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Direct 2U Index of Activities by Year Group 2005/6
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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English |
Y1 |
Pupils use a digital camera to take photographs of each other and use the computer to produce labels and captions for a display. |
W1 |
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English |
Y1 |
A piece of text is set up by the teacher so that the words are hidden and can be revealed one-at-a-time. As words in a sentence are gradually revealed, children predict what other words will be. |
W7 |
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English |
Y1 |
With help, children use a word processor and digital camera to add a slide to a PowerPoint presentation showing things that they like. This can then be used as a basis for show-and-tell activities. |
W13 |
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English |
Y1 |
With support, children will use a word processor to transform the lines of a poem, until they have collectively turned it into a different poem. |
W19 |
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English |
Y1 |
Children will use a word processor and printer to produce simple labels and captions for use around the classroom. They will thus gain experience of using a keyboard to produce text. |
W27 |
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English |
Y1 |
Children will use a digital camera and appropriate software to create a simple counting book. |
W33 |
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English |
Y1 |
Children will collect information from their own experience, write simple descriptive sentences, and create a class display. |
W40 |
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English |
Y1 |
Children will explore a range of themes and incidents from traditional stories by recounting them in the style of television presenters or newsreaders. Some on-line sources of stories are suggested. |
W46 |
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English |
Y1 |
This activity utilises material from the BBC Jam website http://jam.bbc.co.uk. Children will watch and listen to an African story, will re-tell it, and will use it as a basis to create their own stories. |
W52 |
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English |
Y1 |
Children will collect, transcribe and illustrate a number of favourite poems, to be read aloud as a whole-class activity. The anthology will be created as a PowerPoint presentation, and displayed via a digital projector. |
W58 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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Maths |
Y1 |
Pupils use a computer program to sort mittens according to the shape patterns on the back of the mitten. Uses Sorting Game Mittens from Naace website www.mape.org.uk |
W2 |
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Maths |
Y1 |
This lesson is about addition and subtraction of numbers up to 20. It makes use of the Naace Pairs Game – Maths: addition & subtraction www.mape.org.uk |
W8 |
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Maths |
Y1 |
This lesson is about sorting. It is based on a set of imaginary characters called Furbles. Download the Furbles program from www.furbles.co.uk |
W14 |
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Maths |
Y1 |
The activity uses the Jumbo program from the Naace web site. http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/index.htm - a worksheet is supplied for this activity. |
W20 |
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Maths |
Y1 |
This activity is about counting on and back and knowing the number names. It uses a program called Counter available on the Standards site http://www.standards.dfee.gov.uk/numeracy/publications or similar. |
W28 |
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Maths |
Y1 |
This lesson is about number bonds and writing equivalence statements. It makes use of Number Balance, a program available from the Teacher Resource Exchange http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/uploads/materials/17914/nbKS1.swf |
W34 |
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Maths |
Y1 |
This lesson is an open-ended, teacher-led activity to support the exploration and investigation of number bonds. It uses the Number Bond Machines program from: http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/numberbond.html |
W41 |
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Maths |
Y1 |
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This lesson is about looking for pattern, describing the pattern and being able to answer questions about it. It uses a web-based activity available from http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/grade_g_1.html A worksheet is supplied W47 Maths Y1X. |
W47 |
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Maths |
Y1 |
This lesson is about looking at flowers (represented as a set of photographs). The children count the flowers and group them according to colour. They then use the photographs to make number sentences. A PowerPoint file is supplied W53 Maths Y1X. |
W53 |
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Maths |
Y1 |
This lesson is an introduction to turtle graphics. It introduces the children to the concepts of forwards, backwards, left and right. A matching activity using Picture Grid is supplied W59 Maths Y1X. |
W59 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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Science |
Y1 |
The BBC Science Clips website is used by the teacher to demonstrate what happens when the strength of pushes or pulls is changed http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/pushes_pulls.shtml |
W3 |
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Science |
Y1 |
Children explore sources of light in the real world, both in and out of school. Later, photographs taken during the exploration are used to stimulate discussion. |
W9 |
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Science |
Y1 |
Children explore sounds using a Big Book from the Naace website http://www.mape.org.ukand datalogging equipment. |
W15 |
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Science |
Y1 |
Year 1: The teacher uses pictogram software to gather, record, display and discuss information about the eye colours of children in the class. A writing frame worksheet is provided. |
W21 |
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Science |
Y1 |
Children use drag and drop activities to reinforce understanding of living and non-living things. Uses a resource from the Teachers resource Exchange http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/ |
W29 |
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Science |
Y1 |
Children use an activity from the BBC Science Clips website which allows them to test a range of items to see whether they are waterproof and whether they will bend. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/sorting_using_mate.shtml |
W35 |
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Science |
Y1 |
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After children have carried out practical work, the teacher uses a computer model of growing a plant to summarise and review a unit of work on Growing Plants. Children use a computer-based writing frame W42 Science Y1X to record the results of an experiment. |
W42 |
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Science |
Y1 |
As part of a topic on the ways in which humans and other animals grow, the teacher uses an on-line big book as a focus for a discussion of animals and their young. http://www.sebastianswan.org.uk/lost/bklost.html |
W48 |
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Science |
Y1 |
A museum website http://www.2feet4feet.org.uk/ is used as part of a project on ‘Ourselves and Other Animals’. The website includes a whiteboard activity intended to be teacher led and two interactive pupils activities. |
W54 |
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Science |
Y1 |
In the context of a unit of study of ‘Ourselves and Other Animals’ the teacher uses a website photo resource to introduce the idea that different animals can be found in different environments. A worksheet is provided W60 Science Y1X. The resources are available at the Sir Robert Hitcham's Primary School website http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/sirrobhitch.suffolk/habitats/index.htm |
W60 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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History |
Y1 |
Children use a word bank/keyboard to write captions for photographs of themselves at various ages. |
W4 |
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History |
Y1 |
How are our toys different from those of our parents and grandparents? Activity sheets are supplied. Pictures are available on the Naace website www.mape.org.uk/curriculum/history/toys.htm |
W16 |
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History |
Y1 |
Children will explore an on screen simulation of a Victorian house, identifying similarities and differences between that house and their own homes http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/history/stepback.shtml A file of activity sheets is supplied. |
W30 |
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History |
Y1 |
In this activity children will sort photographs by age, making decisions based upon evidence such as dress. Try to have a collection of pictures from several eras and vary the photos used with each group. You can find some photos on http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/ |
W43 |
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History |
Y1 |
In this lesson children will use photographs of older and more recent property to identify the similarities and differences. They will look at different features of Victorian houses, focusing on stained glass, and will use a paint program to flood fill outlines. A file of images is provided W55 History Y1X. |
W55 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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Geography
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Y1 |
Pupils use a word bank to create reports on what they have found out about a place from looking at pictures and photographs. Links to Barnaby Bear http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/ |
W5 |
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Geography |
Y1 |
Children will use a digital camera to capture images of the local area for their work. Suggested websites supplied. |
W11 |
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Geography |
Y1 |
Children are encouraged to discuss the sequence of
places visited on a journey in a story - uses |
W17 |
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Geography |
Y1 |
The children and teacher set up model buildings using the wooden building blocks on a play mat with roads marked on it. Models are then photographed as if from a hot air balloon or helicopter. The pictures are printed out and the children use them to reconstruct their models. Two files are included; an example of a very simple map base and an example of the sort of photograph that would be taken with the children. |
W23 |
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Geography |
Y1 |
This simple mapping activity helps to revise the concept of a map and introduces the children to the idea of letter number coordinates. This activity has a plan of a farm to use (file supplied) and could be used as to link to a trip or work on holidays. |
W31 |
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Geography |
Y1 |
Lost Owls can be downloaded from the internet with various support materials (see http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/index.htm -scroll down to the Downloadable Resources). Four files are supplied with this activity: two versions of the grid (see below) W44 Geography Y1X1, and W44 Geography Y1X and cards for use with the grids in files W44 Geography Y1X2 and W44 Geography Y1X3. |
W44 |
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Geography |
Y1 |
This activity will support work on people and places around the school. Included are a wordmat vocabulary sheet to adapt and laminate W50 Geography Y1X and a collection sheet W50 Geography Y1X1. |
W50 |
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Geography |
Y1 |
This activity is to encourage young children to look more closely at objects and help them with their map reading skills. Included is a zipped set of images, which could be used in this matching activity - W56 Geography Y1Z. |
W56 |
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Geography |
Y1 |
This activity encourages the children to look closely at photographs and to make observations on them. Although the activity is designed for use on a school visit, it could also be used to support work on the local area and the school grounds. |
W62 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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MFL |
Y1 |
Use this activity to demonstrate how people in different countries may speak differently. This activity uses a variety of websites. Linked with this is an investigation of images from the internet which depict the country of origin of the language. |
W37 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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Music |
Y1 |
Pupils learn a song with the help of a computer karaoke player http://forum.ngfl.gov.uk/WebX?230@138.eATTaTk2eh0.3@.eebd79b The children will learn a four-verse song, evocative of Autumn. They will also begin to understand singing songs in two parts. |
W6 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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Art |
Y1 |
Children will use a painting program to explore line, colour, shape and form to create a firework picture. This can be linked to Bonfire Night, or to another celebration. |
W10 |
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Art |
Y1 |
Children will use ICT to explore the visual elements of different textures, looking at similarities and differences. This activity also provides teachers with the opportunity to develop children’s vocabulary. |
W22 |
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Art |
Y1 |
In this lesson children will use digital photographs of themselves to explore the proportions of the human face. This activity is best done in small groups. |
W36 |
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Art |
Y1 |
This activity involves modifying digital photographs to make clown faces. Children investigate different facial expressions and the messages they convey. |
W49 |
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Art |
Y1 |
In this lesson children will look at some simple landscape paintings and photographs before using clipart to create their own landscapes. The children will learn what a landscape picture is and how different artists have portrayed landscape paintings. This lesson can support PSHE & Citizenship. |
W61 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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ICT |
Y1 |
Pupils will listen to a selection of sounds and discuss what information each sound conveys. Uses Sounds Big Book at www.mape.org.uk also other supporting websites referenced. |
W12 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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D&T |
Y1 |
Here children are introduced to looking at the way things work. Digital photographs taken on a visit to a playground are used as a stimulus for discussion. |
W18 |
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D&T |
Y1 |
This activity is based around children finding out what foods the body needs to stay healthy. Children will investigate different food groups, carry out a popularity survey and display the results. The children will then suggest designs for the contents of a healthy lunchbox that takes into account their findings. The activity makes use of a website http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/uptoyou/healthy/foodfuel.shtml |
W38 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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RE |
Y1 |
Here children develop their understanding of belonging to a group by seeing how children are welcomed into the Christian faith. The activity makes use of web resources. |
W24 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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Puzzles |
Y1 |
In this activity children have to order a set of numbered frogs by jumping to adjacent stones or jumping over one other frog. http://www.logo.com/imagine/project_gallery/frogs.HTM |
W25 |
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Puzzles |
Y1 |
This is a computer version of noughts and crosses. The game may be played against the computer at three levels of difficultly, or against another child. The activity uses the website http://www.themouseclub.co.uk/home/kids.asp |
W32 |
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Puzzles |
Y1 |
There is a set of tangram puzzles for children to solve at: http://www.microworlds.com/library_old/math/tangrams/index.html The activity can be used online or downloaded for use off-line. |
W51 |
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Strategic games |
Y1 |
Nim is a mathematical game of strategy. There are many variants of the game but this simple version is played with ten counters in a single line. Players take turns to remove either one or two counters. The winner is the player who takes the last counter. Nim can be found in the Jefferson Lab at: http://education.jlab.org/nim/index.html |
W57 |
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Problems |
Y1 |
Children play ‘spot the difference’ games on-line. |
W63 |
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Summer Special |
Y1 |
The Little Animals Activity Centre section of the BBC website has lots of educational games and activities for Key Stage 1 children. www.bbc.co.uk/education/laac A worksheet is provided to support one of the books in the Storybear section. |
W26 |
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Xmas Special |
Y1 |
This is selection of websites with Christmas activities ranging from drag and drop nativity scenes to sending an email message to Santa. |
W39 |
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Make and Do |
Y1 |
Children use QuizMaker from the Naace website to make a Quiz for other children to solve. http://www.naace.org/ |
W45 |
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Subject |
Year |
Title |
Description |
Week |
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English |
Y2 |
Pupils use a word processor to edit a piece of text to reinforce their understanding of capital letters. |
W1 |
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English |
Y2 |
Using Poem Maker http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/index.htm |
W7 |
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English |
Y2 |
Revealing hidden text. Uses Discloze file included also on Naace website www.mape.org.uk . |
W13 |
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English |
Y2 |
Children will use websites dedicated to children’s books to find out information about their favourite authors and their books. A number of different websites may be used for this work. |
W19 |
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English |
Y2 |
Children will use a word processor to produce sequences of instructions, and will re-order jumbled sequences so that they make sense. |
W27 |
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English |
Y2 |
Children will use a digital camera to produce sequences of posed illustrations for a story.
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W33 |
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English |
Y2 |
Children will use a template file on a word processor to create their own poems, based on a common structure and idea. |
W40 |
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English |
Y2 |
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Children will create a ‘wanted’ poster of themselves, based on a character in a story. The file supplied W46 English Y2X gives an example. |
W46 |
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English |
Y2 |
Children will create short counting books consisting of alliterative sentences on a common theme.
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W52 |
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English |
Y2 |
Children will use a ‘flexible writing frame’ to write simple evaluations of books read and discussed, giving reasons for the views they express. A supporting writing frame is supplied W58 English Y2X. |
W58 |
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Maths |
Y2 |
This lesson is about 2-D shapes. It covers the vocabulary needed to describe such shapes and develops an understanding of the properties of the shapes. PowerPoint display supplied. |
W2 |
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Maths |
Y2 |
This lesson is about addition and subtraction of numbers up to 20. It makes use of Number Board – an activity that can be found on-line amongst the Naace Primary classroom activities www.mape.org.uk |
W8 |
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Maths |
Y2 |
This lesson is about introducing the concept of halves, quarters and thirds. Uses TakePart software from: www.standards.dfee.gov.uk/numeracy/publications |
W14 |
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Maths |
Y2 |
This lesson is about practising addition and subtraction in conjunction with a random number generator. This can be accessed from: http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/index.htm - a worksheet is supplied |
W20 |
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Maths |
Y2 |
This lesson is about teaching children how to represent data in the form of count graphs. The activity uses a set of images of carton dogs W28 Maths Y2X and a graph drawing program available from http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/numeracy/publications/ . |
W28 |
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Maths |
Y2 |
This lesson is about ordering numbers in conjunction with a random number generator. The random number generator can be accessed from: http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/index.htm |
W34 |
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Maths |
Y2 |
This lesson is about introducing children to turtle graphics (ie. a one-key version of logo). The software is available from: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/grade_g_1.html |
W41 |
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Maths |
Y2 |
This lesson is about ordering numbers in the context of a game. The “Guess my Number” program can be accessed from: http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/guessthenumber.html |
W47 |
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Maths |
Y2 |
This lesson is about the number line and being able to count forward or backward along the line. It uses Number Gym, which can be accessed from http://www.numbergym.co.uk/swf/NewNGNumberLine.html: |
W53 |
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Maths |
Y2 |
This lesson is about recognising 2D shapes. The activity uses the Shape Reveal program from http://www.dgteaz.org.uk/resources/online/shapereveal.swf |
W59 |
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Science |
Y2 |
Children use Crocodile Clips - a piece of software that can be freely downloaded from the Internet www.crocodile-clips.com. |
W3 |
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Science |
Y2 |
Children use a teacher-prepared branching database to sort a set of materials. |
W9 |
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Science |
Y2 |
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Children investigate how the height of a ramp affects the distance travelled by toy cars released from the top. The teacher enters their results into a computer graphing program eg http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/teachingresources/mathematics/nns_itps/data_handling/ |
W15 |
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Science |
Y2 |
The teacher uses website resources to demonstrate different food groups and discuss these with the children. Two websites are recommended for this work. |
W21 |
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Science |
Y2 |
Children use a web site http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant/bigbook.html as a stimulus for a sensory trail around the school observing seasonal changes. They write up observations using a writing frame and e-mail these to the site. A writing frame is provided. |
W29 |
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Science |
Y2 |
Children use on-line resources and worksheets available from the Teacher Resource Exchange http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/ to develop their understanding of materials, their properties and uses. |
W35 |
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Science |
Y2 |
Children develop an experiment to answer the question, ‘Which fruits are easiest to recognise by their smell?’ They use a graphing program to record their results in a block graph or pictogram. Two on-line sources of such software are suggested. |
W42 |
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Science |
Y2 |
As part of a unit of study on Variation, children use web-based resources to find out about penguins. As they study the information they use keywords to complete a worksheet W48 Science Y2X. They then use a writing frame W48 Science Y2X1 to write a few sentences about what they have discovered. |
W48 |
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Science |
Y2 |
Children use an activity from the RSPB website http://www.rspb.org.uk/youth/play/index.asp to learn about garden birds. A data collection sheet on My Favourite Bird is provided W54 Science Y2X. |
W54 |
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Science |
Y2 |
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Teachers use a variety of resources from http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/ to teach about the importance of healthy eating. Children then use a painting package to create a poster on healthy eating, aimed at their parents or their peers. An example is supplied W60 Science Y2X. This activity could build on the Direct2U W21 Science Activity for Y2 – Healthy Eating. |
W60 |
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History |
Y2 |
Children will use photographic evidence to identify features of summer holidays. They will annotate pictures of seaside holidays using time-appropriate vocabulary. Supporting internet sites referenced. |
W16 |
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History |
Y2 |
This lesson should take place as soon after Remembrance Sunday as possible In it children will compare events locally and nationally. A file of activity sheets is supplied. |
W30 |
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History |
Y2 |
In this activity children will make a vertical timeline with details of the Gunpowder Plot. A text file W38 History Y2X is supplied to support this work. |
W43 |
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History |
Y2 |
In this lesson children will learn the story of Grace Darling and use a word processing program to recount the story, using a writing frame for support - W55 History Y2X. Internet sources are recommended. |
W55 |
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Geography |
Y2 |
Children contrast their own locality with another. First they need to carry out research on the unknown locality, using the internet or a CD-ROM. Suggested websites supplied. |
W5 |
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Geography |
Y2 |
Ideally this activity makes use of an Interactive Whiteboard to make discussing an oblique aerial photograph more effective. Suggested websites supplied. |
W11 |
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Geography |
Y2 |
This activity makes use of digital media in the QCA Unit 24 - Passport to the world. Digital maps are useful as they can be modified and a variety of scales can be used. |
W17 |
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Geography |
Y2 |
This lesson uses online maps to help children appreciate the shape of the country and the effect of zooming in and out. |
W23 |
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Geography |
Y2 |
Looking at pictures from a Geographical point of view means that the right sorts of questions need to be developed. This activity develops the skills in the context of An Island Home, but the skills are equally suited to Seasides and the local area, or any other contrasting locality. |
W31 |
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Geography |
Y2 |
This activity gives practice in using letter/number coordinates without the complication of the map. Images related to the local area, which should be a stimulus for discussion, are used instead of a map. This activity is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation W44 Geography Y2X. |
W44 |
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Geography |
Y2 |
This activity will support work on buildings and places. Included is a wordmat vocabulary sheet W50 Geography Y2X. |
W50 |
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Geography |
Y2 |
This activity is makes use of image files using drag and drop. The aim is to encourage the association of the objects to their correct locations. Included is a zipped set of images, which could be used in the desired program - W56 Geography Y2Z. |
W56 |
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Geography
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Y2 |
This activity encourages the children to make predictions of what a map of a location is showing. Although the activity is designed for use on a school visit it could also be used in conjunction with work on the school grounds or the local area. |
W62 |
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MFL |
Y2 |
This activity asks children to give directions to a floor robot. Use this to practise direction. This activity will give the children an opportunity to work in pairs on directions in the chosen MFL. |
W37 |
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Music |
Y2 |
Children play a simple online musical game, Simon, to listen to and to recall sequences of sounds http://www.freegames.ws/games/kidsgames/simon/simon.htm |
W6 |
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Art |
Y2 |
Children explore some of the paintings of 20th Century artists who make use of shapes and lines and use paint programs to emulate. A file of brief biographical details is supplied also supporting websites. |
W10 |
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