Enquiry skills activity: What is learning?
An activity that will encourage pupils' enquiry, thinking and participation skills. Suitable for key stages 3 to 5.
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English activity for key stages 3 and 4: Interpreting the final chapter of The Lord of the Flies
Teaching English at key stage 3 to 4: using the final chapter of The Lord of the Flies as a basis, pupils are encouraged to think, interpret and evaluate the ending of this novel
History story-telling activity: The atomic bomb
Story-telling activity for key stages 3 and 4: based on the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. This activity will help develop pupils' listening, memory and recording skills
Religious Education (RE) activity: Ethical dilemmas
Religious Education: encouraging students to form and justify their opinions around ethical dilemmas
A careers education lesson: Equal pay
Exploring thinking skills in a learning process that is also a social experience. This activity will encourage pupils to acquire information, ideas and skills and develop values, ways of thinking and the means to express themselves
Modern Foreign Languges (MFL) activity: Odd one out
MFL (Modern Foreign Languages): thinking skills in context for key stages 3 and 4
Key stage 3 science activity: A burning candle
A science activity for key stage 3 pupils: improving and developing pupils' thinking skill in the context of science
Key stage 3 and 4 geography activity: Improving a shanty town
For key stage 3 to 4 geography: information processing, reasoning, enquiry, creativity and evaluation
Reading landscapes of economic power and success
Winner of the Geographical Association's Silver Award 2008, this book is written principally for key stage 3 teachers of geography. It looks at landscapes as outcomes of economic power activity and wealth generation, and offers an effective framework for the delivery of geography in the classroom
Writing frames for key stage 1: Developing understanding of lifecycles
A writing frame for teaching key stage 1 pupils about life cycles
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