Snapshot Learning
Added Term 3 Weeks 8-9
Syllabus
Geography PL - Your School and the Geography Syllabus and Planning to Teach Geography K-10
History PL - Programming a Unit of Work: K-10
Using the NSW Literacy Continuum - PL activity and Rich Talk About Text - adobe connect
English Units - ES1 Peace created by Dawn Furze, S1 Alexander's Outing created by Karen Brown
3 Stage 3 Unit Starters - The Grimms Live On, Beetle Boy and Our Home is Dirt By Sea created by the English Textual Concepts site
English Resources
Writing Descriptive Sentence - Alan peat type examplesWriting Prompts - New additions
Reading - Creative Curriculum - Book study ideas
Point of View - Free anchor chart
Pronoun Chart - freebie
Fable Anchor Chart & Planning Tool - freebies
Point of View -lesson idea freebie
Inferring from Character's Dialogue
Texts to Teach Kindness & Empathy
Bats & Spiders Informational Text Resources
Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies
Juicy Sentences - constructing "juicy sentences" following a set format.
Vocabulary Cinquains - Free worksheet where students write cinquains using our root-based vocabulary words.
Narrative Story Map and 4 Square Writing printables.
Supermarket interactive - An UK KS4 interactive which can be adapted/used for S3. Aims for students to use their senses to create effects in their writing, plan writingvisually and think about vocabulary.
Using Visual Literacy in a Multi-modal Text - A Girl At The Window - A mouse over interactive and also Safety Is in Your Hands - a pdf and mouse over interactive.
100 Books to Read Before Leaving Primary - The TES recently published a list of the 100 books children should read before they leave primary school.
Graham Andre has created a nice visual challenge of these for children. This can be edited and changed as you like,
Writing Place - Student Activities and Teacher Notes
Maths
Maths Resources - Fraction Friends, Workstation K-2 idea & freebie, Place Value freebie,
Science - STEM
STEM - Jack and The Parachute freebie, Row Row Row Your Boat, Sleeping Beauty, Balloon Powered Car, Christmas Tasks, Mystery Build Tasks.
Energy - Interactive
Aim to Sustain - Including Alien Invaders, Get The Message, Help a Habitat, A World of Difference.
Meet The Termites - An interactive
Meet The Mobs and Burning Issues - NT sustainability inter-actives
Crocodiles - Interactive
Geography
Country Profile Worksheet - Freebie - a blank worksheet for students to use to compile facts about countries.
Maps and Globes and Continents and Oceans - Freebies
Australia Facts for Kids - Easy to read facts plus easy to read facts on other countries.
Waking Up in Japan - You have woken up in Japan and suddenly find that you are an expert on one aspect of Japanese life. Your friends and family are coming to visit and you will be sharing your expertise with them, so that they can enjoy it too. In a small group, you will: choose a topic and research it carefully develop a group presentation to share your knowledge show us your expertise!
History
Mystery at Rookwood - Mystery at Rookwood explores aspects of Chinese migration to Australia in the nineteenth century. In a game approach, students have to assist the 'ghost' of colonial entrepreneur Quong Tart in discovering his true identity. To do this, they examine a series of primary and secondary sources across six topics before attempting a number of quizzes.
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