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Unlock tried and tested classroom activities, teaching strategies from our expert teacher team, and classroom management tips to cater to your students' needs. Fill your teacher toolkit with fresh trends, the latest education research and more ways to unleash your teaching superpowers!
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A Simple Way to Get Kids Writing Every Day
Have you ever wondered how to get kids writing every day without fielding a chorus of collective groans? Check out how to make daily writing practise a breeze!
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How to Teach Poetry With Mini-Book Making
Use this printable template to make poetry writing lessons fun! Students create their own anthology of original poetic works (including acrostic poem example) in mini-book form.
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Why You Don't Need to Know "How" to Get Kids Coding
Find out how you can teach students computer coding without knowing yourself how to code...
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Does Flipped Learning in a Primary Classroom Really Work?
What is flipped learning? How does it work in primary classrooms? Does it actually benefit students or just create extra work for teachers? Here's what we've discovered...
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Wingaru Kids: Helping You Teach Aboriginal Studies
Wingaru Kids is an online platform that provides culturally appropriate, Australian curriculum aligned Aboriginal Studies teaching resources for F-6.
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15 Books and Activities to Foster Grit in the Classroom
Teachers around the world are fostering grit, building resilience and encouraging a positive growth mindset in young minds! Here is a list of 15 of my favourite growth mindset resources.
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Teaching Kindness One Rock at a Time
The Kindness Rock Project has one simple goal, to promote random acts of kindness in the shape of painted rocks with inspirational words!
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Tips and Activities for Teaching Letters and Sounds
The introduction of single letter names and sounds is crucial in the early years classroom. Here are some hints and tips, including some fun hands-on classroom resources.
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What are the "Super Six" Comprehension Strategies?
What are the Super Six Comprehension Strategies and how do I teach them in my class?
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Drama Activities for K-3 Students
If teaching Drama in your primary classroom is a little daunting, and you're tired of wasting time sifting through exhaustive lists of Drama games wondering just what to do, you'll love this simple, cross-KLA approach to teaching Drama in K-3!
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Cityscape Artwork - We Built This City
A fantastic cityscape artwork that covers a range of Visual Arts outcomes.
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23 Creative Narrative Teaching Resources for the Classroom
Teaching narrative writing? It's all here...everything you need!
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Romero Britto Inspired Art Activities
Check out these gorgeous Romero Britto inspired art activities...
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Sound and Letter Art Ideas
15 of the cutest letter art ideas you ever did see...
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10 Ways to Use Persuasive Topic Cards
One set of persuasive topic cards used 10 ways...
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Side Portrait Collages
A funky side profile artwork to do with your students.
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Rainforest Bird Art
Wonderful artwork to create when learning about the rainforest.
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Crepe Paper Artwork
This artwork will look wonderful hanging in your classroom...
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Create Your Own Water Paint using Felt Pens
A cheap and easy way to create water paint for younger children...
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Super Fun Optical Illusion Art Activity
A fun optical illusion craft activity for your students.
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A Simple DIY Classroom Garden
If I can create this class garden, anyone can...
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68 Ideas and Tips for Setting Up Maths Rotations in the Classroom
To do maths rotations or not?
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12 Dynamic Ways to Use Giant Dice in the Classroom
This giant dice blog is simply the best! One educational tool used twelve different ways...the options are endless!
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11 Engaging Apps to use in the Classroom
Our friends at Two Teachers One Blog have given us their top classroom apps they will be using in 2017! Check it out...
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19 Children's Books and Classroom Activities to Teach Social Skills
These children's books and classroom activities are a must have in any classroom environment!
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15 Activities Using a Classroom Calendar
Classroom calendar, not just a morning routine to settle students...
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Classroom Mysteries - Perceptual Processing Disorders
Every day in classrooms across Australia, contemporary Educators put on their “Nancy Drew” hats and try to solve the mystery of why one of their students isn’t learning effectively. Faced with a plethora of likely suspects, the investigation continues, until the “culprit” is found. This is the story of one of the unsolved cases...
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10 Ways to Use Playdough in the Classroom
Kids love playdough! So why not use it in the classroom...here are ten ways you can!
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How to Use Whiteboards in the Classroom to Encourage Creativity
Creativity is important. It aids a child’s intellectual and emotional development, helps them to innovate and develop problem-solving skills, and can even help children to feel more confident in their ideas and decisions.
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22 Maths Mentals Classroom Games and Teaching Resources
Mental maths is a students ability to make calculations in their mind without the guidance of pencil and paper, calculators or other aids. This blog outlines some activities, resources and ideas of how to develop your students number sense.
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Easy and Fun Origami Cube for Kids
A step by step process (with photos) to create this fun origami cube.
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14 Quick, Easy and Fun Daily Classroom Fitness Activities
This blog briefly outlines each activity from our 'Pack of Fun' fitness cards.