This maths activity, ‘Number Line Draw’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting and place value as part of a game played as a class. It includes numeral cards from 1-30 as well as blank cards for the teacher.
This maths activity, ‘Number Lines’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting and place value as part of a game played as a class. It includes blank number line templates to be distributed to students.
This maths activity, ‘Number Match’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to identify numbers rolled on a die. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of numbers. It provides picture templates (house, flower, beach, farm) and number cards.
This learning activity, ‘Number Nibbles’, describes the diet of coloured stones enjoyed by the Greywackies on planet Asteron. Students need to use number clues to find unknowns. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The learning activity, ‘Number Tricks’ presents algebraic thinking within a fun game students can play together. The games help develop the students’ ideas about generalised properties of numbers and how they apply to variables. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This maths activity, ‘Number Walk’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to identify numbers as they are called out in a musical floor activity. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of numbers. It provides number cards.
This maths activity, ‘Number War’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise place value using two-digit numbers as part of a game played in pairs with playing cards.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Numbers’ provides opportunities for practice with matching numerals to their word forms.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Numbers’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match word numbers to their numeral form.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Numbers’ provides opportunities for practice with matching word numbers to their numeral forms.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Numbers’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match ordinal words to their numeral form.
This reading activity, ‘Numbers’ provides opportunities for practice with matching number words to their numerical forms.
The learning activity ‘Numbers in Disarray’ give students four problems that require different number knowledge and strategies to solve. The engaging problems include making breakfast choices, fencing in sheep, and some number puzzles. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
This art project ‘Nylon Snake’ enables students to create snakes using plastic cups and pantihose. 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 oral language activity, ‘Observing Formal Interactions’ informs teaching of students’ oral interactions in more formal speaking situations. The results can be used to make a list of teaching points to be addressed over time.
This oral language activity, ‘Observing Informal Interactions’ informs teaching of students’ oral interactions during informal situations.
This oral language activity, ‘Observing Interactions’ informs teaching of students’ oral interactions over four separate periods.
This oral language activity, ‘Observing Student Interactions’ informs teaching by monitoring and recording changes in students’ oral interactions at four points in time.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match occupations to the person who performs them.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match descriptions to occupations.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ encourages students to match materials and equipment to the various occupations in which they are used.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Occupations’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify materials, equipment and environments associated with various occupations.
Oceans Apart’ is an activity that describes systems used in ancient Egypt and China to carry out multiplication sums. Students will enjoy trying out the strategies and comparing them with the systems they usually employ. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be read before beginning the activity with students, as they feature useful background …More
In this learning activity, ‘Odd Jobs’, Jani breaks a window and must earn some extra pocket money to help pay for the repair. Students can use a mixture of the four arithmetic operations to solve various problems for Jani. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further …More
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Odd One Out: Vowel Sounds’ informs teaching by checking the students’ ability to distinguish vowel sounds in spoken words. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of vowel sounds through a fun activity in which students identify the odd word out, based on vowel sounds in words.
This maths activity, ‘Odds and Evens’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, as part of a game played in pairs with a calculator. Players must predict whether the game will end on an odd or even number, and using a number line provided, create a sums that …More
This understanding numbers learning activity, ‘Odds and Evens’ asks students to practise adding and subtracting odd and even numbers.
This understanding numbers learning activity, ‘Odds and Evens’ asks students to practise with odd and even numbers.
This sequencing activity, ‘Odon the Giant’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about the story of Odon the Giant.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Odour’ encourages students to explore, compare and classify a variety of odours.
This sequencing activity, ‘Off to School’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about getting to school in the morning.
This reading activity, ‘Off to School We Go!’ supports reading development by encouraging students to follow a path to school on a game board as they collect letters to make sight words. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sight words. It provides uppercase alphabet cards, letter cards and a game board.
This phonemic awareness activity, ‘Oh Yes!’ supports language development by encouraging students to identify words that begin or end with the same sound. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sound matching. It provides puppet cards.
In this learning activity, ‘Old Enough?’ Marika surveys a range of people to find out the age at which children should be allowed to receive pocket money. Students display the results in a spreadsheet and interpret the data to answer questions. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting …More
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘On and Off’ encourages students to develop spatial and directional awareness by identifying the position of an object as either on or off.
In the learning activity, ‘On and Off the Train’, students are challenged to add and subtract by making up to 10 and working back through 10. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In the learning activity, ‘On Target’, students are challenged to find more than one way to solve addition or subtraction problems. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
Students use digit cards with this learning activity, ‘On the Cards’ to make numbers and understand the use of place value. They make number sentences to show relative values of numbers. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘On Track’, asks students to write equations about railway tracks made of Cuisenaire rods. Students must identify all multiplication facts for each length. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘One Attribute: Colour’ encourages students to identify, compare and sort objects based on colour.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘One Attribute: Shape’ encourages students to identify, explore and compare different shapes.
This learning activity, ‘One Good Turn’, asks students to use pattern blocks to find the rotational symmetry of various figures. Students then make up their own figure with rotational symmetry. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This maths activity, ‘One Higher, One Lower’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition and subtraction, as part of a game played in small groups with dominoes.
This maths activity, ‘One Hundred Puzzles’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise place value, as part of a game played with cut-up hundreds charts.
This learning activity, ‘One Liner’, provides a board and instructions for a game for four players. The game helps students to practise addition facts. The accompanying teaching notes include suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘One More Time’ supports students in editing and revising by re-reading and reviewing their draft writing.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘One Problem/Many Choices and Decision Tree,’ helps students illustrate possible outcomes to various situations. It is aimed at giving structure to the decision making process and includes examples and templates that can be reproduced for class use.
This maths activity, ‘One Up, One Down’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise place value as part of a game played in pairs with playing cards.
This reading activity, ‘One Word for Several’ provides opportunities for practice with using synonyms to replace the words within given sentences.
This maths activity, ‘One, Two, Four, Eight’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played as a class.
This graphic organiser, ‘One, Two, Three, Read’ asks students to use repeated readings to improve fluency and comprehension of a text.
This place value learning activity, ‘Ones, Tens and Hundreds’ asks students to practise with place value.
This learning activity, ‘Open or Closed?’, introduces the concept of open and closed questions and prompts students to analyse their use in surveys. Students then write and conduct their own survey. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In the learning activity ‘Operation Time’ Simon uses some invented machines to change numbers with a variety of operations. Students are challenged to determine the numbers that come out of or are put into the machines, using their knowledge of number operations. Students are encouraged to discuss their results with a classmate. An answer sheet …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Operations in Order’ asks students to order the operations from a problem, then explain their reasons for the order.
This graphic organiser, ‘Opinion Organiser’ helps students organise their thoughts and opinions regarding a character’s decisions in a story.
This learning activity, ‘Opinion Polls’, presents the results of an opinion poll about zoos in a variety of graphs. Students assess the data and explore the use of the Likert scale in opinion polls. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Opposites’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to identify opposites.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Opposites’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match opposite words.
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