Learning Huddle Teaching Resources : Topics

Learn about the Victorian era.  Find out about the middle class, the upper class and the rich and poor.  Use the pages to build a variety of teaching resources. Why not build a Victorian era wall display with pictures from Victorian times, with Victorian dress and key people from the Victorian era like Florence Nightingale. 

Build lessons using worksheets printed out from the site.  Create questionnaires and other material that can be used to bring the Victorian era and the people like Florence Nightingale to life.  It's easy to copy and paste the material together to create great learning resources for use at the computer or on paper in the classroom.

Computers are a part of every day life for millions of people.  Whether you use a desktop or a laptop, whether you connect for gaming or just use it for email, computers are really important. 

Find out how computers work, understand what 'networking computers' actually means and how computers affect everyday life.  Use our teaching resources and lesson plans to bring this topic to life.  Help the pupils learn about each part of a computer by building it from cardboard.

Teach students how computers 'talk' to each other in a client server environment.  With this topic it's easy to quickly create worksheets and teach students all about computing.

The universe and other planets fascinates all of us.  The moon, Venus, Jupiter and the planets hold our attention easily.  Pupils can't wait for this topic.  They love to find out all about the solar system and its planets.  This topic is great fun.  You can build planet displays easily and encourage the children to write poems and prose about their "trips" to the moon.

Using the teaching resources supplied it's simple to create worksheets and print out pictures.  Students can then create great looking project books and wall displays whilst still learning about literacy and numeracy.  The universe is definitely a great place for children to play and learn at the same time.

Children love castles.  Everything medieval that accompanies castles seems to capture their imagination.  So medieval castles make a great platform for teaching subjects from across the curriculum.

Pupils can quickly imagine themselves as a knight or a queen and can easily build stories and books full of wonderful prose and enchanting pictures.  Use the teaching resources to teach them about motte and bailey castles. Explain the knights of old and how you could become one.  Show them pictures of the great castles using the prepared worksheets from the site.

Rivers are places to play, to ponder and meander along.  Rivers are also the main source of the water we use each and every day.  Rivers are very important to everyday life and not surprisingly are a topic that children love and teachers like to teach.  Why not ask the pupils to work out puzzles about the longest rivers (we list them all to make it simple for you)?

Coasts too are very important.  They are after all the barrier that keeps the sea from the land.  But they are much more.  They have the seaside and lots of interesting wildlife.  Why not ask the pupils to write about their day at the seaside and build a display by cutting out pictures from site worksheets?  The teaching possibilities are endless with this subject.

The Romans dominated Europe.  Understanding the history of the Roman Empire is an important part of understanding how Europe formed into the shape it is in today.  The Romans built a vast empire that was joined together using roads that still exist.

Using this topic's teaching resources can make it great fun for children to learn.  They can use skills from subjects across the curriculum.  Pupils can work out the length of roads and then write about the journey of a soldier as they tramp through Britain.  Classes can also build large wall displays and feature books to share with the others in the  school or with parents at parents evening.

Mini-beasts like ladybirds, caterpillars, praying mantis and woodlice are always a favourite topic with children.  They love being able to find them in their own garden and are really interested in how they move, look and feel.

When a topic is this good, teaching ideas are abundant.  Pupils can draw and colour in pictures of their own favaourite mini beast or they can write about how it would feel if they were a small minibeast looking up at a human! 

This topic has lots of photographs and the text has been written in a way that is appropriate to the younger pupils.  Even if pupils can't read they can click on the pictures and still get a lot of fun from the site (and some learning too).

Ancient Egypt, the Nile, Egyptians and mummies are just some of the topic areas covered.  The Egyptians are known the world over for their stunning pyramids and fantastic tributes to each pharaoh.   Fortunately for us there is plenty of ancient Egyptian history providing a rich teaching resource.

Pupils love to draw the pyramids and guess at how they were built.  This allows lots of opportunity to create great cross subject learning.  Pupils can design the pyramid on paper and then create it allowing them to use mathematics and design together. 

Children love animals and so we've created a site with loads of them.  There are great colour photographs and lots of material for use as handouts.  Animals really capture pupils' imaginations and open up lots of potential cross curriculum teaching options.  Pupils can be encouraged to create stories using the photographs and build collages of similar animals.

Like all of the topic based teaching resources, the Internet Ark includes worksheets and easy to cut out pictures.  When we showed this topic in our classroom trials it was very popular.