All Children articles – Page 24

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    Experiments: How strong is that wind?

    In this experiment, pupils make a wind monitor from different weights of material. Students find illustrated objects in a wordsearch and understand the strengths of different winds before writing a report on the experiment. Key vocabulary and practical teacher’s notes are included.

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    Classifying materials

    Is it an animal, plant or mineral? Pupils match the puzzle pieces, fill in a chart and complete sentences to identify the materials used to make everyday objects. Teacher’s notes include ideas for an additional group activity and post-lesson projects.

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    Amazing world of food: Lesson 5: Processed food

    In the fifth lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to recognize the differences between natural and processed food, identify processed food that is good and bad for you and design a flow chart to show how food is processed. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are ...

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    Sports

    In this lesson plan, pupils learn about the history of the Olympic games and the origin of popular sports.

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    Amazing world of food: Lesson 4: Our sense of taste

    In the fourth lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to understand the role of taste buds, identify four basic tastes and relate them to different parts of our tongue, and carry out a tasting experiment. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are included.

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    Using signs

    Don’t pick the vegetables! In this lesson plan, pupils match health and safety signs to the appropriate places in a summer camp, and number sentences to match the signs to the correct instructions. Teaches young learners about using signs and symbols, while consolidating key vocabulary words such as ‘forest’, ‘swimming ...

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    Things that go!

    Colour the pictures and fill in the blanks to learn about different modes of transport.

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    The media: Types of communication

    In this lesson plan, pupils compare newspapers, magazines, radio, TV and the Internet.

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    The media: Communication

    This lesson plan introduces the different types of media as well as expressions of time.

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    Stephenson's rocket

    Join the dots and then colour the picture to complete this 1829 prize-winning locomotive. (Answers available to download separately.)

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    Road safety

    This lesson plan reinforces road safety measures using the imperative.

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    People and the economy

    In this lesson plan, pupils learn about different jobs while practising the present simple, singular and plural nouns and prepositions of place.

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    Old and new

    This activity sheet teaches young learners how technology has changed as they match the new objects to their predecessors.

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    Means of transport

    This lesson plan aims to teach the different types of transport and reinforce prepositions such as ’by’ and ’on’.

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    Land transport

    In this lesson plan, pupils learn the history and characteristics of different means of land transport.

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    Full steam ahead

    Which train does the coal belong to? Learn about the earliest steam engines in this fun Science Museum activity.

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    Dot-to-dot plane

    An activity sheet to join the dots to find out what’s flying through the air and then colour the picture.

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    Communication

    A worksheet and lesson plan to teach about the different modes of communication, from the printing press to the computer.

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    Air and water transport

    This lesson plan highlights the similarities and differences between air and water transport.

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    The Earth: Air and water

    A lesson plan to teach pupils about the Earth’s atmosphere and hydrosphere.