TES 6 January 2012
Links to resources, events, reviews and forum posts featured in TES this week
For your ease of use, all the links to items featured in the Resources section of the magazine are now accessible from this web page. Either use the links below to access subject areas or scroll down the page.
- Martin Luther King Day (page 32)
- Maths (page 35)
- English (page 36)
- Humanities (page 39)
- Modern Foreign Languages (page 40)
- Music (page 41)
- Science (page 42)
Martin Luther King Day
16 January
- For a teaching resource on Non-violence using the Civil Rights Movement to engage students into debates about the modern world, try TES Resources activity.
Websites
- Civil Rights Movement Veterans
- Remember segregation
- Civil rights digital library
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
- Lesson ideas from the State Archive of Alabama
- Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech with the opportunity to download as an MP3
- Martin Luther King resources
16 - 30 January
- British garden birds
- Famous birds quiz
- Mythical birds
- Bird superstition
- Early birds
- Fascinating facts
Maths -
Short back and sides
- For some fun and exciting maths resources, try bevevans22's fish game for adding and subtracting
- Chriscrispus' straws activity exploring the angles of triangles
- Clea Rodgers has contributed a game to test pupils' knowledge of circumferences and areas of circles
- For theoretical maths to alter the real world, such as calculating the re-turfing of Arsenal Stadium or decking the courtyard of Buckingham Palace, try amberrose's real life contextualisations of Perimeter and Area investigations
Resource of the Week- Watching Time
- Kaz526 suggests a number of learning activities about time in this games pack
In the Spotlight
- If like Kester Brewin you have students asking the old age question "Why are we doing this?" consider the plethora of free resources from the Mathematics Association.
See what the TES Community have to say
- Maths teachers share ideas on how to make algebra more accessible in the TES Maths forum
- check out the debate on titled 'what is the point of algebra'
Science
Letter from Latvia
What else?
- Transversal Study Visits are part of the European Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) funded by the European Commission and managed in the UK by Ecorys. For more information visit their website
- DZM
- Wildlife Watch
- For some fun, animal related science activities, try gregodowd's Safari Survival
- Creepy crawlies top trump cards from the Woodland Trust
Resources of the Week - Interacting with Forces
OMSCo's Winter Workshops
- The Organic Milk Cooperative (OMSCo) will be offering free winter workshops
See what the TES Community have to say
- In the TES Science forum teachers are chatting about their favourite pupil howlers
- Ideas on how to teach science to low ability students
English
Drama in the Big Apple
What else?
- Miller's A View from the Bridge from TES English
- Two Scavengers In a Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes from mediadave
- Superhero Schemefrom Lola Bee
- Super heroes - ideas and resources from TeachingIdeas
Resources of the Week - VCOP Superheroes
- VCOP Superheroes display
- VCOP Superheroes table mat
- VCOP Superheroes – their superpowers
- VCOP pyramid and dice
- VCOP Superhero marking stickers
- TES VCOP collection
See what the TES Community have to say
- Teachers suggest some good introductory activities for A view from the bridge
In the Spotlight
Modern Foreign Languages
Give your lingo a lift
What else?
- Creative Partnership
- European Day of Languages
- Foreign Language spelling bee
- Comenius programme
- Teachers TV
Resource of the Week – Français
- AS Level New Media vocabulary activity from Roozle50
Foreign language internet television sites:
- TV5 (French)
- Arte (French)
- Das Erste (German)
- Prosieben (German)
- Zdf (German)
- Rtve (Spanish)
- Rtve - Infants (Spanish)
- RaiTV (Italy)
- Italia1 (Italy)
See what the TES Community have to say
- One teacher is looking for advice on setting up a school exchange. Can you help?
- There's concern about the decline of MFL at A-level and what can be done about it in the MFL forum
In the Spotlight
- One teacher is looking for advice on setting up a school exchange. NGfLCymru: Frohes neues Jahr
- NGfLCymru: German resources
Music
It's no use winging it
What else?
See what the TES Community have to say
- Are music teachers undervalued? Join the discussion
- Music teachers offer advice on increasing engagement in their lessons
- Teachers worry about planned significant cuts to the training of music teachers
In the Spotlight
Green movie challenge
- View the full film brief
- View the The Great British Refurb Campaign
- View the WWF
D&T - Target Market Introduction
ICT
See Jan's Top 5 resources
Previous TES links
Featured links from previous editions
- TES 16 September
- TES 23 September
- TES 30 September
- TES 7 October
- TES 14 October
- TES 21 October
- TES 28 October
- TES 4 November
- TES 11 November
- TES 18 November
- TES 25 November
- TES 2 December
- TES 9 December
- TES 16 December
- TES 23 December
Tell us at letters@tes.co.uk
Everything you need for the new school term
Humanities
Sex ed is for everyone
What else?
- The Children's Society's Disability toolkit covering citizenship and PSHE topics
- The Children's Society have developed a free Key Stage 2 learning resource covering citizenship and PSHE topics
- A useful video guide and resource pack tackling sex and relationship education with SEN students can be viewed on Teachers TV
- Alcohol, Drugs health and sex education resources from axis-education
Resources from boabobobaggins
- Puberty worksheets for SEN pupils
- Periods worksheets for SEN pupils covering citizenship and PSHE topics
- Public and private body parts for SEN pupils covering citizenship and PSHE topics
See what the TES Community have to say
- Share your good practice for SEN sex and relationship education
- In the TES Opinion forum teachers debate whether sex education for teens should cover the benefits of abstinence
- advice for teachers covering sex education for the first time in the PSHE forum
Resource of the week - History
Life through time
- Life for ordinary people in the Middle Ages by Buxtocl
- Tudor Society by BiltonStilton
- Life for ordinary people in the Middle Ages by Looney Tunes
- Living conditions in the industrial revolution by leighbee23
War Horse
- War horse fact or fiction exhibition
- Film education screenings
- The War Horse challenge
- War Horse
- TES resources on War Horse
