The Starter Activity GeneratorQuick View
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The Starter Activity Generator

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This is a resource with 120 starter activities all in one place! The Starter Generator has enough starters for you to shake a stick at. All come with pictures to aid recall and enjoyment and are explained, often with examples. Nearly all are generic and can be used across subjects and age groups. Enjoy!
Assessment for Learning ToolkitQuick View
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Assessment for Learning Toolkit

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70 different activities, ideas or tools based around assessment for learning (AFL). Each comes with a description and a picture to illustrate the idea. The toolkit is easy to navigate and the ideas can be used in any subject and with any age group. Become an AFL master with the AFL Toolkit!
Differentiation DeviserQuick View
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Differentiation Deviser

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The Differentiation Deviser presents 80 strategies, activities and techniques for differentiating, all of which can be used in any subject and with any age group. Every entry is clearly explained and accompanied by an image to aid understanding and recall. The Differentiation Deviser will make your life easier and your lessons better. Enjoy!
Essay Writing ToolkitQuick View
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Essay Writing Toolkit

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A comprehensive guide to essay writing. The toolkit contains over 50 activities to help students improve their essays, as well as a wealth of other information, ideas and links. All aspects of essay writing are covered and the material is suitable for use across Key Stages 3,4 and 5.
The Bloom BusterQuick View
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The Bloom Buster

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The Bloom Buster helps with planning lesson objectives, questioning and activities. It provides definitions and question/task ideas for 90 key words related to Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives. The 90 words are split into 6 categories - knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation, based on the original taxonomy. There are also suggested question stems and products you might wish to see from a lesson. Overall, it will help make your lesson planning easier and your teaching better. Enjoy!
The Challenge ToolkitQuick View
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The Challenge Toolkit

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The Challenge Toolkit provides 50 different activities to stretch and extend students' thinking. The activities are generic and can be used across the age groups and in different subjects. Each activity is explained, often with examples. All can be used as extensions within a lesson, or worked up into whole-class activities. The Challenge Toolkit will help you push all students to think more critically and creatively whatever they are studying.
Cultural DiversityQuick View
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Cultural Diversity

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In this lesson, students think about the meaning of diversity and how this connects to contemporary society. In addition, they explore the positives associated with diversity and the ways in which to celebrate it.
Make Your Own AFL BoxQuick View
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Make Your Own AFL Box

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Create your own assessment for learning (AFL) box which you can keep in your room and use over-and-over again. This resource contains everything you need to make AFL a part of your everyday teaching. From review activities (plenaries) to whole-class feedback, from cards to dice, this resource makes AFL quick and easy whatever subject and age-group you teach.
Conveying Aboriginal History and ExperiencesQuick View
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Conveying Aboriginal History and Experiences

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In this lesson, students analyse a variety of sources in order to explore how Aboriginal history and experiences are conveyed. They share their findings with other members of the class and then consider the difficulties inherent in the process of representation.
The Review Activity Generator (Plenary Producer)Quick View
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The Review Activity Generator (Plenary Producer)

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130 review activities (plenaries) all in one place! Easy to navigate, the activities can be used in almost any subject and contain ideas for development as well as examples of their use. It will aid lesson planning and offer you and your students lots of variety. Enjoy!
The Peer- and Self-Assessment GuidesQuick View
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The Peer- and Self-Assessment Guides

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This is a straightforward guide to peer- and self-assessment. It includes step-by-step instructions explaining how to embed the techniques in your daily teaching, examples of good practice, slides you can drop into your lessons and bonus features!
Aboriginal Peoples: Lesson Idea GeneratorQuick View
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Aboriginal Peoples: Lesson Idea Generator

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The Lesson Idea Generator presents you with over 100 exciting and engaging lesson ideas you can use to teach about different aspects of Aboriginal Peoples’ culture, history and experiences. Both the Secondary and Senior Secondary curriculums are covered and the document is split into a series of subdivisions for ease of use.
Discussion ToolkitQuick View
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Discussion Toolkit

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The toolkit guides you through a variety of activities you can use to structure and encourage discussion in the classroom. It focuses on discussion, rather than debate, although many of the activities will work equally well for both. The first two pages offer a summary of why talk is important; the following pages present a range of activities for use in any subject and with any age group. There are also lots of website links if you want to follow ideas further. Enjoy!
The What If…? BoxQuick View
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The What If…? Box

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The What If...? Box is a brilliant tool for use in any lesson in any subject. It contains 168 questions, all of which begin 'What if...&' Students can select questions at random by clicking on the colored dots which are flying out of the What If...? Box. The resource is particularly good for developing critical and creative thinking.
Whole-Class Feedback GuideQuick View
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Whole-Class Feedback Guide

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Included are 25 different strategies for eliciting feedback from an entire class of students. All the strategies are generic and can be used across the age groups and the curriculum.