Health and Safety in the Garden

Here are some resources for teaching health and safety in the garden to students with a learning disability.

A garden safety picture from the Scouts NO LONGER AVAILABLE jan 2020Health and safety signs in outdoor occupations Entry 3
( starts at page 43) PDF


Dangers in the garden online activity from Staywise


Garden safety picture and other resources from Home Safety Game

Electrical safety in the garden on Switched on Kids



Bsquared have a range of garden based resources including health and safety which can be purchased on CD

Gardening

Here are a collection of links for teaching gardening,learning about plants and delivering basic skills through gardening for students with a learning disability

Good resources on plants and growth from communication 4 all including posters,worksheets,PowerPoint and word searches






A PowerPoint on Flowers find it in the Science: Life processes and living things section of the Whiteboard room


How a plant grows from Greenwing


NGFL Wales

Plants need light and water to grow








including
Label the parts of a plant. interactive activity and work sheets to print out

Discover what helps a plant grow


Put the plant where it will grow best.








Flowers to colour online

Gardening is fun a book to read on Tar Heel Reader



Wheelchair gardening a book to read from Tarheel reader.

from TES I board
'listen-and-read' explanation books. Learn about the life cycle of a sunflower


Growing a bean sequencer from TES iboard

Review the instructions and drag them into the timeline

Growing a bean from TES i board
listen and watch the instructions for growing a bean then write your own instruction

Dottie's garden A story to read from Primary Games

Entry 3 resource for Teaching Basic skills through outdoor occupations :

Literacy language and Numeracy

Module 6 Outdoor and practical

See my other blog entries on gardening

World War 2

For this half term some of my students have chosen History Club for their enrichment activity. Later in the term they will go to the local museum for a workshop on home life in 2nd world war. I've been looking for suitable resources and I've listed some below:

Woodland Junior school Introduction to 2nd World War









A Boardmaker share activity

A simplified view of the Axis and Allied powers in World War 2


Sounds of war from BBC school radio including war time songs
The story of Anne Frank from Priory Wood school


Rationing

Two 3 minute films originally from teachers TV now on School's World

Food Rationing


Living with Rationing

Primary Resources WW2 resources section has a basic PDF Ration book

or you can buy a replica book from Amazon for £1.99

An online activity Rationing: shop for a meal in 1943 from BBC Primary History on the Daily Life page
Woodland Junior School Introduction to rationing

Purim

The Jewish festival of Purim is celebrated every year in late winter/early spring and this year it is

March 7-8th 2012

Talk Sense has prepared a set of symbols suitable for students with a learning disability for Purim which you can request by email from their website.

Valentine's day

This months E Live from Symbol world has an article on Valentine's Day suitable for students with a learning disability.

See my other blog entries on Valentine's Day for further symbols from

Makaton and Talk sense

Using Mobile phones safely

A scenario based resource that allows students to discuss safe and appropriate use of mobile phones .

There are fifteen scenarios that can be worked through as a class or individually. When all of the selections have been made, a printable form will give the students feedback on their suggestions.
from NGFL Wales .Also has accompanying teacher material explaining the resource materials.

Mobile phone dilemmas worksheet part of a series on E safety from Teach ICT




Three short films about mobile phone safety and other tips about mobile phone from Kidsmart. Includes information about the IMEI Number (International Mobile Equipment Identity.)The number which can be used to block your phone if it is lost or stolen.

On line Shop

 Currently  newhamteamspirit is taking a short break Jan 2020
Entry 1 students at Newham College have opened an on line shop as part of their enterprise project.They have a shop on the website etsy.com where they sell greetings cards.


www.etsy.com/shop/newhamteamspirit

Learners design cards and then add them to their shop on the site.The learners pay a small fees and then wait for their orders. Items are then packed and posted out .
The project has been a good way to improve ICT and communication skills.

Early Addition

Bugabaloo Shoes

Practice additon using single digit numbers from Sheppard Software

Knowing how to use ICT safely

Here are some resources for teaching about keeping personal information safe everyday and on the internet.

Safe
A widgit resource from Childnet about Personal Information.



Two short films from BBC Learning Zone which can be used to discuss the information given out and the consequence

online safety part 1

online safety part 2

Personal Information Powerpoints and workbook about information we should share from Communication 4 all ( look under ICT)

Behaving appropriately at Work

Here are some resources for teaching about behaviour and attitude at work forOCR Life and Living Entry 3 unit Behaving appropriately at Work.

Northern Ireland Curriculum

Key stage 3 Education for Employability Book 4 page 4.http://www.nicurriculum.org.uk/docs/inclusion_and_sen/mld/employ_ks4_4.pdf

A work sheet which can be used to record appropriate behaviour and attitudes at work


Thematic unit : Nothing stays the Samee
Employability .Its up to me Resource 20 : Things to remember page 50,51
2 pages of scenarios to discuss attitude and behaviour at work.