TES 20 January 2012
Links to resources, events, reviews and forum posts featured in TES this week
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- Charles Dickens Bi-centennary (page 36)
- Maths (page 39)
- English (page 40)
- Science (page 42)
- Humanities / History (page 43)
- ICT/ Arts (page 44)
- Modern Foreign Languages (page 45)
7 February
200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens
What else?
- TES Partner National Schools Partnership has created a resource pack: 'What the Dickens?'
- BBC Learning Zone have created a collection of videos to celebrate Dickens' birthday.
- 'A Hankering after Ghosts: Charles Dickens and the Supernatural' exhibition at the British Library, it's free and there are a number of lectures for students about the great British author throughout February. The exhibition runs till 4th March.
Recommended
- Key stage 1: Key stage 1: Victorian Children and the birth of Barnardos - Learn about the real workhouse experience and how the fate of the young and poor has changed since Victorian London with resources from Barnardos
- Key stage 2: Dickens' London - Try a fun widget quiz on Charles Dickens' life to introduce pupils to the Victorian era.
- Key stage 3: Power Essays on Great Expectations - For P-E-E practice with Great Expectations from TESEnglish
- Key stage 4: Analysing A Christmas Carol - A Christmas Carol Power Point covers context, themes and essay writing to prepare students for exams, from rwotton
- Key stage 5: Dickens in Context - A range of resources for the A Level classroom to accompany their lecture series, from the British Library
Charles Dickens - Literary Competition
Maths -
Don't just sit there
Resource of the Week
- Boiling Hot Algebra skills - An inspiring investigation that illustrates the day-to-day application of the word many students dread - "Algebra". From Amanda goddard
What else?
- Holidays, mortgages, charity work abroad… rachelj1987's Power Point contextualises interest and exchange rates
- debbiegordon's resource mixing multimedia, quizzes and facts to explain economic analysis
- For plenty of measuring fun, try Diannadd's classroom investigation worksheets
- Rushtini's poetic introduction to centimetres and metres
- Simon Haughton's Simon Haughton's against the clock 2DIY matching game
- weybourneinfants' cube and string activity
- Measure collection
See what the TES Community have to say
- Share your ideas for kinaesthetic maths lessons
- Teachers debate whether schools have a responsibility for maths education
- For more approaches to Algebra see what teachers have to suggest.
In the Spotlight
- Shadohq shares a document of over 100 algebra questions
- Maths Game from h4helen
- Core 2 Tarsia Revision from chuckieirish
- Core 3 Tarsia Revision from chuckieirish
- Core 4 Tarsia Revision from chuckieirish
- "Big 50" revision sheets for Cores 1, 2, 3 and Statistics from Maths126
- For more revision materials: Mr Barton Maths
- For more revision materials:
Science
Ignorance is not bliss
What else?
- Improve science grades see how Hodgson School did on Teacher's TV
- mad.scientist's feedback comments to motivate the apathetic of the science classroom.
- Help students understand why science is useful with Bsidhu's essay 'Why Study Science'?
- Get students thinking about Earth in comparison to its solar neighbours, try Jubejube's essay Space top trumps
Resource of the Week
- Invigorating Investigating - The Royal Society's 'Invigorate' microsite spans a wide range of science topics divided by Key Stage and theme.
See what the TES Community have to say
Contributors to the TES Science forum often discuss how to make science lessons more exciting and interactive.
- Teachers share a wealth of suggestions for making science fun
- What are the biggest barriers to science learning? Join the debate today
In the Spotlight
Frozen Oceans
English
The road to perdition
What else?
- Re-create the buzz of the newsroom with TESEnglish's newspaper speaking and listening task
- curriculumbits.com shares an animation giving advice for the nervous speaker
- For student-friendly speaking and listening level descriptors try hodeng's Level 2-8 handouts
See what the TES Community have to say
- A teacher asks for advice for teaching a mixed group of excluded teenagers, can you help?
- Share Dickens resources ready for the Bicentenary celebrations
Resource of the Week
- Gillian Oxford and Diana Birkbeck have designed a series of books introducing Dyslexic and new readers to the pleasure of traditional tales.
What else?
- jade88's detailed lesson plans for storytelling and literacy skills development through the Gruffalo.
TESiboard has a wealth of interactive Look and Read activities to enthuse learners about reading:
- Goldilocks Listen and Read Storybook
- Anansi and Tiger Listen and Read Storybook
- Three Little Pigs Listen and Read Storybook
- Woodland Food Cycle Listen and Read Storybook
In the Spotlight - what the Dickens?
Humanities
Very superstitious
History
The Wellcome Collection deftly sum up two current exhibitions as collections of supernatural 'thank you's' and 'pleases.'
Mexican Miracle Paintings focuses on the devout practice in Mexico of presenting offerings at the shrines of selected saints for help and divine intervention at times of crisis.
Charmed Life, curated by artist Felicity Powell - features 400 charms and talismans collected by amateur folklorist Edward Lovett from the early 20th Century.
What else?
- For an enquiry-based lesson about belief and superstition, try jessiejump's Power Point presentation
- Consider the effect of superstitions on health in history with Miss Klunder's Medieval medicine tutorial
Explore evidence of local beliefs and traditions through QCDA_Resources lesson plans
- Unit 4D Local religion - evidence
- Unit 4D Local religions - what have we learnt
- Unit 4D Local religions - How can we find out
- Unit 4D Local religions - Similarities - differences
See what the TES Community have to say
- A teacher is looking for ideas for human rights activities, can you help?
- A teacher is looking for ideas for human rights activities, for setting up an engaging school history club
Partner Spotlight
Children of today, Journalists of tomorrow
In the Spotlight
Scott and Shackleton, a Century on…
- 'The Heart of the Great Alone' exhibition
- Scott's Last Expedition
- Discovering Antarctica
- Salariya - Explorer
- Shackleton
- Ernest Shackleton assembly
- Range of activities and games about Antarctica
- Explorer flashcards
- Teachers in the freezer
- Scott's Last Expedition
ICT / D&T
When new turns to old
What else?
- See what other schools are doing to define an ICT Vision of the Future on Teachers TV
- Experiment with robots in the classroom with Irobyn's
- beebot lesson plan and activities
QCDA_Resources' collection of Floor turtle tasks.
- Unit 2D Floor Turtle short focused tasks 1
- Unit 2D Floor Turtle short focused tasks 2
- Unit 2D Floor Turtle Setting the scene
- Unit 2D Floor Turtle Integrated task
- Sustainable packaging
- A fun coding activity using Scratch from kevinbertman
See what the TES Community have to say
- Teachers share tried and tested games generating ideas
- A teacher asks for examples of Scratch projects, share yours
In the Spotlight
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed
- Jan Webb's online article on Games Based Learning is available now.
- ReviseICT.co.uk
- Pirate plenary Multiple choice interactive
- Who wants to be a millionaire
- Wipeout style game - Infinitives
- KS3 revision pictures blockbuster
- Guess who
- Sumdog design your own maths games project
- Gaming in Kudo
- Design a spaceship and make it move
- Scratch
ICT
See Jan's Top 5 resources
D & T Resource of the Week
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Modern Foreign Languages
Exasperation stations
What else?
- Get students away from Google translate and heading into the dictionary with knotty80's clear introduction to Dictionary skills
- The Bexster's dictionary quiz
- To avoid ever hearing 'summat' again, improve students' pronunciation confidence with Comberton Village College's Jollyphonics lesson
- Give students a reason to be excited about French, get them engaged in the Culture with miss_moneypenny's quiz cards
See what the TES Community have to say
- Teachers share their dismay at the use of google translate and share ways to tackle the problem
- MFL teachers discuss the different approaches to language teaching
Contributor of the Week
Perfectly timed with the approach of the Chinese New Year, Liz_Fotheringham has uploaded a wealth of Chinese language resources.
Resource of the Week
- Runaway has shared the highly recommended noughts and crosses multi-topic Power Point quiz
