These slides are designed help your class understand how international initiatives like the UNCRC are enacted nationally, locally and then in their own school. Looking at Shannari and your own school values, the class should have lots of examples to draw upon when creating their own charter.
The Napier Code is a 6 lesson mathematics unit that explores patterns and sequences within number through an immersive story telling experience. It’s effectively a play on the Da Vinci Code but uses the Scottish Mathematician John Napier as the central figure in a deathly treasure hunt around Edinburghs landmarks.
Covered are:
Fibonacci Numbers
The Golden Spiral
The Number 9
Quadratic Sequences
Pascals Triangle
The Vedic Square
This is a series of 4 money lessons that link to the Global Goals (SDG 1 No Poverty). It’s a pretty hard hitting topic and will definitely be pertinent to many of your pupils (1 in 4 children in Scotland currently growing up in poverty).
Looking at coins with fun, open ended activities, the lessons centre around cost of the school day, uniform, wages, wealth inequality and budgets.
I intend to take my class through taxes and government spending, as well as enterprise activities but will look to upload those slides at a later date!
This is a four part sequence, with quick recall/check-in activities included, aimed at upper primary. Through the lens of Global Goal Number 6, clean water & sanitation, pupils will considered in some depth the challenges faced globally in accessing safe and clean water whilst also learning to identify, calculate and convert fractions and percentages.
Many of the activities are designed for pupils to lead their learning, co-constructing SC and deciding upon the ‘how’ when it comes to most methods of calculating and converting. The lessons all follow a CPA approach.
Ten sheets that I used to anchor my planning for my Wednesday Global Goal days. Hopefully act as a useful idea bank and a stimulus for creating your own immersive days in the classroom.
This is the second part of my money lessons for upper primary. through a Global Goal lens of no poverty, your pupils can calculate profit and loss with a Social Bite carousel case study. They can also ponder the power of social enterprise.
Looking at accurate wages for a variety of professions, pupils can calculate how easy/difficult it is to save money. they will also discuss why savings are important and factors that lead to inequality in our society.
Finally, there is also a lesson on tax. It uses rounded figures and smaller amounts to make things easier for primary pupils. However, there is a great deal of maths involved for developing their working knowledge of money and the ultimate goal is to show them that tax operates in bands and not in flat rates applied to a full wage (eg someone earning over 80k is taxed at the higher rate on ALL their earnings)
A quick lesson that explores mortgages and sees pupils using their knowledge of multiplication and percentages to garner an underatanding of how the property market works.
16 games for your class to enjoy that don’t require anything more than a set of cones and some enthusiasm! Games that can be played individually, in pairs, trios and even some whole class games.
I am a big advocate of the Daily Mile but in my experience it doesn’t motivate every pupil and doing it daily can become a chore as opposed to a joy. Little games like these are intense, inclusive and add a small element of competition (not that there are ever any prizes on offer) which is great for building resilience.
This is a 4 lesson unit of work that explores equations and algebra tiles through the Global Goal lens of ‘Life on Land’. The unit exposes pupils to endangered species in Scotland whilst also allowing them to learn facts about the animals through solving equations.
Very much designed to follow a CPA approach to numeracy, algebra tiles are highly recommended (if you don’t have them, just chop up lots of yellow and green paper - it’s what I have done!)
These slides are created on Keynote and can be exported from powerpoint to any apple device for pupils to manipulate and learn with all the individual pieces.
Battleships works well using the drawing tool, chess is a simple case of drag and drop (get the kids to tell the other player the grid references to help identify which pawn/bishop/knight etc)
The football slide can be adapted and used with basketball, hockey, volleyball and more.
A series of 5 lessons that explores budgeting and calculating percentage increase/decrease all whilst discussing the Global Goals:
"You now work for Breakwater Bank.
Your first client has asked you to invest £200 in a variety of companies. They are looking for you to buy shares in businesses that are looking to rapidly expand.
You must read and understand the goals of each business before deciding how many shares you will buy.
You need to calculate your expenditure, display your investments in a graph and email your client justifying your decisions"
Building on previous unit of time work linked to Global Goals 11, this is 4 lesson unit looking at buses.
Lesson 1
Pros and Cons of buses and navigating bus timetables
Lesson 2
Create a bus route and calculate how much money a bus can make
Lesson 3
Create a bus timetable from specific arrival times
Lesson 4
Calculate charging times for electric buses
These slides follow the TEAR framework as advocated by Action Jackson. The idea being that your Thoughts can change your Emotions and ultimately your Actions - which will always end with a Result.
This framework is a really useful structure for children to reflect upon when things go wrong (and when they go right too). I find myself talking with children about the emotion part - once they feel an emotion such as anger or frustration, what strategies do they have to try and take a moment, can we work together to find a strategy that might work etc
A fun IDL lesson mashing maths and PE together, where pupils consolidate their understanding of fractions whilst getting active outside or in the gym hall.
A handy activity for the start of the year, presenting pupils with the opportunity to explore their reasons for coming to school. Some short case studies of athletes who have used their platform to affect social change is followed by a discussion and reflective activity for the class to complete.
A selection of individual, pair and team activities that require nothing more than a tennis ball. I have been taking my class outside to play these for 2x20 minute sessions after break and lunch.
This is a four lesson unit of work that explores 2D shape whilst exposing children to abstract art from a diverse group of artists around the world.
Lesson one: Kandinsky and Circles - learning to use a compass and identifying properties of a circle
Lesson two: Thomas and Circles - learning about Archimedes and how to calculate the circumference
Lesson three: Malevich and regular/irregular shapes - lots of drawing and drilling down into the definitions of regular and irregular
Lesson four: Ocampo and symmetry - opportunities to practice with partners and concrete materials and exploring what symmetry and mirroring are
Each lesson follows this structure
Role Play in English
Classroom is setup into market/café/bus etc
Children develop roles and play
Identifying key phrases
Key English vocab then picked out and scribed on board
French vocab then taught and compared to English
Script Writing
(1:1 devices? Go to settings and change your keyboard to French!)
Write script – usually no more than 8 lines of dialogue
Pair up to revise
Role Play
Come back together as a class to role play once again
However, this time in French
Aimed at upper primary, these whole class lessons allow pupils to explore the Fibonacci sequence using concrete materials, drawings and present the opportunity to unleash their creativity in a purposeful way.