Teaching Essentials Australia

Use the template on the following pages to cut-out and pin together to create a personal flip-book. Incorporate into the following lesson topics: - built vs natural environment - looking at your community at a local level to global - examining your culture and family - what makes up your country including states and territories

The star student awards are a positive behaviour management resource. There are 10 awards per page, best printed onto cardboard before cutting out awards. These awards are great as a daily classroom reward or as a casual teacher resource.

Students can practice their data and graphing skills by quizzing their fellow classmates on a variety of topics. Can use as stand-alone activity sheets as a activity rotation or whole class activity. OR you could laminate and as a reusable resource.

A small worksheet to print for four students at a time. Give students a collection of objects around the classroom (or they can select), and they can compare objects and order from lightest to heaviest.

Science: friction experiment worksheet

This is a short literacy groups or whole class activity which allows students to display their knowledge or solidify their knowledge of procedural texts. You could use as a pre/post test assessment, as well as an exit slip. It could also be used as an introductory activity into procedural texts, where students can jot down notes as a class and stick into their workbooks.

Activity worksheet comparing objects using a metre measurement. Look at objects that are longer and short than a metre and how many objects can fit within a metre.

Using an informal unit of measurement students can estimate and measure classroom objects' mass.

Mathematics assessment sheet assessing: - chance - data - position You could use as a pre/post test or as an exit slip

Laminate these sheets and use as a mathematics group rotation. Students can use a variety of informal units to find the area of each shape.

Maths: position assessment sheet Pre and/or post test assessent sheet Exit slip for work on position

Mathematics worksheet on Chance - exit slip - pre/post test assessment - activity sheet to consolidate a lesson

Short activity or a mathematics groups rotation activity where students can measure the area of their desk. Note: 4 sheets per page

Fun activity where students measure around their hand and foot and use an informal unit of measurement to find the area.

Activity sheet on using informal units to measure length

Gravity experiment worksheet for Stage 1 students.

End of science topic: forces assessment sheet. Can be used as a exit slip for pre and post testing of knowledge. It is in A5 in format so you can print 2 copies per A4 page.