Challenge your class’ thinking skills with our creative selection of activities and poster resource. Also this month, buckle up for our creative topic transport special! Read more.
Thinking skills/cross curricular: Take a picture
Use our captivating poster to prompt thinking skills in your class
By Sue Cowley — educational author and trainer
Thinking skills: Launch creative thinking!
Use the famous Apollo 13 mission to boost children’s thinking and learning skills
Geography: Transport Challenge
Buckle up for a fantastic interactive transport game. Ready, set, go!
By Christina Baker — writer and educational journalist
Numeracy: Measuring up
Use real-life contexts outside the classroom to help develop children’s measuring skills
By John Dabell — maths coordinator at Forest Fields Primary and Nursery School, Nottingham
Also this month
More great articles published this month.
- History Detectives: The Tudors
- Literacy: To the Moon and back
- Creative topic: transport — take flight
- Literacy: Spinning a good yarn
- Literacy: On the Darkside
- Literacy: Interview with Tom Becker
- Literacy: Word of mouth
- Science in a flash: Forces
- Your bookshelf: spooky books
- Debate: The last word
- 5 ways with… sticky notes
- Walk this way
- Case study: Wheels and heels
- Child psychology: Social skills
This month's resources
Mr Wah
Enjoy oral storytelling with your class by viewing ‘Mr Wah’ taken from The Story Spinner. Linking activities can be found in the October ‘08 issue of Junior Ed PLUS.
History Detectives: The Tudors
Challenge children to use their investigation skills to solve a historical mystery. After being magically transported back to Stratford-upon-Avon during Tudor times, they must use character stories and clues to work out who the original owner of a rare Tudor quill is.
History Detectives: Tudors – Character Stories
This photocopiable contains printed versions of the stories told by the main characters in the History Detectives: Tudors interactive game. More information can be found in the October ‘08 issue of Junior Ed PLUS.
Transport Challenge
Challenge children to journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats with this fun interactive game ‘Transport Challenge’. A print poster version is also available. More information can be found in the October ‘08 issue of Junior Ed PLUS.
Transport Challenge
Challenge children to journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats with this fun board game ‘Transport Challenge’. An interactive version is also available. More information can be found in the October ‘08 issue of Junior Ed PLUS.
Transport Challenge
Use these Question and Fate cards to play the Interactive resource, ‘Tranport Challenge’. More information can be found in the October ‘08 issue of Junior Ed PLUS.
Science in a flash: Forces
These colourful flash cards contain facts and prompt questions on the theme of forces. Linking activities can be found in the October ‘08 issue of Junior Ed PLUS.
Pause for thought: Transport
These illustrated prompt cards are designed to be used as an introduction to the October ‘08 Junior Ed PLUS transport-themed creative topic.
Take a picture
Use this conceptual poster to encourage children to think outside the box. Linking activities can be found in the October ‘08 issue of Junior Ed PLUS.
Take a picture
Use this selection of stimulating questions to explore the accompanying poster, ‘Take a picture’. Linking activities can be found in the October ‘08 issue of Junior Ed PLUS.
Other resources this month
Latest news
Year 3 teacher scoops MFL award 11 Oct 2008
Panel of language experts announce Nicola Davies as Modern Foreign Language Teacher of the Year.
I spy with my London Eye 3 Oct 2008
250 schoolchildren will be joining Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen on a flight on the London Eye to help launch Children’s Book Week (6th to 10th October).
Benefits of outside classroom learning supported by new package 2 Oct 2008
Government pledges £4.5 million to support outside the classroom activities as a new report from Ofsted reveals children’s achievement can benefit significantly from participation.
This month's calendar
| Calendar for Jul 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Newfoundland | Rabies vaccine | Ringo Starr |
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