Starters and plenaries are now an essential part of all lessons and this highly practical, bestselling book provides busy secondary teachers with 50 creative activities to use in the classroom. The tasks will help ensure the first five minutes of any lesson are a time for motivation, energy and forward thinking and will help students to reflect on, and embed their learning at the end. From game show inspired quizzes to bingo and dominoes, Kate Brown's wealth of original ideas have been tried and tested by secondary teachers and can be adapted to use in any subject. Concise explanations and cross-curricular examples make this book an accessible and time saving resource for all secondary teachers looking to inject some new life and enthusiasm into their lessons.
Looking for time saving, creative, ready-to-use activities to kick-start and round up your history lessons? Look no further! Starters and plenaries are now an essential part of all lessons and this highly practical book provides busy History teachers with creative activities to use in the classroom. The starter ideas will ensure the first five minutes of any secondary History lesson are a time for motivation, energy and forward thinking, and the plenaries will help students to reflect on and embed their learning at the end Step-by-step instructions, teacher's tips and topic-specific examples make these 25 starters and 25 plenaries easy to adapt for any History lesson, whether you are teaching World War Two, Henry VII or Ancient Egypt. The activities will help students to develop their skills in assessment and interpretation of sources and evidence, as well as reasoning, enquiry and comparison. This versatile book is also accompanied by online resources providing everything you need not just for planning starters and plenaries, but also delivering them to your class.
This book provides English teachers with 50 cohesive suggestions for embedding and extending learning in the classroom: from individual to whole-class activities, and from the energetic to the sedate, all with realistic timings for each. Even better, every starter and plenary contains an 'ideas generator', making it easily-adaptable for the whole ability range of your class and keeping it fresh for you to use, and there are PowerPoints, task sheets and other time-saving resources online. The book covers the whole spectrum of topics that every English teacher needs to cover, and makes use of music, drama, maps, charts and practical props. Some ideas involve students managing and monitoring each other; some use all the senses; others involve creative thinking and where practical and appropriate, the content is embedded in the real world so that students can immediately see the wider application of their efforts. The 'teacher tips' section offers guidance on how to deliver the idea to get the best results based on years of trial and error by the author.
A series of Mental Maths PowerPoint Presentations which can ideally be used as starter activities or plenaries They focus mainly on numerical calculation and provide a 'quickfire' activity to promote mental recall. Children use mini whiteboards to record answers and most presentations provide answers which children can mark immediately as they proceed through the tasks. A few of the presentations provide slides where the teacher records the answers below using an interactive white board pen. Tasks include: adding, subtracting, doubling, halving, multiplying by 10,100, finding simple fractions of numbers and some problem solving, There is no preparation required and the slides are easily edited to provide further practice.
Flash cards designed in the style of 'Top Trumps' for the Kings & Queens of England/Britain (since 1066). These can be used for a variety of starters and plenaries or simply for a poster display. I have used these as a resource for developing chronology and introducing topics.
Starters / Bell Ringers can get your lesson off to a productive start with every student focussing as soon as they walk in the room.
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This is a collection of worksheets for Business students to use which can be used as starters, plenaries, class activities or homework on Fast Food giant McDonald's. The topics covered are: Market Segmentation Happy Meal Staff Training The Growth of McDonald's and the Franchise System Customer Service Technology used in production, marketing and sales Customer insights USP
A Presentation on 87 Creative Activities to Think Out of the Box which can be used as Starters, Middles, and Plenaries in an ESL Classroom. Teachers can use these to enhance the critical thinking and problem-solving skills of the learners.
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By Anya Gray As Christmas Approaches and we all open our chocolate advent calendar we at Westgate are opening our Teaching and Learning Advent calendar. We have had a number of different ideas for …
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