100+ Fun Ideas for Teaching Boys in Primary School
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100+ Fun Ideas for Teaching Boys in Primary School
Visual, Kinaesthetic and Competitive Activities to Help Boys Achieve Their Potential
Description
100+ Fun Ideas for Teaching Boys in Primary School contains over 170 practical ideas and strategies to maximize the potential of boys. Written by an experienced primary school teacher and based on the latest research, it provides tried-and-tested ways of getting the best out of the boys in your class.
In this book you will find out how to:
- Integrate visual and kinaesthetic activities into your lessons
- Harness boys’ natural competitiveness to good effect
- Provide opportunities to enable boys to re-focus, process and re-energize
- Use teamwork to engage boys in learning
- Promote higher-order thinking skills.
All the class will benefit from these fun ideas, many of which will appeal to girls as well as boys. With boys engaged in learning and keen to participate, behaviour problems will be minimized, so more time can be spent teaching and learning
Visual teaching ideas
General
1 Visual word games 19
2 Pictorial activities 21
3 Presenting facts 22
4 Advertising 22
5 Structure grids 23
6 Classification keys 23
7 Quick quiz 24
8 Freeze frame 24
9 Kim’s game 24
10 Encyclopedic entry 25
11 Topic book 25
Literacy
12 Visual literacy skills 26
13 Create a dictionary 27
14 Word banks 28
15 Book review 28
16 Character grids 29
17 Character work 30
18 Inspiring creative writing 31
19 Information book sections 33
20 Reports and reviews 34
21 Newspaper headline: sort and match
22 Newspaper/web news comparison
23 Comparative news 36
24 Film education 36
25 Media and plays 37
26 Ticket design 37
27 Posters 38
28 Picture that! 39
29 Show me 40
30 Role-playing 40
31 Giving instructions 41
32 Digital storyboard 42
33 Hyperlink PowerPoint 42
34 Different perspectives 43
Numeracy
35 Play your cards right 44
36 Co-ordinates symmetrical mask
37 Digital root patterns 45
38 Times tables graphs 46
39 Roman times tables 46
40 Ancient Egyptian multiplication
Science
41 Line graph narrative 48
42 Recount 48
History
43 History pictorial activities 49
44 Historical maps 50
45 House comparison 51
46 Rich/poor comparison chart 51
47 TV news 52
48 When they were young 52
49 Personal and class timelines 53
50 Historical timetable 53
51 Alphabets 54
52 Scribe a letter 54
Geography
53 Local or world/national picture maps
54 Virtual maps 56
55 Sports map 57
56 Task map 57
57 Choropleth map 58
58 Identifying key features 59
59 Photo record 60
60 Holiday destinations 60
61 Estate agent 61
62 Cloud survey 61
63 Micro water cycle 62
64 Global food 62
65 Symbol and word match cards
66 Body and clothes beetle drive 64
RE
67 Prayer 65
PSHE
68 Action 66
69 Role models 67
70 Positive words 68
71 Personal timetable 68
72 Visual healthy menu 69
73 Lifestyle map 69
Kinaesthetic teaching ideas
General
74 Mime 70
75 Instructions 71
76 Thought lines 71
77 Name game 72
78 Secret whiteboards 72
79 Getting out of the classroom 73
80 3-D Carroll diagrams 74
81 Sorting ideas 75
82 Sequencing 76
83 Washing line 76
Literacy
84 Fun spelling 77
85 Tactile words 78
86 Adjective word bank 78
87 Role-play 79
88 Student sculpture 79
89 Mr Men™ books 80
90 Book swap circle 80
91 Product review 81
92 Model making 82
93 Investigating characters 83
94 Lost 84
Numeracy
95 Shape maths 85
96 Team angles 86
97 Shape creation 86
98 Kinaesthetic patterns 87
99 Times table stand up factors 88
100 Magic chairs 88
101 Fractions 89
102 Step estimation 90
103 Team clocks 90
104 Axis co-ordinates Twister® 91
Science
105 Transparent, translucent and opaque
106 Life-sized paper skeleton 93
107 Earth, Moon and Sun 94
108 Exploring nature 95
109 Junior field studies 97
History
110 Kinaesthetic history ideas 98
111 What really happened? 99
Geography
112 Inflatable globes 100
113 Geography Twister® 101
114 Compass bearings 101
115 International sign posts 102
MFL
116 Kinaesthetic MFL ideas 102
117 MFL Twister® 103
RE
118 Physical prayer 103
PE
119 Instant PE lesson 104
120 PE science 105
PSHE
121 Friendly words 105
Competitive teaching ideas
General
122 Team raps and poems 106
123 Topic singing 106
124 Mistakes 107
125 Word and time boundary 107
126 Speaking challenges 108
127 Hot seat mind map 109
128 Listening, writing and speaking games
129 Name hat 111
Literacy
130 Word pairs 112
131 Book team 113
132 Land’s End to John O’Groats reading race
133 Races 116
134 Secret definition 116
135 Envoy 117
Numeracy
136 Football pitch multiplication 118
137 Physical pairs 119
138 Number line: connect 3 119
MFL
139 MFL ideas 120
140 MFL noughts and crosses 121
141 Numbers, colours, shapes and letters
142 Colour ‘fruit’ 122
143 MFL faces 122
144 Last man standing 123
Geography
145 Map symbol snap 124
146 Treasure hunt 124
PE
147 Magic stick 125
148 Roll out 126
PSHE
149 Head down, thumbs up 127
Higher order thinking skills
General
150 Setting goals and providing feedback
151 Speaking games 129
152 Group discussion 130
153 Questions 131
154 Board game 131
Literacy
155 Storytelling and debating 132
156 Soundtrack 133
157 Gathering information 133
158 Fact, opinion or belief? 134
159 Ask the author 134
160 Text discussion 135
161 Personal responses 136
162 Wrong reading 136
163 Prediction 137
164 Alternative scene 137
165 Alternative versions 138
166 Get to know your character 139
167 Creative writing starting points
Numeracy
168 Market research 143
Geography
169 Local improvements 144
170 Urban v rural 144
171 PE map 145
172 Playground map 146
History
173 What happens next? 147
174 Rules 147
175 Past lives 148
176 Topical music 148
RE
177 Our prayer 149
PSHE
178 Goal setting 149
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