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- ExpandCurriculum frameworks
- ExpandKey Resources: Effective teaching approaches
- Introducing the TESSA Key Resources
- Key Resource: Assessing learning
- Key Resource: Using mind maps and brainstorming to explore ideas
- Key Resource: Being a resourceful teacher in challenging circumstances
- Key Resource: Using explaining and demonstrating to assist learning
- Key Resource: Using group work in your classroom
- Key Resource: Using investigations in the classroom
- Key Resource: Tools for planning and carrying out investigations in Science
- Key Resource: Working with large classes
- Key Resource: Using the local community/environment as a resource
- Key Resource: Planning and preparing your lessons
- Key Resource: Using questioning to promote thinking
- Key Resource: Researching in the classroom
- Key Resource: Using role play/dialogue/drama in the classroom
- Key Resource: Using storytelling in the classroom
- Key Resource: Using new technologies
- Key Resource: Working with multigrade classes
- Introducing the TESSA Key Resources
- ExpandPrimary: Life skills
- ExpandPrimary: Numeracy
- ExpandPrimary: Literacy
- ExpandPrimary: Social studies and the arts
- ExpandPrimary: Science
- Module 1: Science – looking at life
- Section 1 : Classifying living things
- 1. Classifying living things
- 2. Making models in groups
- 3. Organising project work
- Resource 1 : An African family tree
- Resource 2 : The current agreed classification of living things
- Resource 3: The seven common characteristics of all living things
- Resource 4: Plant models
- Resource 5: Pupils’ models of animals from scrap
- Resource 6: Story wheel of the life cycle of the bean
- Acknowledgements
- Section 2 : A closer look at plants
- Section 3 : Investigating animals: hunters and the hunted
- Section 4 : Plants and animals adapting to survive
- 1. Using mind maps to record observations
- 2. Thinking about adaptions
- 3. Organising open-ended project work
- Resource 1: Mind mapping
- Resource 2: Ideas for a temporary pond
- Resource 3: Mini-beasts
- Resource 4: Questions on moving in the air
- Resource 5: Examples of flight patterns and wing shapes
- Acknowledgements
- Section 5 : Developing attitudes about our environmental impact
- 1. Discussing and imaging the past
- 2. Discussing environmental issues in groups
- 3. Raising environmental awareness
- Resource 1: The ‘Out of Africa’ theory of human origins
- Resource 2: Interrogating artefacts
- Resource 3: History of technology
- Resource 4: Black rhino
- Resource 5: Ideas pupils may have about working in a group
- Resource 6: Thinking globally – acting locally
- Acknowledgements
- Section 1 : Classifying living things
- Module 2: Science – investigating materials
- Module 3: Science – energy and movement
- Module 1: Science – looking at life
- ExpandSecondary: Science
- ExpandHandbooks and toolkits
- Teaching Lower Secondary Science A Handbook for Teacher Educators
- Inclusive Education Toolkit: A Guide to the Education and Training of Teachers in Inclusive Education
- Working with Pupils: A Guide for Teachers
- Working with Teachers: A Handbook for Teacher Educators
- School Experience Toolkit: Supporting School Experience Supervisors
- Teaching Lower Secondary Science A Handbook for Teacher Educators
- ExpandAdditional resources: Posters
- TESSA poster overview
- TESSA Poster 1: Being a resourceful teacher
- TESSA Poster 2: Storytelling, songs, role play and drama
- TESSA Poster 3: Using questioning to promote thinking
- TESSA Poster 4: Planning lessons
- TESSA Poster 5: Using group work
- TESSA Poster 6: Assessing learning
- TESSA Poster 7: Using pair work
- TESSA Poster 8: Involving all
- TESSA Poster 9: Monitoring and giving feedback
- TESSA Poster 10: Talk for learning
- TESSA poster overview
- ExpandAdditional resources: Teaching packs
- Teaching packs (all)
- Teaching Pack No.1 (early primary)
- Teaching Pack No.2 (early primary)
- Teaching Pack No.3 (early primary)
- Teaching Pack No.4 (early primary)
- Teaching Pack No.5 (early primary)
- Teaching Pack No.6 (middle primary)
- Teaching Pack No.7 (middle primary)
- Teaching Pack No.8 (middle primary)
- Teaching Pack No.9 (middle primary)
- Teaching Pack No.10 (middle primary)
- Teaching Pack No.11 (middle primary)
- Teaching Pack No.12 (middle primary)
- Teaching Pack No.13 (middle primary)
- Teaching Pack No.14 (upper primary)
- Teaching Pack No.15 (upper primary)
- Teaching Packs: Additional Resources
- Teaching packs (all)
- ExpandAdditional resources: Audio
- ExpandDownload entire TESSA library
- ExpandFoundational Skills for primary and secondary: Numeracy
- Implementation Guide
- Numeracy Diagnostic Tools
- The diagnostic tools help you to assess which nume...
- Numeracy Diagnostic Tool A
- Numeracy Diagnostic Tool B
- Numeracy Modules
- Numeracy Module 1 - What is number?
- Numeracy Module 2 - Early addition and subtraction
- Numeracy Module 3 - Addition and subtraction of bigger numbers
- Numeracy Module 4 - Multiplication and division part 1
- Numeracy Module 5 - Multiplication and division part 2
- Numeracy Module 6 - Fractions and decimals
- Supplementary Learning Materials
- This section includes supplementary student learni...
- Implementation Guide
- ExpandFoundational Skills for primary and secondary: Literacy
- Implementation Guide
- Literacy Diagnostic Tool
- The diagnostic tool helps you to assess which lite...
- Literacy Diagnostic Tool
- Literacy Modules
- Literacy Module 1 - Single letter sounds and first steps in writing
- Literacy Module 2 - The sounds of letter pairs, threes, and ‘tricky spellings’
- Literacy Module 3 - Assessment and more on reading/writing words
- Literacy Module 4 - From longer words to short sentences
- Literacy Module 5 - Comprehension of short texts
- Literacy Module 6 - Working with longer texts & review
- Supplementary Learning Materials
- This section includes supplementary student learni...
- Implementation Guide
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