Two EAL friendly games designed for groups to recall and share knowledge of Three Bears, Billy Goats Gruff, Little Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs and the Gingerbread Man. More Connect Four activities at www.collaborativelearning.org/literaturefiction.html

Over the top groupwork activity around personal hygiene designed with Year 8 illustrations. Similar activities on: www.collaborativelearning.org

From cliche to creativity. Matching cliched similes (e.g. dry as a bone) with picture clues to inspire the production of new fresh as a daisy similes. Now doubled in size. A new set of 24 similes added. Keywords: simile. metaphor, poetry, word work, metalinguistics

Two games to practice the spelling of words with silent letters. The activity has been on the collaborative learning website for some years and has always been popular but now it has had a spring clean. Keywords: word work, silent letters, speaking, listening, oracy.

The aim of this activity is to allow children to understand the recurring common theme of migration through human history. Children then, by focussing on reasons for migration, can come to understand the particular circumstances of refugees. You can find more citizenship activities at www.collaborativelearning.org/citizenship.html

Four different texts on Darwin’s life, the impact and development of theories of evolution and the conflicts between scientific and religious ideas about life on earth and the natural world. Further information gaps can be found on www.collaborativelearning.org

Connect four game. Pictures of familiar objects on board. Qualities e.g. rigid, shiny, soft on cards. Cards also in German and Polish. Lots more chemistry materials on www.collaborativelearning.org/sciencechemistry.html

A battle between germs and soap. Is Bertie going to end up in school or hospital? And you can get to design your own germs. More track games like this can be found on www.collaborativelearning.org/earlyyears.html

Four games involving sorting, matching, counting of fruit while trying to feed a group of hungry caterpillars. Many thanks to ‘sheep-tea’ who has already posted an excellent HC game. We’ve borrowed the pictures from this game since ours were black and white and had to be coloured in. Now updated with a set of smaller fruit pictures which fit more easily onto the caterpillars when they are enlarged to A3. The seven fruit page is now added. More games like this can be found on: www.collaborativelearning.org/earlyyears.html

Collaborative (pairs and fours) activity sorting scientific and eyewitness statements about a volcanic eruption. Not devised for the current eruption, but has been lying dormant in our archive. Other geography activities can be found on www.collaborativelearning.org/geography.html

A set of collaborative games (track games and lotto) inspired by 'Pants' by Giles Andreae and Nick Sharratt. We are posting an increasing number of similar games from other stories on www.collaborativelearning.org/earlyyears.html

These activities use the possessions and whereabouts of aliens to make potentially boring (when to use which their/there) work fun or at least likely to make pupils think that their teachers are a bit zany. Produced by year 8s for their confused colleagues. Similar activities on www.collaborativelearning.org/literacy.html

A game based on the activity Properties of Number Puzzle already uploaded by Wotsitagain, where numbers with more than one property have to be placed on a grid. I wanted to make an easier and more sociable prequel for this excellent and challenging investigation. More maths activities on: www.collaborativelearning.org/maths.html

This is a role play and jigsaw activity which examines some of the key groups and individuals involved in the abolition of the slave trade. More Black History activities can be downloaded for free at www.collaborativelearning.org/historyblack.html

The Collaborative Learning Project is exploring ways on making and aharing IT activities that promote talk and support EAL learners. This activity is we hope the first of many that are small enough to share, but whizzy enough to encourage interaction. It looks at the qualities of 2D shapes and introduces the names of 3D shapes. We also hope you will use the activity as a template for you and your children to develop their own. We'd welcome other suggestions for others ways of achieving our aims. More maths activities on www.collaborativelearning.org/maths.html

This was developed at the same time as Are You a Stinker?. It looks at health risks, and to what extent we have control over them. Players in this game acquire nails for unhealthy activities and lose them for healthy ones. More activities like this on www.collaborativelearning.org/citizenship.html

Collaborative card sorting activity. Each page contains cards for two comparative tests. What we are finding out. What equipment we are using. What we are changing. What we are measuring and how we are doing it. What we are keeping the same (more than one card for this). Possible conclusions for each experiment and some conclusions for neither. We have also provided an optional frame for placing the cards which will need to be enlarged to A3. Lots more science activities at www.collaborativelearning.org

This character card activity is an introduction to the individuals and groups who played a key role in effecting the Abolition of Slavery Act, which brought an end to the transatlantic trade. More black history activities can be downloaded for free from www.collaborativelearning.org/historyblack.html

Collaborative game (Connect Four) about the habitats of animals that can be found in and around school. This is going to be one of the first to be sound enabled by Mantralingua. More similar activities can be found on: www.collaborativelearning.org/sciencebiology.html

Card game to support discussion around hygiene. Originally designed for KS1 but popular with older pupils. More activities on www.collaborativelearning.org/sciencebiology.html

Information gap activity to prepare for the reading of Michael Morpurgo's Butterfly Lion. Designed for group work, notetaking and jigsawing by exploring the themes of First World War, Boarding Schools, Blue Butterflies, Chalk Figures, Circuses and White Lions.