This collection from John Senior will provide you with 91 exciting gifted and talented enrichment activities that will inspire your pupils to enjoy learning and raise their levels of achievement.
Primary Enrichment
£69.00
Phase:
- Primary
ISBN:
978-1-905538-33-1
Published:
Nov 2007
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Benefits
This brand new collection will enable you to:
- challenge and stretch your more-able pupils and allow them to prosper through achievement
- enrich the curriculum for all pupils with tasks that will complement and extend work done in lessons
- raise achievement among your pupils by encouraging the important skills of creative and critical thinking, research and curiosity
- enhance pupils learning experience through tasks that are both enjoyable and inspiring
- provide enrichment easily with ready-to-use activities you can pick up and use straight away.
Summary of contents
INTRODUCTION iii
CONTENTS v
GOOD PRACTICE MODEL: MEASURING WIGGLES (ACTIVITY 43) viii
FIRST THOUGHTS 1
01 Why do hula hoops work? 2
02 Edged by hedge 6
03 20 definitions for a… 9
04 101 uses for a dead goldfish 11
05 The helicopter view 13
06 Table top 15
07 Grunt, nod and tut! 17
08 Shapes 19
09 Dissatisfaction and forks 22
10 Measuring speed, measuring strength and measuring yourself 25
11 Unknown genes 27
12 Thinking about the Seven Wonders 30
13 Singing your own song 32
14 When it is right to be wrong 34
15 New water 36
16 The wrong-way-round game 38
17 Testing the theory 40
18 Essential knowledge 42
19 Making sense of the world 44
20 Not even a zephyr 46
21 Over our heads 48
22 Frightful clothes 50
23 The new curiosity box 52
24 How the world works 54
25 Cover story 56
26 Vegetables, flashlights and saucepans 58
27 The problem with flying 60
28 Lose! 62
29 The music garden 64
30 Mental triptych 66
31 Message on a bottle 68
32 Collecting words 70
33 Sticky feet 72
34 Codex Borbonicus 74
35 What’s the weather like today? 77
36 Monument to food 80
37 Crafty 82
38 Magic mittens 84
39 If not this, then what? 87
40 Drawing in space 90
41 Why do fish exist? 92
42 Solar ponds 94
43 Measuring wiggles 96
44 Nobody and Somebody 98
45 3-D poetry 100
46 Neighbourhood numbers 102
47 Sigillography 104
48 Prime numbers 106
49 Big walking 108
50 Radio-controlled pigeons 110
LESSON-LENGTH ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES 113
KS1 115
51 Helping books to be happy 116
52 Wings for you 118
53 Travelling through books 120
54 Drawing the description 122
55 Extra words 124
56 Layered maps 126
57 Negotiation 128
58 Changed in translation 132
59 A word gauge 134
60 2Ys UR 2Ys UB ICUR 2Ys 4 me 136
61 Criss-cross cams 139
62 Shaped poems 141
63 Text tales 145
64 Stagecoach – motor car – spaceship 147
65 Long words 149
66 Which ‘which’? 151
67 The full picture 153
68 Cyber days 155
KS2 157
69 Newspaper activities 158
70 Nonsense inventions 160
71 Windows 164
72 Shadow play 166
73 Box museum 168
74 Dr Zamenhof’s invention 170
75 Eating words and number-crunching 173
76 Busy year 176
77 Celebrating ballooning 180
78 First words 183
79 Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie 186
80 Future dolls 189
81 A nice day out 192
82 Time for tea 196
83 Tough choice 200
84 Are chickens smart? 204
85 London’s burned 208
86 The biographical dictionary 210
DAY-LONG ENRICHMENT AND EXTENSION ACTIVITIES 213
87 The Grand Tour 214
88 Mathematical gardens 218
89 Gaia 222
90 Rubbish island 226
91 Fog harps 230
SAFE WORKING 233
RISK ASSESSMENT 234
EVALUATION AND REVIEW 235
Chapter breakdown
Introduction
Contents
Good practice model: measuring wiggles (Activity 43)
First thoughts
1 Why do hula hoops work?
2 Edged by hedge
3 20 definitions for a…
4 101 uses for a dead goldfish
5 The helicopter view
6 Table top
7 Grunt, nod and tut!
8 Shapes
9 Dissatisfaction and forks
10 Measuring speed, measuring strength and measuring yourself
11 Unknown genes
12 Thinking about the Seven Wonders
13 Singing your own song
14 When it is right to be wrong
15 New water
16 The wrong-way-round game
17 Testing the theory
18 Essential knowledge
19 Making sense of the world
20 Not even a zephyr
21 Over our heads
22 Frightful clothes
23 The new curiosity box
24 How the world works
25 Cover story
26 Vegetables, flashlights and saucepans
27 The problem with flying
28 Lose!
29 The music garden
30 Mental triptych
31 Message on a bottle
32 Collecting words
33 Sticky feet
34 Codex Borbonicus
35 What’s the weather like today?
36 Monument to food
37 Crafty
38 Magic mittens
39 If not this, then what?
40 Drawing in space
41 Why do fish exist?
42 Solar ponds
43 Measuring wiggles
44 Nobody and Somebody
45 3-D poetry
46 Neighbourhood numbers
47 Sigillography
48 Prime numbers
49 Big walking
50 Radio-controlled pigeons
Lesson-length enrichment activities
KS1
51 Helping books to be happy
52 Wings for you
53 Travelling through books
54 Drawing the description
55 Extra words
56 Layered maps
57 Negotiation
58 Changed in translation
59 A word gauge
60 2Ys UR 2Ys UB ICUR 2Ys 4 me
61 Criss-cross cams
62 Shaped poems
63 Text tales
64 Stagecoach – motor car – spaceship
65 Long words
66 Which ‘which’?
67 The full picture
68 Cyber days
KS2
69 Newspaper activities
70 Nonsense inventions
71 Windows
72 Shadow play
73 Box museum
74 Dr Zamenhof’s invention
75 Eating words and number-crunching
76 Busy year
77 Celebrating ballooning
78 First words
79 ‘Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie’
80 Future dolls
81 A nice day out
82 Time for tea
83 Tough choice
84 Are chickens smart?
85 London’s burned
86 The biographical dictionary
Day-long enrichment and extension activities
87 The Grand Tour
88 Mathematical gardens
89 Gaia
90 Rubbish island
91 Fog harps
Safe working
Risk assessment
Evaluation and revue
Details
Print: Spiral bound, 305 x 258, 246 Pages, Published 31/10/2007
eBook: 1 x PDF with active links to all relevant webpages
