Classroom activities

How to Make Classroom Posters with Microsoft Excel

Here’s another video I picked up while surfing “TeacherTube”. It’s a relatively quick and easy “how to” clip that guides you through the process of making classroom posters using Excel.
For some this may be old news or ‘easy’. For others, I hope you find it useful. It is definitely a time and money saver. [...]

Well the library of lesson plans and articles is starting to build… slowly! There are a couple of good lesson plans up that are worth checking out.
The Sea Creatures Lesson Plan is a science based lesson plan for the years 3-4 age group.
The Magnets Lesson Plan is another science based lesson plan for the [...]

This is an interesting idea I heard about from a friend. I haven’t actually seen it work in practice, but it sounds like it could be an effective way to kill two birds with one stone.
If your having trouble keeping the noise level in class down to an acceptable level, you could consider introducing the [...]

Just saw this “Amazing Finger Calculator” video on metacafe. It’s another one for all of the maths nerds out there! This follows on from the 12 times table trick I posted earlier. This one focuses on the 9 times table.

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Makes me wondering if people can [...]

Whilst this little trick may be old news for some people, I just heard about it, and it’s pretty nifty so I thought I’d share.
This is a great way to remember the 12 times table for those kids that have trouble remembering them.
Well it works all the way from 2 through to 10 anyway [...]