This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Scientific Experiment ‘ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Ask the Writer,’ has students engage in an independent dialogue with the text. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them write questions as they think of them and then decide whether or not they were answered in the text.
This history article, ‘Christiaan Barnard’ features the South African surgeon who was the first person in the world to perform a human heart transplant. It provides factual information about Christiaan Barnard and heart transplants, along with a glossary of unfamiliar words and terms from the text. It is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical …More
This editing and revising learning activity, Eyes’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Feature Analysis,’ helps students compare and contrast different characteristics of a concept. It is aimed at giving students practice with summarising information from graphic organisers.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Flow Charts and Time Lines,’ helps students show sequence in a process or series of events. It is aimed at developing students’ understanding of structural patterns and includes examples and templates of flow charts and time lines.
This writing prompt, ‘Genes’ helps students to write about controlling certain things by changing genes and how they think this should be decided. It encourages students to think about genetics and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Glossary Worksheet,’ helps students develop an understanding of the purpose and features of the glossary. It encourages students to use information from the glossary to answer questions posed to them.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Hello! Anybody Out There?’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about aliens from outer space.
This short nonfiction text ‘I: Invention’ features important factual background information relating to an important invention that South African born Allan Cormack helped to develop. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the significant discoveries and inventions associated with South Africa and also features an activity for students to practise their handwriting.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Inside the Picture,’ helps students focus on the pictures or graphics in a text to extend their understanding. It is aimed at helping students understand new and unfamiliar concepts through visualisations.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Making Postcards,’ helps students strengthen their reading skills by visualising various audiences. It has students create a postcard that demonstrates a relationship between characters or ideas in the text.
This article, ‘Meet a Canberra Scientist’ features an interview with Brian Cooke, a Canberra scientist who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2012 for his work to regulate the Australian rabbit population. This is a great resource for developing students’ awareness of some of Australia’s ecological imbalances and how they are being addressed …More
This history poster ‘Robert Boyle’ features important factual background information about this famous Irish scientist who pioneered scientific experimentation and became known as the “father of chemistry”. This is a great resource for broadening students’ knowledge of significant figures from Irish history and could be used as a prompt for further discussion or study of …More
This illustration, “Scientist” is available in PNG format at 300 DPI resolution with a transparent background for classroom use. This illustration is also available in black and white. Lesson Zone has over 4, 000 pieces of clip art, searchable by learning area and theme. The clip art is fast and easy to download, and can …More
This black and white outline illustration, “Scientist B&W” is available in PNG format at 300 DPI resolution with a transparent background for classroom use. This illustration is also available in colour. Lesson Zone has over 4, 000 pieces of clip art, searchable by learning area and theme. The clip art is fast and easy to …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Storyboarding,’ helps students visualise a sequence of steps or events. It has students read a text and illustrate through symbols and simple illustrations the sequence or steps in the text.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Text Patterns and Signal Words,’ helps students identify the structure of a nonfiction text. It teaches them about the four main types of text patterns: describing, cause-and-effect, compare-and-contrast and chronological.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Fossil Finder’, is available at three different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a boy who discovers dinosaur bones.
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