Teachers Resources from the Grandpa Pencil Collection

If you click just about any icon on the right you are bound to come up with a few ideas to help you in your most important task.
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Little Rhymes contains dozens of wonderfully quirky short rhymes that put the fun back into appreciating poetry.

Make your own Water Colour Paint using inexpensive and non toxic ingredients. Use straight away or dry and powder for future reconstitution.

About Australia Includes Australian Colonial Intelligence (a look at the country through old newspapers and records), the ships and people of the first fleet and you can find out about Democracy in australia as well as about our states, cities and famous people

Australian Colonial Verse and Song, which includes the Australian National Anthem, remains a constant inspiration to me

Printable Math Worksheets with easy, medium and hard question sets in easily printable pdf with 24 questions per sheet and an answer sheet to help you further

Make a Simple Hydrometer from drinking straws and plasticine to explore buoyancy, up thrust and Archimedes along with Archimedes Principle of buoyancy and the Plimsol Line

Letter Shop allows younger students to buy letters at the letter shop and add up how much a specific word costs. Spelling and counting in one go

The Speed Of The Planets looks at the speed of both rotation and orbit of the planets around the Sun

Measuring Things including area, volume, length plus a load more including some ancient measurements of Length and volume

Newton's Laws Of Motion with simple examples of each of them By clicking the relevant icons on the right you will find much, much more to help and hopefully, inspire you.

Area and Volume Calculator Need to find the area or circumference of a circle, the area of a rectangle, or the volume of a cylinder? This calculator will find it for you.
In addition to the answer, it also gives all the steps needed to solve the equation.
We also have a Velocity Conversion Calculator an Energy Equivalents Calculator and a General Area Calculator

Make your own Litmus Solution from Red Cabbage

Find out about the Archimedes Screw as well as the discovery of Pi

60 Grimm's Fairy Tales Not really suitable for younger readers as they are a little scary.

A collection of National Anthems From Around the World with English translations.

A list of the Kings and Queens of England from start to finish

A simple guide to Greek Mythology

A collection of Map Outlines for students to name, colour and include cities, rivers and mountain ranges etc.

Discover the Joy of Science with this simple to understand section

Learn a little about some of the Great Minds of History