Using a practical carpet tiling problem the learning activity ‘All Square’ challenges students to find ways of calculating numbers of tiles by using multiplication instead of addition. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Anticipation Guide,’ can be used to create tension between students’ prior knowledge and what they will learn from reading the text. It is aimed at helping students set a purpose for learning and kindling their interest in the topic.
Bits and Pieces’ is a learning activity that contains an interesting learning activity. As they identify the sequential patterns of folds and creases in a strip of paper, students are able to explore the sequences found in the pages of books. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting …More
Branching Out’ presents students with webs containing expressions that require a missing number before they become valid equations. To do this, students need to identify and apply patterns and relationships between equations. An answer sheet is provided and includes comprehensive teaching notes for supporting learning and further exploration.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Directed Reading-Thinking Activity,’ helps students to make inferences while reading a text. It actively involves students in reading by having them predict, read and prove their predictions while the teacher asks questions.
In ‘Dylan’s Dominoes’, a domino designer rolls a pair of dice to decide which dots to put on his dominoes. The learning activity asks students to simulate 40 dice rolls, pool their data, and graph and analyse the results. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further …More
This content area reading activity, ‘No Bones about It’ is a science based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to learn about and practise predicting when reading.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Origins of Astrology’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This graphic organiser, ‘Past, Present, & Future’ helps students to identify whether the decisions made in the past are still applicable today.
In the learning activity, ‘Pattern Predictions’, students are challenged to go beyond lengthy counting to find ways of calculating the numbers of shapes in repeating (recursive) patterns that have two elements. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘Picture Clues Map’ asks students to preview a text and use their prior knowledge to predict the outcomes.
This graphic organiser, ‘Picture Clues Map for Runaway Ralph’ asks students to make predictions prior to reading Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Past, Present, and Future of Cities’ asks students to research the history of a Roman city, compare it to today’s cities, then predict what cities will be like in the future.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Thinking Ahead’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This content area reading activity, ‘Working Kids’ is a history based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to learn about and practise predicting when reading.
This kids news activity, ‘World’s First Private Spacecraft Makes Successful Trip To International Space Station’ is about an American company that sent its unmanned Dragon spacecraft into space.
The learning activity, ‘Robot Rescue’ asks students to identify and continue equation patterns. The strategies students use will give a good indication of their ability to describe relationships. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
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