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Introduction

In this project you'll make your first game with Unity, a professional game development platform.

What you will make

You're going to build a simple video game with a robot, a ball, and a maze, and you'll learn the tools you can use to make the game bigger and more awesome!

What you will learn

What you will need

How to get Unity

Additional information for educators

If you need to print this project, please use the printer-friendly version.

Use the link in the footer to access the GitHub repository for this project, which contains all resources (including an example finished project) in the 'en/resources' folder.

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This week your first task is to create your very own alien language to make objects move. Follow the link below.

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Introduction

In this project, you will train the computer to understand an alien language. You will use that to control an alien character so that it can understand what you tell it to do.

What you will make

What you will learn

Licence

This project is dual-licensed under both a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike License and an Apache License Version 2.0

We'd like to thank Dale from machinelearningforkids.co.uk for all his work on this project.

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In this project, you will train the computer to understand an alien language. You will use that to control an alien character so that it can understand what you tell it to do. This project is dual-licensed under both a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike License and an Apache License Version 2.0 We'd like to thank Dale from machinelearningforkids.co.uk for all his work on this project.

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This week you will be looking at classical music. Follow the link below for the lesson.

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A melody is made up from notes. Pitch is how high or low a note sounds. A melody is made up of high and low pitched notes.

Melodies often repeat notes.

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Summer Term 2 Week 7 - Art Draw a caricature of yourself along with a message to say goodbye to the Year 6's.  For help on how to draw one follow the link below.

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Summer Term 2 Week 7 - Art Draw a caricature of yourself along with a message to say goodbye to the Year 6's.  For help on how to draw one follow the link below.

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How To Draw A Caricature Using Easy Basic Shapes

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PSHE Mindful Games

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Introduction:

In this project, children will learn how to make an encryption program, to send and receive secret messages with a friend. This project introduces iteration (looping) over a text string.

Online Resources

This project uses Python 3. We recommend using trinket to write Python online. This project contains the following Trinkets:

There is also a trinket containing the finished project:

Offline Resources

This project can be completed offline if preferred.

You can find the completed project in the 'Volunteer Resources' section, which contains:

messages-finished/messages.py

messages-finished/friends.py

(All of the resources above are also downloadable as project and volunteer .zip files.)

Learning Objectives

Iteration (looping) over a string variable;

The find() method;

The modulus operator (%).

This project covers elements from the following strands of the Raspberry Pi Digital Making Curriculum:

Challenges

Use a Caesar cipher - encrypt and decrypt letters and words manually;

Variable keys - allowing the user to input a chosen key;

Encrypting and decrypting messages - encrypting and decrypting whole messages;

Friendship calculator - applying text iteration to a new problem.

Frequently Asked Questions

When searching using find() or if char in alphabet:, note that searches are case-sensitive. Children can use:

to make the input lower case before searching.

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Summer Term 2 Week 6 I.T. Hamster Party Cam

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Summer Term 2 Week 6 I.T. Hamster Party Cam

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Introduction

What you will make

Have you ever wondered what your pet hamsters get up to during the night? I suspect they are partying!

In this project, we are going to use a Raspberry Pi Camera Module and an Explorer HAT with a Raspberry Pi to take pictures and video of the hamsters, triggered by their movement.

Adding lights and music to the party is fun but it could keep you awake at night, and may become a little annoying to adults. Therefore, you might not want to keep your speaker turned on every night. It may also scare hamsters of a shy disposition, and as a hamster owner you have a duty to care for the wellbeing of your hamster. Check out the RSPCA Hamster Guide to learn more!

This project is based on Violet's entry for the Raspberry Pi poster competition in December 2013. It has been a pleasure to make this project idea a reality.

Hamsters are nocturnal, which means that they sleep in the daytime and come out at night. So when you are sleeping, your hamsters are up and about, and when you are up and about, your hamsters are sleeping! - Violet

What you will learn

This resource covers elements from the following strands of the Raspberry Pi Digital Making Curriculum:

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Have you ever wondered what your pet hamsters get up to during the night? I suspect they are partying! In this project, we are going to use a Raspberry Pi Camera Module and an Explorer HAT with a Raspberry Pi to take pictures and video of the hamsters, triggered by their movement.

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Make yourself happy with this singing lesson on BBC Bitesize

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Melodies often repeat notes.

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Music Tech Teacher, Music Technology Lessons, Lessons 18-20, Louis Armstrong

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Music Tech Teacher - Louis Armstrong Lesson. Our site includes quizzes, games, lessons, worksheets and other resources for teachers and students interested in using technology to enhance music education.

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Summer Term 2 Week 5  I.T. Create a 3d model 

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It's time to get into the best shape of our lives, and that's the three-dimensional kind of course! So dry off from your adventures last week out at sea and get ready to visit a new dimension with us this week with Digital Making at Home...let's make it 3D!

And remember that on Wednesday at 2.00pm BST / 9.00am EDT / 7.30pm IST, you can join Mr. C and a special guest for another live code-along session! When it's time, head to rpf.io/home.

We're creating in 3D this week!

This is the week to try your hand at 3D design, so you can start to create digital worlds or to 3D print fun objects to share with your family and friends. Imagine what your digital making skills can do in not just one or two, but THREE dimensions!

So what do you say, digital makers? Let's start designing in 3D - our team is ready:

Monkey in a birthday hat!

You may have heard of the 'Cat in the Hat', but what about a 'monkey in a birthday hat'? In his video, Mark is going to show you how to make a 3D model of a monkey wearing a party hat! This video is based on our free 'Party monkey' project guide (available in 12 languages).

Who wants a 3D keyring?!

You're a proud coder, so why not show it off with a 'coder' keyring! Get ready to 3D design with Mr. C and one of his sidekicks. This video is based on our free 'Coder keyring' project guide (available in 11 languages).

Make a 3D bug

This project is a throwback to April, when Mr C and Xavier made a 3D bug to celebrate Earth Day! If you didn't make one then, you've got a second chance this week. This video is based on our free '3D bug' project guide (available in 17 languages).

Want to do more 3D design?

Are you looking for more? How about making a cool 3D pendant that you could print on a 3D printer and wear as an accessory?

We've also got lots of other free project guides for 3D design using BlocksCAD, FreeCAD, and Blender software. Go take your pick!

Show us what 3D shape your projects take!

All of your projects we've seen so far have been out of this world, so we can't wait to see what you make in a new dimension! Don't forget to share what you create with us and also let us know if you have any feedback for what you want to see in Digital Making at Home!

P.S. All of our resources can be accessed for free whenever you want! With the help of the many gracious donations of individuals and organisations who support our work, we're able to produce content for you and your family to enjoy. Visit our donation page today to learn how you can support us too!

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Summer Term 2 Week 5 - I.T Virtual Sports

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Summer Term 2 Week 5 - I.T Virtual Sports

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Let the games begin! Take your best shot this week, digital makers: we invite you to have some virtual fun with sports!

And remember to visit rpf.io/home on Wednesday at 2.00pm BST / 9.00am EDT / 7.30pm IST to catch our next live stream coding session with Mr. C and a special guest!

Let's kick off virtual sports week!

Get ready to bring your favourite sport to life indoors using code! We are your biggest fans, and we know you've got the skills to set a new personal record with your coding project this week.

Our team is here to cheer you on:

Penguin football!

You can create a fun football game in Scratch with Mr C and his sidekick Zac. How many penalties can you score? This project is based on our free 'Beat the goalie' project guide (available in 10 languages).

A race to the finish line!

Run, coders, run! Follow our free 'Sprint' project guide to make a Scratch game that's a race to the finish line. Who's gonna finish first? This project guide is available in 9 languages.

Coding down the slopes!

It's always snowing somewhere in the world! Why not go skiing with Scratch Cat using your digital making skills? Follow our free 'Scratch Cat goes skiing' project guide to create this game. This project guide is available in 11 languages.

Pass us your projects!

What makes being on a team great is that you can learn from each other, which is why we would love for you to share your project with us! And, of course, practice makes perfect, so if you see any areas of improvement for Digital Making at Home, send us your feedback.

On your marks... get set... go code!

Three cheers for our volunteer translators!

Digital Making at Home is a team effort, and part of our team are the amazing volunteer translators around the world who make sure that young people can access each week's projects in lots of different languages. Join us in sending a huge, huge thank you to them for their hard work and their enthusiasm!

PS We're able to create free resources for young digital makers across the world thanks to the donations of individuals and organisations that support our work! Find out today how you can join our team of supporters too.

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Use this template to cut out your dart frog.

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Design your own dart frog, download the pdf and print the sheet before making it.

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Summer Term 2 Week 5           P.E at home challenges 

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There are lots of different ideas for physical exercise for you to do at home. How many can you complete?

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Elvis Presley was an American singer, musician and actor. He released music in the 1950s - 1970s and was one of the most important artists of that time. People still call him 'The King of Rock and Roll' or simply 'The King'.
Elvis was a leading artist of rockabilly, a new sound that mixed country music with rhythm and blues. This would soon become known as 'Rock and Roll' and Elvis became the leading figure. He had lots of chart-topping records including: 'Hound Dog', 'Blue Suede Shoes' and 'All Shook Up'.

Elvis was both very popular and controversial. His hip-shaking dance moves had never been seen before. Many parents were shocked by his dancing and some TV shows would only film his head and shoulders!

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Learn to be greatful for what you are.

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Learn all bout anti virus

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Go to this link and carry out activities 1,2 and 3

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23 April - Learn how to use your voice to make music.

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We invited thousands of children across the world to get creative and connect with the rainforest, by inviting them to submit their very best artwork that they felt connects to the Spirit of the Rainforest. Their art was inspired by:

* the rainforest paintings by John Dyer and Nixiwaka Yawanawá

* tribal people and culture

* rainforest plants

* rainforest animals, birds and insects

* rainforest foods.

The top 24 winning entries were displayed on the top floor of the Link building in between the Biomes, with the top 300 displayed inside the Rainforest Biome itself.

View the gallery of children's artwork, take a virtual tour of the exhibition, or scroll down to see some of John Dyer's work.

Spirit of the Rainforest from The John Dyer Gallery on Vimeo.

About the residency

In 1989 British artist John Dyer explored the Amazon as a photographer for Thames TV. At that time an Amazonian Indian, Nixiwaka, was a small boy living with his tribe the Yawanawá in the Amazon Rainforest. 26 years later John and Nixiwaka met at the Eden Project. John Dyer's Amazon experience turned him into an artist and painter and John discovered that one of Nixiwaka's dreams is to paint.

Then in May 2015 we brought these two creatives together in a unique cultural exchange to create a new exhibition of paintings to inspire a new generation to connect to the rainforest.

They worked together in the largest captive rainforest on the planet at the Eden Project to produce a series of new paintings exploring the Spirit of the Rainforest from the Western and Amazonian cultural perspective.
Find out more on the John Dyer Gallery website

'The rainforest is a vital part of our lives and our future. We don't all realise this yet but the tribal people of the Amazon know it. By engaging children with the rainforest through art I hope it will build a lifelong concern and connection to the environment.'

Rare - Spiritual rebirth

'These paintings represent the spiritual rebirth of a person who experiences the Yawanawa initiation into becoming a Shamen.' John Dyer

Yuxi Yuve - The Water Spirit of the Amazon Rainforest

'These paintings depict the Spirit of Water who lives in the depths of the great rivers of the Rainforest. Yuxi Yuve is a beautiful woman with long flowing hair, down which water cascades, forging a link connecting the Spirit with all the rivers and everything that is supported in and by the water.' John Dyer

Vana - The Spirit of our Shadows

'These paintings represent the very powerful Vana spirits. They are the guardian angels that protect us from all evil and as such are seen as the Spirit of our own shadow.' John Dyer

The Creation of Uni (Ayahuasca)

'These paintings represent how mortality came to the world and was overcome through the creation of Ayahuasca.' John Dyer

Nawê

'This painting captures a vision that Nixiwaka Yawanawá had during a tribal ceremony in the Amazon. Nixiwaka described to me how the two most powerful animals of the rainforest appeared, the Boa Constrictor and the Jaguar. These two spirit animals then merged into one animal that was the combination of both spirits. This then transformed into a tribal spirit that connected and exploded its energy to every part of the rainforest.' John Dyer

Further details on the inspiration behind the paintings can be found on the John Dyer website.

The Spirit of the Rainforest project is organised in association with Survival International. Survival is the the global movement for tribal peoples' rights. It champions tribal peoples around the world, helping them defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures. Nixiwaka has spent the past year working for Survival International as part of their educational and outreach programme.

Find out more on the Survival International website

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I.T.  Summer Term 2 Week 2 - What are algorithms?  Learn all about them and then try and make your own on Scratch

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When you write an algorithm you need to include precise, step-by-step instructions.
Here are the instructions for making a smoothie:

Imagine if we missed out one of the steps or reversed the order. We could end up switching on the blender with nothing in it. Or there could just be milk in the blender and no fruit.

That wouldn't make a very tasty smoothie, would it? In fact, it wouldn't make a smoothie at all!

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These clips are taken from the original BBC series, Compose Yourself.

Suitable for: KS2 and KS3 in England and Wales and 2nd and 3rd level in Scotland. Also, KS1, KS2 and KS3 in Northern Ireland.

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Power point of Henri Rousseau

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To find what you're after, a search engine will scan its index of webpages for content related to your search.

A search engine makes this index using a program called a 'web crawler'. This automatically browses the web and stores information about the pages it visits.

Every time a web crawler visits a webpage, it makes a copy of it and adds its URL to an index. Once this is done, the web crawler follows all the links on the page, repeating the process of copying, indexing and then following the links. It keeps doing this, building up a huge index of many webpages as it goes.

Some websites stop web crawlers from visiting them. These pages will be left out of the index, along with pages that no-one links to.

The information that the web crawler puts together is then used by search engines. It becomes the search engine's Every webpage recommended by a search engine has been visited by a web crawler.

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PSHE - Summer Term 2 Week 1      Mrs Kinton's Blog on well-being

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Chameleon template

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Zentangle is like doodling with a purpose! These Chameleons are full of character and children can fill them in with different patterns and zentangle designs. We provide you with two different templates to make these stunning Chameleons!

Materials:

Zentangle is like doodling with purpose! These Chameleons are full of character and children can fill them in with different patterns and zentangle designs. We provide you with two different templates.

Materials:

STEP 1
Trace your chameleon with a thick sharpie marker. If you printed your template in full black ink you will skip this step.

STEP 2
Begin to look for areas that you want to separate for a pattern. Zentangle is all about sectioning out slices of your picture and then filling it with a pattern. I'm filling his belly with scale-like circles and making room for a heart. I'm making sure that my shape is completely filled with the pattern.

STEP 3

Adding more patterns, this time to the legs and tail. I'm choosing patterns that will complement the shape of my chameleon. For example, on the legs, I'm curving my triangles along the curve of a 3D leg. It gives your picture credibility if you can find areas where you can blend your pattern with your shape.

STEP 4
Almost done! Don't be afraid to leave white space, it will draw the viewers eye to that spot. I'm going to leave blank space around the chameleon's eye.

STEP 5:
Cut out the chameleon very carefully and set asside for later.

STEP 6:
Use watercolors to creat a vivid background for your chameleon. Start with a sheet of watercolor paper. Use bright colors and a wet brush to create long horizontal strokes across the page. Overlap slightly to blend the colors.

ALL DONE!

Once your background is dry, glue your chameleon to your sheet and hang up in your classroom for the world to enjoy!

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Chameleon Art Project for Kids! Are you looking for a fun art project to try with your kiddos over Summer break? Here is a simple, yet stunning Chameleon art project that students of all ages will love! You'll find complete step-by-step photo and video instructions as well as two chameleon templates you can use to recreate this lazy lizard!

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Incredibox - Make your own music All Weeks

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Incredibox - Make your own music All Weeks

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A fun, interactive music experience
Incredibox is a music app that lets you create your own music with the help of a merry crew of beatboxers.Choose your musical style among 9 impressive atmospheres and start to lay down, record and share your mix.

Where making music is child's play!

Part game, part tool, Incredibox is above all an audio and visual experience that has quickly become a hit with people of all ages. More than 80 million players worldwide have already enjoyed it. The right mix of music, graphics, animation and interactivity makes Incredibox ideal for everyone. And because it makes learning fun and entertaining, Incredibox is now being used by schools all over the world.

Create a mix

Drag and drop icons onto the avatars to make them sing and start to compose your own music. Find the right sound combos to unlock animated choruses that will enhance your tune.

Share it

Once your composition sounds great, just save it and you will get a link to your mix. You can easily share it with anybody so they can listen and even vote for it.

Be a legend

If you share your mix a lot and get enough votes from other users, you may go down in Incredibox history by joining the Top 50 chart. Ready to show your stuff?

Ready to lay down
your mix?

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French games, lessons + tests to learn French free online | fun French learner games + lessons website for kids + adults

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French games free for learners: fun games for kids and adults learning second language French plus lessons and tests with 100+ different topics all with audio – free website

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Scratch Maths Quiz Selection

Age:

7-11 years

Concepts / Approaches:

Debugging, Collaborating, Selection, Programming

Curriculum Links:

Maths

Pupils create a maths quiz in Scratch and learn about selection which, in this activity, allows the flow of the program to be altered depending on the player's answers to questions. Initially pupils will use an 'If... then...' selection command, before moving on to using an 'If...then... else...' command.

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A Mindful Awareness Program for Schools

Mindful Choices is a mindful awareness, Social and Emotional Learning program for K-12 students that helps them manage stress and anxiety, increase self-control, and sustain attention. Requiring only a few minutes of mindfulness meditation practice a day, Mindful Choices is an appropriate addition to any school subject, but teachers leading Character Education, Health, Physical Education, or Guidance classes may have the opportunity to go deeper with the lesson plans. The entire program is free-of-cost and available online.

Evaluation Data

77% of teachers reported improvement in students' self-regulation

77% of teachers reported improvement in students' attention/focus

70% of teachers reported improvement in students' stress/anxiety management

90% of teachers reported improvement in their own self-regulation

86% of teachers reported improvement in their own impulse control

90% of teachers reported improvement in their own stress/anxiety management

Included in the Mindful Choices Program from the Alliance for Decision Education

Mindful breathing exercises (in audio recordings and written scripts) to incorporate into the daily classroom routine. Guided audio recordings make it easy for you to incorporate mindful breathing exercises into the school day at any time. Just press play, and your students will be led through instructions for proper posture, counting the breathing activity, and concluding the exercise.

Mini-lesson plans that support deeper understanding of mindfulness-related concepts: self-awareness, empathy, attention to detail, strengthening self-control, and leaving one's comfort zone

Ideas for integrating mindful awareness practices into your classroom throughout the year

Testimonials

"One particular day, the tension in the room between me and my students was really high...and I was not exactly a ray of sunshine. So mindfulness popped into my head and I had them all start off matching my breath and then we moved on to the 'picture someone you love/someone you're arguing with' exercise. Once we finished, the classroom felt extremely peaceful and almost all of my students said they felt at peace with themselves and everyone in the room. They also commented on how much more relaxed I seemed!" - Teacher, Vare-Washington School

"I feel this has made me feel much more focused as a teacher and I can already see changes in my students focus after breathing exercises." - Teacher, Wissahickon Charter School

"I was able to see correlations between mindfulness and academic success." - Teacher, Fitler Academics Plus School

"The mindfulness program was invaluable to me. Last year, I had a very challenging class and was eager to find a solution to help them focus, concentrate, and think about their actions more...This program has helped bridge the gap between what I've researched and what I can feasibly execute during our school day. Having the opportunity to practice freely without judgement and ask questions was also appreciated." - Teacher, General George A. McCall School

"It has helped me be more self-regulating in the classroom and take a step back and relax when tensions run high with students. It also has worked wonders with my Special Education kids at the end of each class to help them mentally prepare and process the close of one class and the start of another." - Teacher, Hardy Williams Academy Mastery Charter School

Other studies of students practicing mindful awareness exercises have shown:

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We're all scrabbling around in the dark trying to work out the best way to cope with school closures and Easter holidays in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. If your children are at home with you and you're concerned with them keeping up with their school work, we have some fun ways to embed learning activities that won't even feel like learning!

Baking

Baking provides a wealth of learning opportunities...and produces some delicious results too. Working through a simple recipe with your child will help develop measuring skills (Maths), following instructions (English) and can help them understand reversible and irreversible changes (Science).

Practical tip: Ask your child questions as you work through the recipe, such as 'What do we need to do next?', 'How does our mixture look different now to before we added the flour/butter/sugar?', 'How much more flour do we need than sugar?' As an added challenge, try doubling or halving the recipe too!

Planting

Planting seeds and watching them sprout and grow is always a rewarding activity to do with your children. And you don't need a garden either; a few simple supplies are all you need to get you started. Pop some multi-purpose compost in a plant pot, plastic cup or old yogurt pot, sprinkle the seeds in and cover with compost.

Encourage your child to take responsibility for making sure the plant has enough water and sunlight, and challenge them to record what happens to the seed each day. They could take photos, measure the height to record in a graph, draw pictures or write updates.

Practical tip: These plant seeds germinate and reach maturity quickly: mung beans (2-5 days), cress (3-7 days), lima beans (4-7 days), sprouting seeds (4-12 days), radishes (7-14 days), pumpkin (7-21 days), nasturtium (14-21 days). Lettuce, basil, chives, mint and parsley are also relatively easy to grow.

Encourage your child's interests

One of the best parts about educating your child at home is that you can harness their natural enthusiasm for a given subject. Are they crazy about LEGO? Challenge them to find out when LEGO was invented, by who and how it became so popular. Do they love singing and dancing? Challenge them to write and perform their own songs, or even create a music video. Are they crazy about science? Challenge them to put together a demonstration or presentation about their favourite scientist.

While your children are out of school, use this time to get them enthusiastic about learning. If they love what they're doing, they might not even realise they are learning! They can make models, draw pictures, create presentations, write stories...anything at all to show what they know!

Practical tip: A sure-fire way to get children engaged in a project is to give them the role of the 'teacher'. If they feel like experts in a particular field showing off their knowledge to others, it's more likely to keep them on track. In these times of social distancing, arrange a video call with a friend or another home learning family so they can share their knowledge.

Keeping Active

Being less able to go outside and play with other children may mean that your child is less active than normal but there are lots of ways you can incorporate exercise into your new home learning routine.

YouTube is an endless source of great exercise and dance videos for your children. Try these to start with - there are plenty more!

Dance 'n Beats has a wide selection of fun dance routines for younger children to enjoy.

Just Dance has a more challenging selection of videos for older children.

Cosmic Kids Yoga has a fun range of videos to guide your child through yoga sessions.

Jump Start Jonny has some fab free high-energy workouts on his website, plus a few on YouTube too.

Practical tip: Make sure children warm up and warm down before and after each workout session. Walking on the spot, arm swings or circles, jumping jacks, side hops and lunges are all good options.

Computer Coding

This may sound complicated but there are lots of free websites out there for children to help them understand how coding works. One of our favourites is Scratch. Children can program their own interactive stories, games and animations, whilst learning a bunch of key skills along the way.

If you're interested in practical computing and want to get your children doing something a bit more hands-on, you can't go far wrong ordering a BBC micro:bit. These cheap, compact, programmable devices include LED lights, buttons and sensors, all of which can be programmed with Scratch, or via the micro:bit online programming app. The website has loads of brilliant programming projects for children, too.

Practical tip: The main Scratch site is designed for children aged between 8 and 16 but there is also an easier version called ScratchJr for children between the ages of 5 and 7.

Writing Stories

Engaging your child in creativity by planning and writing a story is a great way to embed some learning in a relaxed way. Ask children to pick a main character, a setting and a special object (such as a magic key, a treasure map, a broken lamp or a buried time capsule) and let their imaginations run riot!

Once they have finished their stories, there are lots of ways to present them to the world too. They could stick with the good old traditional pen and paper method, or try creating an eBook. Book Creator is a great free app for this. Children can create their own books, adding photos, images, drawing pictures, writing text, inserting videos or even recording their own voice! They can then publish their books once they've finished.

Practical tip: When challenging children to write a story, use the 'Somebody Wanted But Then So' model for their basic plan which they can then flesh out. For example, SOMEBODY (a space ranger) WANTED (to save the world from an evil alien lord) BUT (their space ship broke down) SO (they hitched a ride with a friendly alien) THEN (they made it just in time to destroy the evil alien lord).

Reading Stories

Daily reading is a key part of your child's education and something that you should continue to do if they are home learning. Both reading to your child and having your child read to you is something that should be done on a regular basis. If you've not got a vast library of books to choose from at home, check out Epic - it has access to 35,000 children's books, learning videos, quizzes and more. You can try it free for 30 days.

You could encourage your child to act out the story once it is finished, or create a puppet show (shadow puppets are great for this) to retell the story they have just read.

And if your child isn't a fan of fiction, non-fiction books are just as valuable. Challenge them to recount what they have found out by creating an information poster or a multimedia presentation.

Practical tip: Every time you read with your child, ask them questions about what they have read. Use this free Reading Question Matrix for a variety of questions that develop into deeper questioning the further into the matrix you go.

Making Models

Model making can be a fun way to engage children in a topic or subject. You could use or modelling clay to make a model of the solar system or to show the different animals and plants in a habitat or food chain. Or you can use recycled objects, such as boxes, food packaging, bubble wrap, newspaper or anything else to make a medieval castle, a space ship, a dinosaur or a Tudor galleon.

Practical tip: Encourage children to test different ways of joining materials before heading straight into their model. Is it better to join cardboard tubes with glue or masking tape? Is it better to join a plastic cup to a cardboard base with staples or glue? Doing this from the get-go might well avoid some difficulties later!

Getting Arty

There are a wealth of Art activities you can do with your child at home that don't require too much equipment (or mess!). Here are our top 5 fuss-free Art activities:

Rock painting: grab some small rocks or pebbles next time you go out for a walk and paint them as animals to create pet rocks!

Photo cut-outs: Print off any picture and cut it in half using zigzag lines. Stick onto a plain sheet of paper and challenge your child to complete the picture.

Copy the masters: Challenge children to replicate the art of artists. Check out the art of Piet Mondrian or Kandinsky for younger artists.

Still life: plop an apple, a vase, a glass or a flower in front of them and challenge children to draw what they see. As an extra challenge, ask them to paint it using just one colour, such as using different shades of red.

Squiggle art: draw a small squiggle on a sheet of paper using curvy or straight lines. Challenge your child to then turn the squiggle into a drawing. You might be surprised at the masterpieces that can be developed from these simple squiggles!

Practical tip: If you're looking for more arty inspiration, Pinterest is an excellent port of call for children's art activities.

Other fun home learning challenges:

Treasure hunts: Hide a variety of challenges or calculations around the house. Children have to find and solve each one to get a prize.

Sorting objects: Gather a variety of household objects and challenge your child to sort them into groups. How many different ways can you sort them? What criteria can you use? Can you think of anything else that would fit into each group?

Make a board game: Challenge your child to make their own board game, such as their own version of snakes and ladders, or a quiz game using a subject they are very familiar with.

Create puzzles: Ask your child to create a Maths puzzle or secret code to email to a friend. Can they crack the code?

Turn the tables: Invite your child to be the teacher and teach you something you don't know!

Click here for a handy video showing how you can download PlanBee's FREE home learning packs, and annotate PDFs online - very helpful for if you run out of printer paper!

Becky Cranham
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Hi! I'm a former primary teacher. I set up PlanBee in 2009 to help redress the teacher workload balance. I'm passionate about primary education matters, and I love finding new ways to make teachers' lives easier! Read more

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