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Teaching Ideas Guided Tour
Hello and welcome to Teaching Ideas! I'm Mark Warner. I'm a primary teacher, and I also run this site. Teaching Ideas is a place for you to find and share ideas, activities and resources for use in the primary classroom.

There are thousands of ideas and resources here, and they're all split into different subject and topic areas:

Literacy
Numeracy
Science
History
Art
ICT
Physical Education
Geography
Music
Design Technology
Religious Education
Special Needs
Early Years
Foreign Languages
Assemblies
Displays
Classroom Management
Seasonal Ideas
Personal, Social and Health Education
Time-Fillers

Each of these subject / topic areas has a contents page. If there are lots of ideas for a particular subject, there may be more than one contents page.

Maths Contents page Art Contents page Classroom Management Contents page

First, choose a subject using the tabs at the top of the page...
You can then choose a topic within that subject, using the buttons under the tabs...

You will then see links to all of the ideas and resources linked to that topic / subject.

You can also use the Site Map to get to the contents pages. Alternatively, search for ideas using the search box.


When you are looking through the contents pages, you will see lots of different icons...

Age Ranges:

Ages 5-7
Suitable for children aged 5-7
(Key Stage One)

Ages 7 - 11
Suitable for children aged 7-11
(Key Stage Two)

Ages 5-11
Suitable for children aged 5-11
(All Primary Children)

Ages 5-11
Suitable for children over 11
(Secondary Pupils)

The age ranges are only suggestions. Of course, you should ensure that the ideas and activities you use are suitable for the children in your care.

File Types:

PDF File
Word Document
Should work in relevant Microsoft Office software, or compatible programs.
Excel Spreadsheet
Powerpoint Presentation
Flash
Web page
Should work in any standard web browser
Text document
Should work in any text viewer (e.g. Notepad, Wordpad, Word)
Smart Notebook
Easiteach document
Activ Flipchart
Textease document
Available here
(look for TeView)
Other
Video file
Should work in most media players

More Teaching Ideas Display Photos Teaching Forum

More Teaching Ideas is a separate part of the site, containing ideas for Assemblies, Classroom Management tips, Seasonal activities, PSHE and Time-Fillers. 'More Teaching Ideas' also includes the Display Photos site (containing hundreds of ideas for classroom displays) and the Teaching Forum (where teachers and others involved in education can share ideas, help each other and have a chat!).

Share Your Ideas!

If you use some of the ideas and resources on Teaching Ideas, I would be really grateful if you would consider sharing an idea of your own. Simply send an email with your idea to me at mark@teachingideas.co.uk, and I will add it to the site so that other teachers can use it too!

I hope that Teaching Ideas is useful to you. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me!

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