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• TLF-IDA003056

This technical user manual provides school administrators and teachers with instructions when using the online platform to deliver the Year 1 Phonics Check. The Year 1 Phonics Check is a free 7-minute assessment to assess students' decoding skills across words of increasing complexity.

• TLF-IDA003868

This sequence of five lessons focuses on teaching students to find the missing angles and lengths of various different shapes.

• TLF-IDA003808

In this lesson sequence, students use a range of hands-on activities to explore what water is and how it behaves as it changes from ice to liquid water to water vapour. They explore the structure of water molecules and how these molecules behave when water is heated and cooled to help them to understand how the water cycle works.

• TLF-IDA003823

In this lesson sequence, students participate in a puzzle hunt in the school grounds to find letter clues that lead to the location of a special gift (a rain gauge) related to water. Students then make rain gauges and record rainfall in the school grounds with both the hand-made and commercial rain gauges.

• TLF-IDA004296

This activity uses Cuisenaire rods to help demonstrate if students 'trust the count'.

• TLF-IDA004306

The following is a suggested teaching and learning sequence for using Algebra Tiles.

• TLF-IDA004334

This task aims provide a rich, contextual activity through which students can gain an understanding of the distances relevant to the size of our solar system, and how an understanding of place value, metric measurement systems and time measurement can be used to represent these large distances and convert calculations ...

• TLF-IDA004337

Using the example of the humble honey bee, this integrated Science and Mathematics unit illustrates the way in which speciation occurs in nature and explains how living things adapt to survive in their environment. In doing so, the unit describes the nature of simple multiplicative number sequences and how simple algebraic ...

• TLF-IDA004293

This activity is designed to encourage students to engage with a problem, before they overthink it. Too often in class we begin with what is familiar to students and gradually increase the challenge. This problem begins with a challenge and encourages students to work backwards to solve a simpler problem, before applying ...

• TLF-IDA004291

This task introduces students to a practical situation that involves multiplying and dividing decimals by powers of 10. We want students to focus to use what they know about the measurement in order to explain how to convert them, rather than simply applying a procedure.