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BBC Schools - BBC Schools. Teaching Guidance and Support Materials. Teaching Ideas - Free lesson ideas, plans, activities and resources for use in the primary classroom. Teachers TV video collection - Primary Maths - Space, shape and measuring.

Skip to main content Jobs TES the largest network of teachers in the world My TES Teachers TV: Primary Maths - Space, shape and measuring Use these short videos to introduce your class to maths problems involving shape, space and measures.

Teachers TV video collection - Primary Maths - Space, shape and measuring

Space, shape and measuring Division, volume and other topics Each of these lesson starters features a dramatised situation that presents a maths problem. Problem solving and other topics This programme presents eight dramatised maths problems for use on the interactive whiteboard. Angles Angles: Pirate's lost treasure. Guardian Education Centre: primary school workshops. All activities are designed to complement the teaching of the curriculum across a variety of subjects.

Guardian Education Centre: primary school workshops

We welcome groups and individuals with special needs. The offices and teaching areas are accessible to wheelchair users and the mobility impaired. All primary school workshops are free of charge. Full day workshops run from 10am-2.30pm and two hour after school workshops can start from 3.15pm. We can accommodate up to 30 pupils unless otherwise stated. To find out more about what teachers thought about our workshops and the education centre, please see our teacher feedback.

The application process for booking workshops for next academic year has now closed and we have allocated workshops up to July 2014. Primary schools. We offer a range of free workshops for Primary school groups which use our gallery spaces to develop creative thinking, visual and verbal literacy and research skills.

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Click on the links below to find out more. Make a Book! A practical and creative bookmaking workshop that draws on the Library's collections for inspiration. Play on Words A creative writing workshop using collection items and experimental techniques to inspire new work. Sacred Texts A workshop that encourages participants to find their own connections with magnificent sacred texts from eight different religions.

Map Your World Uncover the layers of meaning beneath maps and explore those that changed the world. Primary schools. Primary School Year 5 & 6 Free Lesson Plans, Links and Resources. Primary School Free Lesson Plans, Links and Resources. Reading List. Obviously I’d be a fool not to recommend my own books, The Perfect English Lesson and the new one, The Secret of Literacy: making the implicit explicit, but these are some of the works which have inspired me to become a better teacher: Philip Adey & Justin Dillon (ed) Bad Education – Debunking myths in education Geoff Barton Don’t Call it Literacy Phil Beadle Dancing About Architecture & How To Teach Isabelle Beck, Margaret G.

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McKeown and Linda Kucan Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction Ron Berger An Ethic Of Excellence: Building a culture of craftsmanship with students Daisy Christodoulou Seven Myths About Education Carol Dweck Mindset Pauline Gibbons Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching Second Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom Malcolm Gladwell Outliers: The Story of Success Seth Godin Linchpin, Are You Indispensable? Andy Hargreaves & Michael Fullan Professional Capital John Hattie Visible Learning, Visible Learning for Teachers. TARDIS Instruction Manual. A TARDIS Instruction Manual, also known as a TARDIS Manual or TARDIS Handbook, was a book that instructed in the piloting and workings of a TARDIS.

TARDIS Instruction Manual

The Doctor's manual Edit The Doctor's TARDIS had an instruction manual, but the Doctor rarely looked at it. His failure to heed the instructions led to numerous backfiring attempts to work the TARDIS controls properly. Tegan Jovanka tried to understand the manual when she accidentally set the TARDIS in flight while trying to get herself off of the Monarch's ship. Peri Brown found a TARDIS handbook propping open a vent in the Sixth Doctor's workshop; he admitted he'd started reading it once.

When an alien creature tried to get into the TARDIS, the Seventh Doctor consulted the manual for help. The Eleventh Doctor admitted that, at some point, he'd disagreed with the manual so much that he threw it into a supernova. Other information There was no information about an emergency stop in the manual. BBC One - Doctor Who - Into The Vortex. How to fly a tardis. Lesson plans and Free Resources. Teaching Ideas. Teaching Ideas - Free lesson ideas, plans, activities and resources for use in the primary classroom. The Teacher's Guide-Free Worksheets, lesson plans, SMARTBoard templates, and Children's Songs.

10 Creative Ways To Use Google Tools To Maximize Learning. The following post was co-authored by EdTechTeacher’s Beth Holland & Tracy Sockalosky. When we think about the tools and resources that benefit all learners, certain key attributes come to mind: multiple modalities, scaffolding, communication, collaboration, and support. While there are hundreds of tools and devices available, we have found 10 strategies to maximize the learning possibilities through creative uses of All Things Google . 1. Google Docs At its most basic level, Google Docs provides students with a foolproof means to access their work from any device. On a deeper level, working in shared Docs also creates an almost real-time feedback loop. Docs do not have to be used only for assessments. 2. Imagine having the ability to know your students’ comprehension level before they walk into class or immediately after you introduce a new concept. 3.

What if your students could hear your thoughts as you read their work and provided input? 4. 5. 6. 7. Teaching Ideas.