Description: The Planets Matching Game allows pupils to build on their knowledge of the planets as well as improve their speaking and listening skills.

Learning Outcomes: Pupils will have increased their knowledge about the planets.

Description: Identifying and classifying are important parts of all the sciences and here we have devised a fun way for younger children to start learning these processes. If you add different sets of cards please send them to the address below for expanding our library.

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Description: This dominoes activity is designed to consolidate the spelling and meanings of scientific vocabulary.

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Description: We have concentrated here on animals that can be found or sighted in English playgrounds during the day. If you have a very different playground population, you will need to add and subtract cards. If you produce very different sets of animals please send them to address below for expanding our library.

Description: We have concentrated here on animals that can be found or sighted in English woodlands. If you have very different animals in the woods or forests in your area then you can add and subtract cards. If you add different sets of animals please send them to the address below for expanding our library....You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: The survival game is a fun way for pupils to gain knowledge of the various dangers that a wild animal faces. The game has four animals for the pupils to choose from but they can also make their own.
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Description: In Biology, students learn about the features of amphibians, fish and mammals. Matching these animals to their various characteristics while playing a game helps to reinforce students’ learning in a fun way. This is a companion game to “Vertebrate Information Gap”.

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Description: While studying nature, it is important to identify and label the various parts of plants. This game is a fun way to help students to identify the parts of a flower.

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Description: Food poisoning can make people very ill or even kill them, so it is important for students to learn food hygiene. The cards in this game give various scenarios and students will discover which ones will make them ill.

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Description: We all have a choice in the food we eat and making students aware of the quality of their food and the impact it can have on their health is very important, especially with the increase in obesity.

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Description: Inspired by time-lapse photos of decaying fruit, this activity has been adapted to a ‘do it yourself’ version. Pupils can collect pictures or even use real items to assemble their own ‘game boards’ and try the activity out on each other. In many cases the process...You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: We are always trying to think of activities to make revision fun and this is essentially such an activity turned into an interactive game.  For students to further test their knowledge we have also included an Elements Quiz.

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Description: Life in Ancient Egypt was complex and fascinating and our aim is to encourage pupils to become interactively involved in its exploration through the use of pictures and words (either written or spoken). We have left some of the activity cards blank so that pupils can make their own versions.

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Description: Education systems have developed and changed throughout the course of history. To engage students with these changes we have devised this activity for them to compare their schooling with those of Ancient Greeks. If you develop your own activities around this theme please share them by sending them to the address...You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: As apart of the study of Tudor Briton this activity has been designed to give students an insight into the sports and entertainments that the Tudors engaged in.
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Description: The bombing of civilians is a common strategy of war. In this activity we have focused on air raids on Britain during World War 2 but many of the affects on civilians are still the same today, in any war zone.

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Description: Ethnic minorities have always come up against prejudice; even today many minority groups continue to suffer discrimination and oppression. However, no group has experienced such systematic destruction and dehumanisation as the Jews at the hands of the Nazis. This activity will...You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: This activity was created to help students gain a further understanding of the relationship between the Greek gods, their characteristics and abilities, and the reasons why they were worshipped.

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Description: This activity was developed taking the students’ interest and knowledge about one topic, namely dinosaurs, to introduce knowledge in a new topic on tectonic plates.

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Description: The Weather is a topic of interest the world over, especially with he effects of climate change. We have devised this activity for children to explore just how the different types of weather impact our lives. If you add different weather cards please send them to the address below for expanding our library....You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: This activity was developed to extend students knowledge of continents and also their referencing and atlas reading skills.

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Description: The bingo game has been devised to encourage pupils to explore the theme of growing vegetables in relation to the Giant Turnip book. The matching activity reinforces the learning of core words from the story.  You might like to devise other ways of playing the game or substitute the...You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: This game was designed to build confidence in producing poetry and also encourage speaking and listening skills. We have used animal haikus as the theme but you can adapt the activity to other themes or languages. Some cards have been left blank so that pupils can add their own animal haikus...You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: There are some words in the English language that have letters that are written but not pronounced - so called ‘silent letters’. Words containing silent letters are difficult to learn to spell, even for older children. This is why we have devised this activity to reinforce the...You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: Macbeth is one of the most popular Shakespeare plays that many students study. To give them a greater understanding of the play we have focused on the main characters in a fun game of Connect Four with a twist.

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Description: This game was developed to give students a richer level of vocabulary, in a fun way. It introduces some well known similes, and having seen how a simile is constructed students can then be encouraged to develop their own.  If you make any interesting changes please send them to the address below so that we can...You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: This game was developed to give pupils a richer level of vocabulary in a fun way.  It is best to first read The Giant Turnip book before starting the game. If you wish you can  hear the story in various languages with your TalkingPEN and the appropriate audio files. Visit...You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: Spelling and phonics are vital in the learning of English and we have devised here a fun way for students to practise their vowel sounds and link them to the vowels used in various words.
 

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Description: This is an activity to help build vocabulary and enhance creative writing skills. In the context of a connect four game, students are challenged to substitute commonly used adjectives with more interesting ones.

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Description: Learning to spell is not usually thought of as a fun activity but when you turn it into a game pupils will be more than happy to play and learn at the same time.

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Description: The correct use of punctuation is a key skill in writing. We have devised a fun activity to help children learn about using punctuation.

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Description: A Matching game and a Connect four game have been devised to help pupils become aware of the influence of Ancient Greek on the modern English language and how various Greek “roots” (phono, graph, cardio etc.) are combined to make a variety of technical and general...You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: This game has been designed to encourage the rapid recall of addition and subtraction in units of 2, 5 and 10 in numbers up to 100, as well as encouraging the language development for “more than” and “less than”. For example 10 more than 10 is 20.

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Description: This game helps pupils to practise conversion of 12 to 24 hour clock times and vice versa. It also encourages the language of agreement/disagreement and of justification. There are a variety of ways of ‘telling’ the time.

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Description: This activity has been devised to help pupils with the understanding of fractions and decimals written in different ways. You can adapt the cards to make it easier or more difficult depending on your pupils’ ability. You could also record the numbers in different languages for...You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: Looking at the historical context of the way things used to be measured gives us an understanding of some of the language still used today. We want pupils to imagine that they lived hundreds of years ago and that they need to do some measuring. We have left some squares blank for pupils to put in other ways of...You can also get sound enabled version of this actiivity. Click here to buy sound enabled version

Description: The aims of this activity are to encourage pupils to know wether they should use ‘how much?’ or ‘how many?’ when describing a quantity. They will also use the language of justification to describe their reasoning.

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Description: It is important to develop students’ learning and understanding of mathematical vocabulary and reinforce that learning. In this activity students will identify maths words by matching them to other words with the same meaning.

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Description: This activity gives students an opportunity to practise their mathematical vocabulary. In an enjoyable context, students are asked to draw and describe a series of geometric shapes to their partners, who then have to transform the descriptions into visual representations.

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Description: Balancing the weights of various monsters to win battles is a fun way for students to practise making up equal amounts. If a werewolf weighs 18 kilos how many other monsters are needed to make up that weight?

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Description: Mixing paint to get the right colours in the right quantity is a fun way for pupils to practise ratio. We have used the styles of various famous artists as well as giving pupils the opportunity to mix the paint for their own masterpiece. A great combination of Maths and Art.

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Description: In daily life we are always working out the probability of certain events happening or not. Playing probability connect four will give pupils practise as calculating their chances of picking different coloured cards from different combinations.

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Description: Fractions can be quite daunting for some students, so this game has been devised to help them recognise the value of fractions in a fun way and to have a better understanding of how fractions represent a part of a whole. 

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