I’ve published July’s Teaching Theme a few days early, so that it can be used in the last few weeks of the summer term here in the UK. The theme is called ‘Summer at the Seaside‘ and it contains an enormous collection of ideas, resources, display material, photos, videos, links, places and maps… all linked [...]
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Favourite World Cup Resource sites
The World Cup has now started and lots of schools are using the event as a starting point for their lessons. Here are links to a selection of my favourite World Cup resource sites: Teaching Ideas – This is my own collection of lesson ideas, resources, display material, videos, links and more, which also includes [...]
Popular Teaching Ideas and Resources (May '10)
Here are links to some of the most popular Teaching Ideas, News, Videos and Photos on my websites recently: Limericks – Learn about limericks! Contains lots of examples and suggested activities. Prime Numbers – A clear set of instructions to help you identify prime numbers. Number Square Patterns – A set of resource sheets and [...]
Teaching Themes – World Cup Resources
I am really pleased to announce that the new ‘Teaching Themes‘ section on my Teaching Ideas site is now open. The first theme is based on next month’s Football World Cup and I have been busy making lots of resources linked to the topic. www.teachingideas.co.uk/themes/worldcup Teachers can find a selection of World Cup teaching ideas, [...]
Updates to Teaching Ideas
I’ve been busy making a few changes to Teaching Ideas recently. For those who don’t know it, the site is a collection of thousands of lesson ideas, activities and resources that teachers are welcome to use in their classrooms. The site was originally set up (back in 1998) as a place for primary teachers to [...]
Move Me On
Doug Belshaw has started a wonderful new way of sharing teaching tips via Twitter. His idea, called ‘Move Me On’, involves teachers sharing a simple tip or idea in 140 characters by posting it on Twitter with the hashtag #movemeon. At the time of writing this, there are 490 tips in the collection! You can [...]
Top 10 Teaching Ideas (Sep '09)
Here are links to some of the most popular ideas on Teaching Ideas over the past few months: The Hundred Square (Maths) – Use the 100 square to find patterns by colouring in certain squares. Story Plans (Literacy) – Two free worksheets which children can use when planning their stories. Story Settings (Literacy) – A [...]
One Million Giraffes
One Million Giraffes is an online project in which one person is hoping to collect 1 million giraffes by 2011. People are sending pictures of their giraffes (which can’t be created on a computer) and at the time of writing, the collection has reached over 250,000! Could your class get involved? Ask each child to [...]
Better Learning with ICT
It’s ICT week on Teachers’ TV and there are a number of interesting new videos which will be useful for any teachers who have to use ICT as part of their teaching. One new series of videos is called ‘Better Learning with ICT‘. There are currently five videos in the series and many of them [...]
Start of the Year Activities
As the new school year is about to begin here in the UK, I thought that it might be useful to share some ideas and activities that could be used at the start of the year, to help you get to know your new class: Choosing the Rules – Involve the children in deciding the [...]
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