This graphic organiser, ‘ Me, Myself, and I’ supports students in editing and revising autobiographical writing, focusing on conveying feelings and attitudes in texts.
In the menu-based activity, ‘Meal Deal’ students use their mathematical knowledge to help a family work out how much their seafood meal will cost. The items on the menu included fillets of fish, hot dogs, squid rings, and dim sum: some items may not be familiar, so students can create their own fast food menu …More
Did you know that the circumference of a your fist is approximately equal to the length of your foot? The practical activity, ‘Measuring Up’ shows students that many measurements on their bodies have interesting ratios. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be read before beginning the activity with students, as they feature useful background …More
This art project ‘Media Collage’ enables students to create a collage using old magazines. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This content area reading activity, ‘Meet Rachael Scdoris’ is an English based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to learn about people from their actions and the stories about them.
The learning activity ‘Megabytes of Memory’ poses word problems relating to the various memory cards that can be used to store digital photographs. As students complete the learning activity, they use advanced strategies to explore relationships and make choices. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and …More
In the learning activity, ‘Megamaze’ students have to help Crusty the Crayfish negotiate a maze to find his way home. They need to use compass directions and distance measurements to tell Crusty how to do this. An answer sheet is provided and the accompanying teaching notes have suggestions for supporting learning, for example by playing …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Memory Makers’ supports students in identifying the main idea of a narrative text.
In the learning activity, ‘Memory Testing’ students learn about calculator memory functions and practise using them in different ways, including a game. The use of the calculator helps students to visualise the arithmetic involved in the calculations and so supports the use of mental strategies An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to …More
This understanding numbers learning activity, ‘Mental Maths Race’ asks students to practise with mental addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
This sequencing activity, ‘Metamorphosis’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about the process of metamorphosis of a butterfly.
This maths activity, ‘Mexican Wave’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting in multiples such as two as part of a game played as a class.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Vowel Sounds ‘ee’ and ‘ea” encourages students to say the word and choose the sound to complete the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Middle Sounds’ encourages students to say each pair of words and find the word with the same middle sound.
This phonics activity, ‘Matching Vowel Sounds ‘oo’ and ‘ou” encourages students to read and say the word’ then choose the sound.
This learning activity, ‘Mighty Marty!’, presents equations involving multiples of 10, 100, and 1 000. Students see how their knowledge of addition basic facts can help them solve problems with much larger numbers. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This art project ‘Milk Carton Bird House’ enables students to create bird houses from recycled household materials. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This art project ‘Milk Carton Houses’ enables students to create houses from recycled milk cartons. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
In this learning activity, ‘Mind Boggle’, students organise attribute blocks. They must use a table to eliminate possible outcomes and a Venn diagram to analyse common features. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The resource, ‘Mind Boggling’ provides word problems involving numbers for students to solve by choosing and using the most appropriate operations. Students can use the resource independently or in pairs, and discussion will help them understand why some operations are more effective than others. The problems that use fractions may require more support. An answer …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Mini Lesson,’ introduces students to the concept of main ideas and supporting details. It includes three activities for students to practice finding the main idea and supporting details.
This art project ‘Mini Vase’ enables students to create vases using paper cups or plastic cups. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Mini-Skits,’ helps students summarise what they have learned through drama. It is aimed at helping students build their visualisation skills by having them plan a brief dialogue that demonstrates the relationship(s) between ideas.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Letters’ encourages students to say the name of the picture and choose the missing letter to make the word.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Letters’ encourages students to say the name of the picture and choose the missing letter to make the word.
This maths activity, ‘Missing Number’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to complete a sequence of numbers. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of sequencing numbers. It provides number sequence cards and numbered playing cards.
This maths activity, ‘Missing Numbers’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise place value, as part of a game played in pairs with caterpillar templates provided.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Missing Pictures,’ encourages students to visualise the missing pictures that link the illustrations together and allow the story to make sense. Using a wordless picture book, students draw what they visualise happening between two of the pictures and write one sentence to explain their picture.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Sounds’ encourages students to read the sentence and choose the sound to complete the word.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Verbs’ provides opportunities for practice with using the picture to find the appropriate verb to complete the sentence.
This spelling activity, ‘Missing Word’ provides opportunities for practice with selecting the correctly spelt missing word.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Missing Words’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the correct word to complete each sentence.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with selecting words to complete sentences.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Missing Words’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the correct word in context using beach vocabulary.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with reading and completing sentences within a story.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with reading and completing sentences within a story.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with completing sentences using picture clues.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Missing Words’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to select the missing verbs to complete the sentences.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with reading and recognising simple words.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with finding the word to complete the sentence.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with finding the word to complete the sentence.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with finding the word to complete the sentence.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with completing simple sentences.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with reading and completing sentences within a story.
This reading activity, ‘Missing Words’ provides opportunities for practice with completing the sentences.
This phonics activity, ‘Missing Words with the ‘ow’/ ‘ou’ Sound’ encourages students to choose the correct word to complete the sentence and say the word.
This art project ‘Mixed Media Painting’ enables students to create still life paintings. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This fractions learning activity, ‘Mixed-Up Fractions’ asks students to practise combining fractions to make a whole number.
This early learning activity, ‘Modern Three Bears’ provides cut-outs to make stick puppets of items that feature in this twist on a classic fairy tale.
This art project ‘Mondrian-Style Painting’ enables students to create paintings in the style of artist Piet Mondrian. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Monitoring Reading’ supports language development by encouraging students to use a prompt card to self-monitor while reading. Students can the different strategies on the prompt card if they lose track of the story.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Monitoring Reading’ supports language development by encouraging students to use text-processing strategies to monitor for meaning as they read. It provides students with helpful prompts when they lose their way reading.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Monitoring Reading’ informs teaching of the specific text-processing strategies the students use while they read. It helps teachers identify the reading behaviours of students.
This art project ‘Monoprints’ enables students to create monoprints. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a recommended art book.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Months of the Year’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify the months of the year.
This maths activity, ‘More and Fewer’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to compare which block tower has more or less numbers of cubes. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of the concepts more and fewer. It provides number spinners and a ‘more fewer’ chart.
This maths activity, ‘More or Less’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting and place value as part of an engaging game played as a class.
This sequencing activity, ‘Morning, Noon and Night’ supports comprehension through sequencing images of the sequence of events from day to night.
This graphic organiser, ‘Mountain Ranges and a Geographic Quilt’ helps students apply what they know about mountain ranges.
This graphic organiser, ‘Moving Along’ allows students to describe feelings of both themselves and other groups of people in history.
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