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Explore our enormous collection of teaching ideas and classroom activities to use Lego with your children. Includes a huge range of cross-curricular ideas and downloadable resources for all ages and abilities!

Using thinking tools is one way to "make thinking visible" and help our students explain their thoughts in a simple and explicit way. As the team from Project Zero themselves say "Visible Thinking includes a large number of classroom routines, easily and flexibly integrated with content learning, and representing areas of thinking such as understanding, truth and evidence, fairness and moral reasoning, creativity, self-management, and decision making. It also provides tools for integrating the arts with subject-matter content. Finally, it includes a practical framework for how to create "cultures of thinking" in individual classrooms and within an entire school."

An interesting reflection on formative assessment and some simple ideas of how to incorporate it into the classroom.

A post looking at Carol Dweck's Mindsets and how it impacts learning. Focusing on feedback as an intervention in the classroom, the writers unpack what they found before and after, as well as some tips.

Edmodo recently released a new look for their website. Many times when a website changes there's a ton of confusion about old features, new feature, and where everything is now located. Not with Edmodo! The simple and clear design makes it easy to navigate between all of the tools. So there shouldn't be too much confusion for existing users, and teachers who want to learn how to use Edmodo for the first time are met with a sleek and simple interface. Here are a few videos on how to navigate the new Edmodo site, and how to use the basic features for anyone interested in learning to use Edmodo in the classroom.

An interesting post on digital footprint and blogging.

The aim of this section of the guidelines is to furnish teachers with a practical approach to the teaching of drama in the classroom. It will involve a consideration of the essential components of process drama and of the means by which these can be incorporated in practical drama activities.

An excellent post from Anthony Sperenza about implementing Genius Hour into the classroom. He has included a great list of resources too.

A great discussion about classroom blogs and how to get the most out of them.

A great post from Jason Borton discussing how he worked with his leadership team to refocus his school on learning.

18 creative ideas for music teachers with just one iPad

"The English Developmental Continuum F-10 provides evidence based indicators of progress, linked to powerful teaching strategies, aligned to the progression points and the achievement standards for the AusVELS English Domain. These teaching strategies are designed to support purposeful teaching of individuals and small groups of students with similar learning needs. It is intended that teachers use the strategies in the context of their own classrooms, text or topic being taught."

A website associated with the CAFE Menu and the comprehension program. However, it has information on Maths and Classroom Design too.

"An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. And the kids themselves are seldom consulted about what they're doing, even though genuine excitement about (and proficiency at) learning rises when they're brought into the process, invited to search for answers to their own questions and to engage in extended projects. Outstanding classrooms and schools - with a rich documentary record of their successes - show that the quality of education itself can be improved. But books, articles, TED talks, and teacher-training sessions devoted to the wonders of adopting a growth mindset rarely bother to ask whether the curriculum is meaningful, whether the pedagogy is thoughtful, or whether the assessment of students' learning is authentic (as opposed to defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests). "

Visual images to use in classroom. Especially useful for ESL or SEN students and as behaviour management tool.

Over 250 free printable maths reference charts for interactive whiteboards, classroom displays, math walls, student handouts, homework help, concept introduction and consolidation and other math reference needs. © Jenny Eather 2012. Mathematical areas covered include Numbers, Operations on Numbers, Fractions, Decimals, Percent and Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Beginning Algebra, Data and Statistics, Probability, Geometry, Measurement, Time and Money.

Makes a visually stimulating classroom poster in 'word clouds'.