In anticipation of the interest that the 2006 Football World Cup is likely to generate and the opportunities that this could provide for work across the curriculum, some weeks ago the Primary Working Group put out an appeal to members for resources that would facilitate work in the primary classroom. The result of this appeal is a bank of resources in the form of activities, web-links and ideas contributed by members from across the Naace communities. In the main, the resources are suited to Key Stage 2 children but with some creative thought some of them could be adapted for use by younger and older pupils.
When linking to the various sites listed, in line with acceptable use of the internet it is recommended that teachers review the suitability of the sites before saving them in a favourites folder for subsequent adult-supervised use of the internet by the pupils.
Online activities
Naace Primary Community activities adapted for the World Cup.
Resources
(A set of downloadable materials.)
Data handling
(A set of documents which could be used for capturing the necessary data for the competing countries. They would need to be used in conjunction with research using books or the Internet.)
Further ideas
(More ideas for using the World Cup theme.)
Web links
(Useful web sites.)
Many thanks to all those people who contributed to this resource bank including Rhona Dick, Mike Daley, Marshall Mateer, Michael Donohoe, Paul Wright, Geoff Turrell, Alan Rodgers, Angella Streluk, Chris de Cordova, Ann de Asha and Katy Potts. And most of all to Geoff Davies, who had the idea in the first place, and compiled all the material.
We hope you find the resources useful and we would be very interested in finding out how they were used in the classroom.
Primary Working Group - Naace.