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Resources:Gold Coins… <— Hobby Craft sells the gold coins in the pics below!(Click here for more great Cheap resources!)How It Works:This Click to read more

Resources:See Proforma- Click Here– How it works/Variations:This proforma encourages KS4/5 to become more independent of their learning and encourages students to Click to read more

Resources:Strips of PaperGlue? Stapler How It Works:Students can work in groups.They are asked to write a Keyword/Topic/Phrase/Quote on a strip Click to read more

The big floor mind map is a great active revision task that involves very little prep, but has a big Click to read more

Resources:You need to have thought about which words you want to use and which words will be disallowed- but no Click to read more

Resources:Clipboard- but not vital!How It Works: Students aim is to give out as many signatures as they can.   Get students Click to read more

Resources: Although this could be a Cheap Shop Brilliant Lessons Posts– I think this deserve to have its own post- Click to read more

Resources: Question cards (little re-usable cards with a Q/? written on it) Or you can use tokens?   How It Click to read more

Resources: ‘Shiny desks’? Whiteboard markers, Whiteboard spray… How It Works: After the success of the Half Desks/Half WhiteBoards and the Writing Click to read more

Resources: Roll of wallpaper backing paper which was about two metres high and rolled together and taped to become a Click to read more

Resources:A4/A5 paper!How It Works:Students are given a piece of paper each- They fold it in half. Students are then told to Click to read more

“All Aboard the Poetry (insert other suitable topic here) Train!” Resources: Sounds- A3/4/5 Paper? How It Works: The students are Click to read more

STRATEGY DEPLOYING Resources: (Click on the links to download) Strategy grid Listening/reading/writing activity How it works? Pick a strategy such Click to read more

Resources: Writing /speaking task How it works? Show pupils a basic answer to a question. Then model how you would Click to read more

Download file from Here and an editable word document by clicking here (made by Katie Lang using the inspiration below! This was Click to read more

This is a post written by two Year 11 GCSE Citizenship students- Who lead 30minutes of the lesson.They planned this Click to read more

UPDATED- 29th MARCH 2014!CLICK HERE —> link FOR A VIDEO I PRESENTED AT #TMSURREY Resources:Various different Poundland resources! Or Tesco keep it handy Click to read more

Resources: Post-It notes/ Paper cut into small squaresHow It Works:Students are asked to work in pairs– and asked to write down Click to read more

U Shape Continuum-Resources:None!How it works:Ask students to line up in order of their level of understanding/current grade/progress… (Up to you!)From Click to read more

Resources: Create your own squares. How It WorksThere are many versions of this activity. (I was first introduced this on a training Click to read more