We create outstanding learning experiences that engage and excite children in their schoolwork and make teachers' lives easier by saving them precious time, enabling a better work/life balance.
We are committed to promoting creative thinking, cross curricula learning, emotional intelligence and mindfulness to children of all ages. The future is here.
We create outstanding learning experiences that engage and excite children in their schoolwork and make teachers' lives easier by saving them precious time, enabling a better work/life balance.
We are committed to promoting creative thinking, cross curricula learning, emotional intelligence and mindfulness to children of all ages. The future is here.
This fantastic, fun, challenging, cross-curricula lesson is packed with learning and has elements of: computing, history, writing and speaking and listening, built into a lesson centred around independent learning and research. Children will be using and applying the historical learning they acquire creatively, as they work through the challenges of the lesson. An optional competitive element, combined with the fun of potentially becoming a Time Detective (and earning a Time Detective badge) create added motivation and increased engagement towards the learning. Children research in a holistic way building up a bigger picture of life the time period and then present their creations providing you with an assessment opportunity and a chance to decide the winners. The lesson ideal for either the beginning, middle or end of a history topic or unit. Can be done in an hour but better over two, contains starter and plenary. Made for KS2 but accessible to more able KS1 and less able KS3
This fantastic, fun, challenging, cross-curricula lesson is packed with learning and has elements of: computing, history, writing and speaking and listening, built into a lesson centred around independent learning and research. Children will be using and applying the historical learning they acquire creatively, as they work through the challenges of the lesson. An optional competitive element, combined with the fun of potentially becoming a Time Detective (and earning a Time Detective badge) create added motivation and increased engagement towards the learning. Children research in a holistic way building up a bigger picture of life the time period and then present their creations providing you with an assessment opportunity and a chance to decide the winners. The lesson ideal for either the beginning, middle or end of a history topic or unit. Can be done in an hour but better over two, contains starter and plenary. Made for KS2 but accessible to more able KS1 and less able KS3
This fantastic, fun, challenging, cross-curricula lesson is packed with learning and has elements of: computing, history, writing and speaking and listening, built into a lesson centred around independent learning and research. Children will be using and applying the historical learning they acquire creatively, as they work through the challenges of the lesson. An optional competitive element, combined with the fun of potentially becoming a Time Detective (and earning a Time Detective badge) create added motivation and increased engagement towards the learning. Children research in a holistic way building up a bigger picture of life the time period and then present their creations providing you with an assessment opportunity and a chance to decide the winners. The lesson ideal for either the beginning, middle or end of a history topic or unit. Can be done in an hour but better over two, contains starter and plenary. Made for KS2 but accessible to more able KS1 and less able KS3
This fantastic, fun, challenging, cross-curricula lesson is packed with learning and has elements of: computing, history, writing and speaking and listening, built into a lesson centred around independent learning and research. Children will be using and applying the historical learning they acquire creatively, as they work through the challenges of the lesson. An optional competitive element, combined with the fun of potentially becoming a Time Detective (and earning a Time Detective badge) create added motivation and increased engagement towards the learning. Children research in a holistic way building up a bigger picture of life the time period and then present their creations providing you with an assessment opportunity and a chance to decide the winners. The lesson ideal for either the beginning, middle or end of a history topic or unit. Can be done in an hour but better over two, contains starter and plenary. Made for KS2 but accessible to more able KS1 and less able KS3
This fun yet challenging, cross-curricula lesson has elements of: computing, history and writing, all built into a lesson centred around independent learning. Children will complete a series of engaging tasks including labelling a graphic of a Stone Age man with researched information on clothing and possessions, learning what a person from that time may have owned and building their understanding of life was really like in the time period. They then complete 3 written activities and an extension activity based upon that knowledge they have gained. Activities include framing historically-valid questions, critical thinking and drawing comparisons: all aspects of the new 2014 curriculum. The activities are designed to elicit a deeper level of thought and understanding of the era. Can be taught as two separate hour long lessons but better over one longer session, contains starter and plenary, made for KS2 but accessible to higher ability KS1 and lower ability KS3.
*Save 33% off the separate selling price! * Perfect for past SATs learning in Y6
This Bundle Contains 67 separate worksheets with many, many activities across 6 separate highly creative, project based learning packs.
Each pack is incredibly engaging for children and so easy to teach, as they have been designed for independent learning - simply print and teach (let your class get on with it!)
The packs can be completed in one whole day as a group or pair project, or stretched out for as long as you want - there are so many options for how you teach with these engaging cross-curricular packs.
Perfect for stretching your class' brains out in wonderful and creative new directions with real-life practical tasks.
The Future Teacher Foundation are advocates of Project Based Learning (PBL), Cross-Curricular Learning, Independent Learning and Engagement-Based Learning - all of which are included in this bundle (along with a whole host of other thinking, writing and learning opportunities).
All images either released through creative commons CC 1.0 or owned by The Future Teacher Foundation.
This engaging, simple, cross-curricular 2 worksheet pack, will last a whole afternoon when combined with access to the internet, atlases and non-fiction books about Planet Earth.
The lesson is centered around child-led independent learning, based on their interests and wonders - and what better thing to wonder about than Planet Earth! This lesson is perfect for any topic, unit or learning related to Planet Earth and would work well as an introduction or stand-alone lesson to use at any time in an emergency!
The worksheets tell children everything they need to do for the learning objective and the learning is split over 3 different activities with final one enabling the children to sum up and explain their learning.
The work is differentiated by outcome and perfect for mixed ability pairs.
All images sourced and licensed via Creative Commons C.0
SAVE 36% - Hours of engaging, cross-curricula learning for your class containing dozens of Mayan activities
7 separate lesson packs plus an assortment of other useful Mayan related activities and sheets
Contains:
- Chichen Itza Art lesson (up to 3 lessons)
- Create your own Mayan creative/big writing stimuli (up to 3 lessons)
- Mayan scary day creative/big writing stimuli lesson (2 hours)
- Mayan Time Detectives (holistic research-2 hours)
- Mayan Time Detectives clothing and possessions (2 hours)
- Mayan calendars 1-2hrs
- Mayan hieroglyphics 1hr-90mins
- Mini-Mayan colouring book
- 2 word search activities + answers
- Mayan bordered writing and blank pages
Lessons come with full teachers' notes (except Mayan calendars) and everything you need to teach the lesson
See individual listings on the TES for more information, or view our full range of over 188 Gold Standard TES Resources https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/TheFutureTeacherFoundation
Images sourced from openclipart.org or owned by tftf
12 complete lesson packs containing everything you need to begin the teaching of ancient civilizations.
Each lesson will last for a few hours at least! This will provide you with a vast amount of independent learning that your class will thank you for as contained within are some truly engaging learning experiences.
Civilizations covered include Ancient Sumer, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt and The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China.
Treat yourself and your class to easily 2 weeks of ready prepared learning, lessons and activities - everything you need is included! Bundle saves 68% of separate selling price.
If you think that the end of terms or school years should be a bit more fun, creative, cross-curricular and practical, yet still packed with awesome learning that meets the UK national curriculum, then we have the perfect bundle for you!
This huge bundle of complete lessons, projects and worksheets contains some of our most beloved resources including the type of special lessons that your class will never forget, and that are sadly being marginalised in today's data and detail obsessed education system.
Creativity, imagination, thinking skills, using and applying knowledge, art, performance, team work, speaking and listening and much, much more are all on the agenda with this terrific bundle, but all wrapped up in "conventional" English, maths and topic based activities but with the added bonus of being seriously fun and engaging for children in KS2 or KS3.
Step 1.Take a good look through all of the resources that are included in this bundle.
Step 2. Buy the bundle and then put your feet up knowing that weeks worth of planning and preparing have been done for you by bestselling primary resource authors The Future Teacher Foundation.
Happy holidays!!! :)
This KS2 Early Islamic Civilization cross-curricular bundle is a great place to start exploring this fascinating era of history.
These truly engaging lessons are designed to be flexible in length to easily slot into your planning. They are genuinely enjoyable for children and will inspire them to want to learn more about this hard-to-teach area of history.
