currently have • evidence of where they are demonstrating the skills • what they will need to improve upon in the future for their chosen career. The worksheets work hand in hand with the PowerPoint and everything is straightforward to follow requiring no preparation from you! Give your students the best chance amongst all the competition out there for jobs in the big wide world. This will be so valuable in helping to build their CV and identifying which skills they need to develop while they are still in school – the earlier the better after all! Your students will definitely think you are the most awesome teacher ever when you pull out this resource in your lesson! Watch their reaction when you hand this out to them! “That TEACHER though…!”

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! ☺

Valentine's Day Activities for Teens This Valentine's Day Activities for teens resource pack contains fun activities for teenagers and young students, ideal for tutor time or PSHE. The worksheets are simple and fun to work through, require no preparation from you and will be sure to entertain them for the week leading up to Valentine's Day! You can select which activities you would like students to complete, or you can offer them the independence to choose their own in class or for homework. Encourage your students to think about those they care about (family, friends, partners or even pets!) and reflect on how they can show love in creative and loving ways whilst developing their literacy skills! Product includes: • Love Poem • Build-a-Love-Bear • Show Them You Care • The Perfect Date • Acrostic Love Poem • Valentine's Day Word Search (and answers) • The Language of Love (in different languages!) Your students are bound to enjoy these creative Valentine's Day themed activities which will stretch their imaginations whilst having fun! These will work really well with the new Valentine's Colouring Pages for teens which have quotes all about love and friendship: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/valentine-s-day-colouring-pages-11195344

This values unit on Tolerance is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our students are taught how to be tolerant towards others so that they can not only learn to live harmoniously with others but so that our differences can be celebrated! Product includes: • 16 slides of Tolerance PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed! • 9 pages of Tolerance Printables - graphic organizers 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! They are in a PowerPoint format so they can easily be converted to Google Slides for paperless activities if preferred. • 24 unique discussion cards to develop speaking and listening skills. Your students will learn: • how to define tolerance • how to analyse their own and others' tolerance • where they might need to demonstrate tolerance • signs of tolerance • signs of intolerance • what can affect tolerance • self-awareness of their own tolerance • actionable steps to develop tolerance 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 tolerance and effective skills on how to be tolerant towards others. 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 organizers which are supplementary to the PowerPoint: they’re not a requirement, but 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 tolerance: 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' tolerance and encourage them to be all that you know they can be! Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Tutor Time Activities, Life skills and PSHE (Physical, Social, Health, Education) lessons.

Make it your mission this year to take your life back with this well-being journal. Use for yourself or issue to your students to help them keep a journal of their life so they can reflect as well as set targets and track their progress to build positive habits. We’re all so busy and we give so much to other people that self-care often goes on the back burner. It’s crucial we take care of our well-being as it affects the way we feel and think, the way we cope with life’s challenges and how we can make the most of our potential.​ If we neglect to make an effort to take care of our well-being we can find ourselves stressed, jaded, unfulfilled or feeling trapped. After getting overwhelmed with life as a teacher, I started to set and track my progress in habits I wanted to create, as well as journaling. It has been essential in helping me form good habits and take care of my emotional state too. By recording my journey, I have been able to spot patterns in my mood over the course of a year and I’m now able to plan ahead, manage my life effectively and look after my well-being. With this journal, you and your students can have that same control and emotional freedom! Journal includes: 70 pages Every page is hand rendered in zentangle style for mindful colouring Monthly journal pages for brief journaling Weekly journal pages for brief journaling Daily journal pages, both with prompts and plain for more detailed journaling Prompts encourage you to focus on achievement, self-care and future thoughts Daily tracker with 4 point system to monitor and review well-being each day Monthly gratitude jar keepsake to record daily joys 12 different zentangle themes for each month to add variety 4 different types of trackers: mood, sleep, exercise and one for your own habits​ Benefits: It’s so easy to get caught up in day to day life that your well-being falls by the wayside but having somewhere to record your thoughts, feelings, memories and emotions puts these in the forefront of your mind ensuring you focus on them. Journaling has been proven to reduce physical disease symptoms and anxiety, enhance self-esteem and increase self-awareness. It can improve your self love and help you become really in tune with your own thoughts and emotions. Writing engages both the left and right side of the brain, enhancing problem solving capabilities. When you journal, you can go back and identify patterns to help you in the future as well as identify areas of personal growth to help you celebrate your successes. Overall, promotes well-being by allowing you to monitor your mental, physical and emotional wellness.

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!

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!

Back to school time is a great opportunity to encourage students to begin the new school year on the right foot. If you want some fun and quality back to school activities to use with your tutor groups or new classes, that they will enjoy and relate to on the first days of school, then this is the resource for you! It comes with attractive, enjoyable and creative activities that will last for weeks at the beginning of the year at school! This resource will encourage students to reflect over their summer in a fun and engaging way and get them look ahead to the beginning of the year and set goals and plan their time effectively. 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. Simply pick and choose some or all of the activities for your classes, or even set some for homework if you like!

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