h2. Child Education
h3. Child Education (vol 83) October 2006
In October's issue
Going interactive special
- Planning for ICT: simple ways to incorporate ICT into your teaching.
- The basics of blogging: ideas for generating child-friendly, safe online forums.
- Switch on to interactive learning: create your own interactive poster.
Classroom activities and advice
- Creative project – Around the town: explore a range of maps and plans as you take to the streets in a fictional town.
- Literacy – The Three Little Pigs: promote a range of literacy skills as this traditional tale takes on an interactive twist.
- Literacy – Talk about: more child-friendly question cards to improve speaking and listening skills.
- Numeracy – Estimation: explore how four different learning styles can help teach children's estimation skills.
- Science – Science fiction: sort fact from fiction with a range of investigations.
- D&T – spooky recipes to sink your teeth into.
- Cross curricular – encourage the children to set their own learning objectives.
- Creative workshop – think outside the box to explore shape and space.
- ICT – A virual viewpoint: using ICT to bring the world outside into your classroom. Plus find out how to devise a school travel plan using ICT and read the latest instalment of Helen Barnes' ICT diary.
- Posters – don't miss our fantastic A2 Bonfire Night and Around the town posters.
Regulars
- News desk, new resources, letters, children's author/illustrator Jackie Morris reviews some of the latest picture books to celebrate National Children's Book Week. Plus a buyers' guide on ICT software resources.
Reports
- Big Brother is watching – using video recording to enhance learning and teaching.
- Disability in the picture – discover how a national drawing project has tackled inclusion and equality.
Next month: Multicultural.
h3. Free downloadable resource sheets
Child Education has brand new downloadable resources every month.
Take a look at some of the downloadable worksheets that are from our latest issue. Just click on the images below to view the pages on screen or print the pages out.
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